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CHAPTER XX!. (Oontlnoed.1
"S 7011 hT beea a rich woman,
rtulin, he Mid, turning to her klnd
1. Ht did not know yet bow far thtt
estrangement had been Intentional oa
her part, and ha would glT her th
benefit af th doubt "I. too, bar fatlaa
ca prosperous timet. Now, what ara yoa
olnf t do? Shall I aea yoa koma Or
hall I call on you to-morrow, when you
will be quieter and calmer? Or will
you coma and look at my little place
now?"
Then, for the first time, Taulina raised
her dead; and again Jack eaw tha ex
pression of tha carted tigers' heads aa
he answered her husband.
"I will not accompany you anywhere;
I would sooner klil myself for I hate
yor
Tha shocked clergyman would hare
poken; but Telling stopped him cour
teously but firmly.
"Ton must pardon me; but this la my
fTalr, as you must acknowledge, and
mine only." Then turning to the raging
woman, he went on: "In those clrcum
tancea further discussion would be use
less;" and only Jack, who waa watch
ing him closely, guessed what wonderful
elf-control ha was exerting to keep hlm
elf frim exposing and upbraiding the
woman to whom he spoke. "I will g!re
yon tha address of my solicitor, and all
future communication must be made
through him." He wrote tha addaess on
leaf of his pocketbook, tore It out, and
placed it on tha tabl beside her. "And
now. Mrs. Telling, may I see you to your
cab?"
She rose and drew herself up defiantly,
and then swept from the Testry; and
Tellinf followed her in polite attend
ance. He returned In a few seconds.
"And now, Mr. Dornton," he aald, "if
70a will faror ma with your company, I
shall be glad to glre and receire explana
tions." After wishing the clergyman "Good
morning."' the two men Jumped Into the
cab which brought Telling from tha sta
tion, and droro to a hotel. They talked
on Indifferent aubjeet until they were In
possession of a prirate room, and tha
waiter had finally retired, after reced
ing orders for luncheon In half an hour.
Then Telling turned to Jack and be
ar nt
"It seems to me that yoa and I are
fated to cross each other's paths, Mr.
Dornton. I hare heard yoa spoken of
pretty often lately by a Mr. Mallett, a
particular friend of mine."
"Indeed?" aald Jack, oneomfortably,
not relishing this sadden and Intentional
Introduction of the Ms Herts' name; for,
lnce his conversation with Lord Sum
mers, Jack felt lesa proud than arer
of hla own ehara in the rupture with
KtheL He thought, too, that Mr. Tell
ing would not hare heard much to hla
credit from that source.
MI see what you ara thinking," Peli
Ing obserred; "but yoa are wrong. Mr.
Mallett has spoken of yoa to me only
as a promising man In your profession.
Tha other matter that la in your mind I
took the liberty of finding out for my
self. Now, I hare a proposition to make
to you."
CHATTER XXII.
Tel'.laf paused and looked attentively
at the young man.. lie knew there was
not much generosity In giving Ethel up,
as ha could not marry her himself dur
ing tha lifetime of hla wife, and, hav
ing plenty of true manliness, he did not
mean to make-any ahow of tha misera
ble pain that was gnawing at his heart;
but he felt he should like to know what
sort of man this waa whose path he
Intended to smooth for him as far as lay
In his power; and, while he thought of
this, the memory of Ethel's face, pained
and sorrowful aa ha saw it when aha
made to him her confession of lore for
this Dornton came suddenly before him,
and he knew that the greatest kindness
ho could do her would be to restore her
lover. Presently he said, abruptly:
"Yoa hare nearly broken Ethel's
heart"
Jack flushed furiously, and half rose
from hla chair. Telling motioned to him
to keep calm.
"I asked yoa to be patient with me,"
be reminded Jack.' "My motive should
excuse ma to yoa. The pith of the' whole
matter is this was the engagement be
tween yon and Ethel' broken off In con
sequence of your infatuation for my
wife, or had yoa ceased to care for her
before you met Pauline? As man to
dan, I ask you for a truthful answer."
"I can't for the life of me understand
by what right," began Jack,' hotly. '
"For heaven's sake, don't waste time
In splitting straws when so much Is at
stake!" Felling said, Impetuously. "You
can't understand my right to interfere?
I will explain. I love Ethel Mallett as
I never loved, never shall love, never be
lieved It possible to lore; and until this
morning I had the hope of making her
my wife soma day, when she had bad
time to forget yon. I think my love for
ber gives me the right to do what I can
to secure her happiness; and I believe her
happiness rests with you. I can't have
ber myself,-or I do not think I could
be unselfish enough to give her up. I
might but I don't think It Now to re
turn to onr point was-your infatuation
for my wife the only causa of tha es
trangement between you two?"
Jack was greatly impressed, as he on
derstood now why Pelllng spoke with so
much effort, and ha felt touched by his
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devotion. Added to this wss the fill
ing of ahame that had oppressed him
ever since hia talk with Lord Summers.
"Come you ueedn't mind confessing
your weakness to me," Palling went on,
encouragingly. "Bless you, iun, I know
how Pauline can twist any man round
her finger If she likes to try I I sup
pose she was smitten with you, and
spread her neta to auare you, and you,
not seeing the snare, found yourself
enamored of her without knowing how
It happened. And 1 dare aiy, If the
truth were known, when the first mad
burst was over, and you thought out
thlnga quietly, you would have given a
good deal never to have seen her at all,
and wished you had behaved differently
to Misa Maliett.
Jack jumped up, his face beamtug,
and wrung Telling's hand.
"I could not say It myself, but that
la really Just how It has been with me.
I am not good at xprestlng my feeling;
but I know you are behsving rery well
to me much better than I deserve and
I thank you. And oowr what do you wish
me to do?"
"Go right awsy for a few months.
Write to me now and again, and I will
take care that Miss Mallett hears what
ever Is likely to be of use to yoa. Give
her time to forget the Indignity yoa hsve
put on her and her lore. I shall be
on hand In the character of a benevolent
patriarch, and the moment I see signs
favorable to our plot I will bring about
a meeting. The rest will lie with your
self." "now can I thank you?"
"Yoa owe me.no thanks. Relieve yonr
mind on that point. What I am doing
I do out of my sincere wish for Miss
Mallett's happlneas. If yoa really think
yoa owe me anything pay It In kindness
to your wife after you are married. Here
la luncheon. We. will talk by and by
of your immediate plana."
When they haf finished luncheon, and
Jack had left, Telling laid down on the
hard horsehair sofa, with his hands under
bis head, gating steadfastly at the cell
ing; and It waa not until the evenliig,
when the waiter came to light the gas,
that ha was roused from his deep rev
erie. He then pulled himself together,
called for his bill, and having settled It,
went out Into the wretched night.
When Pauline left her husbsnd at the
church door she knew that her schem
ing had been futile, and that she could
never again show ber fsce at Mailing
ford; but It was not that wbjch caused
her tha agony of mind aha was suffer
ing. She bad lost Jack. Tha one pure, un
selfish cup of Joy she had longed to taste
had been snatched from her lips at the
moment of ratting. She was stunned
with despair.
She paced up and down the platform
at Charing Cross station, watching for
Habette and concocting plans for ob
taining what ready money she could be
fore the grand denouement came. She
knew her Jewels must be worth at least
five thousand pounds, and, though some
of them were heirlooms, and others bad
been bought with money obtained by her
dishonesty, she would not scruple to ap
ply them to her personal use. Then she
would draw at once two thousand from
her bankers. She would go and do this
personally lest they might scruple to pay
so large a sum on a check. And so she
laid her miserable plans, refusing to
listen for one moment to the prompting
of her better nature, which would even
now suggest her return to the husband
whose only sin had been his poverty.
CHAPTER XXIII. '
Notwithstanding all Pelllng's efforts.
the story soon got Into the newspapers,
and, it being the dull season, was seized
upon with avidity by the gossip purvey
ors. .It was "dished' and "redished"
day after day, with numberless distor
tions, exaggerations and additions. One
society Journal had it that the beautiful
Misa M of M Park, in Exbrldge-
shlre, had attempted to poison ber hus
band,; to whom she had been secretly
married only a month or two, In order to
become the wife of a celebrated R. A.,
with'whora she had fallen deeply in love;
while another declared that the husband
presented himself at the altar with pis
tols, and, dragging his would-be succes
sor outside the sacred edifice, insisted
upon a duel there and then, and wound
ed him dangerously in the shoulder, and
that the unfortunate. man now lay in a
most critical condition, while the hus
band had carried off his reluctant bride,
a veritable prisoner, on board his yacht,
for a twelvemonth's cruise in the Pa
cific. At last Pelllng, annoyed beyond meas
ure; at these absurd stories, decided to
lay bare the truth. With the assistance
of his lawyer, he drew up a concise state
ment of the real facts,- giving his own
and Pauline's name in foil, but suppress
ing Jack's. He carefully conveyed the
Idea that Pauline believed him to be
dead, and gave the circumstance to her
change of name as sufficient to account
for his not having discovered her exist
ence since his return from Africa. This
he sent to two of-the dally newspapers,
and, thus divested of all mystery, the
story' lost Its charm, and no longer af
forded any Interest
Telling sent one of these newspapers,
with bis own letter specially distinguish
ed, to Ethel by post and tha next morn
ing he called In Buckingham street to
Disk matters clearer.
.Ethel's frank candor ones mors over
cam h difficulties of the situation; aha
stood at the top of the stairs with her
hands outstretched and her face bright
with friendly luterext
"I have been longing to see you," aha
began,' warmly, as they entered the room;
"we have both so much that la wonder
ful to tell each other!"
She looked at him ateadfastty as he
atood In the light from tht window, and
what she saw In his face quickened her
pulse with a sudden pity, but she would
not give way to the Impulse that urged
her to conW him. She weut ou, a lit
tle hurriedly at first:
"I can see that your plessant news Is
In some way mixed up with paluful
thoughts; so, as mine la altogether pleas
ant 1 shall apeak first To beglu papa
came home last night, and he has brought
the most wonderful news; It Is like a
fairy tale! I don't suppo you kuow yet
that your wife Is my coalnT" Captalu
Telling stsrted at the words "I knew
you would be greatly pleaned. My fath
er Is not really Mr. Malletthis true
name is Sir Geoffrey Mailing, and be Is
jour wife's uncle. In some extraordinary
way, which papa will explain, the hol
of the Msllingford property come to
him In the event of Pauline's tuarrrtnt
under twenty-five without her guardian's
consut; ao, you see, we are going to be
ery great people. ( bel:eve my mother
as not ao well bom as papa, and the
ite baronet wss t.i anrv &l.n
ieard of the marriage that he disinherit-
papa, who at omst t-hmri.l hia
nd workej hard to keep his wife. I
pe you are not angry with us because
e are going to take awsy your wife's
ealth. Of courts that nni n..n.
tuse! I know you are not angry; I've
card you ay oft-o how glad you would
ave beeu to slur what you have with
r."
Ethel paused. Telling did nnt speak,
nd she felt a littU imUn vi.. .. 1
" - i'n, unit
unintentionally stumhM upon the sub
ject; but she knew it punl.l
voided between them, ao she screwed
P ner conrajre.and wut on:
"Terlisns I should tint ,. i
- - - J ii. . Mil,
jolng to s.iy;4)tit no real harm can come
from straightforward. We have been
such god friend. In th .. .1...
need not stay to pl.k and chooae our
worm to each other, need we? I want
to congratulate too on it.
- ui
v... e; ui mere la something In your
es inai . necks me. Will you teli me
hi auuui II f
"I can't tell you all about It." he aadl.
I ouly know that my wife refuel to
nnjwung 10 no with me, and that
e ii now in raris. '
"If I were you I should t
too." " -
"I suppose I ought In fact, I know
ought and I have trle.l
my mind to go; but I cannot."
i' or an Instant he dropped his hea l
upon his hand, ami ..
..11.1 ui JIUJ
set I'.tnels heart beating oddly. He
pulled himself together with an Impa
tient exclamation.
What a bore rnn mitat ...
- its in n uir,
ne said, ouicklr. "I .1 II. rfpAn It. ...I.
I. i. . - . '
'"j- " eT'r you can help me In
any wsy, I willjime ao jrou at onc, A
IIV IIUW. in IMS ..lit ttim K
And so yoa art to posset the wealth
wmrn i suiins nas forfeited? I am rery
glad very, very glad on all accounts
but, one."
"And that is?"
"It will make Dornton's tssk harder."
The blood rushed nvr Kth.r. f. i
I'l' w iii
a quick Bush, and It left
ly.
"I don't know what rmi mn" .1..
0 - l
said.
I mean that Dornton YI )iLS1tt tat ttea
my nnhftDPT wif into A iilnv .. Km 11.1
that ha was not master of his own ac
tions, and that be would give a very
great deal to be assured
forgiveness. He lias loved you all through
ins maa rouy. He told me so himself
on the very day of the wedding, before
he could have known anything of the
change In your worldly affairs; so, whi.n
jou minx or him In the future, you must
not beliere he was governed by merce
nary considerations."
"Thank you for vour kind flf
Mm," she responded, rising as her fath
er entered the room. "I will .remember
to do as you say;" and she turned gtyly
to tne uoor. "And now let me Intro
duce you to Sir Geoffri. Mniiii, r
Mnllingford Pork."
e e e e
A few weeks later Ethel and her
father were settled at Malllngford. All
the necessary lexal formalize ha,i ,.,.
gone through, and the. county families
naa cauea upon Sir tjeoffrey and hla
daughter. Lord Summers hn! it wont.
ed that the baronet should have a public
reception; but Wir Geoffrey hod sternly
and emphatically opposed any such dem
onstration. So father and daughter had
come down and been met at tha railway
station by the family carriage, and had
gone quietly to their respective rooms,
after shaking hands with a few of the old
servants whom Sir Geoffrey remembered
In his brother's time, and had eaten their
first (1 ilinor n M :illlnirf,ril nm It tlx..
had but Just returned from a short visits
lio km continued.) '
He Waited No -Longer.
"You mny refuse me now," anid.tho
persistent auitor, "but I can wnlt. 'All
thlnga come to him who waits.' "
"Yes," replied the denr girl, "nnd I
guess the first thinj will ba father! I
hear blm on the.stalra." Philadelphia
Ledger. t ,
Progress.
''now are you coming on with your
new system of weather prediction?"
"Well,", answered the prophet cheer
ily; "I can alwayt get the kind -of
weather all right, but I haven't quite
succeeded In hitting the dates exact
ly." Washington Star.
Mi
you dont
Don't wait
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