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CHAPTLR XIX. t win Nancy who spoke first. = 7 Bhe was leaning apo 'the mas- sive tree, a world of emotion and Seitation expressed in' her sweet "'What--what sre you doing * here?' she asks, feebly, almost in- "audibly. "How did you get in?' Derrick lookea mystified, but only for an instant; his heart was beating | almost to suffocation ; strong man as he was, he trembled at the violence of the joy and bit- terness mingled that suddenly came upon him. «1 beg your pardon for intruding. Believe me, I had no idea you Were here, or I should not have come.' Nancy was breathing in short gasps, her eyes had left his and were wandering round in a nervous, hunted way, which sent an angry pang to his hear. "You--you have startled me!' she murmured. "No one ever comes here. How did you come} Why did you come?' There was'a desperate ring of sor- row in that last question. "I jumped the gate over there," he explained in low, eager tones. '0 want to get back to the Hall, and thought this part of the grounds was a short cut. I--" "Part of the Hall grounds,' Nancy repeated, with her eyes: still going about nervously, as if in search of something or some one. '"You--you have made a mistake this is not Ripstone property.' " Not Ripstone ! en where am He went a step nearer to her in his surprise. "These are the manor grounds, and--and my home!' Nancy's lips treumbled as she ut- tered the words that should have been pregnant with tenderness, but which, uttered in her low, pathetic voice, carried only too truly the' sad plaint of despair. Derrick stepped back involuntar- ily; he was utterly surprised and overwhelmed with pained annoy- ance. "1 entreat you to parden me,' he said, in tones that were me beyond recognition. 'Indeed, I knew nothing of this--it is a ter- rible blunder to have made; but, believe me, 1 have blundered in ig- norance. I did nut know that this was the manor property. I did not know that--that you were even in the neighborhood. I can but offer my sincere apologies and depart at once.' He had hall turned aside as he spoke, and, therefore, did not see her sudden gesture of despair and anguish--nor the tears which welled up in her glorious eyes and. blinded her so that she lad to press her hand over them to reliéve them; but as he waited a moment for her to answer, and found she was si- lent, he turned again, and then he saw that she was utterly powerless to speak; for she was 'weeping-- weeping very silently, but none the Jess bitterly. In one stride he was beside her ~ honor, self-restraint, everything forgotten in the rush of mad, pas- sionate love and exaotion that swept over him. "Nancy--Nancy! :Oh- God! don't ~don't, I can't bear it--1 can't bear it I"! He had her two trembling hands in his firm grasp, robbed of their shelter, Nancy bowed" her head to] hide her tears. : Now her selfore- roach, her remorse was Perey did not, - Sod hate J her if he 8 : oh instant they : 3 un 0 Bes of led 'v as Wo % hab if Tsay 1. will at an Jout she murnaured,' hen, with a sudden of, 3 held out one hot, strange, 4 unnatural calmn before his lips Ty even, while he held her hi iron grip between his ov * --yes, 1 know your answer. : are true, stanch, toyal--my an Bhe was si my | if she could but have flung rou | on his broad breast, and h bo all' the horrors, the my hero! Then if you love me-- dof you--you will not make me Suffer more--you will not stay now to question me on the past, the pre- sent or the future! You will leave' me at once---when--when you know what pain your presence brings I" Derry stood for ond. instant si- lent, Tr otonlom, He was Barely conscious of what fierceness he put into the agony of the grasp that held her hand; a lump rose in bis throat and nearly choked him; her pale, pathetic face, #0 sweet, =o pure, so wholly given up to the in- tensity of her love for him; struck his heart with the deepest pain he had ever felt in his life. The sudden gleam of happiness that would come when he learned that this girl- was st@l his--his by love's powerful right--did not Jin ger long. It was followed by a rush of despair, of anguish. Her eager, strangely nervous ap- peal gave him an additional pang, "It is very, very hard," he mut- tered, when at last speech came, "to find you, to know that all these past weeks, when I have been revils ing you, you have been trie in your dear héart--to me !~to stand beside you and hold your hands, and yet to hear you say that I must go at oncel!--go! Nancy, do you un- derstand what that means! We may never meet again--try and , | realize what that will mean to beth of ns!" He was quivering from head to foot. The events of the last few minutes had compietely and utter- ly unnerved him. The sudden shock of coming upon Nancy, 'the ianguish that followed on the brief ecstasy awakened by her avowal of love, all acting on a mind already nervous and unhinged with the struggles it had undergone and en- dured of late, robbed him of 'every scrap of strength. His face had grown paler sven than the girl's wan one looking up at him. The flushed, 'stalwart p. young fellow 'who only a few mo- ments. before had leaped the gate 80 lightly and easily seemed to have no kinship with this pale; haggard creature. The very dogs seemed to under stand tha® something dreadivl wasp happening, for they stood patient eyes, two distraught faces a offered silent faces nd The man's weakness gave Nancy strength. 3 ; 8 hie iT 'understand,' she wid in ei low tones. Bat Sten go Seances yet must be e rea your words were false just now! You do not love me! You could not love me, and tell me to| leave Be I Pp £ sened his hold' on was therefore out of the qu And even were this not would 'have shrunk "from orting Derrick Darnley, of all people; into the dark truths ot her Foros life. With a magnifieent courage she conquered her longing fo ¢ to him as the first friend she ov met for months, to beg him to shield and protect her, to remove her from 'the Horrible surroundings which made up her daily existence. She even forced a wan, faint to her lips. "Don't don' t,'! she said, though the smile soon went, and a quiver came instead. "1 have everything that money can buy---and nd what wo~ man wants more ¥"' Darnley's dark eyes dwelt on her face tenderly. Then; with a sudden movement, full of chivalry and homage, he stooped and kissed her han the next moment he would have turned oway, but she stopped him." 'Derry; tell me--tell me of Doro- --my = sister, my' more "than friend | She is in trouble, and I am here--here, so close, and yet so fur away from her! Ah! in all my trials, there has been none greater to bear than this!" The words seemed to escape her unconsciously, : forced from her overcharged heart by the fulness of her bitterness, and Darnley was more' than answered. He then that his fears had been ls} too well founded ,and that Nancy : had more to fight against in her present life than vulgarity and une congenial surroundings. But as she had been brave and refused to complain, so he would honor her courage. He sa did not know how plainly sl given him the knowledge for he had asked. She had been ing of Dorothy, and in the thy and love she gavé to heé friend, her sister; her bitter ory 'Had escaped her u In a few gentle words he gaw last hopeful news of Sir her' in thon least. is a glimpse of suns me! They were so good--so very good to me. Sometimes 1 am sitting alone' dreamin scems as if all that Happ which came to me through goodness never belonged to nn | proper diet, and o | most often by a diel justed to the cap ent, it is rhe every one of its forms. There is a Popul meat, especially red ment, tpsvially ood Toki, 1s te n system uric acid and the other mem.- | bers of the puiin group, but it is not correct. "Tes; coffee, Pde il cocon, peas, beans, asparagus, on- ions and a few other foods all con- tain the purin' bodies to some ex- tent. ' Animal soups and malt bi quors are also guilty. All alcoholic lig are objec- tonable, ome, of course, more however, state hatever may be true theoretically the so-called |" red meats; doom most lone practically. Increa animal airy the tly 8 nh wi a small amount of cheese, or roasted meats, hee anl chicken in small quantities once a day often brings a happy result. Combine with these = far 1h | covery is assured. are valuable, ai follow the (at pt]