Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-04-16
CHAPTER XIV.

The next day 0orveI returned 10 King.
wood Abbey. The loneliness Of her north.
ern home sank deep into her. She miss.
ed the brightness, the laughter OF the
days she had left behind her. marred
though they were by the studied impcrti.
nence Of the woman whom her husband
loved. Mrs. verulam was prevented from
coming to her until the last week In No
vember. 20 that much tlme was given to
her to grow sad and disappointed with
the m0nOt0ny Of her surroundings.
Mrs. verulam stayed until the second
week In December, and then told Marvel
that she had been commissioned by Lady
Lucy to take her down with her to vcru.
lam Court.
They oil Travelled southwark. Marvel
had insisted on Cicely's being her guest
In the house In GrosvenOr Square, which
she herself had ~ yet never seen. There
they would stay for Lady Blaine's ball.
which was to DO on the seventeenth, and
after that 90 down to Vcrulam Court,
The rooms were crowded to excess, and
TO get up the broad marble staircascs had
become quite labor Of love. Tho tall
bronze lamps fastened to the balusters
shed down warm rose.colored glow upon
the brilliant forms that made perpetual,
II slow, movement up aud down the stairs,
and tho perfume Of hot.house flowers
made the air heavy.
Il was long past midnight. The foreign
prince aud the homo royalties had ar.
rived some time previously, and the Mar.
chioness Of Blainc-a very old woman of
about eighty, with the carriage and air
OF Queen-had given up receiving guests.
and was dev0ting herself with q sort OF
regal gracl0usness to bis serene mightl.
ness, the stranger prince.
There was q murmur evcrywhere-a
ripple Of laughter sometimes, a burst Of
music % the band broke Into a musical
rapture. Every ono worth knowing was
present.
Some Of tho gowns were maryels OF In.
&enious beauty, but II was unanimously
carried that Mrs. Scarlet was, az usual.
the best.dressed woman present.
Lady Wriothesley was unfeigncdly clad
10 sec Savage. It was the simple pleasure
of Q child she showed; all her feeling was
laid bare; one might have been sure there
was nothing behind.
Savage. on the contrary, seemed con.
strained and-if II could he said of 40
thorough man Of the world-ncrvous.
He took her hand and held II fast. while
q dark red color dyed his brow.
II did not know-I had not heard" he
stammered foolishly; aud then all at once
he recovered himself. and drew his breath
sharply, and flung up his head as if in
derisiOn of Ills own weakness, II bs.
lieved you still In the north" he said.
II could almost believe myself there.
the determination to leave It has been
such . recent One," said she, laughingly,
The whole of this little scene-the start.
the welcOme-had been witnessed by u
man who had come In through the door
way at the furthest end Of the room-a
tall man with distinctly military air and
q face Drowned by distant suns. He an
peared to know no one, and not to regret
the fact, az he stood well apart from every
fresh incOmer, and at last edged his way
Into remote corner where magnificent
majolica jar filed with pampas grasses
formed an effectual hidlng-place. There
he stood at ease and looked around him,
1t was from this cOign Of vantage that
he caught his first glimpse Of Marvel. It
was only glimpse. and an imperfect
Que, as she was SO standing that he could
zee her only by flashes, as the people
around her moved this way and that; but
the view no did get held him.
The lights were shining directly on the
bronse OF her soft hair and on the rich
white folds Of the velvet gown she wore
"a gown too old for her perhaps. yet It
seemed to suit the gentle dignity that be.
longed to her, and It sat exquisitely upon
her svelte glrlish figure. Her face, as us.
0al, was cOlOrless, save for the red lips
and the dark CLEAN OF the lustrous eyes;
diamonds flashed whenever she moved,
End high up In her hair shone the famous
Wriothesley star. But the man watch.
pc her from his secret corner was too
euch attracted BY the indistinct glipmsss