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And, so far as George is concenned, there is no doubt but what the work was done right well, for under the in- fluence of what is, with doubtful pro- prielty, known as the "tender passion,” that estimable character was rapidly drifting within a measurable dis- tance. of a lunatic asylum. The checks and repulses that he had melt with, instead of cooling his ardor, had only the effeet of i‘nflaming it to an extraordinary degree. Angela's scorntul dislike, as water thrown upon burning oiL, did but dif- (use the flames of his passion through- out the whole system of his mind, till he grew wild with its but and violence. ‘Her glorious beauty daily took a still stronger hold upon his imagination, till ht scorched into his very south For whole nights he could not sleep, for whole days he would scarcely eat or do anything but walk, walk, and try to devise means to win her to his side. The irritation of his mind produced its natural effects upon his conduct, and he would burst into fits of the most causeless fury. In nine of these be dis- missed every servant in the house, and so evil was his reputation among that class. that he had great difficulty in obtaining others to take their places. In another he hurled a heavy pot con- taining an azalea-bush at the head of one of rthe gardeners, and had to com- promise an action for assaullt. In short, the lunatic asylum loomed very near indeed" -. For a week or so after the memorable ! night of his interview with Philip, an I interview, that he, at least, would vnev- 1 er forget, George, was quite unable, try 1 as he would. ‘to get a silngle word thh 1 ”Angela. ' ' ' - ‘ At last. one day, when he was driving. by a seldom-used road, past the fields near the Abbey House on his way from Roxham. chance gave him the oppor- tunity that he had for so long sought without success. For. far up a. by-lane that led to a turnip-field his eye caught sight of the flutter of a gray dress vanishing round a corner, something in the make of which suggested to him that Angela was its wearer. Giving the reins to the servant. and bidding him to drive on home. he got out of the dog-cart. and .hurried up the grassy track. and on turning the corner came suddenly upon the object of his search. She was standi'ng on the bank of the hedge-row. and struggling with a bong11 of honeysuckle from which she wished to pluck its last remaixni‘n'g autumn bloom. > engaged was she that she did not hear his step, and it was not until his hard voice grated dn her ear that due knew that she was trapped. get, telling of sympathy and peace, and a strange new hope; to others draped in sad robes indeed, but still divine. Thus when he visits such a one 8.8 Go- orge Caresfoot. 'ut is as a potent fiend, whose mission is to enter tmxromgh man's lower nature. to torture and destroy; to scorch the heart with fearful heats, and then to crush it, and leave its own- er’e bosom choked with bitter dust. defladed. the cleverest and the most stupid, are all liable to become his faithâ€" ful subjects. He can alike command the devotion of an archbishop and a South Sea Islander. of the most immaculate maiden lady, whatever her age, and of the savage Zulu girrl. From the pole to the equator, and from the equator to the further pole, there is no monâ€" arch like Love. Where he sets his foot, the rocks bloom with flowers, or the Garden becomes a wilderness according to his good-will and pleasulre, and at his whisper all other allegiances melt away like ropes of sand. (He is the real arbiter of the destinies of the world. But to each nature of all the millions beneath his sway, Love comes in a fit- ting guise, to some as an angel messen~ I George had spoken no tabehood when he said that he felt as though he must could induce a Cé'resfoot to half 1 himaebf with his eyes open. had 1 to be of an extraordiunary pressing "Huang-v v_._ that he hadvb‘e'a; waning to consent to his cousin's Shylock-like terms about. the sale of the property. although Phey would in their result degrade him from his position as a. large landed pmpriet- or, and make a comparatively poor man of him. The danger or suffering that marry Angela or go ma. 1mm in a striking proof of how my be thought that step to be to his happiness. !L L- “Caught at last. You {have gâ€"is'ven me a BMty hunt. Angela.” The violent start'dhe gave effectually carried out her purpose as regards the honeysuckle. Awhiqhanapped i111 two un- detr the strain of her backward jerk, and she turned round upon him pant- ing with fear and exertion, the flow- ery tough grasped W'Dflhin her hand. "Am I. then, awidd creature, that you__ahould bunt me up 3” _ _ “Yea you are the loveliest and the wildest of creatures. and now I shame mughkgom :09 must listen. tn me." "f wiil not 1 lawn to you; you have nothing to osay to me that can inter- «E me. I_ will not ligtpq to you." George hughed a littleâ€"a threaten- ing. nervous laugh. "I am mmtomed to five my own way. Ante}; and} am not going to give it. up now. Ym must and you dull linton. I have got my opportun- ityatlnstandl mnttouneit. lam corn to have to weak .0 roughly, but you tum only yourself to thunk; you In” driven m ‘t‘o Lt." Bio «amnion frightened her, and CHAPTER XXXVIII. ruhn need '"‘ 'ered She turned very pale. and 3'33“ him in a cold, quiet vpiceneverfi 81113;: of which fell upon hum llke t e of a knife. 7 “Such a thing would be quite um- posslble for my reasons. but 1 need 0013’ repeat you one that you are al- ready aware of. I am engaged to Ml“- Heig'ham." "Ba’h. that is nothing. I know that; but you will not throw away suon a love as I have 'to offer for the wavering affection of a, boy. We can soon get rid of him. “'rite and tell him that you 'have changed your mind. Listen. Angela,” he went on, catohing her by the skirt of her dress, “he is not 1:10.11. he has only got enough for a. bare lIlVlng‘. I have five times Uhe money. and you shall help to spend it. Don’t. marry a. young beggar like that; you Won’t get value for yourself. It will Dab’hyou ever so much better to marry George was convinced from his ex- perience of the sex that every wounam Could be. bought if only you bid high enough; but, as the sequel showed1 he could not well 'have used a worse argu- menrt to a person like Angela or one more likely to excite the indignation that fear of him, together with a cer- tain respect for the evident gen-nineâ€" ness of his suffering, hsad hitherto kept 1n suppression. She wrenched her dress free from him leaving a portion of its fabric in his band. ‘jAre you not ashamed 2” she said, her vow-e. trembldmg with indignation and her eyes fialled “‘llt'h angry tears; “are you not ashamed to talk to me like this, you, my own father’s cousin, and your- ali old enough to be my father? I tell you that my love is already givenwhich would have been a sufficient. answer to filmy gentlemen. and you reply by say- {mg t’hatyou are richer than the man sake, don't say you won't,” said George wnth a Sudden change of manner from the confident to the supplicatory. ”L00k I beg you not to, on my knees,” and 116 actually flung \hmmself down on the grass roadway and groveled before her In an abandonment of 8351011 hideous t0_ behold. p V -vo‘rv V'â€" -v.-'-d " “There is no need for you to look for helpâ€"I wish» neither to frightennor imsulrt you; my suit is oaln honorable one enough. I wish you to promase to marry me. that is all]; you must and shall promise iltâ€"I will take no refusal. You were [nudge for me and I for you; ht is quite useless for you to roast me, for you must marry me at last. I love Youâ€"I love you." “ ’ouâ€"lovmeâ€"wuâ€"" “Yes, I do; and why should you 10011 It me like that? I cannot {help 1t, you are so beaurtilful; it you know your own 10"911111988. you would understand me. I love those 'gray eyes of yours, even “Win they flash and burn as they (10 00W. Alb! they shall look softly at me yet, and those sweet lips that curl so S‘tOInfwlly shall slhape themselves to 1953 me. Listen; I loved you when I In“ saw you in the drawing-room at IsleM'ort'h, I loved you more and more love you to madness. So you see. An- gel-a. you must marry me soon.” I marry you!" ‘(n‘ I u D “-3,â€" "I do not understand your meaning; unless. indeed, you are trying to fight- en and insulin; me, as you hove done before." answered Angela. Poor girl. she 'dnd not know what e136 to say; she was not of a nervous d143- POSiitiovn. but there was something about George's manner that alarmed (her very muoh. and she glanced anx’iously ground I I love. Do you believe that a. woman thinks of nothing but money? or do you suppose that 1 am to be bong-ht like a beast at the market 3 Get up from the ground, for since your brutalrty forces me to speak so plainly in my own defense, I must tell you once and for all that you will get nothing by kneeling to me. Listen: Iwould ra- ther die than be you-r wife; rather than always see your face about me, I would pass my licte in prison; I had sooner be touched by a snake than by you. You are quite hateful to me. Now you have your answer, and I beg that yqu will get; up and let me pass!" :30ch also JV...” “I 3438.” he went on, atflll talking quite qulestly, “M you know what a hell there is in my heart and brain you would not treat me so. I tell you that I am in torture," and the muscles of the pallid face twitdhed in a way that went far to confirm his words. ".'~' “u“ Vii-V u-wâ€"vvâ€" â€"___v - v to see it any one was wifihin cam, the Place was lonely gs the grave: and freezing amtemprt. "I don't u’nderatsmd you," she said. “On the odntrsa'y. you- understand me very well. You always “odd me; I can Drawn 'up to the. fuhl height of her majestic stature, her face flushed with emotion, and her clear eyes flashing scornful titre. whilst in her hand she stitll held the hough of sweet honey- suckle. Angela formed a. strange con- trast to the miserable mam crouched at. her feet, swaying himself 00 and fro. and moanimg, his hat off, and his face hidden in his trembling hands. As he would not. or could not move, she left him tâ€"he're, aond.slipping through A _‘?x._L1h ' a neighboring gap vanished from sight. When she was fwiriy gone, be stirred, and having risen and recovered his hat, which had fallen off in his excitement, his first action was to shake his fist in the direction in which she had vanish- ed, his next to frantically kiss the frag- ment of her dress that he still held in his hand. CHAPTER XXXIX. Notwithstanding his bravo “It is wry evident that she has been unkind. Swpposing that in- stead of abusing me you tell me the details. No ddubt they are in- teresting." and she settled IMyself in a low chair and glanced at. him keen- 1y from under her heavy eyelids. “Curse you! what are you laughing at? You name here to listen. not laugh,” broke out George, furiously, when bk saw It. Bellamy aa'rivved on the following morn- 1118, she found him marching up and down the dining-room in the worst of his bad tempers, and flint was a very shocking temper” indeed. His lig-hlt- blue eyes were angry and bloodshot» his general appearance slovenly to the last degree, and a red spot burned up- on each Bellow clhaeek. “\Vell. George, what is the matter? You don’t look quLte as happy as a lov- er shmlld." HP.- grunlted by way of answer. “Has the lady been unkind, failed to appreciate your advances, ch 2” made behind W’s beak, about {01'0' ing-herbomm'ry him m the ”tad any opposition thnt she 009M 0 ”0 George reached home that mght very much dimeartenod about the whole bus- iness. Howwuahetobqwmenwk of this proud woman to has 5’01“”. “Dd break the strong cord of her 811685099. “'.L‘_fl. fin..." I I'l‘ ""Now look here, Anne," hie answergd, savagely. “if I have to put up WLbh things from that confounded g1.r1. I am not going to stand your jeers, so stop them once for all." "NOW,” he said. when it was finiSh‘ 9d. “what is to be done 2" Thus admonished, George proceeded to give her such a version of his mel- ancholy tale as best suited him, need- less to say not a full one, but his hear- er’s imagination easily supplied the gaps, and as he proceeded, a slow smile crept over her fate as she conjured the suppressed details of the scene in the lane. She made no answer. and he continu- ed 1113 thrilling tale mthout comment on her part. “Now, look {on here, Anne,” said George, in a sort of hiss, and stami- mg over her in a threatening atti- tUde, "I have suspected for some tune that You were playing me false in this l’uSiness, and now I am sure of it. You have put the girl up to treating me like this, you treacherous snake; you have struck me from behind, you Red [ndien in petticoats! But, look berg. I will be square with you; you shall not have all the laugh on your side.” “George, you must be, mad.” "You shall see whether I am mad or not. Did you see what the brigands did to a fellow they caught in Greece the other day for whom they wanted ransom? First, they sent his ear to his friends, then his nose, then his fOOt, and. last of all, his headâ€"all by post, mark you. Well,d‘ela‘r Anne, that Is just how I am going to pay you out. You shall have a week to find afresh plan to trap the bird you have fright’ ened, and, if you find none, first Isltall post one of those interesting letters that Ihave yonder to your husband -an0nymously, you knowâ€"not avery c(.mlpromising one, but one that will PUNK: his curiosity and set him mak- mg 1nquiries; then [shall wait an- other week.” . ”‘m bun 3|.qu WI“ u- ...â€" ?” h!!! absent lovar. M” ' moguls It went have bean possible to fynd 0‘ Way, but Anya]. wus not an ordnnary glrL He had mad. and Lady Ballgamy had tried, and they had both famed. ”Pd as for Phillip he would take no ao- tw" part in the matter. Whit more could be dome? Only one thing that he could think of, he could force Lady Bellamy to search bar finer brains for 9 fresh expedient. Acting upon this ‘dea‘v he Oat once dispatched a note to h'f'r requesting her to come and see hum at Islewortiho on the following morn? "There is nothing,r to he done; you have failed to win her affections, and there is an end of the matter.” “Then you mean I must give it up?" "Yes, and a very good thing tOO, for the ridiruions arrangement that. you have entered into with Philip would have half ruined you, and you would befitired of the girl in a month: 0 ‘ Lady Bellamy could hear it no long- er. She sprung up from her 'chalr, pale with anger. “You fiend in human form, What is it. I wonder, that has kept me so long from destroying you and myself too? Oh! you need not laugh; I have the means to do it, if I choose; I have had them for twenty years.” George laughed again, hoarsely. "the pennyodreadful, l deciare. But I don’t think you will come to that; you would be afraid, and, if you do, I don’t care muchâ€"I am pretty reckless, I can tell you.” 399 my nerve desert me? Do you sup- pose that I am a woman who would bear failure when I could choose death? NO, George, Ihad rather pass into eternity on the crest of the wave of my success, such as it has been. and let it break and grind me to powder there, or else hear me to greater heights. All that should have been a woman’s better part in the world you have destroyed in me. I do not say that it was altogether your fault, for an evil destiny bound me to you, and it must seem odd to you when Isay that, knowing you for what you are, I still love you. And to fill up this void, to trample down those surging memories, I have made myself a slave to my ambition, and the acquisition of another power that you cannot under- stand. The man you married me to is rich and a knight to-day. I made him so. If I live another twenty years his wealth shalt be colossal and his in- fluence unbounded, and I will be one of the most powerful women in the kingdom. Why do you suppose that I so fear your treachery? Do you think that I should mind its heinn “For your threats,” she went on, without heeding him, “I care nothing, for, as I tell you, I have their anti- dote at hand. You have known me for many years, tell me, did you ever “It is not my own affair; listen.” and she gave him afull, accurate and clear account of all that had taken place with reference to George’s de- termination to marry Angela, not omitting the most trivial detail. Sir John expressed no surprise; he was a very old bird was Sir John, one for whom every net was spread in vain, whether in or out of sight. Nothing in this world. provided that it did not affect his own comfort or safety, could affect his bland and appreciative smile. He was never surprised. Once or twice he put a shrewd question to elucidate some point in the narrative, and that was all. \Vhen his wife had finished, he said: “That is. indeed: an unusual occur- rence,” answered Sir John, rubblng his dry_ hands and smxling. such as she is will ever be really faith- less to her love, even thourrh you trap her into marriage? Fool, her heart is as far above you as the stars; and without a heart a woman is a husk that none but such miserables as your- self would own. But go onâ€"dash your- self against a white purity that will, in the end, blind and destroy you. Dree your own doom! I will find you ex- pedients; it is. my business to obey you. You shall marry her, if you will, and taste of the judgment that will fol- low. Be still, ] will bear no more of your insolence to-day.” And she swept out of the room leaving George looking somewhat scared. \\ hen Lady Bellamy reached Rew- tham House she went straight to her husband’s study. He received her with much politeness, and asked her to sit dow n “\Vell. Anne. you have told a very interesting and amusing little history, doubly so, if you will permit me to say it, seeing that it is told of George Caresfoot. by Lady Bellamy; but it seems that your joint efforts have failed. What is it that you wish me to do ?” “I have come to consult you on a. matter of some Importance,” s_he sud. “C‘, “SJ‘L tlJ\-u ivy-av v “And as for you, poor creature that you are, words cannot tell how I de- spise you. You discard me and my de- votion, to follow a nature, in its way, it is true, greater even than my own. representing the principle of good, as I represent the principle of evil; but one to which yours is utterly abhor- rent. Can you mix light with dark- ness, or filthy oil with water? As well hope to merge your life, black as it is, with every wickedness, with that of the splendid creature you would defile. Do you suppose hat a woman such as she is will ever he really faith- properly managed. that women .al- Way’s have risen, and always will rise. T0 be really great, I think that a .wo- man must be vicious with discrimxna- tion, and I respect vice accordingly. N0. it is not that I fear. I am afraid be- bitter In wait for anopportunity to destroy me. Nor is he my only enemy. skillful hands, the letters you possess can, as society is in this country. he used so as to make me powerless. Yes, George, all the good in me is dead. the mad love I have given you is hourly outraged, and yet [cannot shake it off. There alone my strength fails me. and I am weak as a child. Only the power to exercise my will, my sense of command over the dullards round me, and a yet keener pleasure you do not know of, are left to me. If these are taken away, what will my life be? A void. a waste, a howling wilderness, 3 hlace where I will not stay! I had rather tempt the unknown. Even in hell there must he scope tor abilities, such as mine ?” She paused awhile, as if for an ans- wer, and then went on: --_- ‘I.n‘ known “I wish to ask you it you can suggest any plan that'uill not fail. You are very cunning in your way, and your advice mav he good. ” “Let me seeâ€"young Heigham is in Madeira, is he not I” “I am sure I do not know.” “But. I do.” and be extracted a no_tebopk from a drawer. “Let me see â€"I think I have an entry somewhere here. Ah! here we areâ€"'Arthur P. Heigham. Esq" passenger. per War- wick Castle, to Madeira, June 16.’ (Copied from passenger-list, “’estern Daily News.) His second name is Pres- ton. is it not? Lucky I kept that. NOW. the thing will be to communicate with Madeira. and see if he is still there. I can easily do that; I know a man there.” “Have you formed any plan. then?" ".Yes,” answered Sir John, With Ste“ deliberation, “I think I see my WW: but I must have time to think of it. I will speak to you about it toâ€"morrow." .. 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