The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-06


 .ender. who had been. i'll. She began the conversation by saying. T am go- ing to have some more fits and die or them. I shan't Fast long. Then you' will all go about on tiptoe and try | ts look sorry and Paterson will close | the shutters and speak so softly as if
 she expected me to hear her. But l have sent for you to ask If you con- | sider my nephew Frank a brute" Why. mo-" answered Ingram. | Well. he is." snapped the invalid.
 "and I am going to leave all my mon- | ey to you"
 But, Mrs Lavender"
 Now. don't interrupt. He shall not | have cent of 1t unless his wife gives
 him some. If I left 1t to her he could | get 1t. But ann going to leave it to | you and you shall give Sheila what she wants of It when she needs 1t. It | is all yours. however. yours to spend If you want to. Only sec that sheila | does not want Paterson, ask Mrs. i Lavender to step here"
 Ingram sat as If in dream, trying | to collect his thoughts, so rapidly did ! the old lady spring surprises on him, | when Sheila entered the room. After | leaving her husbands house she had decided that she could not go back to | Borva--that her place was with some | of her husbands relatives rather than with her own. She knew none of these | except the old aunt. and so she had l gone to her, proceeding that gave | the old lady immense satisfaction. | She told Ingram that she had a small | income from her father and that she | and Mairi would go into lodgings. which she had engaged the next day, | although Mrs. Lavender was very kind l in inviting her to stay there. He | might take a message to her husband | that she was well and in no want | only that; upon no account was he | to reveal the place of her residence | At present she could not see Frank. | If she wished at any time to see him i she would send for him.
 She was calm. collected. sad, but so | dignified that all the Mackenzies or l Borva would have risen up and called | her blessed had they seen her. The | Princess of Thule bore her great grief l like princess. | Tnera1n sought Lavender at the club | ana told him he had seen his wife, that | she was in good quarters, did not want l for money and, in fact, told him every | thing except the place of 5eila's refuge | Frank was very humble and very penl- ' tent. He had at last begun to under | stand the real character or sheha ana | had given up the idea that three min- utes, talk with her would smooth over | everythign.
 Az thev sat in the club, card was l aen, in to Lavender. It was that or | young Mosenberg. the handsome Jew | irh boy, society's pet the infant pne, | nornsnon," over whose piano playing all | ,,,nsicai Iondon was enthusiastic. A | frank honest boy he was. toes whofe l aouI dissolved itself in the wonderrui | harmonies he made. Lavender nau 1 taken him home to dinner once ana .ne | nov had fallen deeply in love wtn | sheila in the way one falls m ioVe "i'h ' MAA
 E.vervbody knew, of course, or sheflas fiight-people who keep ser | onts can have no secrets. An, Lay snder." cried ths boy as he came m.
 T have found where your wiIe IS. ohe l is with your aunt. met her py cnance
 comtnr out of the house" Then, catch
 inc inc look of annoyance in Ingrams | sscs he aaid, But is it a secretT Tt ts not likely to remain one long,, Fe | piled Ingram, If you have got nolu oA | it.. .ha how.
 T thought you were all so anx,o1s. ..It does not matter said lsayenoer; af am about to leave London. v snaii rot disturb her.
 Some days after the King of Borva suddenly appeared in the furnished lodgings which Shella and /Mairi nad taken. She had written him letter. a rather formal one, in which she did
 
 Mackenzie to direct his letters to thu new address. The old king had scent ed trouble at once, and, without wait ing even to pack valise, had started
 for London.
 the murderous rage that he felt against Lavender. the old man said; It is noth- ing whatever It will come right. Goung ' people always quarrel a little
 Soon after the arrival of Mackenzie
 a messenger came to the house wiyn 1.-the announcement of the sudden death
 of Franks aunt and request from Pat
 erson that Sheila come at once. 1n-
 gram had also been sent foS and meI
 Sheiia and her father at the house of
 death, It was found that the old lady
 had done as she threatened, and left
 all her property to Ingram-he knew
 for what purpose.
 There was a letter whichPatterson put
 into Sheila's hand, saying that old
 Mrs Lavender had wished her to see
 1t. It was from Frank. He thanked his aunt for her past kindness to him
 and asked her to stop the allowance
 she had been making him. He was
 going to a remote part of the High
 lands, where he would earn his own liY-
 ing or starve. Be kind to Sheila." he
 added, "be as kind to her as havo
 been cruel. In going away from her
 feel that l have bcen exiled by God
 and man.
 Mackenzie read the letter, and his
 heart was at once reconciled to Frank.
 T will go back to Borva with you now,
 papa" said SheiIa. When Ingram ex-
 plained that the fortune left to him by
 old Mrs. Lavender was only trust for
 his daughter, the old man said: "A very
 good story--but who will believe Itr
 No! Shella will have plenty Of money ot
 her own and wants nobodys money
 whatever"
 Ingram grew hot and insistsnt, bu'
 the old king replied: If Sheila Will not
 have it you will have to keep It.
 The months passed by. and in re-
 mote island of the Hebrides Frank Lay ender worked as he never had worked before at his profession. Ills name had
 heretofore been that of an artist who
 was ''Eoing" to do something some day.
 Now 1t became that of man who had
 "arriyed." He sent ms work to Lon don and got good money for it-also ne
 had niczures in the Academy ExhlDitlon. Winter came and yet Frank Worked on
 In his lonely island.
 Then one day out of the storm ana mist of the January seas there came
 yacht. Rosenberg, the handsome Jew how was on board. and also Johnny Avre. an artist friend whose life Frank
 hod once saved. Johnny Ayre was as de,.oted to Frank as Mosenberg was de- s,otad 10 sheila. and tho two had ar ronorad a scheme of reconciliation. They
 narsuaded Frank to take cruise with than,. and they carried him straight up to Rorva and dropped anchor In front of Mackenzle's house