The morning call., 1893-10-01

yourself any more with ornamental letter.
ing At which ] shrugged my shoulders. |
the remark struck me as impertlnent. |
What were my private concerns to him2
. ..T0 my amaZement the servant In
formed me that her mistress was engaged.
and could not see ME. l protested, but |
without avail. i called again the: door |
was closed IN my face. Then | gave up. |
cursed my kind and myself. and sailed
Tor India. /
money l earned and returned pauper. l i
was fool in those days, and reckless.
The marriage had taken place soon alter
my departure, and you were by Six |
months old: went quite under-held |
horses IN the Strand, slept in: the Adelphi.l
archas-that sort ,:of thing. Then +
was run : over by cab and taken
Whtechapel. where Il lay. delirions for
three weeks. :Reganing consciousness MY
first sight of adght in the world was your
Ia her, in deep mourning, seated by my
bedside. She was dead dead of diphtherta,
ihrnugh nursing somebody in an unsani-
| :ary lodging house, and he had promised
her to see me through my trouble and put
me on my legs again. That your father |
did. and here | an. prosperous, enyied and
miserable" %.
e:'She was always my better self She
fDnO0lpu me. ue Iuea lndt SDo Wuuiu
not approve has kept me from Going base
things. When She aird / began to live"
:-:* e
II used to plow my way through lfe-to
I live my pleasures, to the full, and nv
mseries.l When she died / began to be a
man, to discriminate. to reject 1t was the
best thing ! could do. 1t would have
pleased her. s..
slave 1 cared for success? No; my
real life has been the thought of her; TO
| please her az if she were s. i'll alive. She
must know now that | forgave her long
ago for her mistrust of me. Sometimes"
| he continued very earnestly. coming to-
ward JacQupline, do you know, | feel
certain that / did see her again. feelher
cool hands on my brow. But when l try
| 10 remember I-P' Suddenly his hnmor
changed. Lets have tea. You are tired"
!
The next day was Sunday and Dowis
! sal alone in his studio. 1t was late in thu
afternoon when he. was startled by three
| rapid knocks on the door. He opened 1t
10 find JacQuelne. excited. ;hreathless and
alone. She ciulched his arm, her hand
fup0n trembled.
.'.Come with me at once" she said i'm
peri6usly. My father is very ill--two
strokes in twelve hours. he calls for you
constantly.
l. /
| studio was waiting outside.
"Quick! Qnick!' she cried to the driver, 4
and: when The wheels began to CRATE and |
/ rattle and the vehicle TO bump over the
! pavement she spoke:
He heard you yesterday; heard your
story-he was in The Studio--veu remem-
| bpr the noise we ascr;bed to Anni Mimi?
! AT dinner he was seized. 1t frightened
] MIN and he Told me all. Oh. how can i
explain !. to your That check! Mother
| thought that you had eashed it at the
bank, and-and Mr.. Sim recalled your
/ talent for thpse: horned ornamental let.
/ tiers. He hinted-hrew out sugges tions,
and mother believed him--ha was the
i .f0rgpr, ~lhe criminal. He needed the. j
money and he wanted yOa out Of this way.
He lied when lie told you that she had 4
! bought a picture from him."
i DOwie neither moved nor spoke, and
! Jacqueline. throwing her arms across tile
i moor cfthe cab, buried her head between
/ Them, sebbng. Snon she said:
after you returned from India mother
heard of your Illness and saw yOu., You:
were de1lrious. and in your deiirium you
d were modelling. BY your bed was a heap
/ OF green wax. and you were mailing
eccentric things. You cried for her, and
lthey sent her to you. 1t was a horrible
place, and (Jaequeline burst into tears
alGther cangh d phtheria. When she was
very ill she told father OF her visit. He
T..
| brought away a bust you had modelled
when YOU were delrious-the bust--thei
i sreen bust. He confessed all to mother
i before she died. and she forgave him. =.
-.'Sne fnrgave him" Dowle said: softly.
"rhat was like her" His face frightened
Eup '.And she knew, thank God, She knew
! al. Nav iettest thou thy servant depart
in peace.
:: fheli: his face harden ed-"She foreave
him, and ten years later he .d0ci ored the
wax, nobbled a connosseur, induced him
to ascribe the work to Leonardo, and sold
it for small fortune. :. So, the Duke of
1 Perth, was also among his dnpes,'. -:
T. ."Don't," pleaded Jacqueline, Il can't
bear it'll
4 f. Dow4e folded his hands over: hers as the
i cab drew up before the house. -
! s: "Peor dead lady. poor little Jacqueline.
l>poor paliry"-llar he as abont to say, but
he. shut his teeth on the word, for the
+ blinds were drawn down. ~: ~: ~, :.
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Later. when they stood together before
Fthe Green Bust. Jacqueline looked into his
teyss. =:
+ Am at all like mofherP" she asked
thirdly. He nodded.
r.. She leaned toward him. Her hands
trembled, making little movements back
ward and forward, like birds tongue
Then they shot forth, meeting his. .
YES" he said, reyerentIy. "you remind
me of your mother" ~:
i = -:
Jacquelne sat alone with her thoughts
in the moonlight. On the table lay The
World with the announcement of her en-
gagement to the Duke of Perth, in her
pocket his last letter, and In .her heart
\ question.
i Poor little Duchess &c. L. Hind.
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