The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-16

Madrillon's shoulder, pressed him gently
aside and said:
Forgive me: Miss Carewe has honorcd
me by the promise of this quadrllle.
He bowed, offering his arm, ana none
of thehl was too vain to envy that bow
and gesture.
For a moment he remained waiting,
Miss Carewe rose slowly and, directly
facing him, and in composed ana even
voice: you force me TO beg you never
to address me again"
She placed her hand on the General s
arm. turning her back squarely upon
Tom.
In addition to those who heard many
persons in that part of the room saw
the affront and paused IN arrested at-
titude; others, observing these turned N !,
quiringly so that sudden silence leil.
broken only by the voice of MISS be'ts
as she moved away, talking cheerily 10
the General. Tom was left staNoms
alone in the broken semi-circle.
All the eyes swept from her to MN
and back; then everyone began TO talt
hastily about nothing. The young man $
humiliation was public.
He went to the door under cover or
the movement of the various couples 10
find places In the duadrille, yet every
sidelong glance in the room still rcsteo
upon him, and he knew 1t. He remained
In the hall alone through that dance, ana
at its conclusion walked slowly. throusl !,
the rooms, speaking to people mere aiiu
there. as though nothing had happened,
but when the music sounded again ne
went to the dressinE-room, found his hat
and cloak and left the house. For n While
he stood on the opposite sido OF the stroe,,
watching the lighted windows, and twice
he caught sight of the lilac and Whl ,,I
brocade, the dark hair and the wrea,h
OF narguerites. Then. with hot pam
In his breast and the step OF q grenao'er'
he marched down the street
In the carriage Mrs. TanberrN tooi.
Bettys hand in hers. I'll do as You
wish. child" she said> land never SPEAK
to YOU of him again as long as ! NJ NJ
except this once. 1 think 1t was pes.
for his owl, sake ,as we'll as yours, put
"rle needed lesson" Interrupted Miss
7otty. wearily She had danced long ana
hard, and she was very tired; o
Mrs Tanberry's staccato laugh cano
out irrepressibly. "All the vagabonds 90.
princess! she cried. land ! think they
are getting It."
mo. no; don't mean"
We've turned their heads, my dear,
between us, YOU and I; and wei nave
to turn 'em again. or they'll break thelr
nccks looking over their shoulders at us;
the owls!" She pressed the girls hand
something just once, and forgive me be-.
cause we're the same foolish age, you
know. It's only this: The next young
man you suppress, take him OH IN a
corner. Lead him away from the crowo,
where he won't have to stand ana iHe
them look at him afterwards. Ihat all
nv, denr. and YOU mustn't mind.
"I'm not sorry!' said Miss Betty hot
ly. TIN not sorry!"
mo. no." said Mrs. Tanberry. sootn-
ingly. "It was better this tins to 40
inst what YOU did. I'd have done 1t my
self. to make quite sure he would keep
away-because like him."
I'm not sorry" said Miss Betty again.
I'm not sorry!" she repeated and re-
itcrated to herself after Mrs. Tanberry mad
gone to bed. She had sunk into a chalr
in the library with book, and I'm not
sorry!" she whispered as the open un-
read mage blurred before her, I'm not
sorryv' He had needed his lesson; but she
had to bear the recollection of how white
his face went when he received 1t. Her
affront had put about him strange
loneliness; the one figure with the stilleu
crowd staring; 1t had made a picture
from which her minds eye had been un-
able to escape, danced she never so hard
and late. unconsciously, Robert Carewc's
daughter had avenged the other lonely
figure which had stood In lonely humilia-
ton before the starring eyes.
I'm not sorry!" An, dld they thlnk II
was in her to hurt any living thing In the
world? The book dropped from her lap.
I'm not sorry!'-and Tears upon the
small, lace gauntlets!
She saw them, and with an H7coherent
exclamation, half self-pitying. half impn-
tient, ran out to the stars above her
garden.
She was thcro for perhaps half an
hour, and just before she returned to the
house she did singular tninga
Standing where all was clear to the
sky, where she had stood after her talk
with the Incroyable, when he had bid
her look to the stars, she raised her arms
to them again, her face. pale with great
tenderness, uplifted.
"You, you. you'll" she whispered. II love
you"
And yet It was to nothing definite, to
no man. nor outline of a man, to no
phantom, nor dream-lover, that, she
spoke; neither to him she had affronted.
nor to him who had hidden her look to
the stars, Nor was it to the stars them
selves
She returned slowly and tl1oughtfully
to the house, wondering what she had
meant.
CHAPTER XII
A VOICE IN THE GARDEN.
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