Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-12-14
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TO lmpart to you, tnat VIII. l tnlllk'
excuse my presence, both in your eyes
and in those of your amia Die hostess.
The woman who has dressed your
hair for the last three months is dead.
You see. this is the second time | have
had to be a harbinger of good news to
you"
Good news?" she family repeated.
"Yes. Did you not know who this
greatly feared the Portuguese
A waiter with a tray full of ices
pushed his way at this instant directly
between them. When he had passed.
Miss Rogers was gone. and the detcc.
tive, astonished and not little cha.
Grincd. looked about him for-some min
utes before he saw her again. Thea
he perceived that she had thrown off
the long cloak that had seemed so
out of place in this brilliant throng,
and Stood beaming and beautiful. near
a piano, where some one was just be-
ginning to play.
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and asked herself what her wonderful
look meant; for, while Jenny Rogers
eyes burned steadily in one direction,
1t was acquiring a purpose, the deter.
mination or which Hilary could see
but not explain. And she felt that it
needed explanation. and left her place
to join her young friend, and succeeded
in doing this just as Miss Rogers said,
in low tones, to the person ut the
piano:
Il will sing Robert, toi que Jaime" +"
Miss Aspinwall, thoroughly aston
ished, took Jenny by the hand, asking
what did she intend to do. Jenny re-
piled that she was going to sing. in
tones that convinced Hilary that there
was something deeper that caprice be-
hind her action.
1T will be noble kindness on your
part if you WILL" said she, "but you
look so excited. and YOU tremble so,
you make me feel that there is some
thing ut stake which | do not under
stand"
"There is. Hilary; my whole life's
happiness. Hamilton Degraw is here;
he loves me, and told me if returned
his love to wear n cloth dress to-day.
l have Oh the dress: | am ready to
stand by what it means; but he will not
look this way. | wore a velvet one
when | came. and perhaps he saw me
then, or saw the cloak with which at
first tried to hide the change | had
made; and now nothing can make him
glance away from the man he is con-
versing with and presently he will go,
and his going means an endless separa.
ton for us, for, Hilary, he has enga gcd
passage in the Etruria, and she sails
tonight, you know"
Miss Aspnwall uttered a low cry
No one heard it, not even Jenny, for
the impetuous girl was full OF her own
thoughts, and was saying, passion
ately:
"My voice will be a surprise to him.
He must turn, and then if he goes
away"
She finished with gesture. Hilary
gave her one look, it was that of en-
couragement and the next minute
Jenny was standing by the piano, and
the first liquid tones OF the fine in
strumcnt had burst forth.
When, in an instant later, this trained
singers melodous and exquisitely cult
rnipn
and fervor it had never displayed even
in the old happy and ambitious days
with her snging-masters, not a head
but responded to the call, and she
saw. with rushing sense of joy which
nearly stopped her voice. that he not
only saw her but flushed with an I'M
expected rapture which made all her
future assured. Thinking of him. and
only of him. she went on. filing the
great rooms with melody such as they
had never heard before, and never will
again. doing for love what she had
failed to do for ambition, and waken-
ing in more hearts than one there an
enthusiasm never to be forgotten In
iH' UltStHEt VI any OlHPI SlnSpl.
When Stiffness came, an irresistible
cry broke out: but she did not hear it.
She was looking for Mr.. Deg.aw to
advance. And he did. She saw him
burst from every OBTAINING hand and
come forward with his heart hErninG
on his lips. when what IS i that makes
him stop suddenly and as if hell; psci;
by a force he cannot resist? She cam
not see: she only realizes that he does
rot cone; that he gives her 4 look
which seems 10 promise something.
but he does not come, and at last she
porceives him melt away with tho
crowd and vanish in the direction OF
the door, which finally opens and shuts
upon him. leaving her with her glory
and her grief.
CHAPTER XXXVH.