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W 4 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEEi SUNDAY, APIIIL 0, 1002. - Jbp-MMmmu of BDLZE (Copyright, 19, by 8. R. Crockett.) CHAPTER XV. Falrlle Take Vp the Tale. (Manuscript written by Falrlle Glenden ting, additional to the first MS3 of John Olendonwyn.) Sorely against my will I write down these things. But one in whose judgment I trust baa abown me the need of It, so as best 1 may I set to my task. Properly I ought to begin with the first coming among us of Mr. Rupert Glendonwyn. But that I need not do, for It has been told already by a more practiced pen than mine. Nevertheless It dwells in my memory strangely, for I seem to have grown up from that night. For the rest all that follows came out of Mr. Rupert Olendonwyn's meeting with me that night, following me home, because (as he aald afterward) he "thought me Innocent and pretty 4oo good for John" which eventuated In the love be professed (and I think had) for our Kate I mean for my sister. It began, as I say, from that very first night. Tes, I can see It all now, snd wonder how I can have been ao blind. But the truth Is I was thinking of other things selfish things. For the school and my work there were especially Interesting about that time. I could see, however, even that first night that Kate thought a great deal too much about Mr. Rupert Olendonwyn. She disliked him, she said, and that in itself was a sign. Before she went out aha whispered to me not to leave her alone. Yet for all that she went to the stable door and held the lantern for him while he got bis beast ready. I think now that she was afraid of blm, and yet, never having felt afraid ot any one before In her life, she wanted to find out what It meant and so played with the fire till It burnt ber. Well, when at last they were gone, my father and I stood looking after them. "There ganga a Olendonwyn like to nane I ever set oye upon," he aald, "but my father used to tell me tales of one such." "Oh, tell mo about him, father!" I cried, clapping my bands. For anything that con cerned the Olendonwyns pleased me at that time because we were really of the same family, that Is. "It would' little conduce to edifying!" ho said, sternly. "Get thee to thy bed, lass, and give Ood thanks for thy Ignorance! Where la that besom Kate already nested, I warrant, the slug-a-bed!" This was my father's ordinary way ot showing his love for us, which. Indeed, we never doubted. Then, when I went upstairs I began prat tling like a foolish child about the brothers while I was letting down my hair. And Kate was erase, saying from her pillow, "If you are going to speak nonsense, take the balrptna our of your mouth first. I bate your Olendonwyns, Jack-master and Jack-man. But If It pleases you to talk, pray do it like a Christian." Whereat, thinking that perhaps she was tired, with her baking and spinning, I went to the bedside to kiss her. When, lot she would not let me, but pushed me pettishly with ber elbow, telling me not to worry ber.' And then again In a minute, when I waxed silent with the rebuff, she burst out again, crying that I was unkind to ber and that everyone was unkind to ber, and that shs would not speak a word without Its being misunderstood. So I went and kissed her again, whether he would or no, putting my arms about her and brushing her. And In another moment be laughed, and pretended that she Just did It all to tease me. But I knew better Oh, so much better. I know exactly why he did it, and how she felt but there Is BO good In setting It down here. A man eould never understand If one explained for a year. And no woman would need to be told. "Talk all you want to talk about your great, foolish John," she said. "He has as much romance about blm as a plate of por rtdgel" Now that provoked me. For I bad always liked John Olendonwyn. And of lata (why need I hide ltt) I bad begun to reapect blm. He was so kind about carrying my book tor me and about the Latin. So when I retorted on Kate that John was worth a thousand of people who eurled their hair and mads syes and were forever paying compliments, Kate sat up In bed and laughed aloud. "How you can compare them," she said, "I cannot think. John la well enough. He la, as I say, like a plats of porridge and ha about as much flavor. But Mr. Rupert is a travsled gentleman. He looks Just llks one of the old crusaders who carried the Glendonwyn arms on their knightly shields to Palestine and died charging Into hosts of Saracens upon the plains of well, upon some plains, anyway." At that point I could not help smiling at Kate's enthusiasm. "Ob, you need not lsugh I am not speak ing for myself." shs cried. "I did not like blm at all at first, and now I bate htm. Tes, absolutely. But yet one cannot help seeing that he la vry different from the other young men who corns hers. And what a irolcor And so on, till t could not help saying: "Well, Kate, you are not asked to have John Olendonwyn that I know of. Ho does not trouble yon much!' Whereat she turned quickly (being of a vary affectionate sature really) and, crying, "Why, Falrlle!" shs kissed me Into good humor again. My poor, poor darling Kate often, often In the weary days that were coming havs I thought over these things and wondered if you yourself would not have preferred the lack of romance and mystery to all the ro mantic and mysterious things which hap pened to us. But I will own that she never said so, and even when far away was never tired of Joking me about my "plate of por ridge," aa abe was pleased to call the truest and most loyal of friends. I did not notice much that went on be tween Mr. Rupert and my sister till John went away back to college on the morning of the 15th of January. I remember the date because I bad worn all my pretty things during the first fortnight of the year (we were preparing for the examination) and Kate lent me a pink bodice of bers that she had only worn twice. I aald that I might be robbing her. And she answered, "Oh, you are welcome to It, Rupert does not like" And then stopped short In confusion. I looked at her in amaxement, but did not say anything then. For I wanted to be down at the school early that morning be fore the coach started, indeed, when John would come into the school to say good by to the rector. 1 bad promised blm and I knew that be would be dreadfully disap pointed it I were not in the infant depart ment. So I put on Kate's bodice with the sash John liked, and went off, but In my heart I boarded ber words concerning Rupert and meant to speak to her about them at night. For, though it was very well for John to be fond of me. It was not at all the same thing for bis brother to make love to Kate. And afterward I found out that John had said Just the same things to Mr. Rupert Olendonwyn that I meant to aay to Kate which Is a strange thing, and shows how the mind of two such friends aa we were may run upon the aame lines, John did come Into the infants' depart ment. I was getting down the maps, which were always rolled up from Friday night to Monday morning. I always liked well enough to roll them up at the week-ends, but the days never seemed so long as when I was taking them down on Monday morn ing. I observed In John's old diary the entry for the 15th of January runs thus: "Found F. in the school room. Helped her unroll maps!" I did speak to my sister that night, and, though Bhe was at first Inclined to be haughty with me, I found that Mr. Rupert Olendonwyn bad been at the Flower cot three times each time, curiously enough, choosing (or by accident happening upon) a time when my father was absent. Then I remembered that on two of these days a meesage had come from the new English doctor at Kllgour, saying that ho wanted soms Improvements made on his study and greenhouse. And once my father had walked into town with me to see about these. Dr. Warner made up to us on the way, a tall, dark, spare young man, with eyes too close together, piercing like gimlets and with a slight cast In them. He stood gaxlng fixedly at me, trying to make me look at him all the time he was holding my father in talk which, Indeed, it Is not difficult to do at any time. Such a thing would have driven Kate craxy. She was all on pins and needles it any one did a thing like that to her. Only by working all the time could she get rid ot the feeling that any one was looking steadily at ber. But with me It Is different And so he did, and was asked home to discuss all about the Trinity and the doc trine ot transsubstantiatlon, concerning which It appeared be could give my father many new points, being Intimately ac quainted with the doctrine and practice of the Roman cburch abroad. Or at leaat so he said. As be came in through the door he nodded and said laughingly: "You see, 1 have done your bidding, Miss Falrlle." And that night he bode till nearly mid night, keeping us all hanging on his words, with his adventures and experiences In many lands abroad. Also he did not look nearly so much at Kate as usual, so much sinters I was quite proud that I knew why. Then, after ten minutes or so, she cams back, bright and brisk as it she bad been for a sea bath, carrying a dainty little piece of chicken breast on a plats with creamy potatoes and salad just what I liked. Then old Vera (she was not old reallv) sat down on the bedside and petted me an! said pretty things about me. It Is so nice when women love one another like that. It does not always last, but It Is nice at the time. And that day when I needed It Vera was certainly just as nice as shs could be, till after a while my headache went altogether away. So I kissed her and thanked her for being so good to me. "No no," she said, "it's you who hare been good very good to me." And I did not know at the time that she was thinking of what had slipped out ab ut Mr. Rupert, or I should have thought ot some way of making her understand with out telling about Kate. But I did not know, and so things got all sort of tangled up between us somehow." At any rate, 1 did feel very much better when I left the manse ot Kllgour and walked back to the school. My headache was quite gone and I felt quieted and at peace with the world. I do not know whether It was the good cry I had bad or Veronica's sympathy, or the breast of the eyes something so hunted and desperate In them that I shivered. Yet there was a certain strange pride and pleasure In them as well. I thought she was not going to speak to me, so I cried again, holding her br the arm: "Kate tell me speak to me! What are you doing dressed like this? Where are you going?" She answered me In one sentence, still fixing me with that fascinated, half-unconscious gate. "I am going away to be married to Ru pert Olendonwyn!" "Married!" I cried. "Kate and you never told me! Oh, Kate!" "He would not let me," she answered. "I was coming back tonight. No ons Is to know!' "And our father,' I said. For he never could abide either of us long out of his sight." "My father is gone to Drumfern on business," she said. "He will not be back tonight. I have left a note with Will telling him I had gone out to see a friend, and that the tea was In the teapot and everything ready for you and tho boys. Why could you not have stayed till your usual time? I could have got back with out anyone knowing. Rupert will be so angry." All this she said without a touch of her old defiant self, speaking almost like ons WW i i rL f n ji i. k m i i lis ruxj sw.ia n ir: I.fel IiP,ffiiPH l ( i,W SiHi't . nT G2U "THANK OOD, I WAS NOT TOO LATE. THERE WAS KATE, STANDING IN HER CLOAK AND HAT, A LITTLE BANDBOX AT HER SIDE." so that our poor old Will, who was In clined to suspect him, said to me: "I thought that the fellow was hankering after our Kate, but I see I have mistaken him. He never looks at her more at you, If anything, Falrlle. Mind what you are about. I will not have my sisters talked about." Alas, poor boy, he little knew how much they were to be talked about before all was dons, and how little he or anyone could do to help 1L Well, then. It was the next day, the 18th of January (I think, for it all happened I am more of i so close together) that I went to the school the plate-of-porrldgs type, who, I dare say, as usual, and started my work under the influence of strange depression. less trouble, both to themselves and to other folk. So I did not mind a bit about Dr. Warner's eyes. He might stars me through and through If be liked. I only joggled my father's arm, called "Goodby, old dear," and trotted me to school with the gimlet eyea following my back balr up the street till I turned the corner. But It was little I cared. I was going to buy some brandy balls for my little favorite, Johnny Col- stoun. He had met me the night before. somewhat ostentatiously wiping the tears from his eyes. "All mine bwandy balls is done! Mist Dion 'Donln he gave me lots. I'se offul sorry he's gone Isn't you, 'TeatxerT" Dear little man, so full ot feeling! CHAPTER XVI. The Hearts of Womti. After John went away I saw Mr,. Rupert twice or thrice at my father's house and once when Kate was out, when I arrived sooner than I had been expected. I went round and came upon them standing close together on the wood edge, talking very earnestly. I walked straight up to him and asked if Mr. Rupert had corns to see father about anything. For, if hs had. ho would find him on ths Kllgour road talking to his friend, Mr. Warner. For that I had passed them a' hundred yards on this side of ths brig end. And at this Kate was vary angry and bads mo go indoors to my own business. But Mr. Rupert, who was1 always exceed ingly polite (though he knew that I did not ' like him) only laughed his rippling laugh (which was liks a hand running lightly over ths npper keys of a piano) and said that my Idea was a good one. He would go and ass nay father. a pfe EAT QaE an J Roach Paoto nai ilt out ol ths bouss. On InptJUux (Lirs p tiulr bodies, leaving- ma ads. It is a af end sure exterminator also of Mice, Water Bur, Crotoa Bags, Cockroaches and all other vermin. It has teen in general use in houses, Stores, hotels, factories, offices, public building, etc., for twenty-five years. Absolutely guaranteed. UAU I iUlV, SUrfMattAi4'tU.ikU4 Uu Mae. 15 oeiitt a box at PrugfUU and Grocers or sent ftlreot by Express prepaid. tizaz::z elect." j 3 paste cp, cmobqo, is I was croas with the children. They were, Indeed, more than usually tiresome and I slapped my dear little Johnny Col stoun for nothing at all. He cried promptly and I was glad that I had some confiscated candy in my desk, with which and a kiss be was comforted. But all the forenoon the weight of something I knew not what of foreboding and brooding fear kept deep ening and deepening upon me. During these last days I bad made great friends with Dr. Caesar's Vera. Hitherto I had always thought her distant and haughty and had been a little afraid of her. She came to see me at the school, though shs has ten times as much to do at home as I have at the academy, without being paid a penny piece for It. Well, Vera Caesar had mads me promlss to come and lunch with them at least one day In. the week indeed, whenever I was at the rector'. So I went the day I was so depressed and aa soon as I got upstairs into Vera's room what did I do but burst out crying like a great baby. And at this Vera looked queer for a mo ment and then took me to her arms, making ms lay my head on her ahoulder and putting esvu-de-oologne on my head and petting me. The strange thing was that abe thought It was because because John Olendonwyn had gone away that I was crying. However she could havs imagined that I do not know. At any rats, shs did, and shs was going on to say all sorts of nice things about blm (erylng herself a little bit. too), when I told her that it was not that at all which was making ms unhappy. "Goodness gracious, then, child what, la ltt" she cried, quits startled. "It Is about his brother!" I blurted out before I thought, and then Vera's face flushed and she stopped petting me and be gan to laugh. Though, heaven knows, I needed consolation a great deal mora if I had been fretting for Mr. Rupert than if it had been about old John. However, It did not strike Veronica Caesar that way. "Falrlle my little Falrlle." she cried In stead, quits Joyous in a moment, "this is what it is to be so pretty and winsome aa you are. I am glad that I am Just plain old Vera Caesar, whom nobody troubles." "And ths brother yes, I had heard that It was the brother who was going to your house so much much oftaner than John. But for alt that. I had thought your alster la very pretty aad clever, la shs noiT" In this way wemen talk in half sen tences, understanding each other by the help of looks and Intonations oftener still, by sheer Instinct. And So, stter that (bs cause, of course, I had no right to tll her Kate's sscret), I am afraid Vera Caesar misunderstood about Mr. Rupert and was cross with me for misleading her, Put I have written it down exactly aa it hap pened and when she reads U shs will for give me. For I do not see how anyone eould have acted otherwise than aa I did. So, instead ot taking me down to tfce dining room, where the doctor sat at the ln'.lv fc'ad like a benevolent Judge pres fl ing ever the trial snd sondemastloa of legs of mutton and boiled fowls, snd a dosen children clung about their eldest sister, clattering plates and talking. Ve ronica made me lie down oa her bed. aud locked me in with a book while abe flaw S to etrvi and serve ."Caesar's Tenth legtoa," a ea called ber brothia ki chicken perhaps a little of all three. But, at any rate, I was a different girl. CHAPTER XVII. Clandestine. But when I got near the school a new, and at the moment, pleasant surprise awaited me. I found the children, big and little, cheer ing and shouting, hiving in uproarloua throngs about the rector and Immediately scattering and reuniting aa eoon as he sent them away. It appeared a perfect miracle to me, who had never seen such conduct since I first went to the academy. For the rector was a man apart to us teachers and taught and even that priggish Martin Fraxer, the little boy dressed up In the long coat with the ridiculous taila, was cheering along with the others. The poor lad at that time did me the compliment to imagine himself very much in love and. though he hardly ever spoke to me, was ac customed to stand apart and glare at those who were less bashful. But now be came running, as bard as be could, shouting that Mr. Colstoun had got a degree from his own university of Aberdeen for a book he had written all about Roman history and prov ing it waan't history at all, but something made up by the Germane. Martin also told me that ws would hsve to say "Doctor" Colstoun now. Just as we did to Dr. Caesar, but that the rector was another kind of doctor and wore a different hood. So, of course, there was to be a half holiday at the academy. Indeed, the chil dren were taking it already. It waa a warning to me to see bow quickly strictest desctp'lne may be overturned. Fcr the whole ot the children, without any dismissal or leave given, ran off out of the playground, waving their achoolbags and shouting, to tell their parents that ths master was going to be a doctor now and keep the nastiest kind ot physic in his desk Instead of taws". I stayed a little, waiting for a chance to speak to Mrs. Colstoun, to kiss her and tell her bow happy I was. And at last I got an opportunity. But aha only smiled and said: "Ah, my dear, it won't make the least difference. He will Just be aa tire some as ever) Men are like that Only getting hardened to them makes them en durable." But secretly I eould see that she waa both pleaaed and proud especially when Dr. Caesar arrived with his fins coat and tall hat on and made a little speech about the honor It waa to tho academy and to the town. His wife looked across at Mr. Col stoun then with something that glittered very brightly in her eyes. I went slowly back then through the pleasant 'Winter's afternoon. It was still early, and when I got home lot there was no ons to be scent I called Kate as I came through the gate to tell her the news, and wondered that shs did not answer. I ran upstairs. Shs was not there. I looked about and found her work-a-day dress on a chair, and the hanging cupboard open where he kept her Sunday frock. Then a wild fear came over me. I held to ths mantelpiece and steadied myself, praying for strength to withstand, for knowledge to Judge what I must do. Some thing told me to go down to the woodslde, where in a Held a hundred yards from the high road was ths old walled cemetery of the Olendonwyns. Without removing my hat or waiting a moment I ran down the aids of ths hedge, crossed over at the stepping stone and took through the wood like a hare. Thank Ood. I waa not too late. There was Kate standing In her cloak and hat, a little bandbox at her aids. Ehs did not hear me till I was quite close upon ber. Aad then she started and turned, dropping the box and thrusting out one hasd as if to prevent me from taking hold of her. "Where are you going, Kate?" I gaaped, breathless with my fright, though. Indeed, I knew all toe welt. But even then my res olution wac coming upon me. Efce stood Isuklug at toe nits wide, shiny In a dream, with a difference very obvious to me, yet somehow difficult to express. Instantly I took my resolution. In some things John says I am much more deter mined than either Kate or himself. And from that hour of my asserting myself I took a new place with her. "Kate," I said, "It you go, I am going with you, understand that. What la right for you to do la right for me to see. I will not leave you till you go off with the man who is your husband before all the world." Kate our independent Kate o proud and disdainful, lifted up her hands In a frightened fashion and cried: "Ob, Fair lie. Falrlle what will Rupert say?" We had not long to wait for what Rupert said. A carriage came along with the windows up and stopped a hundred yards opposite the clump of great, neglected trees which had grown up about the neg lected burying ground of the Glendonwyne. "That Is the signal," she said. "I am to go to meet him now." She lifted her bandbox, and turning toward me she opened her lips as it to make a last appeal. "I wish you would go home, Falrlle," she cried. "I am afraid that Rupert will be so disappointed." "Let him," I answered, hoping to stir her out of her strange insensibility by sharp ness. "If he is ashamed of getting you for hti wife, be Is not worth having for a hus band." . "Ah, you do not know you do not know!" she said earnestly, laying her hand on my breast. "He Is all that Is noble and good. And I love htm!" "Well," I said, "it Is high time for him to show his goodness and nobility now. My sister Is not going to be married without having me for a bridesmaid! So much la very clear to me." All the while we had been walking toward the old mausoleum, the white walls of which gleamed above the trees. Kate stepped aside, turned sharply round the trunk of a tree, which in the course of years had pushed its way through the wall and then moldered partly away, leaving a narrow passage, by which it was easy enough to enter the enclosure. I followed ber toward the little chapel by a trodden path, and, lo! there on a atone seat In the deep embrasure of the porch sat Mr. Rupert Olendonwyn, smoking a cigarette and apparently dream ing. At our approach, however, he threw down a little bit of lighted paper and sprang to his feet I think he was Just going to clasp Kate In bis arms with a rapturous cry when be caught sight of me on the path a step or two behind. His arms dropped promptly to his side, and be turned upon my sister with a look halt savage, half Inquiring: "I knew It I knew it," she cried, knit ting her hands plteously. "I told Falrlle so. I could not help Falrlle coming. Do not be angry. Rupert! She will go back If you ask her!" She laid her hand oa his arm as she spoke. He touched her cheek lightly with his lips, and then looked over her shoulder at me. "Tour company does us an unexpected honor, mademoiselle," hs said. But I would not be put down, least of all by Mr. Rupert Olendonwyn. "Not more unexpected than the honor you have done me, sir!" I said. "What do you mean?" he asked, a frown gathering between his handsome brows. "I mean the honor of taking away my sister from her family to cheat her with a clandestine marriage!" I said, boldly. "The honor of meeting her here, when you have reason to know that my father and I have been hoodwinked and got rid of." I think that as I said tbeBS words to hint Mr. Rupert Olendonwyn blushed for ths first and only time In his life. He looked at me and I stared back at him. "Mademoiselle," he said, "you do ms wrong. I will tell you In a word how mat ters stand with us. I love your sister love her as I nsver thought to love a woman. (She drew near to blm aa hs spoke and he put a protecting arm about her waist). But I dare not cannot marry her openly at preaent. Yet to marry we are resolved. Ws will not chance losing one another. My father wishes ms to marry for money. 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Ot course, when I heard these things I had nothing more to say, save that I would go with them to be Kate's witness and bridesmaid, as we had always promised each other should be the case. To my surprise, Mr. Rupert Glendonwyn made no objections. He only said: "I brought Warner with us to drive. I think you have met blm. You will in that case have ho objections to a little of his society. It is true, we need a couple of witnesses." "Where is the marriage to take placet" I asked, and, at the question Mr. Rupert, who was walking In front, with Kate on his arm, half turned hie bead and smiled quixslcally over at me. 'Trust me," he said, "see how Kate trusts me! Take a little lesson. I pray you, mademoiselle, from your elder sis ter." "Nay," I answered sharply, "that Is Just the very reaaon why I can not trust you at all not one Inch farther than I can see you!" "In that case I can only ask made moiselle to do me the honor to watt and be convinced!" he replied, and In another moment he had passed out of the private pathway leading from what bad evidently been tbelr lover's trystlng place Into the open roadway. The brougham was a small one, seated tor two inside. It had been hired by Dr. Warner from a coach builder In Kllgour. Mr. Rupert banded Kate In with the air of a great and courtly gentleman, wh oh he was. Then he turned to offer ma the vacant place by her side. "Since you are resolved to honor us. mademoiselle!" he said, "volla." But I had another spirit. "No, indeed, I thank you." I answered. "I am coming as an uninvited gueat and I will ait by the coachman!" And suiting the action to the word. I clambered up to the box seat in a mo ment. "So much the better for you, Warnerl" said Mr. Rupert, laughingly, in French. He waited a moment beside the carriaa-e, adjusting the driving apron, to keep me warm. 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