The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-22

grayish moustache beard just revealing the
firmly cut lips, stern and
AS the girl stood to him, her eyes gazing his,
who could doubt their rela tionship? essential
lines of their faces the
Tremaine had, without doubt inherited
courage and pertinacy. She said another word
kissed him, and for moment his EMBODIED her.
Then he strobe hastily from the ROOM
The girl sank into chair, claspng her hands
pressed them to her heart to still its throbbng An
defnable presentinent evil possessed
was broken by the loud slammng of door.
Then she ran to the mullioned window looking
the grounds and watched the tall, figure
her father hurrying along carriage drive until he
reached the where the disappeared among
pines. She sank the recess her
chin resting her hand, gazed wistfully
scape which the somber shades october
ing gathering
Something in the lowering sky, red streak
showing above the dark woods to the west, per-
turbed mind suggested sinister warning. Do what
she would she could rid terrible foreboding.
"TIe ought not to have gone cried, half aloud.
"Why did not insist upon his staying?
She to her feet and paced agita-
ton she could not control larger re-
formed by the projecting book shelves
portraits of the Tremaine family going
back several generations when the Tremanes a
in Cornwall Towards of these portraits
girls eyes insensibly directed.
The showed a with hard, unyieldng I'M
Hlnchlng expression. On the mouth craven
luton which years of self will and self Indulgence had
hardened into obstinacy The complexion
an even tint tho the original had passed
in dry hot climate One seemed to feel the painter
caught the exact hue. The long, square, prom
1nent 1t was an ugly jaw, unquestonaby with almost
the suggestion of animal about it, The
been painted in few wildly they
the look of nature. They fierce penetrating
and yet with strange furtive CLINT in them tho the
owner was always his guard against secret foe
The picture was that of Godfrey Trernaine, Hugh
Tremaine's grandfather, the to whom due the
downfall of the family Godfrey Tremaine friend
OF Charles Fox of Sheridan and Of the fercest and
most reckless gamblers of age when card playing
and duelng were the chief amusements of the young
bloods and not despised by few of the old
Godfrey Tremaine lost Tremaine Court in single
night and to his btterest enemy Gervase Lasham It
was his last possession and when the pale reproach
full daylight entered the great dining old
mansion and the candles Pickering sconces
burnt yellow and sickly Godfrey Tremaine, his ugly
jaw like that of animal than ever, from
the cards litterng the floor beggar
The sequal terrible. Godfrey Tremaine, three
days after the passed Lasham's posses
sion challenged the winner, for what
remain mystery, They fought italian fashion, with
out seconds in the dining Of Tremane Court
they had gambled On the third Geoffreys blade
groan dead
Godfrey Tremaine fled to the continent, and stayed
there until the scandal was forgotten and then pre-
maturely aged returned secretly Cornwall. He
was never seen in the metropolis again.
Tremaine Court was held by the Lasham family for
sixty years, but they needy mean Thrift
less with of the high qualities
The house and park had always been white elephant
to them and they had been able to keep up
place properly Finally they mortgaged mortgage
eventually forecosed tried let it, but failed
years it remained uninhabed and eventually it
for auction and Hugh Tremane bought it.
When the mansion came into his hands it was in
terribly dilapidated condition and the restoration cost
more than the purchase money But this of
to the millionaire He only too glad to get
back the property of his and when the house
had been thoroly renovated he brought from Bod
could collect of furniture pic
belonging to the Tremaines. Undoubtedly the
greatest treasure the portrait Gansborougb Of
the who had ruined his family.
It was Hugh Tremaines pride and boast that he had
brought back the fortune which his grand
father had lost and it the gratifying because
they so strangely alike altogether
dissimlar in many characteristics.
But there were few Of the old Cornish family to
joy either the possessions the wealth. The Ire
names were now represented by Hugh Tremaine and his
daughter, Eleanor. The but memory in
Bodmin, for it fully thirty ago since Hugh
Treaine left his native place. his mother had died
afterwards Father daughter the last Of
their
In the rapidly vanishing light the expression Of
Godfrey Treaine seemed lowering and Eleanors
excited imagination lent to it sinister, foreboding look
which probably it did inherently but that
which strangely that never had the
faith md ma