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replied Lord Bayneham; land, Hilda,
it has come to this
HIS sentence was never completed,
for just at that moment Pauline
knocked at the door.
THE Duke of Laleham is waiting to
see you, my lord. said the maid.
His Grace was far too important
parsonage to be kept waiting, and
Lord Bayneham went into the library,
wishing his visitor in any other place.
For one hour and half he patiently
endured the martyrdom. His Grace
was vitality interested in some country
business, and wanted his young neigh
boris support.
Lord Bayneham tried honestly to
give his attention to every word, but
he failed in the attempt. Landed in
terest," county votes" personal in
fiuence." occasionally sounded famil-
iarly in his ear. But it was Hildas
voice he heard, not his Grace of Lie
ham's-Hilda's voice, asking IL she
must go. What did the child mean !?
Go where?- and for what? There
must be some stupid misunderstand-
Ing 1t would have been clear II that
man had but deferred his visit.
The poor duke tried hard to make
his young neighbor understand all he
meant He thought Lord Bayneham
singularly absent, and wondered thai
he did not show more interest In what
seemed to him momentous question.
At length his Grace rose.
II wish" he said to Lord Bayneham,
that, II you are not engaged, you
would ride over with me to Oulston.
think the matter in question should
be attended to without delay"
Lord Bayneham consented simply
because he could invent no excuse.
In after years he rallied bitterly at his
folly: for II. instead of going with the
Duke of Lalelam to o. ston, he had
sought his wife, and the unhappy mis-
talk, had been explained, years of sor.
row and unavailing misery wound nave
been spared to them.
From the window of her own room
the unhappy young wife watched her
a heart that yearned for one more
look at his face. one more word from
his lips.--watched him with passion
of grief so wild and bitter, that she
would gladly have died for she did not
dare to think in this world ever To see
him again.
During that one hour and nalf.
which had seemed years to Lady
Hilda, she resolved upon step which
she afterward bitterly repented Be-
lieving her husband meant that he
knew all her secret, and that he meant
those words. so carelessly uttered, she
resolved not to walt until he should
send her from him, but to 20 at once.
As she stood by the window watch.
ing the sunlight upon the trees. the
sweet, smiling heavens. the glory OF
flower and tree. she pictured to her.
self many scenes. How would the
proud and stately countess, who
valued nothing on earth so highly as
noble blood. tolerate the knowledge
that her sons wife was a convict's
daughter? Hilda pictured the naughty
face. She knew the few scarnfui
words In WEIGH Lady Bayneham would
deplore her sons mistake each word
the bland. contemptuous manner, the
half-patronizing pity All. no. better
80 mt once, since she must go, than
suffer this!
She pictured Barbara's wonder -
Barbara ON whom there rested no stain
of another's sin. Better for her hus
band had he trmpled his love under
foot. and married Barbara Earle.
There was something harder than all
that,---her husbands last words to her,
The cold. cruel words. In which he
said he would send her from him.
the cold, cruel pride with which he
would remedy his mistake"--how
could she bear it, and liyeg How
could she look upon him, and know
that they must be as strangers.--he
whom she loved more dearly than life?
She thought of Brynmar words,--ot
the handsome, kindly face that had
smiled into her own, She could not
wait for the sun OF her love to set
Better one sudden wrench, than TO die
by Inches, She looked on the stately
home where her husbands love had
placed her: should she wait for the
time when she should be sent from
those walls, as one unworthy OF their
shelter
No. she would leave IL all. The
proud castle she called her home. title
rank. position, what right had she to
thems Who was shea convict's
daughter. broken.h hearted woman.
the sun of whose life had set In utter
darkness. She said 10 herself that she
would not blame the dead, but that
she had been better left to share her
mothers fate. What right had she to
Lady Hutton's home or wealth?
Never more would she touch the gold
that had purchased her; never more
would she enter that fair domain OF
Brynmar. Her mothers love had
been barterea for t. She would leave
all; false pretenses, a false position.