Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-09-26

sooihS - WSets SOUL SITdyou OUT y Ol
paradise" That was what she was.
He could see exactly what he..
father had meant. The change in
her was difficult to define, but it was
very visible. 1t would be vulgariz-
ing of its spiritual quality to say that
1t had made her thinner and paler,
but that was the effect. Her eyes
are homes of silent prayer" was the
quotation he had been making to him
self all the time she had been chat
tering about the Kings aunts. 1t was
clear that her self-possession was but
| superficial. and that even the cheerful
ness of her conservation had a forced
| note.
No happy woman could look like
| that, he said to himself when once
she turned half round
With a great leaping of the heart
he wondered if he could be the cause
of her hidden grief. Trafford had
limited as much, and yet the idea was
too grotesque. She must have known
| that sign from her would have
brought him back at any time. He
would have secuted the very thought
had it not offered a straw for his
drowning hope to cling to. Besides,
1t was not an un-heard of thing for
beautiful woman to love an ugly
man. He could thing of several In
stances among his own acquaintance
Was 1t possible after all, that the
miracle had been wrought for him?
CHAPTER XXI.
When they reached an avenue of
towering elms; touched already with
| low -
shire was able to take his place by
her side.
'"This is our way" she said. 1--WE
hive little gate farther down that
leads into our grounds. I'm glad
you've come out, because like show
ing my garden to people who haven't
seen 1T. Lady Alice was good enough
to compare 1t to the famous one at
your Irish place, but l dare say she
did that only to please me-
"By-the-way, you've heard from
Alice lately. haven't you?"
Eyes; she wrote to give me the
Queens kind message about-about
my portrait"
Wiltshire noticed the instant of hes
iation, and observed her sharply
She continued to walk on, with head
erect, in the resolute fashion he had
already remarked as being new to
her but no touch of color came into
her pale cheeks.
II suppose YOU know that the King
! was 30 much pleased with Winship's
picture of the Queen that he has
made him stay at sandringham to
paint the Princess Victoria
mo; I didn't know It, I'm so glad
| She glanced towards him, but again
he got nothing from his scrunity IT
seemed to him, however, that the old
appealing look was gone, and that in
It's place had come something de-
tached, uplifted. which caused him a
sudden sinking Of the heart.
II might as well hope to marry an
angel" was the thought that passed
through his mind Aloud he said:
Yes; It's fine thing for Winship
Alice writes me that owing to his be.
ing kept so long at Sandringham he's
had to cut short the visit he was
going to make at Endenbridge She
hopes to have him for night or
two, but not more. I believe he has
orders ahead that will keep him busy
for the next two years.
I'm SO glad" she said again.
Il thought you would be- he went
on, especially after what you said
of the family at Monte Carlo Do
you remember"
Eyes, perfectly. I ought to say, per
haps, that found you were right, and
that 1T wasn't possible to do-what |
thought of then"
You've done a great deal better
He's a made man through-what shall
say?-through your cooperation. .
You mean the portrait. I was only
an accident in that He would have
had the same success with anyone
else. It was bound to come"
Perhaps SO; and yet the hand that
! lifts US up is the one to which we
must be grateful. We can't say that
another would have done as we'll"
If Paula betrayed herself at all, it
was then. She stopped in her walk
and confronted him. They had enter
ed a dim, autographed avenue
where the solemn aisle of overhang-
ing green stretched on, like that OF
tome stupendous church. to distant
arch of sunlight The swish Of a
hedge-trimmer's sickle cut sharply or
the stiffness, and far away they coult
hear the rumbling of a forester's vain
In round opening in the wood stood
a lonely, noiseless, armless statue II
Themistocles, the one poor, melan.
choly ghost Of the joyous, by-gonc
centuries.
II want to tell you something
Duke" Paula began, with the forced
selfpossession he had already re
marked in her. II should like you tt
know 1t before you see papa.
speak of 1t because-weil because
of what we talked about that day a
Monaco. If my father ever owed Mr.
Winship anything, he doesn't now
"No?"
mo. Mr. Winship found the means
by which to repay himself 1t wasn't
in money; it was in something else
Mr.. Winship wouldn't take thu
money"
| do you mean that your father
offered to -"
! yes; but Mr.. Winship refused"
And of course that hurt your
father
/ You'll see. That's one reason why
! I'm telling you. Papa is very much