Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1894 — Page 11

THE INHIANAPOIIS NEWS, BATTHlDAT, JUNE 18, 1884.

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•t M. KcaUfm 4lM tniB At WbMttf ivitweaty miBAtcA

iiWfly AinkiBf IhsforA

•■■t tli« carriAC* ; A brava billa And \ AwAjr, miocliaf ita

tkt flower miatsof tht kUwAflf a1«m oa UiA iidl' pAMwager aad ap* It teeapaat of tht ftAtioo. nt^tely At hit traok, ap itvtlf A baMAO loneli*

of tfae plAoe. whea a

^tUp]^ oat of the Aolitory bo bAd ATideBtlf boon bio faactioa, aad loeDsed lag dcllborAtioB towATd biffi. eatarod biab, with a tbio

wbifkorf that met

tio bif

frfatT •< faltyrgray wbiskora th adbUoitoPllu dirty atriags to

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bo gajp* to Qioobogio Hoofo, Fnt

bo ttid. moodily.

Ibo CoBMi iaid that bo waa.

“I kcaaod ft.

Ye’ll ao bo gettia* mi;

0 bo gei

maebkio to talf yo there. Thejpll

ay

be Kad>

ioCA carrii^ wr yo—if ye'ro expected” Ho^aaeod bgif doobtiaily at tbo CobabI,

AA if bo WAA Bdt aaite lO fure of it. Bat tbe CaMnl beliored he waa expected..

aad frit rellmroti at the eertain prospect of AcoaTeyABet. Tbo porter meanwhile for- ;

toyed bim moodily.

**Ye’ll be ieein' Mutreaa MacSpaddon

ttoro!"

The Coasnl wax Aorpriaed into a little oter^eoAcioaMieM. Mrs. HacSpadden waa A titi^ioua adqnAintanee at 8t. Kentigern, whom be eerttinly—and not without some •AtistActioa—exp^ed to meet at Gienbogie Hoase. Ho i^sod his ayes inquiringly to

tbo portor'a . .

**Ye’U BO bt rememberia' mo. 1 bad a maehine ia Kenttgorn aad drove ye to HaeBpaddoa'a ferry often. Par, far too Afleaf ibo’a * Atrange, flagrantitions fffoatnro: ber bnaband’t but a pnir fule, I’m thluKia’, aad yo did yersol’ naeguid

gaania’ thero."

It waa a besetting weakness of the CMsari that bis scase of the ludicrous was too oft» reaotied botore bis more torious Breoeptioaa The absurd eonibination of the bleak, iabospitabie desolation before him, and tiioi lepulcbral complacency of Ida •olf'Oloridd monitor quite upset hit

graVt^.

‘‘Aya, ye’ll |w laughin’ tbe noo,” rotnraed

looBiy slgnifioanoe. his eyes. •’Still,” be

trust yon won't object to

my givliit ym sixpence to carry my box to tbo earriage, when it oomes, and let the morality of tali trantaction devolve entirely upon ao. Xlnitss,” ho continued, even more grav^, as ssptok and span brougham drawn by mro thoroughbreds, dashed out of the mist ap ^ the platform, ‘’onless you prefer to atam tiit eale to those two gentleman”—polatiag to the smart coachman and footman Mt]tne box->’‘aod take their .opinion as t# Ifae propriety of my proeeed'P^ aay fartNr. It wems to me that tbclr j^seienees od|M to bo oonsulted as well as Ifoara. I'm miy n stranger here, and am wllttim to de^ anything to'conform to the

Iriial tohn

•*lt’B a taxpeneo ye'!! be payin’ any way.” Mid the porior, grimlv shouldenns tlie traalt, “bat I’ll be no ukiu’ any other mon’a opinion on mattora of my tin dooty

and consaieaM.”

“Ah,” aatii tht Consnl gravely, “then you’ll perhap ho adlowing mo tho tame

privilege.”

Tho porteifh fae« relaxed, and a gleam of Apptovri—imrely intcUactuai, however—

come idto hia evet.

” Ye word alvaya a smooth deevel wt’ Tonr tongue, Hr. Consnh.” he said, should* artim tho boa and walking off -to the. NevoMielAw. as soon os he was fairly •sated and rattling away from the station, the Consnl bad a gashing conviction that he had not only been grievousiy insulted, hot AidD thatiho bad allowed the wife of an aeanaintanMihi be spoken of disrespootfnily |a bis presoaM And be bad done nothing! Yea-4t wm Srehim—he had laughed at tbe absurdity of the impertinence without gesenting it! Another man would have slapped tbg porter’s fsoo. Hhi spirits, momentarily diverted by tiie porter’s affirontary, imak to a lower ebb than Tbe clattcriag of bis horses' hoofs eehoed back frwB rooty walls that occasion* ally hemmed ia the road was not ontivuu* ing. bnt it was less depressing than the jwonrriot ihoDutony in the open. The actnory did not saggest wildness to bis : aliM tyoaaamneh oa it aiected him with aitagme soaso of aoorbntio impoverish* | meat. Them were a tew moments mere \ of rapid driving, a swift swishing over frit gravri, .tbe opening of a heavy door j Into a taemw vestibule, aad then—a.euddmi setma iwf exquialteiy diffused ll^ht gna WKmIlkfram an arebed and-mlletied Boatral bailT tbo soumls of light taugbter and subduril voloea bait lost in the airy •paee betwben the lefty pictured walls; the Inxnry of color in trophies, armor nod bangiave, or two uareless groups before tho nceaeoa hearth or at the center table, and tho baliod figure of a pretty woman on the broad, alow atairoase. The contrast was shariit ironical uid bewildering, to muoh m that tbe Consul, when he bad lollow'ad ri|o servant to his room, was ini* prilod M dtaw aside the heavy window cur* taina and ksak out again upon the bleak prMpect itihad half Obliterated. Tbe wing in which hir waa placed overhung a dark ravino or jnUf* OMktd with shruba and biamblM tdat grew in a new luxuriance. A nearer rOooUoeUon of the pretty frock he had aeon e%.tbe strircase—in whose wearer ■ ‘ 1 vivacious friend

her. He remem*

Sret meeting he had been

interested in her bright audacity, uuconttNHtoaility aid high spirita, which did Ml, Aowevor, amuse him as greatty as his ktor SBipieloa that she was playing a self* rioetkd rriO, often with ditbculty, opposi* , ttoa and ftoerishasas, rather than spon* tahstty^ Haytmombsrod how babad watched bar in iM idstrusivo aaaumption of a .new fasvieik, hi some reeklees departure from an old; «ne, or in oome esteutatious disregard si oertain hard aad set rules of fit. KcB<hi«|g; bat that it never seemed to him that ahh was the happier for it Ue oven knotad thnt her mirth at suoh times had an undie Borvousnesa; that her pluck— vhkh wnotnadouhted—had aowething of tho dellMseO of despair-, and that her per* aistoaoe oCM had tho grimneas of dnty nther Jhai the thonghtlesanesa of pure annaomoah what waa riis trying to do?— vhM waa dri Uyiag to undo m- forget? Her amrriad lifs was apparently happy and #v«ioott|nMaL Hor yoniig hasband was clovtr^aoniplaisaat, yet honesUy devoted to her. STSi to the oxisnsion of a certain

) to her admirers and a chivaiion by half participation in her mho. Nor could he honeatly

any that hijr^lhriuda toward his owa sex

wsro the hnlMnMm smartly frocked women, who, far Item nelnt the femslos of tbo foregoing sBoeiat, were quite indiwitiuetive, with tho taNri* sxocption of an American wife, who wasinAnitcly moroSeetch than hor ^teh hatband. Suddenly he heeame aware of a faint rustling at bis door, aad what seomed to be a sHfbt tap on the pans]. He rose aad opened it*r*lho long pnsMfo waa dark and anpaientiy empty, bat ho mnoiiM he could Uetoet the quirn swish of a skirt in the distaneo. At he re-entered his room, hit eye fell for the irst lime on a row* whose stalk was thrust through the krvhule of his door. The Consul smiled at this amiable solution of a mystery. It was undonbtedly the playful mlMiltevotisBcsa of the vivacious MaeSpadtoo. He placed it in water —intending to wear it in his coat at dinner oa a geuUe reeogaition of the fair donor’s

courtesy.

He again heeame aware of cautious footsteps apparently haltiug outside his door. This time he was prepared. With a half smile he stepped *ofi^ to the door and opened It suddenly. To hit intense sur-

prise he was face to faoe with a man.

Bnt hit diseomfiture wu as nothing compared to that of the stranger—whom he at once reeognixed as one of bis fellow gnetts —the youthiul Laird of Whistkciaukic. Tfae young fellow’s healthy color at once paled, then (lushed A deep -crimson, and a

forced smiis stiffened hia mouth.

*T—beg your par*r*r<lon,” be said with a nervous brusquenSM that brought out ills accent. "I eottldna find ma room. It’ll be

changed, and I—”

“Perhaps I have got it,” interrupted the Consul, nniliogiy. "rre only just come,

and they’ve pnt ro« in here.”

“Nae! nae!” said the young man hurriedly, “it’s no thim. That is, it’s no’ mine

noo.’’

a tall gillie, who instantly strode Into tht room. There was sueb snother suggestion of Kiieraithie in the man and his mauner that tbs Consul instantly divined that he was Kilcraithie's serraut. •T’li be takln' soms hit things that yon Whistieerankie lett,” said the giltie gravely, witii a stolid glance around the room. “Certainly,” said the Consul; “help yourself.” Ue eoHtinued his dressing as the man began to rummi^ in the empty drawers, The Consnl hadhis back toward him, but. looking in the glass of the dressingtable. ho saw that the gillie was stealthily watching him. buddenly ho passed before the mantelpiece and quiokly slipped the rose from its glass into bis hand. “I’ll trouble yon to put that hack,” said the Consnl quietly, without turning round. The giliie slid a quick glance toward the door, hut tite Consul was before him. I “I don’t think that was itft by yonr master,” he said in an ostentatiously calm voice, for he was conscious of an absura : and inexplicable tniiiuit in his blood, “and j I perhaps you hud better put it book.” I The man looked at the flower with an * attention that might have been merely I osicntatious and replacetl It in the glass. “I llioclit it w as niss.” j “And I think it isn’t,” said tha Consul, opening the door. | Yet when the man had passed ont, he was I by no menus certain that the flower was not | Kilcraithie’s. He was even conscious that | if tlic young Ijiird had approached him { with a reasonable expianatiou or appeal ho i would imve yielded it up. Ue grimly I pinned the fateful fldwer in his butPmhole ! and half dcliantly descended to the drawing

room.

Here, however, he was inclined to relax when, from a gronp of pretty women, tbe bright,, gray eyes of Airs. MaeSpadden caught his, were suddenly diverted to tbe

eame fuller in the center and tnmed over j hethochi hhn of a bit plan of bringing it like a searlet leaf. or. as it atruek him tbd- | home fO the wife, thronch tit* Gospel lips , denly, like the teiitale drop of blood on tbe j of her ain husband! so be intimated to

mouth of a vampire. Yet she was very composed, practical, aad decorus, and as the talk grew more anitnated—and in the vicinity of Mrs, MaeSpadden more andacious —she kept a smiling reserve of expression, which did not. however, prevent her Irom lollowiug that lively lady, whom she evidently knew, with a kind of encouraging

attention.

“Kate it in full fling to-night,” she said { they were no’ starin’ and gowpin’ nt tbe to the hostesa. lady Macquoich smiled meenestcr's wife settin’ bolt upright ia her ambiguously — so anibigunusly that the ! place. And then, when the air was bine Consul thought ii necessary to interfere for ! wi* sulplinr fra tae pit, Gie meenestcr's his friend. “She seems to say what most wife ap rises! Man! Ivry rye was spearin’ of us think, but I am afraid very few of os i !»• „... *»—.a u.,-* a

the meencster his tuspudons of grievous ; laxity arufiAg the female flock, and of tbe I neeessity ot a special sermon on tbe seventh ( coramaud. Ihc pair man consenteu— althongb be dinna ken why and wheretors —and preached a gran' sermon! Aye, man! it was crammed wt’ denunciation and an emptyht’ o' tbe vials o’ wraUt! The congregation sat dumb as huddled sheep—when

could voice as innocently,” he smilingly

suggested.

‘Hiie is a great friend of ^ours,” returned

rongh her half-

i)he has made us quite envy

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YR’LT, MWD THB story op the MBESESrEBS wipa’

by a freadom that often

(Of

indiseretion—eon veyed iri paasioa or sentiment..

ta th# window again, and i darikapanthenvinafrarnwhich the laaaaw saamad to ha weiliaf slowly ap iaad oblitasatlar tha landscapa, aad than, i tekhkg a hank from Ma valise, saltled himastt la tha May chair by the fire. He was SfeiM harry m Jria the party below, whom nt hath 4uy raaosmUed and greeted as ho paMdLOrowgh. They or their prototypae fariw Biaada. Thera was the re-

baronet, whoaa “bloody aatM wipad oat th* stains

Icalum, and

tii

wboM formtr

ghteaueness had faisan snm widly nrovinaiat skeptfeMa vrffa, who, throagh ail

diffIgiHPri ri kor shaafod nositioa. had

Virtues of tha Saotek

f:.^M»waoi^pigd waa-^deeant”; thera wera *! two tiiat famindsd him of

naa halag diatiBetly ai-

frMfiii a d«finH* arttela, aad tka other ^ n and apparaatly govalWsiT* by thatpoBsassivaaas*. There

'’wetken,” man of powar

• - “ ij. Mvaral vosarioBa:

w* general overproirileet aharaetaristie ot sueb

I oltaa iaaxtiMaf Tkaia was th* nsnal

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Utoigaor

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'wakkaMi, eagarness t adai^^ily. And

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iroM, ridkwlad Mid issital^ lliara

“Won't you oome in?”suggested the Consul politely, holding open the door. * i The young man entered the room with ! the quick strides, tmrt the mechanical pur- : poselessncss of embarrassment. Then he ! stiflened and stood erect Yet, in spite of 1 all this. Its was strikingly pteturosqae and ; iiiiconventiotial in bis Highland dress, worn ! with the freedom df long eustom and a cer- | tain lithe, barbario gract. As tho Consul ! eontinned to gate at him enconragingly j the quick, resentful pride of u shy itinn suddenly mantled hfs high oheek-boiies, and, | witn an abrilpf’l’ll notfleesturb ye longer,” 1 he strode out of the room. { The Consul watched the easy swing of his ' figure down tbe missafe and then dosed the door. “DellghtiAl ereatnre,” he raid, musingly, “and not so very unlike an Apnche I ohiet, either! But what was he doing oiiiside my door? And was it he who left that I rose—not M a deiicate Highland attention i to an utter stranger, hnl”—the Con>u)'s i mouth suddenly expanded—"to soaie iuir previous oeenpant? Or was it really his room—he looked as if he were lying—and" —here the Consul's mouth expanded even mors wickedly—“And Mrs. MaoWpadden hod put the flower there for him.” This implied snub to his vanity was, however, more thsn oompentated by his wicked antieinatien of the pretty perplexity of his fair friend when be should apuear at dinner, with tbe flower in his own battoiihole. It would serve her right, the arrant flirt! But here he was interrupted by the entranee of a tall houtoiuald with hit hot watsr.

lapel of hia coat, and then leaned op to his again with a sparkle of uikchief. lint the guests were aln-ady pairing oft' in dinner Couples, and as they passe<l out of the room he saw that she was on the arm of KIlcraitliie. Yet, as she passed him, she andacion!>Iy turned her bond, and, in ainiselHevous aftectation of jealous reproach,

murmured:

• “f^o soon!” J

At dinner she was toofar removed for any conversation with him. although from hia seat by hia hostess he could phiiiily sec her saucy profile midway up the table. But, to his surprise, her companion, Kilcraithtc, dhl not seem to be responding to hergayety. By turns abstracted and feverish, his glances occasionally wandert'd toward the end of the table wnere llic Consul was sitting. For a lew moments he believed that the nifair of the flower, combined, perhaps, with tbe overhearing ( of Mrs, Mncdptdden’s luiseliievous senienra, rankled in the Laird’s barbaric soul. But he beetime presently aware that Kilcraithie's eyes cventnaily rested upon squiet-iooking blonde near the hostess. Y'ct the indy not only did noticem to be aware of it, bnt her face wa* more often turned toward the Consul, and their eyes had once or twice met. He had been struck by the fact that they were half veiled, but singularly iiniiupassioned eyes, with a certain expression of cold wonderment ami criticism quite inconsistent with tiieir veiling. Nor was he surprised when, after a reliminary whispering oyer the plates, his

lad;

, nnrni

ottess presented him. The Indy was the

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“I am afraid I’ve ditpossetsadMr.—Mr.— Kilcraithie rather prematurely,” soia the Consul, tightly. To his infinirle snrprise the girl answered with grim derision, ‘’Kana toe soon.” The Consnl started. “I mean,” he explained, “that I (onnd bin hesitatiog here in the iiASMtSi looking for fata room.” “Aye, b4#a always hoavering and clowcrin’ in tbe paMAges—but it’s no’ for his nwni! Ana ife a destgrace to decent Christian folk his carryin’ on wi’ married woman—mebbee they’re no* batter than be!" "That will do,” sold the Consul curtly. He bod no desira to •neonrote a repetition of the railway porter’s freedom. “Ya’li BO fash yonrsvl’ aboot him,” eootiunad the glri, witboat heeding tfae rebuif. '4fe no’ tne meestreess’ wish that he's l^pix here in tbs wing reaerved for married folks, and ske’s no* eorry for the excuse to pit ye in his plnec. Yrll be married yourMl’, I’m bearin’. But 1 ke. toba ifppened tfae for that.’* This WAS tour much for the OBnsur* gravity. ‘T’lii''afraid,” be eoid with diplomatie MTatfi “that altbongh I am married, Mi haveh't my wife with me, I’ve ne right to this enparior aecommodation and comfort. But you can asawre yourmisircaa that I’ll try to deserve tbem ” “Aytb'* ’‘he girl, bat with no great m^deaoA ih her vale* oa oh* grimly qnittod tM fOMIe "Wbatt ear foot’s npoa our nitiva heath, vhatber ear nama’a Uaegregor or Kilcisithie. it would aaam that wa must tread warily.* mused tks Consol os hs be^ui to drOM “Bnt I’m find tha didn’t see that Mat, av my repatntioB wonid have been nrinad.” Here another knoek nt tha door nrtmted him. Ha apaned it Impattontiy to

young wife of the middle-aged dignitary who, seated further down the table, opposite Mrs. MaeSpaviden. was Apparently enjoying that lnuy’.«i wildest levitiea The Consiil bowed, the lady leaned a little forward. “We were Mying what a lovely rote you hao.” The Consul’s inward response was: “Hang that flower!” His outward expression was the modest query: “Is It so peeuliar?” "No. But it is very pretty. Would you allow me to see it?” Disengaging the flowgr from his buttonhole, he handed it to her. Oddly enough, it seemed to biro that naK the table was watching aad listening to tbetm' Buddeuly the lady nftered n little ery. ^Tjeor me! it’s full of thornn Of oaunw. ytm picked nad nrrnagad it yourself, fps any lady would have WrappM something around the •talk!” Ifctbeiatberewasa buriesqns outcry and jt taon-hambred protest from tha gantlemen WPpum her. against this inaaifsatb' leading -queHton. “It’s po fair! Ye’U. not answer her—for the dignity of put sax.'' Y'sl, in tha midst of it, it suddenly oMorrad to tha Conanl that therd nod bean a slip of paper wrapped around it, which had oasaa aff and remained ip the ktyholt. Th* hdne eyea of th* lady were meanwbiie eounding bis, but he only smiled and said: ^hen it scsml it ia psoalkr.” When tbe eonverwritoa becante more general he bod time to observe other features of t&e lady than her placid eyes. Her light hair was very long, and grew low down the base of her neck. Her month was firm, the upper lip slmhtly eompressed in A thin red Una; bnt t£e lower one, ol* though equally preols* at the oeraera, ba-

the lady, looking at him

veiled lidA

her.”

“.\nd 1 am afraid made it impossible for me to either sufficiently thank her or justify her taste,” he said quietly. Yet be was vexed at an unaccountable resentnieiit which iiad taken possession of him—who but a few hours before bad only laughed at tho porter’s critiuism. Alter the ladies had risen, the Consul, with an instinct of sympathy, was moving up toward “Jock” MaeSpadden, who sat nearer tlie host, when he was stopped midway of tbe table by the dignitary who had sat opposite to Mrs. MaciSpadden. “Your Iren’ is inaist amusing wi' her audacious tongue—aye, end her nuduclous ways.” be said, with large official patronage; “and we’ve enjoyed her here immensely, but I hae mae doots if niae Leddy Macquoich take as kindly to them. Yon and 1—men of the wurrld, I may say—we understand them for a’ their worth; aye!—ma wife, too, with whom I observed ye speakin'—is nmiat tolerant of her, but man! it sextraordinar’ ” —he lowered hia voice slightly—“that yon husband of heris doesua’ check herirecdoms with Kiieraubia.. 1 wadua’ say anythin’ WAS wrong', ve ken, but is he nf’ over-confident and conceited obool his

w Ifo?”

“I see you don’t know him,’*' said Hie Consnl smilingly, “and I’d ne delighted to make you acquainted. Jock,”—he continued, raising his voice as he turned toward MaeSpadden—“^let me inifodnee youtolSir Alan Deeside, who don’t know you, although he’s a great admirer of jottr wife,” and unheeding the embarrassed protestations of Sir Allan and the langhing assertion of Jock that they were already sequainted, he moved on beside his host. That hospitable knight, who had been airing his. knowledge of London smart society to his English guest with a singular lufxtnre of

hor—ivry tug was priekt toward her! And she goes out in tbe aisle favin* tha meencs-

ter, anti ”

Sir Alan paused.

“And what?” demanded tbe eager andi-

tory.

“She piekit np tbe elder's wife, sobbin’ and fearin’ her hair in strong hysterios.” .At the end .of a relieved pause. Sir Alan slowly concluded: “It was said that the eider removed frae Aibliunocb wi’ his wife, but no’ till he had eflected a change of

meenesters.”

It was already past midnight, and the party had dropped oil one by one, with thp excepuon of Deeside, Macqnoiehi the young Englishman, and a Scotch laird, who were playing poker—on omosement which ho understood they frequently protracted until J in the morning. It was nearly time tor him to expect his mysterious visitant. Before be went ap-stairs he thought he would take n breath of the outer evening air, and, throwing a macintosh over his shoulders, pas^ out of the garden dcor of the biiliarufroom. To his surprise, it gave immediately upon tbe fringe ot laurel that

bung over the chasm.

A damp Iweath of sodden leaves came from it-H depths. Beside him stretched the long, dark fackde of the wing he inhabited, his own window the only one thqt showed a fakit light. A few paces lieyond. a singular structure of rustic wood and glass, combining the peculiarities of a sentry box. a summer house and a shelter, wngs built kgjniiBttlia blank wall of the wing. A little lurfhet on, sunk in the wail like a postern, was a small door that evidenriy gave easy egress to seekers of this stern retreat. In ‘the still air a faint grating sound, Tike tbe passage of « foot across gravel, earae to him «a from the distance. He paueedt thinking he had been followed by one of the eard players, blit saw no one, and tbe sound wps

not repeated.

It was past 1. He re-entered tfae billiard ,room, passed tfae nnchinged gropji of card plaverS. and, taking a candiesTiek from the iial], ascended the dark and silent stairca.<e

.hort. .i.

last halted before his door, gave a

guidof ye to oome, but I’m thinkin’ at your cud of the table ye lost the bit of fun of Mistress Mebpadden. Eh, but site was unco’ lively to-night. Twas all Kilcraithie could do to keep her from proposin’ your health w ith Hieland honors oiia otlerln’ to lead oft' with her ain foot on the table I Aye, and she’d ha’ done it. And that's a bntw rose she’s been given ye—and ye got ont of it calverlv wi’ Lady Deeside.” When he Icit the table with the others to join the ladies, the same unaccountable feeling of mingled shyness and nervous irascibility still kept possession of him. He felt that in bis present mood he could not listen to any fiirtlier criticisms of his friend without betraying some unwonted heat, and as his companions filed into tiie drawingroom be slipped aside in the hope of recovering his eqnituiiuity by a few moment’s reflection in his own room. He glided quickly up the staircase and entered tho corridor. The passage that led to his apartment WHS quite dark, especially before his door, which was in a nay that really ended the passage. He was consequently surprised and somewhat alarmed at seeing a shadowy female figure hovering before it He inslinetively hulteitT <hc figare became more distinct from some luminous halo that seemed to eiicoiapoai it. It struck him that this was only the liyht of his fire threwn through his open door, and that the figure was probably tiint of a servant betore it. Who had been arranging hts room. Uc started forward again, but at the sound of bis advancing footsteps tho figure and the luminous glow vanished, and he arrived blankly face to face with his own closed door. lie looked around Iho dim bay; it was absolutely vacant. It lr<as equally impossible fur any one to have escaped without passtog him. There was only his room left A* half-nervous, halfsuperstitious thrill crept over him ns he snadeiily grasped the h.-iiidle of the door, and he threw it open. The leaping light of his fire revealed its emptiness; no one was there! He lit the candle and peered behind the curtains and furniture and under the bed; the room was as vacant and undis-

turbed as when ne left it.

Had It been a trick of his senses, or a bona-fide apparition? Jle looked down wouderingly on the flower in his buttonhole. Was there anything uncunny in timt innocent blossom? But here he was struck by another rccoUection, and examined the keyhole of his door. With the aid of the tortoise-shell hairpin be dislod^d the paper he bad forgotten. It was only a thin

spiral strip, apparently the white outer time to njow out uis eanaie au(tnatten i edge of some newspaper, and it certauUy j S®.

seemed to be of little service as a protection against the thorns of a rose stalk. He was bolding it over the fire, about to drop It into tbe blase, when the flame revealed some pencil marks upon it. Taking it to the candle he read, deeply bitten into the paper by a hard pencil point: “At half-past one.” 'I'here was nothing else—no signature; but the handwriting was not Mrs.

MucHpadden's!

Then whose! He looked down at the baleful gilt ia his buttonhole, and for a moment felt inclined to toss it in the fire. But this was quickly followed by hii former revulsion of resentment and defiance. No! he would wear it no matter what happened, until its material or spiritual owner oaum for it. Ue closed the door and returned to

the drawing-room.

There waa dancing in the drawing-room to the iQuiic of the gorgeous piper, who had marshaled them to dinner, lie lingered a few moments in the bull. He was startled by voices and steps in the gallery he had just quitted, but which cime troiii the opposite direction to his room. It was Kilcraithe and Mrs. MaeSpadden. As the caught Bight of him he tanoied she turned etightly and aggressively pale, with a certain hardening of her mischievous eyes. Nevertheless, she deseeqed the, staircae* more deliberately than 'her companion, who brushed past him with an embarrassed self-consciousness quite in advance of her.

She lingered for an instant “You are not dancing?” Ae said.

"No.”

"Perhape you are more agreeably employed?” “At this exact moment, oertainly.” 8he cast a diadainfui glance at him, crossed the ball, and followed Kilcraithie. “Hang me if 1 nnderstoad it all!” mused the Consul, by no means good faumorediy. “Doea she think I have been spying upon ber and her noble chieftain? But it’s just as well that I didn’t tell her anything.” He turned to follow them, in the vestibule be eame upon a figure which had halted before a large pier glass. Me recognixed M. Delfosse, the French visitor, complacently twisGng th* peak of his Henri Quartre beard. He would have passed without speaking, but the Frenchman glanced Mnilingly at the Consnl and his buttonhole. Again the flower! “.Monsieur is decore " be said, gallantly. The Consul asaentea, but added, not so f allantly, that, tboogfa they were not in 'ranee, he might stiH be nnworthy of it. The baleful flower had not improved bis temper. Nor did tbe fact that, as he entered the room,' he thought tbe people Stared at hini--uotil he saw that their

attention was directed to Lady Deeside, who bad entered almost behind him. From his hostesa, who had offered him a seat beside her, he gatb*tcd tbri M. Delfotse and Kilcraithie had each mnporarity occupiea his room, but that they hao been transferred to the other wing, apart Iron the married eonplee and young ladias, because when they eame apnitairs from th* billiard and cord room late they sometimes disturbed

the fair oecupantA

He w&t glad irhen it wax time to escape to tbe billiard room *nd tobacco. For a while he forget the evenings adventure, but eventually found himself listening to a diseussioa—tarried on over steaming tumblers of toddy—in regard to certain predispositions of the always debatable eex. “Ye’ll not always judge by appearances,” said Sir Alan. “YsTl mind the story of the meenestcr’s wife of Alblinnoch. It was tfaocbt that she was ower free-wi’ one o’ the parishioners—aye I it was the elaish o’ the whole kirk, while non* dare tell tfae meenester bitself—bein’ a bookish, simple, unsnspectia’ ereeter. At iMt one ot the elders

He at

a ecrutl-

uning glance around the embayed recess, and opened the door half expectantly. Bnt the rooiti was empty as he had left it. It was a quarter past 1, He threw himself on the bed witho'nt undressing, and fixed his eyes alternately on the door and hit watch. Perhaps the unwonted seriousness of ills attitude struck him, but a sudden sense of the prenosteroasness the whole situation—of his solemnly riuiculuus acceptiuce of a series of ffiere coincidences as a fotoflone hhuclusioQ—overcame him, and he laoghed. But in the same breath he

stuped.

There were footsteps approaching—cantioos footsteps—but not at his door! They were in the room—no! in the Wall just behind him! They were descending some staircase at the back of bis bed—he eonld hear tbe regular tap of a light slipper from step to step and the rustle of a skirt, seemingly in his very ear. They were becoming less and less distiuet—they were gone! He sprang to his feet, hut almost at the same instant he was conscious of a sudden chill— that seuiiied to him as-ubysical as it wax mentut.' The room was slowly suiTused with a eoul, sodden breath and the dank odor of rotten leaves. He looked at toe candle—hi flame was actiialiy deflcetiugTn this mysterious blast. It seemed to come from H recess for hanging clothes, topped by a heavy cornice and curtain. He had examined ii licfore, but he drew the curtain once more aside. The cold current certainly ieciucd to be more perceptible there. He felt the ged-clothcd backing of the interior, and hie hafidsoddcnlygrasped* door knob. It turned, and ihe whole structure—cornice and euviainii—swung inward toward him with the door on which it was hung! Bcfaiitd it was « dark staircase leading from the (ioo^bore to some outer door below, whose i^ening had given ingress to the chill humid current from tbe ravine. This was theBtaiycase where he hod just heard the footsKlps—and this was, no doubt, the door thrMgh which the mysterious figure had vaused from his room a few hours

before, W

Takinoix candle, he cautionsiy ascended the stairs nntil he iound himself on the landing of the suites of the married couples and directly op|>ositc to the rooms of tne MueSpaddena and Deesides. He Was about to descend again, when bs heard a tar-ofl* shout, a seuttiing sound on the outer gravel and the frenxied shaking of. the handle of the lower door. He had hardly time to blow out his candle and flatten himself aga^st thje wall, when toe door was flung ofW and a woman frantically flew up tbe staircase. His.own door was still open. From within its dentbs the light of his fire projected a flickering beam across tho stepA Ak she rmhed past it the light revealed her face; it needed not the peeuliar perfume of her gornicuU as she swept by his cottcenled figure to make him recog.iixe—Lady Dee-

side f

Ainaxcd And confounded, he was about to descend, when he beard tbe lower door again open. Bnt here a sudden instinct made him pause, turn, and re-ascend to tho upper landing. There he calmly re-lit his caudle, and made hia way down to the corridor that overlooked the central ball. The sound of suppressed voices—speaking with tfae exhausted pauses that come from spent exeitemeut—made him cautions again, and he halted. It was the card party ■lowly paxsing from tbe billiard-room to the

hall.

“Ye owe it yoursei’—^to your wife—not to pit up with it a day longer,” said the •abduetl voice of Sir Alan. “Man! ye war in an ace o’ having a braw scandal.” “Could ye no get yonr wife tu speak till her,” responded Macquoich, “to gie her a bint that she's better awa’ out of this? Lady Deeside has some iofluenoe wi’ her.” The.Censul ostentatiously dropped the extiurnisher from his oandlcsticK. The party looked up quickly. Their faces were still flushed and agitated, but a new restraint seemed to come upon them on see-

ing him.

“I thought I beard a row outside,” uid the Consul explanatorily. Tbev each looked at their host without

speaking.

“Oh, aye^” said Macquoich with simnIgted hcartineu, “a bit fu» between the Kilcraithie and yon Frenchman; but they’re

baith going is the raornin’.”

“I thought I heard MaeSpadden’e voice,”

uid toe Consul quietly.

There was a dead sileuM. Then Mao-

quotoh said hurriedly:

T* he no’ in bia room—in bed—asleep—

man?”

“I really don’t know; I didn’t inquire,” uid the Consal with a Might yawn. '‘Good

night!”

He turned, not withont bearing them eagerly whispering again, and entered too passage Icauing to fals own room. As he opened the door he wu startled to find the snbject of fab inquiry—Jock MaeSpadden— quietly seated ia hia armchair by his fire. “Jock I" “Don’t be alarmed, old man; I eame up by that staircase and uw the door open, and guessed you’d he returning soon. But it seemed you went round by the corridor,” he uid, glancing eurionsly at tbe Consul’e face. “DW you meet toe crowd?" '‘Yet, Jock! What dou it all mean?” MaeSpadden laughed. “It means that I was just in time to keep Kileraithie from churiting DwUose* down that ravine; hat they both scooted when they uw mA By J«ve! I don’t know which wu tbe most frightened.” said toe Cennl slowly, *lwh*t was itaH about, Jo<to?" “Some gallantry of that d d Frenchman. who’s trying to do some woman stalktog np-here, end jealousy of Kitoraitbie's. •who’s just get enough of his forbears'sblood hi him te think nothing of atieking three foohex of hia dirk into toe wame of the man that erosees him. But I uy,” eontinned Jock, leaning cuily back in hit chair, *^ob ought to know something of ail thiA 'This room, old wu used u a ■ort.ofreftdesvous. having two outlets, don’t you tee, whan they conldn't get at the sammer hOQS* below. By Jove! they both had it in tnrns—Kilcraithie and the Frenchman— until Lady- Macquoich got wind of some-

thing, swept them out, and put yon ia It” The Consol rot* and applrosohed bis friend with a grave facA "Jock, 1 do know Bouicthing about it—mor* about it than any ona thing A You and ! at* old friandx. Shall I toll you w hat I knowf Jock’s handsome fee* beean* a trifia S aler. but bis frank, clear eyes rested study OB the Conawi'A “Go on.” he uid. ‘•I know that titJa flewer whieh 1 am wearing was the signal for th* rendexveus this evening,” uid the Consul slowly, “and this paper.”takingit from his pocket, “contained the time of the meeting, written in toe lady's own hand. I know who she was, for I raw her face m plainly as I see yours now, by the light of th* ume fire; it was u pale, but not as frank u yours, old man. That is what i know. But ^ know als* what people think toey know, and for that I reason I put that paper In yonr hand. It! is yours—your vindication—your revenge, : if you choose. Do with it wlud you like.” Jock, with unchanged features aad usdimmed jeyex, took too paper from toe Consul’s band, without lookina at ik * “1 may do with it what 1 like ?” be repeated. “Yes." He was about to drop it into ihe fire, but the Consul stayed his hand. “Are yon not going to look at toe handwriting first?" ‘There wu a moment of silenoe. Jock raised his eves with a sudden flash of prida in them and safd “Nef The friends stood side by side gruping each other’s hands u the ourning paper leaped uif the chimney in a vanishing flame. “Do you think y^ hav* done quite right. Jock, in view of any scwndal you may hear?” “Quite! You see, aid mas—I know my wife—but I don’t think thht Deeside knows hiA” tTHE IKD.]

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