Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-03-22

| walk and Joined them a fellow reeiiF:
was established between Nerrafnoun
and his tenants that would have taker
months Of more conventional intimacy
TO develop.
Indeed il seemed TO NerTamoun
| when he left them that he had never
! been so well entertained, and he founo
i himself hnukering constantly during
| the days that followed for the informa
| gayety or tie little turret room tei
/ party, IN place Of the gathering a
Mount Regal whore his mother. prout
of long line of ancestry, Kept up m
amount Of state that bored him to ex
| tinction.
why don't you go and call on the
| Kilmaynest" lie ventured TO say one
| day. You might ask them over here
sometimes. if they would come"
My dear boy" said the dowager
| with her usual decision. those impos
| sible peopler'
what is there against themT de
| manded her son. with some warmth
THE father Is a gentleman and a
scholar; the daughter is
Il am Indifferent to what they are oil
are not" Interrupted Lady Yerramount
ruthlessly. Their circumstances dc
not permit them TO entertain or go into
society: therefore il would be quite use
less my adding them 10 an overcrowd
ed visiting list"
And Lord yerramount knew his moth
er too well TO argue the matter further
The facts of Mans beauty and ineligi
bility combined had been quite sufi-
to nd 7 aIa MOI 1ftf' :
worldly nature against her But her
opposition rather increased than damp
ened his own inclinations 10 go TO Bal
iylough. and soon his appearance al
teatime grew to be almost a daily
event TO which Nan found herself look
ing forward as the one ray of bright
ness in an otherwise very dun life.
Presents of game and fruit and flow
ers found their way. too. from Mount
Regal; new songs and ma cazines for
Nan, new books for Mr. Kilmayne.
Yet. in spite Of these distractions. Nan
seemed to droop and fade as the win
ter progressed. The pretty color no
longer flashed into her cheek. and the
animation in voice and manner failed
day by day. while there came at times
a singular strained look into her face,
as though she were listening to some
faroff sound.
Her father. absorbed in study and
working against time for money that
was spent before it came, failed TO no
tice these signs in her. but Vera mount
saw them very plainly and wondered
what the reason could be.
One day he learned It. He had run
L Oh, a
guided by the sound of Mans violin,
had gone straight up to the turret room
TO find her. She was playing few
notes over and over again With weari-
some iteration. and when he entered
and she laid her violin down to greet
him he saw that her lips were culver
ing and her eyes full of tears.
What is it. Nan?" he said involunta-
rily and calling her by her Christian
name in his distress.
1T is nothing" she faltered. at is
only She broke off and then burst
into passionate tears. Il shall never
find il outr' she sobbed. Never, 1t
haunts me always, night and day.
Sometimes in my dreams / can even
play some of it. but when | wake It is
sone-gone. When / am away from
this room. l am restless TO come back
to it. | feel that the tune is here. with
in these walls. and that nowhere else
will 1t come to me. Yet when | am
here il still evades me. And now we
are going away, and | shall lose the
chance of it forever
Going away. he echoed blankly.
'Whcn-and why?"
Father must go to London" she
said. Some literary business of his
has gone wrong, and he must be there
10 look after it. and | have made up
my mind to try to earn some money.
1t is not fair he should do all the work
I shall try TO get into a ladies' string
band as first violin. Father is going
to ask you TO release him from the re
mainder of our tenancy"
"Of course | shall be delighted" said
Verramount with patent insnceritv
while he was rapidly revolving in his
mind the various excuses he might of
fer to his mother for a visit to town.
He would have liked TO sternly refuse
Mr.. Kilmayne's request about Bally-
Tough Nevertheless. when the latter.
coming in To tea. approached the sub
ject he found himself reluctantly ac-
ceding, compelled by courtesy to dis
guise his real feelings.
That night strange thing happened.
Nan. pursued in her dreams by this
haunting fancy that had seized her.
walked in her sleep down to the turret
room and waking there all alone in
the dark tainted with terror.
In the morning when she was found
lying there. cold and inscnsible. they
thought She was dead. but with re-
neWed animation came fever, and fOI
days she was very i'll ami went near
TO dying. while in her delirium she raw
ed constantly OF the melody that had
come to her only TO mock her with its
beauty and pathos and then to leave
her memory blank
At last the critical moment passed
when the fever left her though the re
sulting weakness threatened TO take
the little life that remained to her
Father" she said family. Il want I,
be carried down TO the turret room.
must hear the tune again before die
In vain he reasoned with her entreat
ing her 10 rest. to get strong, to put the
thought of this dream out Of her head.
She would not be appeaSed until sh'
gained her own way and had beer
dressed and carried down to the sofa
in the little room she had learned Il
love so well. She lay there contented
" for some time; then presently rising
she crossed the room with feeble. fal
tering steps to the armchair.
1t was h2re that the dream frs
| came II me- she said. Il wonder i
| Lord Verramount would give me thi'
| chair If | asked him :"
| You need not wonder" said voic'
| nj the door. The chair is yours from
| this moment
4 am so glad to see you down again.
he continued. Il have missed you hor