and the select audience forgot that it was select and became enthusiastic and when the fair singer reappeared were upon her had only a but as it fell at her feet miss stooped and picked it up and held it in her hand as she repeated her song and then it was all over and the crush and tumult of departure began made his way behind the scenes and met ah here you are said the young lady miss is in the manager s room i think she is ex you miss he heard miss on every side among the and then he found him self in the little apartment dignified by the title of the manager s room standing before her � or � which now for she had changed her stage dress and waited in her graceful trailing robes for a moment and then she forgot herself and looked up and down and almost trembled and the great tears stood in her eyes and she was silent as though she could not speak forgot himself too his calm haughty self was lost and he came to her and took hold of her hands and held them and looked down into her eyes down down as no man had ever looked before the woman the world has made of little he said i thought i had lost you and you have come back to me to me he said to me what am i to say she said with a little trembling sweetness in her voice i am not � i am what the world and its has left of your child i am willing to trust you was the answer tell me who this web for me my aunt as i call her she said with the smile again but i am really her cousin bj a remove for the sake of the old blood and my she took me and amused herself with me was my father s name and � and � the face flushed a little as she hesitated over her the world never knew that my mother had a right to it e was but a poor girl of irish whom he fell in love with when he was on the coast of and secretly married had not loosened his grasp upon her hands but just then she remembered herself and dropped them from his clasp i knew you from the first she said smiling when you gave me my glove at mrs s party i recollected your ce and connected it with your name while you had forgotten all no he answered i had not forgotten but i could not believe having had time to recover her composure she was quite miss now miss softened perhaps but still the i must find my aunt she said her eyes a little downcast under his steady gaze will you please take me to her he laid her hand upon his and held it in his own until he helped her into her carriage then with his farewell he looked down at her again as if waiting for something the time had come when miss had found a power and her eyelids drooped come to morrow she said timidly i want � i should like to talk to you about old times smiled as she had not seen him smile before a smile that brought the blood into her cheeks i have found you he said i will not lose you again then the carriage drove off said mrs that man is not going to make a second tom of himself and you ought to know better than to with edge tools unless you wish to cut your fingers went home to his hotel and found a moon beam resting upon the s face the woman the world has made of he whispered i loved you then i love you now i will trust you if i risk my life upon it � darling he bent over and kissed the cold white shoulder with his passionate lips chapter vi by the sad sea v the next mornings miss s maid brought her a new style of offering it was a fragile basket lined with moss like velvet and full of cool looking lilies with great golden eyes and leaves and in their centre glowed a blood red was dressing lazily when it came and she only told to leave it on the flower stand without making any comment but when the girl the room the cheeks scarcely tinted before looked like the and a curious glow burned in her eyes as she took the artistic trifle in her hand i wonder if i am a very wicked woman she said perhaps i had better have remained nothing but miss to him if there had never been a my life might have been or at least more but i can t look back and then be content to look forward i wonder if you have found out by this time that there was a good and a bad angel in s life and that the time had come now when either one or the other must rule forever imagine a girl with every beauty and fascination given into the hands of such a woman as mrs a woman who had lived in the world and for the world since she escaped from the nursery who had paused to think of nothing but the luxurious her refinement and wealth were so well able to procure her if it had not been for the face might have remained but there was a pleasant in playing the part of to a girl who was likely to carry the world before her beyond that she thought of nothing might be educated and introduced to society and then she might marry � un bon partly of course no other idea had ever occurred to the selfish aunt had lived a life that 