JTHlT CHARITY GIRL?
I By Ef FIE A. ROWLANDS I
Mrs. Thorngate was waiting for her,
and came up to her at once. At the first
glimpse of her sweet, motherly face Au
drey's nervousness went, 'ihe vicar's
wife spoke cheerfully and kindly to the
girl, and as they walked out of the
Btatton together her thoughts were very
busy.
"What could George ha? been think
ing about when he spoke of this child
as 'nice looking?' Why, the words are
heresy when used to describe her face!
l'oor soul 1 I am sorry for ter ! Such
beauty in her station of lit does not
mean happiness."
Audrey found herself speaking quite
naturally and easily to this kind man
nered woman, and answered all the ques
tions Mrs. Thorngate put to ber in her
fresh, clear voice and refin.vl tones.
But whatever the vicar's wife was
turning over in her mind it was never
permitted to ripen, for just as they were
passing in at the rectory garden a pret
ty place even in the chill February weath
er a young lady, mount! on a bay
horse with black points, and attended
hy a smart groom, rode swiftly along the
road. She drew rein as aho saw Mrs.
Thorngate.
"Good morning," she cried, !n a clear,
rather hard voice. "Have yoa seen any
thing of Lord John? They tell me he
came a cropper just by Deif Woods, and
went back by train to get another mount,
as he had lamed old Hector. You have
not seen him, Mrs. Thorngate? Dear me,
how tiresome! The day is quite hot,
and we shaped the have such a rattling
good run."
"It is a pity," Mrs. Thorngate assent
ed heartily, for in her youth she had been
a first rate sportswoman, and she sym
pathized with the girl's disappointment
warmly; "but can't you earch them up
somewhere. Miss Fraser? Where was
the meet?"
CHAPTER III.
Sheila Fraser explained veiythlng in
her sharp way, and ' Audrey, standing
modestly in the background, looked in
admiration and surprise at the neat, well
turned figure sitting easily iu ihe saddle,
at the small, oval face under the straight
hat brim, and the coil of red gold hair
at the nape of the neck.
How pretty this Miss Fraser was ! Her
teeth were so even and so white, her
cheeks so rosy warm in color ; only her
eyes seemed cold and hard. They moved
about quickly, and to Audrey were just
like sharp needles.
"I rode back to Inquire after Lord
John at his mother's request, because
come one said he was really hurt. Now,
I wish I had not been so quixotic. I
really don't quite know what I shall do."
Miss Fraser tapped her smell foot with
her whip Impatiently, -and then frowned.
The wind had blown the veil over Au
drey's face again, but she could see
through it easily, and she did not like
that frown, it made the eyos more sharp
;and cruel than before.
"I suppose it is no use nek.ng you to
liave some luncheon with me,"Mrs. Thorn
gate said, and then, all at once, she re
membered Audrey, and uttered an ex
clamation. "I very nearly forgot," she
said, turning to Miss Fraser, "your new
maid has arrived. This is she."
Sheila Fraser looked carelessly at the
Blender form in its black clonk and ail.
"Oh!" Bhe said shortly; she paused a
moment, and then addresiing Audrey,
".you had better go up to Dinglewood at
nce: ask Bircbam ; she will ten you
nhnt vour duties are. and or what is
your name?"
"Maxse Audrey Maxse," Mrs. Thorn-
eate reDlied. quickly.
Vp11 pi Maxse. vou must alter
your dress. That funeral cloak and veil
are simDly absurd. Please see to that at
once."
Miss Fraser bent from her saddle to
ask one or two questions confidentially of
the vicar's wife, and then her face flushed,
and she uttered an exclamal'on of pleas'
ure.
"Here he Is. after all!" it a horse
man came fleetly toward them.
Jack Glendurwood pulled up with a
jerk.
"Halloo, Sheila, you here? Why, 1
thought you would have been at Sher
' wood Downs, at least, by this time."
He was thoroughly well cleansed of
all mud, and looked as speck find span as
Miss Fraser herself, as he :emoved his
hat and greeted Mrs. Thorngate.
"Heard you had a cropper, and, as
your mother was anxious, 1 rode back
tn see what was loft of you," Sheila re
plied in a curt, somewhat mn-roliue man'
nor.
"Poor mother," he said, lightly. "Well,
the best thing we can do Is to tear down
to Welland! The hounds went through
there a few minutes ago, 1 heard;
thought I might catch them up here, but
us they have not come this vay, we are
pretty sure of tumbling in with them In
that direction."
He looked eager to be off, and his eyes
never went toward the gate where Audrey
stood, shrinking back Bhyly, in her black
garments. A few more words exchanged
and the two young peoplo rode off, and
Airs. Thorngate came up to Audrey.
"Well, bow do you like your young
mistress looks?" she asked, R'ndiy.
Audrey paused for a moment, then In a
nimb sort of way she answered :
"She Is very pretty think."
"Miss Frase Is the acknowledged beau
v of these part she is an heiress. Din
xlewood i a lovely place, I bope you
will get on well with her, ray dear, and
be happy in your new home."
Miss Fraser came home very tired
about 6 o'clock, and found Bircham, her
first maid, carefully instructing the new
comer in the various duties ixpected of
her. Audrey, miudful of her mistress'
commands, had put on ber only other
gown, a thick gray one of rough material,
with neat collar and cuffs, and a black
ribbed apron. Her hair was brushed
straight off her face, and rolled In a huge
knot at the back of her exquisitely shaped
head. She was pale, but her eyes were
shining with admiration and surprise and
some excitement. Never, in her wildest
dreams, had she conjured up so many
lovely things as were massed together In
Sheila Fraser's apartments, with their
silken hangings, their dainty furniture,
costly orntfments, and the hundred and
one appointments Which fiulfhed every
corner. -
"It is like fairyland," Audrey said
over and over again in her bewilderment.
She hardly liked to tread on the Per
sinn rugs and furs thrown on the floor,
and she held her breath as she stood be
side the Ivory toilet table, and gazed at
the brushes and array of bottles and oth
er knickknacks in old Dutch s'lver.
"If Jean could but see them!" was
her thought.
She was quite dazed with all the love
liness about her, and gave little cries of
surrrlse and delight as Bir.-ham lighted
the piuk-globed lamps and starred the fire
into a blaze.
She felt it must be some delicious,
heaven-sent dream, and that presently
she should wake and find herself In her
cold, hard bed at the home, the bell
clanging the time to rise.
Sheila's arrival dispelled this feeling,
and, as the young lady entered, she seem
ed to bring a rush of cold air with her
that destroyed the illusion of fairyland.
"My bath at once !" she ordered, sharp
ly ; and then, looking across at Audrey,
she added : "You must remember to have
it always ready for me when I have been
out bunting, Maxse. Bircham, you have
told her everything?"
"Yes, miss, everything."
"Let her remain here and watch you
to-night."
Audrey stood In a dusky corner with
her hands folded, as Miss Fiaser, having
plunged into her bath and thus refreshed
and invigorated herself, sat before the
long, Ivory-mounted duchesse mirror, and
put herself Into Bircham s bands to have
ber hair dressed.
Audrey thought she had never seen
anything so beautiful as sShe'la Fraser's
hair; every thread seemed of burnished
gold as the brush went through it, and
the lamp light shone on it, and when by
and by her young mistress slood adorned
for dinner in a black crepe gown, with
diamonds glittering in her wavy tresses
and around her white throat, the girl
was quite dazed.
It had been such a long, onderful day,
full of such agitation and so many new
experiences.
CHAPTER IV.
Audrey woke with a start the next
morning, and her first thought was how
angry Miss Irons would be that she was
late. The faint, golden rays of the Feb
ruary sun were streaming in through the
sides of the blind ; the bell was not ring
ing. She looked about her in a dazed,
mechanical fashion, sitting op m bed,
with her mass of black hair tossed loosely
on her Bhoulders.
Where was she? Surely that was not
Jean's bed in the other .'.Kner? Jean
never snored like that. She rubbed her
eyes, shivered a little with llie cold, and
then was wide awake. She was not in
her old bedroom, but In Ixtr new, and
that sleeping form across in the other
corner was not Jean's small, thin one,
but the large-boned, heavy frame of
Bircham, her fellow-servant.
She shut the door quietly and went
down stairs, and brushed away briskly
at the riding habit and other garments
for a good half hour; then, with a shy
laugh, she determined to go on to the
servants' quarters and reconnolter.
"I must meet the others sooner or
later," she thought.
A rosy cheeked housemaid was busy
with her broom and stopped to courtesy
as she saw what she took to Le a guest
coming down the wide oaken staircase
there were always two or thi'ee strangers
at Dinglewood. Audrey wai gazing out
of her lovely dark blue yes with deep
pleasure and interest at the fresh won
ders that met her gaze at every turn ;
her young, buoyant, nervouIy excitable
heart thrilled as with delight at the carv
ed oaken panels, the full-length costume
portraits, the figures in armor that stood
In their niches, as though guprdlng the
old house as their dead and gone wearers
did in the days of yore. Tha housemaid's
respectful courtesy first provoked a smile
and then a littlo sigh.
"I want to find the kitchen; am I
going wrong?" she said, and then she put
out her hand. "I am the new maid, Au
drey Maxse! Shall we be friends? What
is your name? If It Is like your face
it Is sure to be nice."
The housemaid stared at her In amaae
ment; but when she saw that Audrey
still held out her hand, she put her own
rough palm into it, while sbt- grinned
good naturedly.
"I balnt bad frens with no one, I
balnt, and I likes you I ' Why, I took you
for a lady. There! My name's 'Lisa.
What's yourn, did you say?"
Audrey explained all that was neces
sary, and then Klisa showed ber the way
to the housekeeper's room, the servants'
ball and the kitchen.
"You come down the wrong stairs,"
she said. "Them's the ones you must
use," pointing to her right. "Here's the
kitchlng; My! Don't the htvkkus smell
nice? Ain't you 'ungry? You must eat
a lot, and then you'll get red cheeks.
Here's Mr. Downs!" and Eliza broke off
to giggle, as a young man a very good
Imitation of a gentleman nuntered In
through the open doorway that led to
the courtyard, thence to the stables and
the kitchen garden beyond, "lie's Lord
John's vfj'i" she whispered In a loud
voice Anility, njud such a swell !"
Dowwr'smlM1 with :,"'ch BUPerl
ority he'cstlffct 11';"Z'1'8 ingenuous tone
of adrift Iob' He n-as soon chaffing and
joking vm 4,!i,le Audrey, who felt
an i"ler!l)ab!e Txf.lon and dislike aris
ing witi-j,fr f t,be man's presence,
went to v (lUnrViay and walked out
into the conrd. It v-ns so clear
and fresh In ihe cold morning air that
she soon lost hor vague dlsr.-omfort, and
began to make friends with the half dozen
r dogs of every sort and description, who
came from the stables to Inquire Into
the new arrival. A voice from behind
broke her silence, and, turning, with a
frown, she saw that Downs Lad followed
her.
"You'll get cold out here, miss," the
young man said, fixing his eyes on her
exquJ-iite face with astonished admira
tion ; "and you're much too pretty "
Audrey drew herself up. She was very
young, and she had never had occasion
to feel the sort of angry resentment
that this man's bold stare awakened in
her breast. She was too nervous to make
any reply, but she turned lound quickly
and went Indoors before he knew what
she was doing.
"Oh ! That's her sort, Is !i V" observed
Mr. Henry Downs to himself. "Who's
she, I'd like to know, though she is so
pretty, to give herself airs I'ko a queen?
Well, we'll soon take that out of her, or
my name ain t Downs.
And, dispensing a few kicks to the
dogs, the man walked away down the
courtyard to give his master's order to
the head groom.
Audrey, to her great relief, found that
a message had come for her to go to Miss
Fraser's room at once. Mheila Fraser
was lying In her luxuriant ld, her red'
gold hair thrown over the pillows In pic
turesque confusion as Audrey entered.
"Light my fire at once," fche ordered,
sharply ; "then pull up the blind, and give
me those papers and letters, Maxse."
Audrey stirred the smoHering embers
into a blaze, threw some wood on to it,
and then drew back the silken curtains.
Miss Fraser took the letters anc1 stared at
the girl.
"I don't think I shall :ke this girl,"
she said to herself. "She is evidently
xtupid, and stares at one in an uncanny
fashion. Go to Mrs. Fraser's room
you know where it is give ber my love,
and ask how she is this morning," she
said, shortly.
She lay quite, still as Audrey went
ovay, then, with a sudden movement, she
slipped from the bed, went across the rich
carpet to the mirror, and gazed silently
at her own Image. Never before, in the
whole of her life, had she ever viewed
her own reflection with anything but
pleasure. What was it that jarred her
now? Not only the lack of symmetry
in feature, the difference in coloring
was it not a certain air of unaccounta
ble refinement a something that bespoke
the patrician in Audrey's face, and that
was wanting in her own?
She was not patrician born she was
of the people. Her father had been
hard-headed Scotch merchant, born of re
spectable Scotch tradesfolk; her mother
the rich and only daughter c( a Cumber
land brewer. They were wealthy, they
had land, they had retinues of servants,
but still they were beyond the sacred
Inner social round. Sheila (ould remem
ber distinctly the days before her moth
er s death ; she was only a ii'rl of eight
but she was wonderfully sharp and pre
cocious for her years. Mrs. Fraser had
no other children. She was an unloved
wife, her ambitions did not keep pace
with those of her husband, and the rift,
begun almost immediately after the mar
riage, widened and widened until they
were virtually separated altogether,
George Fraser neither felt nor pretended
to feel any sorrow when his wife died,
He was considerably enriched by her for
tune.
(To be continued.)
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Fred The ways of women are past
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Jack Whut's the trouble new?
i red While I was In the parlor
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