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visit to Wimbledon that she sst reading a curious letter, which rau as follows: “ Your lover cares for you no longer. H it honor and hia pity for you alone keep him to his given word. 11» makes light of you to others." Ethel did not quite believe all this; but the believed enough of it was true to justify her in giving Jack an oppor tunity of freeing himself from hia en- gsgemeut. She decided that she would not worry her father, but would act for herself. Actiug on this decision, she wrote: “ My Hear Jack— You have now been away three weeks. As yet you do not say auything about returning, but, ou the contrary, speak of your work as being likely to keep you for several week* longer. In the three weeks of your ab sence you have written me four letters, and those have evidently been an unwel come task. l>o you guess what I am go ing to say? I wish I were sure you knew, that I might be saved the pain of writing the words. I think you have found out that you do not care for me in the way you thought you did. and your sense of honor alone is keeping you to the letter of your engagement to me. I have reasons of whiclwyou know nothing for believing this to be the case; so we have both made a mistake, and that, if you are willing, our engagement had bet ter come to an end# “ Please don’ t think I blame you In any way; it was only one of those mis takes that everybody is liable to make. “ Ever your sincere friend. "E T H E L M A L L E T T .” Poor Ethel! How she cried over that letter! How she hoped against hope that Jack might not be willing to end the engagement! How carefully she read the words through to be sure that she had not definitely settled the matter— that, In fact, she had done only what she in tended— given Jack a chance of accept ing his freedom if he wished for it! Had the matter-of-fact little epistle arrived at a more favorable moment, had Jack had leisure to read between the lines and discover the wounded pride and self-respect that had dictated every word, his manhood might have asserted itself in Ethel's favor. As it was Jack read the letter impatiently at first, but as its meaning dawned upon him he turned back to the top of the leaf and read it again, assured himself of the un equivocal nature of the offer of freedom, thrust it into his pocket and went off whistling eucgetically to meet Miss Mail ing a: the station ou her return from town. Pauline saw at a glance thut some thing had happened, and. knowing what she knew, guessed shrewdly what that something was. She had not been five minutes in Jack's society before she felt a subtle difference in hi* manner toward her. “ I am so glad to find yon still here. Mr. Dornton,” she «aid at luncheon, glancing at him bewitchingly between the leaves of a palm plant. " W e were so afraid that you would not have been able to endure a fortnight of this terribly dull place. Weren't we. Mrs. Sefton?” “ You forget that Mr. Dornton has had a real occupation to make the dull ness endurable. His life is not passed in killing time, as yours is. dear.” “ To be sure. I had forgotten to ask how the pictures have progressed.” "Th e view of the house from the woods is finished as far as I can finish it here. The rest of the work I must do in Newman street. “ That is where your studio is, is it not? I should like to see some of your completed pictures. Will you usk us up some day to look at them?” “ Any day you please. Say the day after to-morrow.” “ I cannot go back to dusty London again so soon. I expect niy first batch of visitors on that day, too. At last I shall be able to do something in the way of entertaining you, Mr. Dornton, and show my gratitude to you for enlivening our solitude in the past.” “ You are too kind. But I have made arrangements for returning to town to morrow.” “ Nonsense. You speak of arrange ments in such a serious way that one might Imagine you had a wife and chil dren; instead of which you are the en viable creature— a man without a tie." She paused an instant, dreading his reply. He made none; but a dull red crept slowly up his face to the roots of his hair. She read this sign to suit her self, and went on: “ That being the case, as yon have no one to claim your presence as a right, why not favor me with it ns a pleasure? I should advise you to stay, Mr. Dorn ton. There are some really charming people coming on Thursday whom you should know.” Mrs. Sefton was the embodiment of discretion, a very model for lady-com panions. She walked away, and Jack followed Miss Mailing to the picture gallery. They were standing in front of the easel on which Jack had placed his paint ing of Mallingford House. It was a charming picture. “ You must do me a copy of this, Mr. Dornton,” said I ’ auline, "as a memento of that first morning when I found you asleep In the wood.” “ And awakened me!” The words were simple enough, but Jack threw a great deal of expression C H A P T E R V III. was a day or two aftar Elhal’s Into thsm, and bis eyes conveyed s world C H A P T E R V II .—«Continued.» “ You don’ t know what a strange place this world is. Miss Mallett." he began. “ Your father love* you, and takes every car» of you. You must therefore hear this in mind, and not he hard on the fail ings of others who have not had your privileges. My wife— poor girl!— had no mother when I first met her, aud was totally dependent ou her father for so ciety. It was a bad training for a young woman, for her father was u good-natur ed, careless fellow, always avoiding re sponsibility as long as was possible, and wheu at last compelled to show authority, making up by exaggerated harshuea* for his previous neglect. "M y wife was a high-spirited girl and could not submit to the alternate fits of indulgence and tyranny. She was about seventeen when I first met her, and her father’s treatment was becoming unbear able. 1 became desperately sorry for her and suggested the only means in my power to help her. which was to make her my wife. It was a foolish proceed ing. 1 know, but I was young then, and had not begun to look at life seriously, or I should have asked myself how her position would be bettered by being tied for life to a helpless, penniless fellow, as I was then. Well, we were married— privately, of course— and for a few weeks thought we loved each other very dearly: then she had another fearful quarrel with her father and begged me to take her away to a home of her own. I was earning a beggarly pittance at that time. I explained my position to her, and advised her to wait until I had ob tained a certain appointment, of which I was almost sure. She lost her temper, poor child, and vowed she's never come near me again. The very next day I was telegraphed for to England. I wrote to her, asking her to be patient for awhile, telling her that I would work hard and get a permanent post now that there was a necessity to work, and prom ising to come back shortly to tnke her from the cruelty to which she had to sub mit. “ On my arrival in England I found that an almost unknown uncle had left me a property amounting to nearly three thousand pounds a year. You can im agine how glad I was for my poor girl’s sake. I made up my mind to surprise her and personally communicate the good news, so did not write. I got through the usual legal formalities as quickly as possible, and rushed back to Rome— only to find them gone! Some told me they had gone to one place, some to another until I was utterly at a loss what to do However. I traced them, after a month's search, to Naples, aud then it was only to find that her father had died a few days previously and that she had disap peared no one knew whither. “ I did not know any of her people, so I was compelled to search single handed. For six months I went np and down like a restless spirit in search of peace. A t last I found her— or rather her grave— for she had died; she had died in a convent, where she had been teaching English. By the help of a ser vant I obtained permission to see her grave. There was a plain stone with her name only, and the date of her death, which took place some few weeks prior to my visit. Poor child! I cannot con vey to you how great a blow it was to me, and my grief was not lessened by the fact that she had died at enmity with me.” “ W e must hope she forgave you. al though you did not see her,” Ethel said quietly. Pelling did not answer, and there was silence for a time. It was a relief when Mr. Mallett spoke. "She must have been of a most unfor giving disposition to resent your pov erty so bitterly, and to nurse her hatred in her dying moments.” “ I don’ t think she did that— indeed, the chances are that, in her poor little way, she was looking for me as anxious ly as I was for her. It was one of those strange fatalities that human foresight seems utterly unable to prevent.” He rose aned shook himself, as If wish ful to put away the memories that had crowded upon him while speaking of the long-silent past. "You will think me no end of a bore for annoying you with all this history: but, if you can imagine the relief It has been to me to speak of it, and you have any human kindness in your hearts, you will forgive me for the infliction. But my poor sketches? I have it! You must come down and spend a long day with me on Sunday. What do you say. Miss Mallett?” Ethel looked perplexed. She had hoped against hope that Jack would return ev ery Sunday since his departure, and went through a torment of expectation as the day wore on. This had taken place for the last three Sundays; but she went on hoping. Her father, recognising the diffi culty in which Ethel found herself, came to the rescue. " I f Ethel can arrange matters, It shall be as you wish. I can't say more; for it Is not my affair, but hers.” “ Thank you very much.” Ten minutes later the captain stood alone at the gate, watching the dog cart disappear down the road. “ So it’s Ethel’s ‘ affair,’ ” he said. “ Well, I hope they’ll come and bring Ethel’s ‘affair’ with them. I shall he better able to Judge of my own chance after I have seen my rival.” It of meaning. eiiaa Mailing naanea a ( I * nee at hitn as she asked: “ Did 1 wake you? It was quite uulu- teutioual on my part." "Aud luvoluntary on mine." Paulina, fearing that tha conversation was getting beyond her control, turned quickly aud caught up the first picture that cams to her hand from the opeu portfolio. As was to he expected, Jack had spent many of his spare hours duriug the last lonely fortnight In painting her portrait from memory; and it was this that she caught up iu her nervous haste. “ Oh. Mr. Dornton!” she exclaimed, In rapturous tones. Even her vanity was satisfied, and she blushed genuinely at the lovely picture Jack had made or her. " I am aorry you found teat. You will perhaps think it gross presumption; if so, I can destroy It. 1 can't wlah it undone, for it has given uie h o tuauy pleasant hours." “ Presumption? No, Indeed! I feel as tonished at the truthfulness and the flat tery you have uiaunged to combine iu the picture.” After that there was an awkward pause. Pauline half wished to hear Jack say that he loved her, and ahe half dread ed it, for ahe had not yet made lip her mind as to how she would answer him. Her wish was fulfilled sooner than ahe anticipated. Jnek showed her his sketches one after another, aud they were discussed, criti cised and replaced. A* he put the last one back into the portfolio he turned and addressed her abruptly. With such im petuous force did hia worda flow that sue was compelled to listen to the end. "W ith regard to my staying here. Mis* Mailing, I did not care to discuss the matter further before Mrs. Sefton ut luncheon; but I must do so now.” He drew a deep breath, ami clinched his hand firmly on the back of a chair. “ I cannot— I dare u<>t stay here with out telling you the truth; for, if I allow my feelings to become any stronger than they are, aud meet disappointment in the end. I ’ m afraid 1 shall not be responsible for my actions. Miss Malting, 1 love yon— madly. While I i n telling you this 1 know the chances are that you will presently turn your back and say, as you leave tne, ‘ Please quit my house at once;’ yet I now tell you, because 1 cannot stay in your presence with safety another hour unless you give me some hope. I have loved you from the moment 1 wok* and saw you that morning in the wyod. You will say thut Is not very long; to me it Is a lifetime. I never lived uutil that moment. I shall never live again If you send me away.” His face was very pale when he ceased speaking. Pauline stood near him. the color coming ami going in her cheeks, her eyes fixed on hi* face; but she said never a word. When he spoke again his words cauie slowly, hesitatingly, and his voice had a stifled sound, as if choked with despair. “ You have no answer for me; but you do not tell me to leave you! It caunot be that, Pauline; heart of my heart, queen of my Soul, you love me!” His last words died away to a whisper of intense rapture; and, as Pauline felt his arms encirele her. his kiss«-« on her lips, she forgot all the shadows thnt lurked in the past, forgot all the ques tionable means she bad employed to at tain this end. She only knew that she loved him with all the force of her na ture, that she was loved in return; and for the moment there was in her heart as supreme a joy us was ever felt by a woman. (To be continued.) It " M s t e n s i l l i l k e " It. T w o German*, one from out of th# city, were at Electric Park Saturday night bearing Ellery's band. 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