Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 254, 11 October 1906 — Page 7

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AGNES and " Ji.ttlhor f The COPYRIGHT. 1006. B Y CHAPTER VIII. mX ten minute a falrlady kay do much to enhance -L'4r; 'fair ness. As Mistress , Bellairs ' took a iasi iook. at ner mirror, while I,ydia bustled out to call a hired chair, she bestowed upon her reflection a smile of approval which Indeed so" charming an image could not fail to call forth. Then she huddled herself In a mysterious and all developing cloak, caught up a little velvet mask from the table and sped upon her errand. She sallied forth as the gallant soldier might to battle, with a beating heart, yet a high one. Lord Verney and Captain Spicer had Just finished breakfast at the former's lodgings in Pierrepoiut street, near North Parade. Captain Spicer, fcab.bling ineptly of his own experience as a duelist, of his scorn of Sir Jasper's lunacy, yet of his full determination to slay the vile madman, had done ample Justice to his young principal's table. But Lord Verney, his cheek now darkly flushed, now spread with an unwholesome pallor, ound it hard to swallow even a mouthful of bread, and restlessly passed from the contemplation of the clock and the setting of his watch to the handling of his pistols, or the hasty addition of yet an- ' other postscript to the ill spelt, blotted farewell epistle he had spent half the night lu Inditing to the dowager, his mother: Tn case, you know" he had said to his friend, with a quiver In his voice. Captain Spicer had earnestly promised to carry out his patron's last wishes In the most scrupulous manner. "My dear lord," he had said, grasping him by tbe hand, "rely upon me. Sir Jasper Is a devil of a shot, I hear, and of course we all know the saying the strengtu. or a madman, But no sooner has he laid you, Harry, than I tow, upon my honor, I shall hold him at my sword's point. I will revenge thee, Harry, never fear of that. 'Twill bo a mighty genteel story, and the world will ring with It. Egad, he will not be the first I have spitted as easy as your cook would spit a turkey. Have I not learned of the great Angelo Malevolti himself? He, he, A woman's band,' he would say, 'and the devil's head!'" Here Captain Spicer shook out his bony fingers from the incumbering ruffles and contemplated them with much satisfaction. "Oh, hang you, Spicer, be quiet, cafl't yon!" cried Lord Verney petulantly. The captain leaned back on his chair and began to pick his teeth with a silver toothpick. "Pooh, these novices !" said he, as if to himself. r?"Keep your nerves steady, jny lord, or, stab me, I may ; as well order the mourning coach before we start. He, he! 'Tis well, indeed, you have a friend to stand by you!" A discreet tap was heard at the door and Lord Verney's impassive new servant (especially engaged on his behalf by the captain, who, indeed, ; some ill natured wag had it, shared bis "wages and perquisites) stood In the doorway. "There is, a lady downstairs, my lord," he said In his mechanical voice. "She particularly requests to see your lordship and will take no denial, although I informed her that your lordship was like to be engaged until late 111 the morning." Lord Verney merely stared in amaze ment; but Captain Spicer sprang up from his chair, his pale eyes starting with curiosity. ' "A lady! Verney, you dog, what Is this? A lady, Ned? Stay! Is she tall and fair and slight?" ao. sir; she Is undersized and eems plump, though she is wrapped in ao great a cloak I could hardly tell." -Pretty, man?" "Cannot say, sir; she wears a mask." "A mask? He! Verney, Verney, this Is vastly Interesting! ,And she won't go away; eh, Ned?" "So, sir; she must see his lordship, he said. If only for five minutes." "Plump, undersized, masked." ejac ulated Captain Spicer in burning perplexity. "We have ten minutes yet. e cave ner up; en, erneyj ' Show her up, Ned." The servant withdrew, unheeding Lord Verne3''s stammered protest. "Really. Captain Spicer," said he, "I would have liked to have kept these last ten minutes for something serious. I would have liked," said the lad with a catch In his Toice and a hot color on his cheek, "to have read a nasre of mv Bible before starting, were it only for my mother's sake, afterward." The captain threw up hand and eye In unfeigned horror. "A page of your Bible! Zounds! If It gets out. we are the laughingstock of Bath. A page of your Bible! Tis well no one heard you but I." "Hush!" ald Lord Verney In the doorway stood their visitor'Twas Indeed a little figure, wrapped in a great cloak, and except for the white hand that held the folds and the glimpse of round chin and cherry lip that was xremDJing ieneath the curve of the mask there was naught else to betrav her Identity, to tell whether she were young or old, well favored or disinher lted. But it was a charming little hand and an engaging little chin. Lord Verney merely stood and stared like the boy he was. But Captain Spicer leaped forward with a spring like a grasshopper, and, crossing his lean shanks, he presented a chair with the killing grace of which he alone was master.. The lady entered the room, put.her hand on the back of the chair and turned upon Captain Spicer. "I would see Lord Verney alone, sir," She said. It was a very sweet voice, but it was Imperious. The masked lady had all the air of one who was accustomed to instant obedience. In vain Captain Spicer leered and languished; the black eyes gleamed from behind the disguise very coldly and steadily back at him. Forced to

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EGERTON i Pride of Jennlco" CASTLE EGERTON CAS T L E withdraw, he endeavored to do so with wit and elegance, but he was conscious somehow of cutting rather a poor figure, and under the unknown one's hand the door closed upon him with so much energy as to frustrate utterly his last bow. Kitty Bellairs deliberately turned the key in the lock and put it in her pocket. Lord Verney started forward, but was arrested by the sound of his own name pronounced in the most dulcet and plaintive tone he thought he had ever beard. "Lord Verney," said Kitty, "flinging bank her cloak and hood and allowing her pretty brown curls and a hint -of the most perfect shape in Bath to become visible to the young peer's be wildered gaze, "Lord Verney," said she, and clasped her hands, "a very, Tery nnbppy woman has come tthrow herilf upon your compassion. "Madam," said Lord Verney, "wiiat can I do for you?" His boyish soul was thrilled by these gentle .accents of grief. He thought he saw a tear run ning down the white chin; the rounded bosom heaved beneath its bewitching disorder of lace. He glanced at the clock and back at the suppliant In a cruel perplexity. "Madam," said he, "time presses. I have but a few ruin utes to give you. Tell me, madam, how can I serve you? To do so will be a comfort to me in what is perhaps the last hour of my life." The lady gave a cry as sort as a dove's and as plaintive. "Oh," said she, "it is true, then, what I heard?" and the white hands were wrung together as In extremest an guish. x "Madam," cried he, with outspread arms, and. though without daring to touch her, drawing closer so close as to hear the quick catch of her breath and to inhale the subtle fragrance of violets that emanated from her. "Oh," said she, "it Is true!" She staggered and caught at the fasten lngs of her cloak and threw it open. "You are faint," he cried, strangely moved. "Let me call." But she caught him by the hand Her fingers were curiously warm for Who are yout" said he. one seized with faintness, but the touch of them was pleasant to the young man as never woman's touch had been before. Out flew the fellow hand to keep his prisoner, and they clung round his great boy's -wrist. He never knew how, but suddenly he was on his knees before her. , "xou are going to fight," said she, "to fight with Sir Jasper. Oh, you dc not know; but it is because of . me. and if you fight it will break my heart!" She leaned forward to look eagerly at him as he knelt. Her breath fanned his cheek. Through her mask he saw teautiful black eyes, deep, deep. How white the skin was upon her neck and chin how fine its grain! "What little wanton curls upon her head! "What a fragrance of flowers in the air! How he longed to pluck that mask away and yet how the very mystery lured him, held him! "Who are you?" said he in a low, quick whisper. "Let me see your face."She forbade his Indiscreet hand with a little shriek. ao, no, no; you must never see. never know. That would be terrible." Then he placed both his hands, all unconsciously, upon hers, and then she caught them both and held them, and he felt that her weak grasp was to him as strong as Iron. "Why do you fight?" said she. "Tell me." He blushed. -, J . " 'Tis for nothing, the merest mis understanding. Sir Jasper Is mad, I think.7. "Sir Jasper is jealous," breathed she, and nearer came the gaze of the eyes. "Is it true that you love Lady Stand Ish?" "I?" cried he vehemently, and rapped out a great oath, so eager was he to deny. "I? No! God is my witness. Nor "Then do not fight," said she. He wanted to look at the clock. He wanted to spring up and rush to the door. He was conscious that Spicer was knocking gently and that it was time to go where the conventions of honor cIed him. The soft clasp held him, and the mysterious eyes. He was a very boy and had never loved before, and she was masked! "Let me advise you," said she. "Believe me, your welfare Is dearer to me than you can Imagine dearer to me than I ought to tell you. Believe me, IT you give op this duel you will live to be glad of it. Sir Jasper will thank you no later than this very day as never man thanked before. And" you wm make me so happy! Oh, believe me, your honor Is safe with me.

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"Only let me see your face," said L. while Spicer knocked louder. "I rill see her and fciss her," he thought to himself, "and that will be something to carry to my death." "How dire you ask it?" she saidT "Must I giant your request when you refuse me mine?" "And if grant you yours," said he as his hear beat very fast, "what Mill you give nr?" , "Oh, give." said she, "give! VThc cares for gifts?, A man must' take." Her red lip beneath the mask here became arched so bewitchingly over a row of the whitest teeth in all the world that Harry Verney, whose head had been rapidly going, lost it and his heart together. "That is a challenge," said he, drew a hand away and lifted it to the mask. Afi, traitorr she cried, and made a dainty start of resistance His fingers trembled on the soft scented locks. "You shall not," said she, and bent her head to avoid his touch, so that as he knelt their faces were closer together than ever. V "Ob!" cried he, and kissed her ou the chin beneath the mask.

CHAPTER IX. M Y lord," clamored Captain Spicer at the door, "the coach is waiting, and we have but half an hour to reach Bath wick meadows. Lord Verney. would you be last at the meeting?' Lord Veruey sprang to his feet. The words, the impatient raps, penetrated to his dizzy brain with sudden convic tion. "Heavens!" cried he, and glanced at the clock and made a leap for the door. "And will you go," said the stranger. "without having seen my face?" . He ran back to her and then back to the door again, distracted as you may see a puppy dog between two calls. Finally ho came back to the lady with a new and manly dignity upon him. "I must go," he said. "Would you 6how yourself as kind as you seem, madam, remove your mask that I may see you before I go." Outside Captain Spicer was dancing a sort of hornpipe of Impotent impatience and filling the air with shrill, strange oaths. Mistress Bellairs put the lean, swarthy boy very composedly on one side by the merest touch of her hand; then she went over to the door, unlocked it and admitted Captain Spicer, green and sweating. "I am coming, Spicer!" cried Lord Verney desperately, and made a plunge for his hat and clonk, murmuring as he passed the la (13 "Oh, cruel!" Kitty Bellairs nibbled her little finger and looked at the clock. "It will not take you, you know," said she, "more than five minutes tdrive down to the Bathwick ferry; therefore if you start in three you will still have twenty-six to spare. My Lord Verney, will you give me those three minutes?" Lord Verney flung aside hat and cloak again, his face glowing "with a dark flush. "Oh," cried ho, like a schoolboy, "Spicer, wait outside!" "Xay," said Mistress Kitty, smiling to herself under her mask; "nay, I have need of Captain Spicer." Lord Verney's face fell. "Come hither," said she, and took him crestfallen by the hand and brought him to the table where lay the writing materials he had been using but a little while ago. "Here," said she, "is a sheet of paper. Sit down, my lord, and write, write," she said, and tapped his shoulder. Write, sir, thus: "Lord Verney twg;: to inform Sir Jasper Standish that he understands thegrounds of the quarrel between them to lie in a gross misconception of Ixrd Verney's feelings for Lady Standish. "Write, write!" she leaned over him, dictating. Half .;-!! coherent I", with his "Quick!' you spell , witfTyou: o:nd. yet protecting; iu:i to cover the pago '. scrawl. .x "Child, how do el? Never mind; on "Lord Verney bsgs to assure Sir Jarper that, so far from presuming to entertain any unlawful sentiments for Lady Stand ish, he has never addressed more than three words to her or as may glances at her in his life that his whole heart is given to another lady, the only woman he has ever loved and ever will love." The pen nearly, dropped from Lord Verney's fingers. He started and turn ed round on his chair to gaze in rap ture into the countenance of his mysterious visitor and again was at once attracted and foiled by her mask. "Surely you would not contradict a lady?" she whispered in his ear. Haste, we have but one minute more. Here, give me the pen; I will finish." She snapped the quill from his hand, her curls touched his cheek as she beet forward over him to the page. Swiftly her little hand flew: If upon this explanation Sir Jasper does not see his way to retract all the offensive observations he made to Lord Verney, Lord Verney will be ready to meet him as arranged without an instant's delav. The truth of all these statements is guaranteed by the woman Lord Verney loves. She seized the sheet and folded it. "Now, Captain Spicer," said she. "take your coach and hie you to Sir Jasper's house, and if you bring back an answer before the clock strikes, I will let you take off my mask, and that will save you from dying of curiosity and also give you something to tattle about for the next month. Oh, you will find Sir Jasper," she said. "Ho is a seasoned hand and does not, like your virgin duelist, make it a point of honor to bring his high valor to the rendezvous twenty minutes before the time." Within his meager body Captain Spicer carried the soul of a fluakey. i He would have given worlds to rebel. but eoyld not. &o long as it is not a put-off." said ne. .Not even for a fair one's smile could I barter a friend's honor " Kitty held the letter aloft tantalizingly and looked at the clock. "If you won't be the bearer" said she, "I will send it by the chairman and then you will never know what is in it. Moreover," said she, and smiled archly, "if Sir Jasper fcpologizes" tc Lord Verney, " which, upon receipt of this letter I make no doubt he will. you can take his place, you know, and will not be done out of a gallant meet ing." "Of course ha. of course!" cried Spicer, with a yellow smile. Lausfchrr. Mistress Kitty closed tlK door, behind his retreating figure. '

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an u ... - . "IiujI:. s-i.:.: lirass illtiy. s "Did t not tell yon y?ur facnar was ra'fe with me? Do yo3 not believe me?" said shv oeltingly. "Ah. Verney!" She put b?r hand to her head, and at her touch the mask fell. He looked at her face, blushing and quivering ujku him. and once more fell on his knee at her feet. "Ob, tell me your name!" cried he pleadingly. ' -"Why, Lord Veruey," she said, "how ungallantr She smiled and locked bewitchingiy beautiful; looked serious and repreaehful. and Le fell lyond his depths in rapture. "Why, -you know me, you know me well," said she. "Am I not Mistress Bellairs, Kitty Bellairs am I not Kitty?" "No, nor' cried he. "I never knew you till this lour, madam. Mistress Bellairs. Kitty! I see you," he cried, "for the first time! O God, be kind to me, for I love her!" "And yet," she whispered archly, "they say that love is blind." Upon this he kissed her as he haO kissed her beneath the mask, and il anything could have been sweeter thaithe first kiss it was the second. Ah, love, how easy an art to learn how hard to unlearn! While narry Verney thus forgot th whole world, his first duel and the code of honor. Sir Jasper sat inditing an answer to his communication: Sir Jasper Standish has received my Lord Verney's explanation in the spirit in which it is offered. He is quite ready to acknowledge that he has acted entirely under a misapprehension and bfgrs Lrd Verney to receive his unreserved apolopies and the expression of his admiration for Lord Verney's gallant and gentlemanly behavior, together with his congratulations to him and the unknown lady upon their enviable situation. Captain Spicer did not offer to supply his principal's place in the field. Indeed, he displayed to Sir Jasper, who received him with the most gloomy courtesy, the extreme suppleness of his spiue and pressed his unrivaled snuff upon him with a fluttering and ingratiating air. When he returned to Pierrepoint street he found the mysterious stranger already in her sedan, Lord Verney leaning through the window thereof engaged in an earnest whispering conversation. Captain Spicer jocularly pulled him back by the coat tails and Inserted his own foolish face instead. The lady was masked and cloaked as he had left her. "Madam, I have done your errand," said he. - "It was," said he, "a matter of difficult uegotiatlDn.' requiring ahem requiring such tact r.s I think I may call my own. Sir JasK?r wa3 vast!? incensed; one mighf z:i well Lave tr:e" to reason with a bull. 'But, sir, saio I, 'would I. Captain Spicer. come wit! this meisatrs if it were not in aceoivl ance with the strictest rule of honor able etiquette?" That floored hini madam" Here MIstit'Sfj KItty snapped th letter flickering Tn his gsticulatiuban:! - t 't-rc":ony. f.'.navl l:c

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