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Continued.

Lord CaFlswood never saw him; h
considered that his interest in the mat
ter ended when the yearly stipend wa
paid. He was in London whel
Katrine wrote to ask if he would al
low her to learn the organic take
some lessons from the organist at st
Luke 's-Mr. Cameron. He is cOnsid
cred very clever" she wrote; "and i
would be a great pleasure to me tt
learn upon an organ that was the gift
of my dear mother"
Lord Carlswood had no dream Of
danger; to his naughty mind then il
would have seemed as probable that
his daughter would fall in love with
one of his grooms as with her teacher;
not even the faintest suspicion oc-
Cured to him, and Miss CarlsWoods
governess, who did feel some scruples.
was silenced by being told that Lord
Carlswood wished it"
The handsome young Organist
thought he was making a grand flu
ture for himself when he saw chance
of wooing Miss CarlsWood. He was
very handsome, light of heart and
pleasant of speech, gay with the gaiety
of youth, gifted with a fatal, specious
elOquence; and Katrine thought the
world had never seen his peer. They
could not converse freely in the quiet
seclusion of the old church, when the
light streamed through the stained
windows and the governess stood by;
but before long Katrine's kindness had
encouraged him to write little notes,
and she had replied to them. He grew
holder, and asked her to steal from be-
meath her fathers roof to meet him.
She foolishly consented; and when the
infatuated young man told her how
dearly he loved her she owned that she
loved him.
Was it love, or was it an ambitious
desire to raise himself far above his
station, which actuated him? No one
ever knew, and Thornton Cameron
kept his secret. 1t was a base be-
trayal of trust, a cruel fraud-it was
an objectionable deception, a most
dishonorable deed-but he succeeded
in winning what the poor girl thought
was her love, and, after great per-
suasion, she consented to elope with
him.
She had been so badly trained, was
so young, so wild in the flush of girlish
spirits, that she thought little of the
consequences. The sensation that
must follow amused her. She enjoyed
thinking of the fright, the search, and
the emotion of her stately father when
he should hear that she was mar
ried.
1T will be stealing a march upon
papa" she said, with a gay ringing
laugh that should have smote her COM
panion like sharp sword. "He was so
particular that | should not make my
debut until | was nineteen; what will
he say when he hears that I am mar
ried?"
There was no excuse to be made for
her save that she was charmed with
her lovers handsome face, with his
musical voice, his eloquent words, his
passionate pleading and prayers. She
was charmed to be the heroine of
quasi-romance; it would be SO anus
ing to appear in London as Mrs. Came
ron, instead of Miss CarlswOOd. The
whole matter seemed to her simply a
delightful adventure; she never
dreamed but that her father, after per-
hans reproaching her in a stately
fashion, would again receive her with
open arms.
mo Carlswood ever made a low
marriage"-she had heard that ex-
preston often enough, but it never en-
tered her mind that hers was what
would be called a Glow marriage"
Thornton Cameron was handsomer
than and quite as polished in manner
as, the gentlemen who had visited
Bralyn There was nothing about
him that could be called vulgar, much
less low; and Katrine, although
clever beyond her years, did not know
much of the world.
She would have considered herself
making a low marriage if she had
promised to run away with footman
or groom; but an artist was to her a
gentleman. How could a man who
created such harmonies, who gave his
whole time and attention to the Guilt
walton of the purest taste-how could
such a man be low? She considered
him a genius, and genius, she said to
herself, levels all ranks. She had
read somewhere of king who stopped
to pick up the brush of painter. Was
painter better than a musician?
she asked herself. Certainly not If,
then, a king could honor painter,
surely her father might respect a
musician. She had read of such great
honors being paid to them-of kings
and queens who had done homage to
their genius, and reverenced their
names.
Still it seemed strange that a girl
reared in the very atmosphere of pride
should have forgotten the lessons OF
her life; but such was the case when
one fine autumn evening, she stole
from the time-honored walls of Bra
Ign, and eloped with the handsome or
ganist of Lynn.
CHAPTER VI.
The anger of Lord CarlSwOOd, WheI