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.. 110W . §++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ t++++++++++++++ it it i o E 9 on}. TRUTH NEVER on). ++++ H +++++++ +++++ s++++++ ++++++++++++++Ml++++++++++++++++++++ CHAPTER 1X.â€"(Cont’d) “My dear Dolly! what unkind exâ€" aggeration! If I tell you anything, you will be sure not to repeat what I say 'l Mme. Sabaroff considers me a. stranger to her; I am bound to her decision on such a accept pomt.” “You knew her in Russia?” “I wrote to her times.” He pauses. Lady Usk fills up the pause. “And she answered you 2’” she in- quires. “N-n-o,‘ replies Gervasc. unwil- lingly lo confess such an affront to him. “She did not-write. Prudence, I suppose. or perhaps she might be 7 (‘ 7 . . V o . 'I‘l ’ 165, “ 11911 I “as them -SllC “us too closely watched, or her letters the new beauty at the court. . She I might be stopped ; who can ‘say '2” had been married a year or less to “Nobody but herself, clearly. Paul Sabaroff. I had the honor of .Wclll” her. friendship at that time; if she withdraws it now I must acquiâ€" esce.” . ‘(Oh :3) Lady Usk gives a little sound beâ€" tween a snort and-a sigh. ~ She IS annoyed. are right, then. at the idea of her husband’s tri- umph over her credul’ity. “Oh, think for a moment,” murmurs G-ervase; but his cousin underâ€" stands that it is the conventional compulsory expostulation which every man who is well bred is bound to make on such subjects. “She must have been very young then ‘2” she says, beating-impatient- ly on her blotting-book with her gold pen. ' “Very young; but such a husband as Paul Sabarofl’ made isâ€"wcllâ€"a more than liberal education to any woman, however young. She was Sixteen, I think, and very lovely, though she is perhaps nandsomer I had the honor of her conâ€" fidence; she was unhappy and in- comprise; her father had given her hand in discharge of a debt at cards; Sabaro’ft was a gambler and a brute; at the .end of a second win- ter season he had a. violent fit of jealousy and sent her to his estate on the White Seaâ€"w” “Jealousy of you 2” Gervase bowed. “There she was kept in a state of surveillance scarcely better than absolute imprisonment. manner of crazy and things to endeavor to see her; and The gossipers She is sorry the children have been so much with their friend, asd she is infuriated pray don’t thinkâ€"don"t “I was sent to Madrid, and I heard not-lung of her except that Sabaroff was shot in a duel about a great many as rich as she is?” she asks, with some sharpness in her tone. Gcrvaso colors a little, being 'iconscious that his response cannot lincrcase his cousin's sympathies with him. “No; is she rich? I’aul Sabarol'f was poor. He had gambled away nearly everything. Your children have a. great deal of blague- about her riches, but I suppose it is all nonsense.” “Not nonsense at all. Two [years ago some silver was dlscov~ 'cred on a bit of rough land which belonged to her somewhere beyond the Urals. I think. and she is enormously richwwill be richer every year. they say." “Indeed 2” He endeavors to look indifferent, but his cousin’s penetrating eyes seem to him to be regarding his very soul. “How dreadfully sorry he must be that he didn’t leave M adrid,” she'thinks, and aloud says irritab~ ly: “\Vhy on earth didn’t- you try to renew things with her all these thre‘e‘years‘l” “I imagined that I had forgotten her.” , “Well, so you had; completely l I her with Lcitnitz, but that was two forgotten her fill you 5‘1"" 1‘” years afterward.” “And when he was shot why did you not in due course. go to the Winte sea, or wherever she was, and offer yourself '2” “The truth is, I had become ac- quainted with a Spanish la(lyâ€"â€"â€"~â€"” “A great many Spanish ladies, no doubt! 'What a half-hearted Lothario 3” “Not at all. time ” ‘ . “Manillas, mandolincs, balcon- ies, bullâ€"fights, high mass and moonlight had the supremacy! My dear Alan, tell, your story how you will, you can‘t make yourself be- roic.” “I, have not the slightest preten- sion to do so,” says Gervase, very much annoyed. “I have no hcro- ism. I leave it to Lord Blanford, who has been shipwrecked five hun~ drcd times, I believe, and ridden as many dromeda-ries over unknown sand plains as Gordon ” “As you don’t care in the least for her why should you care if his shipwrecks and dronicdaries inter- est her? Ws don't know that they do, but ” “How little sympathy you have I" “George. says I have always a great deal too much. What do you want- me to sympathize with '1 Ac- cording to your own story you ‘loved and rode away’; at least, Only just at that lprosaic days. If you did not go here.” “On my honor, she is the only woman I have ever really loved.” “Oh, men always _ say ,lhat of somebody or another, generally of the most impossible. people. (.{curge always declares that the only \vo-~ man he ever really loved was a pastry cool-; when he was at L nr-istâ€" church. ” “Dear Dorothy, don’t joke. I assure. you I am thoroughly in car- nest.” “She .certainly has you.” moment, -~thcn adds, with some he- silalion : ‘ .Icar Dorothy, you very well. Don’t you could find out for me, 1r.e«â€"~-” “What ’1” “Well, what she thinks or does not think; in a word, how I stand with her." “N(l~--(Ill. no, my dear Alan; l ermldn't attempt anything,r of that sol-[win my house, too; it would seem so horribly rude. lesides, l am not in the least» not the very leusl'r'm-in‘villlutc with her. I think her charming; we are honne com noissunccs; the children adore hI-r; but I have. never said anything inli- mate. lo her in my life m-vcr.” “lint you haves!» much Incl.” know her think you and tell “Tho more. fuel. l have lhc le's. likely shall I be. to recall lo lIl‘l' what she is evidently perfect“ do lermincd to ignore. are not” usually shy." (lervase gets up impatiently and walks about in the narrow lim’lz: of the bou-doir to the peril of f-Zr-vi'cr-s and Saxe. ' "But Women have a hundred in- direct ways of finding out every- 'tl'iing; you might discover perfectly I well if you chose, whetherâ€"~wln-lher , she feels anger or any other wnti- , fment; whetherâ€"ewhetber, in a word, ,' fit would be prudent to recall the; ’past to her.” Lady Usk shakes her head with‘ energy, pretty blonde curls, real and false. “I‘lntrc l‘arbre ct l’ ecorce ne mettez pas le doigt. That is sound advice stirring all its Francais.” “That is said of not interfering f‘i’l'glltten betwe‘n married people.” “It is generally true of pe'oplc~ She knolvs for bin] COn- “'ho “'ish or may not “rig-h t0 Inuy. vinccd‘ of this is the surest way to revrve a died-out passion. “Who knows? She. Would be in- ry. A nd I suppose, Alan, that when. you speak in my house of rencwnig your«â€"â€"yourâ€"relations with the, different “1 that 0339, and PUth, Princess Sabaroff, you do not mean i as it is she is cold, even rude.” “That may be resentment.” “Resentment means remcm~l bran-cc.” “0h, not always.”- “Then she has a number of my letters.” ' “So you said; you cannot be so very sure she has kept them. Other people may have written her the same sort of letters, or more adâ€" mirable letters still; how can you tell?" He colors angrily. “She is not a femme l-egere." “She is receiving a great deal of. attention now from Lord .Blanford. and she does not seem to dislike itt I did all took a through ticket across Eu~ ighey. say he] “fits? Oxfllllislttllcitters romantic rope, as Lovelace has to do in these I U “omen ‘0 18 0m 0 , (on t know myself, because I have never ' . , .h' g . VI." . . '-._."p.'. once or twmc 1 succeeded, but; he lback to Russia when you might lune had “Ultllmg mmC mlCWStmo l1 0m had discovered letters of mine and made her captivity more rigorous l)0<l.l"S but 2"("11' 0W“ and “10 "ame‘ “Sits” but they my 30' than ever. I myself was ordered on the special mission to Spainâ€"you rememberâ€"â€"and I left Russia. with a broken heart. From that time to this I have never seen her.” “But your broken heart has con- tinued to do its daily work?” “It is a figure of speech. I adored her, and the husband was a brute. When Lcinitz shot him he only rid the world of a brute. You have seen. that broad bracelet she wears above the right elbow ‘! Peo- ple always talk so about it. She wears it to hide where Sabarolt broke her arm one night in his vio- lence; the marks of it are there forever/’ Lady Usk is silent; she is divided between her natural Compassion. and sympathy, which are very easâ€" ily roused, and her irritation at disâ€" covering that her new favorites is what Usk would call “just like the rest of them.” ' "You perceive,” he added, “that, as the princess chooses to ignore ‘ the past, it is not for me to recall it. I am obliged to accept her de- cision, however much I must sufâ€" fer from it.” ' puffer l” ecllot‘s'tllo cousin. "Af- ter her husband's death you never took the trouble to cross Europe to see her 1” “She had never answered my let- ters,” said Gcrvase; but he feels that the excuse is a frail one. And .how, he thinks, angrily, should a good woman like his Cousin, who has never flirted in her life and never done anything which might not have been printed in the daily papers2 understand a man‘s inevitable inâ€" censt-ancy. ‘ "I assure you that I never loved any woman as I loved her,” he continues. ‘ “Then you are another proof.'if one, were. wanted, that men have 5) died and worms have eaten menu! Hmw years 1‘7 but not torn-â€" “I did .mt die. certainly.”Ger;l vase says, much irritated, “but I suffered " greatly, whether you choose to believe. it or not." “I ain not inclined to believe it,” replies his hostess. style.” ‘* "It is not your 1 lie excite the smallest fragment of l [compromising gone back a qui la fautc‘.l No- lc-ss Spanish lady or ladies’ I” "You are. very perverse.” . “It is you who are, or who were, perverse. According to your own statement you adored a woman when she was unattainable: when snc became. attainal.)lc you did not he ‘5 “"th “""men-H even take the trouble to get into a railway carriage; you were other- wise amused. What romantic ele- ment is there in such a tale as yours interest I To judge you out of your own month. you seem to me to have I behaved with most uninteresting inâ€" constancy.” “ t was four years, and she had never answer-ed my letters.” “Really a reason to make you es- teem her infinitely more than if she had answered them. My dear Al- an. you are a llirt, and you forâ€" get, as llirts forget; why should one pity you for being so comfortably and SH easily consoled Z You ought to be infinitely grateful tliatl,Mine. Sabarolf did not send you reams of ' reproaches, and telegraph you messages which would have, got you into trouble in lilowning street. The thing died a natural death, you did not care to keep it alive; why are you now all lamentations over its grave? I realâ€" ly do not fellow the course of your emotionsâ€"if you feel any emotionâ€"- I thought you never did. Mme. Sa- baroff has never been a person dif- ficult to follow or to find; the fash- ionable intelligence of the news~ papers would at any time have en- abled you to know where she was; you never had inclination or re- l‘ncmbral‘ice enough to make you curious to see her again, and then when you come across her in a country house you think yourself very ill-used because she does not all at once fall into your arms. You couldn’t possibly care about her since you never tried to see her all 1 .Dorothyl'sk is really annoyed. “1"ay, did you know that she is quickly stops confihs. cures colds. heals the throat and lungs - - - 25 cents. him than notes about dinners or They even say that his deserted ladies forgive his desertions becausoihe writes his farewells so divinely.” 'Lord Blanford’s epistolary ac- complishments do not interest me in the least. 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