The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-06-04
GARRETT SYLVESTER.
CHAPTER X.

O1APlER y.
The next day Lord Heriot goes up to town.
He is called away ON business matters cor
nected with the estate. 1t is early in the af-
ternoon when he leaves kingscourt, and he
chooses to walk to the railway station He
sends his man in the dog-cart with his lug
gage but he himself prefers going on foot
Doctor Jones thinks he prefers taking the
mill on his way. He laughs ut his mothers
presentiments and promises to take good
care of himself and to return on the Monday
following. This is Friday.
He lunches with the rest Of the party.
Hereward has never seen him in better spirits.
He seems boisterously gay, in fact, and rushes
about the house like schooboy before he sets
out on his walk to Kingsleigh. He does not
ask any one to go with him. The Doctor is
afraid to offer his company, and it never en-
tiers Hereward's head to offer his. HercwarGi
often thinks of him afterwardsas he saw him
that day, the slight small figure in q brown
suit, q round brown hat on the fair head q
careless smile on the ford boyish face
And he often wishes he had insisted upon 60
ing with him to the railway-station.
Lord Heriot started from Kingscourt to
catch the train that left Kingsleigh at three
o'clock. At three o'clock Hereward walks
down to look at the new bridge. 1t is about
six when he returns. The ladies have lust
dismounted on the terrace Lady GLADYS
stands at her horses shoulder patting his soft
velvety nose with one hand, holding up her
habit-skirt in the other. Miss Middleton has
gone into the house. The horses looked
tired. Women have no compassion on q
horse when they are themselves In the saddle
Kuhleborn is covered with foam to his girths.
"You have ridden hard" Hereward re-
marks looking at the horse.
eyes," Lady Gladys says laconically.
''Where did you go?"
Ground through the rides. Did you look
at the bridge p.
81 did"
J "Must it come down"
81 think not, unless Lord Heriot chooses
to have it down"
''Why should he do that? It is not likely.
But perhaps"
Whatever Lady Gladys may have intended
to say, she does not say it. She turns away
and goes into the house. Hereward follows.
wondering why she has grown so icily cold.
He has not done anything to deserve it, SO
far as he knows. But he sets it down to
mere caprice on Lady Gladys's part, and it
does not greatly trouble him.
He finds another invitation from the
Countess awaiting him. He has not dined
with them since his return from College, and
now it pleases him to find the note on his
table. He knows she only asks him to relieve
the tedium of Miss Aiddletons visit, but
this knowledge does not make him unhappy.
If it pleases the Countess to ask him for one
reason, it pleases him to 60 for another SO
they are quits. He puts away his books very
willingly, and struggles with white tie and
puts on the hated dress coat without once
wishing that men could dine without ladies'
society, and therefore without the miseries of
evening dress.
After dinner the little Doctor plays chess
with the Countess He wishes to interest her
little and make her forget the fact of Lord
Heriots absence. The Fraulien and EVE
amuse themselves with their beloved Kinder
gGTte1, and the two girls remain with Here
ward at the other end of the room. Miss
Middleton asks him to sing. and. remember
ing what he is expected to do, he sits down
at once to the piano
looking up at her.
''First, that students song"
cor this, he says. beginning the beautiful
Swatch by the Rhine"
Lady Gladys stands with Miss Middleton
near the piano, listening. but not looking at
the singer. and, when he rises after he has
finished the German hymn, sine asks him to
sing one more song She looks at him when
she makes the request-it is indeed as much
a command as q request and he returns the
look. She seems to him more beautiful
than ever to-night-her pale fair face, her
soft fair hair, her sapphire eyes, her shadowy
blue dress, the flashing diamond that sends
out arrows of light whenever she moves her
hand. Little Miss Middleton. in her straw
colored dress, looks as commonplace beside
her as dandelion beside white moss-rose.
'sDo you like old fashioned songs ?" he
asks, again taking possession of the music
stool and pausing with his hands on the keys.
eyes, some of them, Lady Gladys answers,
smiling
Hereward sings softly and slowly
"a place in thy memsry, dearest
Is all that claim.
To pause aud lock back when tAou nearest
The sound OF my name.
Another may WOO thee nearer,
Another may win and wear;
Icare not though he be dearer,
am remembered there.
could be thy true lover. dearest,
Couldst thou smile upon me.
Icould be tho fOndest and neare9t
That ever loved thee.
But cloud on my pathway n gioomtn9,
That never must busrt upon thine,
And Heaven that made thine al bloominA
Meier made thee 70 wisheH on niue
SRemembes No not - isvR
whose AoIs hath Hssa SEasss3
} whose spiEs can AeV0B 0ssve9