Lincoln County leader., July 28, 1905, Image 2

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BY WILLIAM BLACK
CHAPTER II. (Continued.)
It was a beautiful, clear, mild night;
end sented on the benches on the ter
race there were several groups of peo
ple among them two or three ladieB.
As Winterbourne paused them, he could
not but think of Yolande's complaint
that she had never even once been in the
House of Commons. These were, no
doubt, the daughters or wives or sisters
of members; why should not Yolande also
be sitting there? John Shortlands had
sharp eyes; and he instantly guessed
from his friend's manner that something
had happened.
"More trouble?" said he, regarding
him.
"Yes," said the other. "Well, I don't
mind I don't mind, as far as I am con
cerned. It is no new thing."
"I have told you all along, Winter
bourne, that you brought it on yourself.
You should ha' taken the bull by the
horns "
"It is too late to talk of It never mind
that now," he said, impatiently. "It is
about Yolande I want to speak to you."
"Yes?"
"You won't guess what I am anxious
for now," he said with a sort of uucur
taln laugh. "You won't guess It In a"
month, Shortlnnds. I am anxious to see
Yolande married."
"Faith, that needn't troubie you," said
the big ironmaster bluntly. "There'll be
no difficulty about that Yolande has
grown into a thundering handsome girl.
And they say," he added, jocosely, "that
her father is pretty well oft."
"She cannot remain longer at any
school, and I don't like leaving her to
herself at Oatlnnds I'nrk or any similar
place. I'oor child! Do you know what
her own plans are? She wants to be my
private secretary."
"Nonsense, nonsense, man. Of course
a girl like Yolande will get married.
Your private secretary! How long would
it last? Does she look like the sort of a
girl who ought to be smothered up in
correspondence or listening to debates?
And if you're in such a mighty hurry to
get rid of her if you want to get her
married at once, I'll tell you a safe and
sure way send her for a voyage on a
steamer."
"I think I shall take Yolande away
for another long trip somewhere, I don't
care where; but the moment I find my
self on the deck of a ship, and Yolande
beside me, then I feel as if all care had
dropped away from me. I feel safe; I
can breathe freely. Oh, by the way, I
meant to ask If you knew nnything of a
Col. Urnhnm? You have been so often
to Scotland shooting. I thought you
might know. Inverstroy, I think, is the
name of his place."
; "Oh, that C.rnhnru. Yes, I should think
so a lucky beggar. Inverstroy fell
plump Into his hands some three or four
years ago quite unexpectedly one of
the finest estates In Invernesshire. I
don't think India will see him again."
"Ills wife seems a nice sort of wom
an," said Mr. Winterbourne, with the
slightest touch of Interrogation.
"I don't know her. She is his second
wife. She is a daughter of Lorn Lynn."
"They are down at Oatlands just now.
Yolande has mnde their acquaintance,
and they have been very kind to her.
Well, this Col. Graham was saying the
other evening that he felt as though he
had been long enough In the old country,
and would like to tnke a trip as far as
Mnlutn or Suez or Aden, just to renew
his acquaintance with the old route. In
fact, they propose that Yolande and I
should join them.
"The very thing!" said John Short
lands, facetiously. "What did I say? A
voyage will marry off anybody who Is
willing to marry."
"I meant nothing of the kind," said
the other, somewhat out of temper. "Yo
lande may not marry at nil. If I went
with these friends of hers, It would not
be 'to get rid of her.' "
"I hope she'll find a young fellow who
is worthy of her, for she is a thundering
good girl, that's what I think, and who
ever he Is he'll get a v. prize though I
don't Imagine you will be over-well dis
posed toward him, old chap."
"If Yolande is happy, that will be
enough for me."
By this time the terrace was quite de
serted; and after some little further chat
they turned Into the House, where they
separated, Winterbourne taking his seat
below the gnngwriy on the government
side, John Shortland depositing his mag
nificent bulk on ono of the opposition
benches.
There was a general hum of conversa
tion. There was also some laborious dis
course going forward.
What dreams visited the member 'for
Slngpool, ns he sat with his eyes dis
traught? His getting up some fateful
evening to move a vote of want of con
iideeuce in the government? His appear
ance on the plntforin of the Slagpool Me
chanics' Institute, with the great mass of
people rising and cheering nnd waving
their handkerchiefs? Or perhaps some
day for who could tell what changes
the years might bring? his taking his
place on the Treasury bench there?
He had got hold of a blue book. It
was the Report of a Iloynl Commission;
but of course all the cover of the folio
volume was not printed over there were
blank spaces. And the member for
Slagpool began idly and yet thoughtfully
to pencil certain letters up at one corner
of the blue cover. He was a long time
about It; perhaps he saw pictures ns he
slowly and contemplatively formed each
letter; perhaps no one but himself could
bar made out what the uncertain pen
I-
ciling meant But it was not of politics
he was thinking. The letters thnt he
had faintly penciled there that he was
still wistfully regarding as though they
could show him things far away form
ed the word YOLANDE. It was like a
lover.
CHAPTER III.
Next morning Mr. Winterbourne's ner
vous anxiety to get Yolande away at
once out of London was almost pitiable
to witness. Yolande was greatly disap
pointed. She had been secretly nursing
the hope that at last she might be allow
ed to remain in London, in some capacity
or another, as the constant companion of
her father. Yet, when once they were
really on their way from London her
father's manner seemed to gain so much
in cheerfulness that she could hardly be
sorry they had left. She had not notic
ed that he had been more anxious and
nervous that morning than usual; but
she could not full to remark how much
brighter his look was now they were out
in the clear air.
"Yolande," said he, "I had a talk
with John Shortlands last night. I half
llueutcucd to throw up my place in Par
liament, and then the arrangement would
be that you nnd I, Yolande, should start
away together and ronni all over the
world, amusing ourselves going just
where we liked you and I nil by our
sulves." "You would become tired of being
amused. You could not always travel,"
she said. She put her hand on his band.
Ah, I see what it is," she said, with a
little laugh. "You. are concealing. Thnt
is your kindness, papa. You think 1 am
too much alone; it is not enough thnt
you sncrlfice to-day, to-morrow, next day,
to me; but you wish to make a sacrifice
altogether; and you pretend you are tired
of politics. But you cannot make me
blind to it I see oh, quite clearly I
can see through your pretense!"
A new suggestion entered his mind. He
glanced at the girl opposite him tim
idly and anxiously.
"Yolande, Bald he, "I I wonder now
I suppose at your age well, have you
ever thought of getting married?"
She looked up at him with her clear.
frank eyes, and when Bhe was startled
like that her mouth had a slight pnthetic
droop, that made her face sensitive and
charming. -
"Why, hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of times!" she exclaimed, still
with her soft clear eyes wondering. "Of
course, when I say I have thought hun
dreds of times it is about not getting
mnrried thut I meon. No. That is my
resolution. Oh, many a time I have said
thnt to myself. I shall not marry
never no one."
"Oh, but, Yolande, that Is absurd. Of
course you will marry. Of course you
must marry."
"When you put me away, papa. Yes,"
she continued quite simply. "That wnB
what madam used to say. She used to
say, 'If your papa mnrries ngain, thnt
Is what you must expect. It will be bet
ter for you to leave the house. But
your pnpn is rich; you will have a good
portion; then you will find some one to
marry you, and give you also an estab
lishment' 'Very well,' I said, 'but that
is going too far, madam; and until my
papa tells me to go away I shall not go
away, and there is not any necessity that
I shall mnrry any one.' "
"I wish madam had minded her own
affairs," Mr. Winterbourne snid, angrily.
"I am not likely to marry again. I shall
not marry again. But as for you well.
don't you Bee, child I I can't live for
ever; and you have got no very near
relatives; and besides, living with rela
tives isn't always the pleasautest of
things; and I should like to see your fu
ture quite settled.
He found it was no use trying to talk
to her seriously about this matter. She
laughed it aside. She did not believe
there was any fear about her future.
She was all content with the world as
It existed.
The Grahams were the very first peo
pie they saw when they reached Oat
lands. Col. Graham a toll, stout, gri
zled, good-nntured looking man was ly
ing back in a garden sent, while his wife
was standing close by, calling to her
baby, which plump small person was
vainly trying to walk to her, under the
guidance of an nyali, whose dusky skin
and silver ornaments and flowing gar
ments of Indian red looked picturesque
enough on nn English lawn. Mrs. Grn
ham was a pretty woman, of middle
height, and professed herself overjoyed
when Mr. Winterbourne snid there was a
chance of his daughter and himself join
ing her nnd her husband on their sug
gested trip; but the lazy, good-humored
looking soldier glanced up from his paper
and said:
"Look here, Tolly, it's too absurd.
Whnt would people sny? It s all very
well for you nnd me; we nre old Indians
and don't mind; but If Mr. Winterbourne
is coming with us and you, Miss Win
ter bourne we must do something more
reasonable and Christian-like than sail
out to Suez or Aden and hack, all for
nothing."
"But nothing could suit ns better," Yo
lande's father said Indeed, he did not
mind where or why he went, so long as
he got away from England, nnd Yolnnde
with him.
"Oh, but we must do something," Col.
Graham said. "Look here. When we
were at Peshawur a young fellow came
up there you remember young Ismnt,
Polly? well, I was of some little ns
distance to him, and he said any time we
rather one of them, for his father is Gov
ernor of Merliadj, and a bit of a swell, I
fancy. There you are, now. That would
be something to do. People wouldn't
think we were idiots. We could have
our sail all the same to Suez, and see
the old faces at Gib. and Malta; then we
could have a skim up the Nile a bit and,
by the way, we shall have it all to our
selves just now."
"The very thing," exclaimed Mr. Win-
k'rbourne, eagerly, for his imagination
seemed easily captured by the suggestion
of anything remote. "Nothing could be
more admiruble. Yolantie, what do you
say?"
Indeed, she seemed greatly pleased;
and when they went in to lunch, they
had a table to themselves, so as to secure
a full and free discussion of plant Mrs.
Graham talked in the most motherly way
to Yolande, and petted her. But she
was a shrewd-headed little woman. Very
soon after lunch she found an opportu
nity of talking with her husband alone.
I think Yolande Winterbourne pret
tier and prettier the longer I see her,"
she said, carelessly.
"She is a good-looking girl. You'll
have to look out, Polly. You won't have
the whole ship waiting on you this time."
And very rich quite an heiress, they
say.
"I suppose Winterbourne is pretty well
off. Making engines is quite respecta
ble. Nobody could complain of that."
'Oh," she said blithely, "I haven't
heard from Archie for a long time. I
wonder what he is about watching the
nestling of the grouse, I suppose. Jim,
I wish you'd let me ask him to go with
us. It's rather dull for him up there;
my father isn't ejisy to live with. May
i asK ri nn i
"He'll have to pay his own fare- to
Suez nnd bnck, then," her husband an
swered rather roughly.
'Oh, yes; why not?" she said, with
great innocence; "I am sure poor Archie
is always willing to pay when he can;
nnd I do wish my father would be a little
more liberal."
Then Mrs. Graham, smoothing her
pretty short curls, and with much pleas
ure visible In her pretty dark-gray eyes,
went to her own room and snt down, and
wrote as follows:
"Dear Archie Join's good nature is
beyond anything. We are going to have
n look at Malta, just for auld lang syne;
nnd then Jim talks of taking us up the
Nile a bit; and he says you ought to go
with us, and you will only have to pay
your passage to Suez and back which
you could easily save out of your hats
and boots If you would only be a little
less extravagant. Mr. Winterbourne, the
member for Slagpool, Is going with us;
and he and Jim will have the expenses
of the Nile voyage. Mr. Winterbourne's
daughter makes up the party.- She is
rather nice, I think; but only a child.
Let me know at once. Your loving sis
ter, POLLY."
She folded up the letter, put it in an
envelope; and addressed it so:
The Hon. the Mnster of Lynn,
Lynn Towers.
CHAPTER IV.
The usual small crowd of passengen
was assembled in Liverpool street sta
tion hurrying, talking, laughing and
scanning possible ship companions with
an eager curiosity; and in the midst of
them, Yolande fouud herself for the mo
ment alone. A woman enme into this
wide, hollow-resounding station, nnd tim
idly and yet anxiously scanned the faces
of the various people who were on the
platform adjoining the special train. She
carried a small basket. After an anxious
scrutiny she went up to Yolande.
I beg your pnrdon, miss And
with thnt her trembling hnnds opened the
basket, which was filled with flowers.
No, thank you; I don't wnnt any
said Yolnnde, civilly. But there wns
something in the woman's imploring eyes
thnt snid something to her. She was
startled; and stood still.
Are are you going further than Gib
raltar, miss?"
"Yes. Yes, I think so," said Yolande,
wondering.
There were tears running down the
woman's face. For n second or two she
tried to Bpenk, ineffectually, then Bhe
said:
"Two'days out from from Gibraltar
would you be so kind, miss, as to put
these flowers on the water? My lit
tle girl was buried at sea two dnys
out."
"Oh, I understand you," said Yolnnde,
quickly with a big lump in her thront.
"Oh, yes, I will! I am so sorry for you."
She took the bnsket. The womnn burst
out crying; nnd hid her fnce In her hands;
nnd then turned to go nwny. She wns
so distracted with her grief that she
had forgotten even to say "Thank you.
At the same moment Mr. Winterbourne
came up hastily and angrily
"Whnt Is this?"
"Hush, papa! The poor woman had a
little girl buried at sea these are some
flowers."
Yolande went quickly nfter her, .nnd
touched her on the shoulder.
"Tell me," she said, "what was your
daughter's name?"
The woman raised her tear-stained
fnce.
"Jnne. We called her Jnnle; she wns
only three yenrs old; she would hnve been
ten by now. Youf won't forget, miss it
wns it wns two days beyond Gibraltar
that that we buried her."
"Oh, no1, do you think I could forget?"
Yolnnde said, and she offered her. hand.
The womnn took her hand, nnd pressed
it; nnd snid, "God bless you, miss I
thought I could trust your face;" then
she hurried awny.
(To be continued.
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