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WA ‘ \ “I did not meet ‘mamma’ anywhere,” he answered, frowning. “I met Mrs. self under any obligation to her. She and Doctor Richmond were well paid for anything they ever did for you. Your connection With them has ceased. ’ you to have any more to do with that fellow ’Warren- der. He is not a fit person for you to know. You are no longer Doctor Richmond’s child; you are Miss Daryl, my granddaughter and heiress.” Still Kilmeny did not answer. and Mr. Daryl went on after a pause. “As to the ridiculous name which Mrs Richmond saw fit to give you” that must be dropped. I have looked' into the marriage register of your parents. and I find that your mo- ther’s name was Nina. ’Twill do as well as any other. You shall be Nina Daryl henceforth. Kilmeny Richmond has ceased to exist.” ‘Yesâ€"I see that.” the girl answered with an odd laugh. “I have no' choice. I suppose? I must stay 3” "You do not want any choice. do you? You do not want to be a doe- tor’s daughter. running about the country in company with any one who chooses to invite you mixing with mid: dle class people, looked down upon: by. your equals. and Evin the house of a man w you. ought not to sundae with} I said that the I‘aan- - 'l “2“ -â€"v vvnwubw “flu 1 ”Did you meet mamma on the. ing when we dined at Mr. “'2 der’ 5?” she asked, “The arrangement between us had been that nothing was to be said open- ly until Doctor Richmond’s return, but that I was to have every oppor- tunity. of seeing you in the. meantime. I found, however, that some story had come to your ears last night, doubtless again through Lady Pen- ryth’s kind offices, so Imade my decision. 1 directed Mrs. Richmond and her family to return home, and that, when they were gone, you were to be sent to me here.” Mr. Daryl looked keenly at Kil- meny’s face as he finished. in’ order to‘ mark the surprise and exultation; "I did all this with the utmost sec-i ‘ recy. I gave Doctor Richmond .no; LH” option. There was no clue by which; The announce he could discover my name or the mond’s relatio; family of the child. The child herself _ caused an imme was pretty and winning, I believe. Heat once became and his wife accepted the charge. They people who had removed at once to Redminster, where Every one calle every one took it for granted‘ that. thejone declared th baby with them was their own. W henf " I found that they had done so, licussed, but not made no further inquiries, and lostgself. She alwa sight of them completely. I was un-iif it w aware that young Warrender had anyjallusion to her connection with them, or that there' her place with was any chance of. meeting him again. 3amazed everyba “When I found out who you W'ere,}ered that she w: I changed my mind about you. It not following it was not likely that, brought up as hPE‘SElf very mu you had been, you would have yourlvrsued the youn father’s tendencies. 1 determined toffer?‘ of companio: know more of you, and you seemed in- '“fhtch she haste] clined to make that easy. Still, I Cldedly declined. should not have acknowledged the re- _ There was a d lationship in which you stood to me so lmg. and KiLmen soon but for some gossip whichI heard IS’I‘flndfallvler. tak “I kept his confession a secreglshall decide regarding him.” t . and I resolved never to acknowledge; "I W111 try it for a month,” 5116 881d his child. Still I wished that shegabruptly. “I will stay here and have should be brought up respectabiy,‘n0thlng to do with any one in my Chance had thrown me into contact‘.,;-P%18t life. I Will write *0 mamma, of the briefest and most professionalztening nothing hilt the bare fact, and sort with a Doctor Richmond,a youngfasking her not to write. I Will pro- and struggling practitioner. I hadglmse you for that month not heard that they had no children. I‘to be. Kilmeny Richmond but bought his present practice in his only Nina Daryl. At theend of the name, and I sent him the papers mak- monthâ€"â€"-” ing it his along with the child, who f‘lAt the end of the month, you will was secretly conveyed to his house. Ac-‘still be my granddaughter,” he said, companying her i sent a letter statingzwqih a suspicion of threatening in his that she was born in lawful wedlock, g’vome.” You belong to me. You are but that her relatives wished, for urg- ROI of age and can make no choice ent reason, to rid themselves for ever} have your career marked out fro of all responsibility concerning her. I you, and I intend you to be differ- stated that the practice which I had different from those who went before bought for him would be taken from you. All the rest disgraced me, and, him unless he consented to adopt the -ruined themselves. You shall be dif-' child as his own, and never let it be term; known that such was not the case. 1‘ he glanced at her with a look of said that she should neVer be sought pride and possession, and Kilmeny after or reclaimed, and that only one 1‘0138. person in the world except themselves: :‘I belong to you for a month,” she knew the truth about her. 1581(1; "then 1 shall choose.” ' n “The story you heard from that re young man Warrender the first time to I saw you was substantially true.”‘H‘ Mr. Daryl began. "My family certain- ,Df ly were never what might be called; strait-laced people. They went downtm‘ one by one, until only my son was left. m1 He was the worst of them all. He gam- .th' bled. betted, drank. committed everyfo‘ wickedness you have ever heard of and :51? some. doubtless. which were not spok-‘ en of in Doctor Richmond’s family, -.I’e Finally, when he had ruined himselffint body and soul he came home to die. ;d°, “When that event took place he 5 t1" sent for me. and told me that he had ,de privately married some girl whom ,he‘ described as good and innocent. It .143“ she were so, that very innocence killed .her her. He got tired of her. as he gotgque tired of everything, and to rid himself £0031 or her and her child he told her that gatt: his marriage to her was a sham, as he , a 11 had another wife living, and he desert-fa!1d ed. her. The shock killed her; but the his child livedâ€"my heiress and the onlyldfim descendant remaining to me. He gaveZWIU the proofs of his marriage, and told me ;m01 where the child was to be found. and! "I then he died. Sad, ?7@,:;. a t A Double Disobedience. CHAPTER V.â€"Continued. n the. even- ‘ Warren- ' can mam em , - . . thing lugs?! we must ml it With some- “I hardly even think of body in partxcglpr. I hageousoormaanny; n'nnnnâ€"A- *‘ ‘ “And what makes you‘ suppose that I care for anybody? I left everything behind for this ‘world' which you talk so much of, where nobody cares or re- members. I have everything that I could wish, and must, of course, be V. â€"vuuu Luau WUI‘e ing. The }emark was in comim of a conversation that had taken that sort of feeling, and it muc inconvenient. Nobody here has heart or memory, or anything of kind, you know. We e11 say wha had lde Bruyneâ€"” | be; He glanced sharply at Kilmeny. IfLady Penryth had repeated to him lled her convicrion that a nameless and got :‘questionable person like Kilmney self gcould never really expect anything but hat :attentions which were insulting from "We, v , _-_ â€" wâ€"v mun» IIUL Imss it. :5 ' who comported herself with he:t usual inditference to Lady Penryth’s observation, a ‘ finished woman of mm Wm.” : - ly.‘ ’ - . . . ,into society, and, smce she faded to ,elfido it as I wished, I shall take the .1183 thing into my own hands. As‘ \to Lord - it]... Dm‘wnn I "\At the end of the month, you will gstill be my granddaughter,” he said, with a suspicion of threatening in his voice.” You belong to me. You are not of age and can make no choice I have your career marked out fro you, and I intend you to be differ- different from those who went before you. All the rest disgraced me, and ruined themselves. You shall be dif- fem-113'.” l g “I will try it for a month, ” she said Eabruptly. “I will stay here and have nothing to do with any one in my past life. I will write to mamma, ftelling nothing but the bare fact, and fashing her not to write. I will pro- a man of Lord de Bruyne’s station, and he had resolved at once to execute his great coup, and raise his grand- daughter to a position of equality :with the guests Whom he had sum- ;moned to meet her. " As for Lord de Bruyne,” hq repeat- ed, looking at Kilmeny, “you yourself sha_ll dgcide regarding him_.”7_i _ UU Juu uuuuna uuuuuuuu . ’ . “Oh, yesâ€"I understand 1t!’ K11- meny cried. “I understood that much before! But for that. do you think I should be here? Lady Penryth took pains to enlighten everybodyâ€" she and Lord de Bruynefl’- _ _ __ , fyou was on account of the gossip ’which I heard this morning. I had another reason as well as this. I wanted to separate you from War- render. He has had the presumption to lift his eyes to my granddaughter. He shall see that she is not for him. Do you understand. this?” J :an’ V§1__ CHAPTER VI. . v-V‘ round them were talk- fiw-v “V ’t to bé perfectly in- is said. It was quite :0 find that anybody nndu ” and it must be Y here has any anything of that 5}“ say What 00. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, December 7, 1899. continuance open ._.-‘. uu'l3c you t elther , Your granddal cherishes a weakness for of Merndale " Mr. Daryl iooked darkly uoner. “Wigat grounds have y assertlon fi’" to me: SHIT chief thing," ChriStOpher reined in his horse at sight of the party, and moved to one side to let them pass. His eyes were fixed on Kiimeny, and he ,waited for i a sign of recognition from her. The last time that they had met she had leaned towards him and spoken in her soft, wilful, coaxing voice, begging him to let her enjoy herself. Now she made the slightest possible inclin- ation of her head, as he waited, and passed on without a word. \Vhen Kilmeny could see Lord de ,be blurred round her, he was riding1 'on without any change in his demean- or, and he was talking as if nothing had occurred. She plunged into con- versation with him recklessly, and showed herself so gay and kind that those behind nodded and smiled, 885’- ing to themselves that there would Tsoon be a Lady de Bruyne. When ' they reached home Kilmeny’s companâ€" ion at once sought an interview with Mr. Daryl in his own room. “I have come,” he said, "to ask your consent to my addressing Miss Daryl as a suitor for her hand. I have quite made up my mind about it, and‘I (want to- complete everything as soon as may be.” ‘_'You certainly come straight to the poxnt. In such a case, a man gener-‘ ally thinks it necessary to make some I mention of h" ' lady. It may not suit my plans for < married mereâ€" , The riding party came off the next l morning. Kilmeny, now an accom- - pushed horsewoman, rode a beautiful ' animal which her grandfather had ' bought to take the place of the pony. Lord de Bruyne was beside her ' and they made a remarkably handsome pair. The remaining ladies and gen- tlemen of the party followed chat- ting and laughing. It all looked very gay and happy, and doubtless many people envxed the girl to whom such unexpected good fortune had come. But Kilmeny suddenly felt as if a cold hand had clutched her heart as a turn, of the road brought them face‘ to face with ChristOpher Warrender. He was riding slowly when they met him, and his mien was thoughtful. To Kilmeny it seemed as if he looked old- er than when she had last met him, and she had to put a strong effort on herself not to let any one see the effect which the sight had upon her. FShe knew all at once that she want- ed her “mother" and all the simple home-joys which had made her hap- piness until a few weeks ago, and that she hated her present life, with its brilliance and emptiness, But Lord de Bruyne was beside her, and she was conscious gthat his eyes were fixed keenly on her face. She must not be- tray herself; she mustâ€"though it should break her heartâ€"hide from everybody the great throb of joy which she felt at the sight of the man be- fore her, who, even her mother had told her, was shut out from a good woman’s friendship. of her moneyâ€"had begun 'tc look strangely invzting to him as well as advantageous. A strong feeling of jealousy against Christopher Warren- der was waking in him, and a deter- mination to accomplish his ruin in M338 Daryl's eyes came with it. The changingvglow in her eyes and the odd little relapse into her former manner warned him of danger. He had begun to find, to his amazement, that his heart was still in existence, and was beginning to beat in an 1111'- usual way when he was near Mr. Daryl's granddaughter. The aim which he had set before himâ€"to marry her and retrieve his fortunes b_y means ary ’9’" ' . “Ah, I cannot tell what w111 hapâ€" pegl. so ‘far away as t_hat_1" .“3 at 03 at} urgent considera- . e. ost no time." L.szhoulyc! adv15e you to lose none . , our granddaughter still shes a w Erridmnneakness for Warrender “Certainly. Do you still ride the pony 2” “No. He was sent away, and I have a horse now." Lady Pemyth and yourselfi I suppose? Lord de Bruyne, you have chosen your subjects of conversation very ill this evening. We have talked about noth- ing but you and me, and I don’t know which is the more uninteresting. Are you gomg out riding with us in the mornlng? rse 1 can make'any protéâ€"siz; 51 W431). I will do my best to [SS Daryl happy, and I do not . as .my wife simply because a nelress.” \A-_ _ you 80 up to town in Janu‘ money is a necessity s not the only or the. you for that at hls ques- , was a fanatical extreme we have not yet come to ac- cept. and perhaps never willâ€"for good reasons. be completeéfrbfia mint-33 we]! as and hygienic? adopted the costume. 01 "rational" dresses which h signed, none of. them has tic; and if 'we are going I] reform,” why not let the Dress reform- seems to have made but little progress since Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, 50 years ago, electrified all London by walking down the street attired in a costume designed by,lher- self and which: was afterward known as the Bloomer costume. At that time, it will be remembered, hoop- skirts were worn, and of such- a gen- erous proportion that it was with dif- ficulty, attended by all sorts of dan- gers of uptilting skirts, that ladies en- ’ tered a doorway. or seated themselves except in the most rigid positions. The spectacle of a lady, high". in the ‘ social and literary world, walking un- concernedly down the street attired in a short, skirt and minus .‘the disfig- uring hoopskirt, must have seemed highly ludicrous to the average Brit- isher, and no doubt many pairs of male lips ejaculated “bah Jove l” while critically and curiously. regarding the daring‘ lady through the monocle. Many improvements have since been made in the old-time adopted the costume. "rational" dresses which -nAâ€"Mâ€" ‘ Of the many have been de- v_v. r , Kilmeny had retreated to her own r room when the ride was over, and had 1 locked her door. Her head felt be- ; wildered and her heart benumbed by what had taken place. The sense of a mistake also weighed on her; the secret about her parentage, and the story of Ch‘ris’ guilt seemed to be mix;- ed up until she could not disentangle them. What had her mother really said about him? What reason had her grandfather for breaking off her connection with him? It was all a wretched muddle to Kilmeny as she sat and thought over it, and she could no: evolve order out of the chaos. Two things only were clear to her, andi those were, that she had by her act' that day parted herself finally from Chris, and, by doing so, prevented a return to her "home.” Moreover, by no look or deed of hers must she ever let. any one suspect what it had cost her to make that severance. Miss Daryl's maid had never found her young mistress so hard to please as she was that evening when she was dressing her for dinner, and Kilmeny had never looked so radiant and smil- ed Lord de Bruyne’s eyse to fill with a subdued admiration of her beauty aind spirit. Perhaps he knew more than might have been suspected of what the haughty grace of her bearing signi- fied, he and Lady Penryth, who sat watching her with‘an evil glitter in her pitiless eyes. Mr. Daryi made no reply. It occur- red to him, as Lord de Bruyne went out of the room, that he himself had been merely a puppet in the hands of Lady Penryth and Lord de Bruyne. The reflections of the master of the house were not of the most satisfactory nature as he mused over this interview after his Visitor had gone. TY'I - w-_._‘_“‘°“uv‘. UWJ, and she is Fa double dealer. The less 8119.18 here the better.” “I have one more thing to say,” Lord (1e Bruyne observed as he rose to go. “I have decided to arrange affairs without Lady Penyrth’s intervention. She is your granddaughters enemy, A...) _Lâ€" -â€" - Mr. 'Daryl assented curtly. He was proud, with a selfish and cruel pride, of the beautiful grandchild whom he had suddenly discovered. He had been afraid that the circumstances of her early life might prove prejudicial to her when he brought her among peaple of a class so much above her. ,Lord de Bruyne's choice of her as a Wife would at once stamp her as in every way their equal. And his pro. phecy of her probable action when the month was up alarmed him. He hated the Richmonds when he found that Kilmeny still thought of them and was fond of them; and, most of all, he hated Christopher Warrender. Before he parted trom Lord de Bruyne it. had ' been settled that nothing should be allowed to prevent Kilmeny’s becoming his wife before the stipulated month should have elapsed. “Yesâ€"there must be money. Then you» agree '9"_’ “There is money to be had wiLh her." RATION’AL DRESS. To Be Continued ps never willâ€"fox; kggd uhuuer says, all civilizâ€" knock-kneed, it seems [13 that .soeiety de- are going In for “ â€" --' vvuâ€" absémce. n91} 30' mjuchi for been arms- also Mr. Watson, brutally -“ h“ ”’3 you limp 80? Shoes $00 smat Mrs. Watson, icily "N“ feet all the Lime. ne Money, money, mo y, she needed he growled when she sand 3 new bonnet._ .. 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And, without even EXIBBULUE “M. hand, with simply a low bow of cum»: tesy, he left her, she sitting mommat 1668, the echo of the closing 01' the oux-g side door ringing in her ears strange-1 I: like a knell. ing in his ears. An added shade of his cheeks, the broad : trifle broader; the d: more earnest luok; mustache droolxed ma was all. In all else ”6 l“ .0- - . dded shade Of bronze “2-1:": hifighzeks, the broad shoulder? vie; trifle broader; the dark 0595‘ “(:I“. more earnest look; the lung .8?) mustache droope-d mel‘e‘hea-Hl). 1: was all. In all else 'lhuz‘nfpril:- W38 'nDChanged outwardly “ 11 . ln 8 can penetrate. ‘ ygut as once more the sentence r: before him, his eyes kindled and said aloud: ° . :9 .« Revenge us meet. : d .. W " Four years have not fade , h .. 86 to himself, “ to Leach the fully the Mo,’ ’ - - ..--., nun. n .l '“V W. .. . . , . revengr Ui’“7 . If you “Puld “réalsher 10H: vcpq.‘ 'a woman, first ma 8 ~ Ah, this was the work left him, 1:731: ' ' 3 V 1’ {I the sweet revengeâ€"~10 gam L111. Lm :7V".,“ C which once had mockingly rm; f, 7 h on his own, then 6h0“' her hU\\ \\ (,1. s . lees was the prize. . - ‘L_. ‘-;_f‘r3Y‘l loan was: but: ylluvo .. Qnoe more he stood 1n the la-zmy whlch had witnessed, so long ag...\i£;v @930 branded upon his memory. ’t Wble it stili had gmwer 1n '.1;::.. a“ he strode, with impatient 519px up and down- waiting the moment of 31': 1,6 ‘ l -.\‘ and down, waiting the momen: :4. . Rivers’ entrance ‘3 ‘ She had sent for him. PquAI-SC‘IF L" had waited until she should do 5.“? m}; til the Wage should come askzng a his old friends had been {org-Lune But the door opened. Hus reveal- was interrupted, as, glancmg .111). gr: slight graceful figure, which 2r: sgrzw 0‘ himself had entered so often 11'er his dreams, stood before him. The years had added to her love: “958, but deepened the rose upon her Cheeks, but lent a softened bnlizana'}: *0 the dark gray eyes, which I‘Vbfl‘fl 5° reproachiully upon him. ‘ "Why did you make me 5900 for ’0“ if” she asked. , ‘ 0'1 ‘(Ic Once more the low, sweet thrilled him with its old magiv but, remembering the part. he Plat. he put his weakness beh Is he answered: TFOIII‘ years make many c M388 Nellie. I did not know ] 5t}_ll_fmd a place in your men “m " TFO‘H years make many challgs‘éfi37 M388 Nellie. I did not know 1 shr-uéa still find a place in your memory." ‘ ".You have grown older!” she ex-1 clfunfl. unthinkingly. . 1 - . Ah, I hfi-Ve put away boyish thzngs 8:an IhBt saw you, Miss Rivers." Â¥ The hidden meaning of the words rang through his tone, and scarle: crept up to the whim temples: but no “he!“ sign betrayed hay, and so f0: 19 hom- they chatted on cu’QMYIllng! the M one portion of whicr. :..>‘..h‘ ”.Wefnllx avoided. ‘ ‘.. _â€"A- "’ kg cm B‘wâ€" ' her WOI‘dS. The last 5031‘. like a knife; 3. flash of an- d into the dark eyes, amo- we so tenderly passigmate,” red quickly: here to talk Of a man's love, re to tail: of a man's long; I am twenty-six, full; . your senior, Nellie; but“ ! gettily you talk, Thormun. 5t like a story book. licaiiy, expect one of your yearsâ€"â€" be angry, but you banana;- by surprise, I hardly know plyâ€"except, Thoruzon, im- n’t think of it 31181 nuw. if mind. I am afraid yuurugv :11. too heavily on your (shut).- nrden them with any adJL-ei even extending hi: it a low bow of cour- , abe sitting motion be closing of the out in her ears strange on 1'0 SC -" fro: 5' the in 01 1.60 1 they )‘.'P( \K‘ fol! self. only \Vha Inflt 1115!. fri W