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As for her, albeit not too sentimental j or imaginative by temperament, a gracious vision, other than the glanc ing waves of St Paul's bay or the Maltese landscape on the homeward route to Valetta, rose before her. She beheld herself a stately and lovely bride, attired in white satin, Brussels lace veil, and orange blossoms, con ducted to the chancel railing by her father, wheie a handsome bridegroom, clad in the uniform of the royal navy, waited to receive her. Six blooming bridesmaids followed her. Were these maidens arrayed in ruby velvet and nuns-veiling, each carrying a basket of chrysanthemums, and wearing a diamond and sapphire bangle, gift of the groom? Would fashion dictate instead dresses of terra cotta, liberty silk, with cream-colored sashes and hats, pearl brooches, and a bouquet of yellow flowers; or Directoire robes of white Ottoman silk and moire, trim med with heather, and gold bracelets, with the initials of the happy pair en twined? Miss Symthe had not decided this point, in reverie, when the party reached home “Come in for tea, Arthur,’’ said Mrs Griffith. “Thanks. I have an engagement ’ replied the young man, gaily. CHAPTER V. A KNIGHT OF MALTA. | HAT AFTER noon, Dolores sat beside the broken fountain, and wrought zealously at her task. She wielded no fairy distaff, nor traced cunningly the film of lace making. instead, ner needle new among1 tne folds of a gown of soft, pink woolen material, cut by a modest seamstress, and to be sewed by the wearer’s own fingers. The little dog Florio lay coiled up at her feet. The heap of rose-tinted draperies marked the boundary between childish neglect and the cares of coquettish maidenhood. She had coaxed her grandfather to give her fresh attire for the springtime, and the old man had abruptly refused the request. In dignant and rebellious, Dolores had taken a gold chain, belonging to -her mother, to the Monte di Pieta, pawned the trinket and returned home in triumph, with the purchase in her arms. When would she wear it? On the first occasion. Jacob Dealtry made no comment, if he noticed it at aU. mow tne girl was astonished and amused by her own recklessness in the bold step taken. She glanced about her where all was unchanged, and only she seemed to be undergoing some subtle modification of growth. The fountain, with the worn urn, and basin of weather-stained marble filled with greenish water, was one of the earliest recollections of her child hood A clump of canes grew on the brink and a straggling aquatic plant spread broad leaves on the surface of the water. Nespoli and oleander, Judas, pepper, pomegranate and fig trees formed a patch of shade along the boundary. A castor-oil plant throve below a broken wall, set with a border of bristling cacti Yellow sprays of euphorbia and mimosa mingled with jessamine and myrtle. All about the girl bloomed roses, geraniums and pea blossoms, pink, white and purple, star-like flowers of vivid color amid the green. A solitary cypress tree tow ered in a slender shaft above the wall, and a family of white pigeons now cir cled in flight above' the parapet, and again alighted on the shoulder of Dolores, or the gravel path, in search of food, with the familiarity and con fidence of household pets. The parent birds, plump, sedate, and full of digni fied importance, were allowed to preen their iridized plumage in peace, but the grandfather ruthlessly sacri ficed their offspring from time to time by popping them into his soup-pot, which took the place, his modest menage, of the kettle of a gipsy camp. Several bee-hives occupied a nook. Other live-stock there was none on the premises, neither clucking fowl, cow. pig nor even a donkey. A lean and wolfish watchdog had died of old age. and had never been replaced, cither from sorrow at his loss on the part of his attached master, or because Jacob Dealtry realized he possessed nothing to guard. - •< */•’ -VO \ The garden was a neglected spot where the tangled growth of shrub and flower had acquired a certain pic turesque charm of ' untrammcled bloom and fragrance. Jacob Dealtry was his own gardener as well as housekeeper; and while he watered the trees and plants likely to perish of drouth, ho would suffer no pruning nor weeding on his premises “Let the flowers have their own way,” he would reason querulously, as he pottered about with a copper vessel of water to refresh parched roots Dolores had strict injunctions to at tempt no amateur cultivation, in youthful seal. She might pluck the flowers to place in her hair, and cor sage, or gather such rare fruit as de crepit orange, citron, fig, or neBpoli yielded to white little teeth, but the stem must be respected. Not that Dolores cared a straw for the prohi bition. Indolence made her prefer to dream in the flickering shadow of the leaves, swayed by the warm wind, rather than to hurt her soft fingers pulling up rank weeds. Order and symmetry had few attractions for the girl, whose sunny and buoyant nature had escaped from all endeavors to in culcate chill and formal discipline on the part of the pale sisters of the con vent school; as the vines climbed in wayward luxuriance over the wall, spurning the support of nail and lat tice, to gain the sweetness and light of upper air. in tne memory of Dolores the gar den had always been there, tangled and neglected, just as the house re mained unchanged. The watch-tow ers. built under the rule of Martin de Redin to guard the coast from the sudden invasion of the Turks, and now serving as signal and telegraphic stations, did not resemble the beacon tenanted by the Dealtries, with its un finished turret and dilapidated mason ry. Wind, sun and storm had swept over and ravaged both trees and habi tation. Life had been a kaleidoscope to Dolores, composed of bits of gay color, puzzling patterns and vanishing shapes. Grandfather made few expla nations of any sort to her lively, child ish intelligence, and tolerated her presence beneath his roof at the best. An old neighbor came at stated inter vals to sweep and garnish the narrow interior of the tower and spread the household linen to dry in the sun, but Dolores was not expected to assist her in any way. Jacob Deal try’s pro hibition of all manifestations of femi nine industry on the part of his grand child seemed to arise from a distrust of her capacity. “Do not touch anything,” he would say; “you will only break and drop my glass.” “I have never broken a glass, grand papa,” protested Dolores, with tears of vexation rising to her dark eyes. Then Jacob Deal try shook his head. Before floating bits of straw on the basin of the fountain—a tiny squad ron speedily wrecked by a gold fi-h— the girl’s recollections were vague, consisting of perpetual comings and goings, in a fruitless fashion; of glimpses of foreign towns, and of long, wearisome voyages on board of dirty ships. There had been a young man, ap parently her father, who had caressed her and often carried her about on his shoulder. She remembered a pretty mother, with a black lace mantilla over her head, and the fan, whi:h she still treasured in a painted box. A nurse named Pcpita, with a dark and smiling face, who wore big gold ear rings that swung in the sunshine to attract baby fingers, was a fainter image. The mother had dwelt here at Malta for some years, and in dying had commended her child to the care of the nuns, who had imparted such instruction as she had ever received. The father and the nurse, Pepita, had vanished altogether and never re turned. Jacob Dealtry had tolerated the presence of the mother and child with an unsympathetic resignation. Left alone, as an orphan, Dolores was made to understand that the bread of pov erty would be her portion. Poverty did not dismay her. She was not op pressed by loneliness, because she was unused to companionship. She had all the lightheartedness of the Andalu sian, amounting to sheer giddiness at times, and a heart full of enthusiasm, as yet untainted by latent possibilities of cruelty and revenge. She loved the gnarled trees of the garden and the pigeona She wove her own fancies about the sea, visible in the distance, and whispered babbling secrets to the flowers, until her grandfather gave her the little dog Florio, obtained by him in exchange for a mural tablet and a cinerary urn. "Yon must allow the dog to sleep in the hall, child,** said the old man. ‘‘These small dogs awaken and bark at the slightest noise, florio will guard the house. ” "We are too poor to tempt thieves,” retorted Dolores, laughing, and receiv ing the pet in her arms. “That is true,” assented Jacob Dealtry. “Still I would like to know if one of those loungers of the port were prowling about at night. They are a rascally lot, and do not stick at trifles” Dolores did not love hear grand father; she even feared his irascible mood, although he had never treated her with positive cruelty. She would have liked to gossip with him by tho hour, to alternately caress and tease him ns she did the dog Florin, but ho lent only an abstracted attention to her words. On two occasions she had seriously angered him. Dolores still trembled,« when awakened at night by tho rever berating thunder and piercing flushes of lightning of a storm, as tho recollec tion of her grandfather’s face, white, convulsed by passion, the eyes glaring wrathfully, and the very hair bristling on hr. head, roso suddenly before her meut.il vision. The old neighbor, kind of heart and garrulous of tongue,had help'd to shape uud dress a primitive doll, suc cessor of the broken toys of infancy. The child had lavished on this un responsive fetish all the stores of ten derness in her nature, until the fatal day when Dolly,temporarily neglected, fell from the window ledge and lay on the grouud hopelessly dismembered in every limb. Dolores wept, gathered up the fragments, and with the aid of a rusty knife, proceeded to dig a grave under the clump of canes wherein to inter the doll. “What ore you about there?’’ The voice, rough and peremptory, shouted this demand at the sturtled and as tonished little grave digger. At the same moment the child was seized and pushed to a distance, the knife wrenched away from her, and the doll kicked into a ditch. Dolores cowereu wnere sue tell, while her grandfather poured forth a flood of threats, reproofs,and invectives, which she only half comprehended, gather ing dimly that she was not to injure the plants by digging graves in the garden for broken play tilings. Ilow angry grandpapa was! The flashing eyes, the menacing brow, the bitter words wrung from the trembling mouth by agitation, stupefied the child. She crept away to her own chamber, subdued and miserable, and sobbed herself to sleep, with her face buried in the pillow to exclude the image of the old man. Poor Dolores! The gentle and caressing mother, and the smiling nurse Pepita, with their divine and feminine warmth of consolation In healing wounded feel ings, were both gone, and site was left alone. The next day Jacob Dealtry pre sented his grandchild with a new doll, bought in the town. Bis manner was gentle, even ingratiating, as if he wished to efface from her mind all recollection of the painful incident of the garden. The new doll banished grief. On the following day he led her to the convent school, where she remained for several years, with brief intervals of holidays at the old Watch Tower. The nuns received her on the grade of a pupil of charity, and doubt less imbued with zeal to instruct a child aright, according to their lights, of a heretic stock. Jacob Deultry held aloof from much intercourse with his own fellow-countrymen, unless he chanced to meet a party of travelers disposed to buy his archeological wares. He chiefly supported himself by such small traffic. He had never attempted to conciliate those persons of the colony whose interest might have proved an inestimable advantage to his grandchild. He lived at Malta obscure and unknown. Several years ago, Dolores had again incurred her grandfather's wrath, in a similar fashion. Khe had returned from the convent, and possibly ob jects which she had never before noticed in their dilapidated abode ac quired a fresh interest in her eyes, even after a temporary absence. Cer tainly she had never given special heed to the Knight, and yet he had always been there. The sunshine slanted in the door, putting to flight the shadows, and Dolores paused for the first time before the picture. “Who is he?” she demanded, won deringly. "A Knight of Malta, child,” replied her grandfather, hurriedly. The portrait bore evidence of age. The surface was cracked, the painting faded, and yet it was encased in a heavy frame of carved wood. A knightly form was dimly discernible through the clouding obscurity of dust and mildew. He wore a black cloak, with a cowl attached. A white cross, with the eight points corresponding with eight beatitudes, was visible on his left side. A second cross decorated his breast, from which de pended the cords of black and white silk, indicating his rank as Knight of the Great Cross; having lived for ten years at Malta, and performed four caravans at sea in the galley of the order. On the frame the lines were carved— “Great Master of Jerus’lem’s Hospital, From whence to Rhodes this b est frater nity Was driven, but now among the Maltese stands.” A wooden chair, on which Jacob Dealtry usually sat, massive, angular, and with a high-wrought back, was placed below the picture and fastened to the wall. The Knight attracted Dolores. He seemed to smile down upon her from his frame as guardian of the house. 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