The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-07

Sir Carlos grew more deeply In love.
He was a changed man. The rector
had predicted that 1t would be a hope
less case when he did fall In love; and
he was right.
Sir Carlos had no thought but for
Maggie. To him everything was cen-
tired in that girlish graceful figure
Where she was net, all was desolation
and gloom. They leased him at Hat
ton-the ladies especially declared they
know the symptoms: but no one leased
him a second time: there was some-
thing In his face that forbade 1t.
Lord Stanleigh thought that. II III
young fellow had made a romance for
himself. 1t was quite time, and that
1t was nobody's business but his own.
AS he did not even know of the ex-
~istence of Maggie Waldron, no sus-
| picion pointed that way.
Sir Carlos had known Maggie a fort
night, spending two or three hours with
her every day, when he resolved to
marry her. She. and no other. should
be his wife. The girl was delighted
with her conquest, and she laughed
more han ever at Hiram West. What
presumption it was of him to think OF
her! She laughed more scornfully when
he came to her one day and asked her
to be his wife. He had saved a few
hundred pounds, he said, and had the
opportunity of buying a small hotel at
the seaside. Would she consent to be
the mistress of 1t? If she had told him
in a few kindly words that she was
sorry for him. but that she could not
marry him, all might have been well;
but she laughed at him.
NO." she told him, Il am not going
to be mistress of the Travellers Rest or
the Ship Ashore or any other seaside
hotel; my lot in life will be quite diff
ferent."
Maggie he said, gently, edo not
throw away the substance for the
shadow. No living man can ever love
you as much as I do"
IT know one who loves me better"
she replied.
He ben his dark face over her.
You are like a beautiful huttering
bird" he said; a you will be caught,
unless you are careful. just like a bird
in a net. II have seen you once with
Sir Carlos-you are not so foolish as to
think that he will marry you? oh,
Maggie, Maggie, much as I love you, T
would sooner see you dead than that he
should mislead your
VI VIII HOI HilSltdQ me, she TeplleQs
with a scornful toss of her head.
Hiram West trembled with emotion.
II know them, my dear, those Idle
young aristocrats, far better than you
do. Watch one of them as he walks
through the field; wantonly. Idly and
without reason, he will with a stroke
of his a n cut down the fairest. sweet
est flowers as he passes by; and, my
dear. the life, the soul of a young girl
like you is no more to such as he thai
the wild flowers"
She laughed again.
Il do not believe It," she replied; and
his face darkened with anger.
so the young and foolish have
spoken from time immemorial,' he said;
so they will speak until they diet" he
cried. wrathfully. You laugh at me,
at my love, at my warning. We shall
see. But remember this. if ever he in
jures one hair of your head, If ever he
gives you one hours heartache, 1 will
have his life!"
She s%huddered as she listened.
II shall never lose sight of you or of
him." he continued; land, if he Injuries
you. his life shall pay the forfeit. Have
you," he added, in a gentler tone. mo
kinder word to say to me before I go?'
mo, not one was the hasty reply.
Her pride and vanity alike were
wounded. Did he think so little of her
beauty as to fancy she could not win
what she liked with 1t? She little knew
that for the man she Owed she had
made that day a dangerous enemy.
h did not tell Sir Carlos about the
proposal she had received; events
might have been different had shs
done so. She thought that 1t would
lower her in his eyes If the young baro-
net knew hat his friends valet had
made her an offer of marriage.
The glamour Of love was so strong
upon Sir Carlos that he did not see
Maggie's faults. her lack of good-breed-
ing. her want of refinement-he only
IA the beauty that in his eyes had no
peer. What mattered fortune or high
title? "All the gifts of the gods could
not go together" he reasoned. She had
wondrous ~beauty-that was enough for
him; he would marry her and make her
Lady Maggie Carew.
Then, besides her beauty, Row pas
sionately she loved him! There was no
reticence about her love; she talked TO
him of it. held his hands and kissed
them; at times she laid her arms round
his neck and her fair face on his breast,
trying to tell him she loved him. Who
would ever care for him as she did?
Even If she were not quite so well bred
as the Ladies Evesham. she more than
atoned for 1t by her love for HIM. Why
should he not marry her? He was his
own master.
Then, in the midst of his exultatfon,
he thought of his mother, and the
thought sobered him. He had always
said that he would marry someone who
resembled her. Dark-eyed Maggie was
the very ~opposite; no two persons
could be more dissimilar. Another thing
occurred to him-he had promised not
to take any important step in life with
out his mothers consent. Well. that
promise he would keep-he would obtain
her permission before he asked Maggie
to be his wife.
Having come to this conclusion. Sir
Carlos thought he had made a great
concession. How many young men in
his place. he asked himself. would do as
he did? He was in every way bis own
master, vet he was going home obe-