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Bhe stretched out her hand as she spoke,
and laid it in Geralds.
"Why should / not get him in Fay
hands, work him as / will, and so learn
the TRUTH" she thought.
Il want TO ask you to listen to me, to
try and forgive me if you can" Gerald
said. 81 understand that you are sep
arated from your father; that there has
been a terrible quarrel between you, and
that you have left your uncIe's house"
Antonio bent her head, but said moth
ing. She waited, and she had not long
TO wait
"All this is grief to me- Gerald Ten
by said. Perhaps | ought not TO breach
the subject to You; but | wanted you
to know from my own lips that would
sooner have sacrificed my own wishes all
my life than have been the cause of such
quarrel as this"
Then it was that Antonio awakened
| from her dreams and looked at him.
Il don't understand you, Sir Gerald"
she said, coldly. What have you to do
with the quarrel between my father and
MYSELF"
II fear l am treading on delicate
ground he said, but l hope you will
forgive me. Were it not for my earnest
| desire to see you restored to your father,
| would never venture to bring up the sub
! ject myself. | knew even when | spoke
TO Lord Marchmont that | was a fool:
| that though he might, as he did, entertain
my proposal, you would never listen to
any declaration from ne; yet we are not
always strong or wise
You are telling me something that |
learn for the first time, Sir Gerald" she
said my father never spoke to me OF
the-the honor you have done me. We
quarreled on another subject entirely, in
sense, a trivial one
Gerald Tenby's heart beat so quickly
that for a moment he found it impossible
| to speak. Before he had framed a sen
| tence Antonio had spoken again.
I'm afraid l must leave you, Sir Ger
aid. l am a little late already. Lady
Charlotte Singleton will be expecting me-
| She is good enough to let me stay with
her for little while. Will you call a
| hansomT'
Il thought she would have said some
bitter words" he said to himself, but she
seemed almost touched when she heard
that | had made a proposal to her faith
er. Were she any other woman, | should
Hquickly set down her past treatment Of
! me to cleverness but Antonio is honest :;
she meted out to me the treatment she
considered | deserved. What can have
changed her | have not the slightest idea :;
but certainly she is changed. | cannot
help feeling that she told me where she
| was staying in order that we should meet
again"
For an instant a smile played on Ger
aid Tenbys lips.
IF this should be- he said to himself,
between his teeth, "if / should win An
tonia for my wife, then all the rest might
go. for that would be the rea. triumph.
He rose restlessly and walked from
the park again.
Sylvia Castella was bold woman, and
a strong one. She had laid the secret OF
her great success to the fact that she
had never allowed her heart to interfere
with her head. She and Stanton stood
| together in the little drawing room, and
| the lamp light fell upon Sylvia almost
ruthlessly.
| She looked, as she could not help look
ing, a most beautiful woman, bat a wom-
an of her years, a woman who could be
haggard as we'll as hard.
| II have changed my mind" she said
to him, abruptly. Il don't want your
money; l only wish to remain free"
| rhot do Svyv ha
There must be no going back. have
fulfilled my share of the bargain, and I
shall keep you to yours. You said you
would be my wife If l could give you a
hundred thousand pounds. Here is the
money"
| Sylvia Castella drew a deep breath.
She recoihed suddenly from the large en-
velope held out to her-she, whose very
| god was money, shrunk from this vast
sum as though she was afraid OF it.
Where does it come from?" she asked
him, hoarsely. what price have you
paid for this?"
ASK no questions" he said, and his
tone was strangely rough. Let it be
enough for you that the money ysu ask
is there"
~ win not have it," Sylvia said. in a
choked sort of way. Il only joked with
ysu. Take it away and leave me !!
TOO late, Sylvia, my girl he said.
"Yeu should have reckoned with the cost
when you joked with me. Men like / am
are not made to be joked with. Ysu set
a price upon yourself, you gave nae your
| word, and there must be no going back.
Take this money, and listen to what I
have to say to you. 1t is my command
that you leave the stage. l do not wish
MY wife to earn her bread, nor to let her.
| self be cazed upon by any creature who