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JAMES, Proprieto r, 111 géréoll HORACE THORNE. tf 764-tf 747-tf 681 Miss Penn pressed her lips togethâ€" er, and, drawing her drapery around her, with a soupcon of offended majesty in her face and tones, she said, “Bes- jEden-Martyn, do you forget; to whom ‘ you are speaking 2â€"passing by my jpresence altogether,” she added, with ‘ quiet humility. “ Sir Robert, here is the young per- son,” said Miss Penn, in a soft, modu- lated tone, and with adeep sigh. “Of courae she will, Sir Robert. She would not attempt to answer in any other way," interposed Miss Penn, with a sweet smile tinged with sadness. “ Yesâ€"you. Come at once.” And Miss Penn drew her- lace shawl about her with deliberate dignity, as she slowly descended the stairs before Bessie. “ Ah,” said he, rousing himself as if from a painful trance. “Bessie Martyn, I wish to ask you a few ques- tions, which I shall expect you to answer in a. truthful and straightfor- ward manner. Do you hear ?” Bessie glanced at her with a hostile flush, and then said, steadily, “ I always try to speak the truth, sir.” “A )ainful necessity,” explained Sir R0 ert, with a hoarse quiver in his voice, “obliges me to seek inforâ€" mation from you about your mis- tress.” “ Me, Miss Penn?” said Bes'sie, nervously dropping her work, and raising with a. fluttering color. Miss Penn turned away abruptly, and moaned at an cscritoire near the fireplace. “ Where is Lady Lindesay gone to- day ?” demanded Sir Robert, rising involuntarily to his feet, and speak- ing sternly; “ Bessie Martyn, Sir Robert wishes to see you in the library.” “My mistress, Sir Robert!” said Bessie, trembling very much, but; holding her head up. “What can I tell you, sir?” THE MISTRESS OF ABBEY- LANDS. ' “ I think Miss Penn can tell you, sir, much better than me,” replied Bessie, with a defiant nod at that; lady’s back hair. “She ought to know more of Lady Lindesay’s comings and g0- ings than my lady herself.” “ Yes,” he said, harshly, “ you need not tell me What Miss Penn knows or does not know. Tell whatyou know, without any further prevarication. Where has Lady Lindosay {50110 to« (lay ?j’ ‘ " I’ll tell you, Sir Robert,” ex- claimed Bessie, hotly,irritated by his manner and Miss Penn’s sharp watchâ€" ful eyes; “my lady’s gone to visit some friends at aplace called Charlton Mere, and that’s all I know; andâ€"â€"and â€"Miss Penn ought to know a good deal more, when she watches and spies, and tracks my lady across the country, and tries to get into houses af'er her, and peeps into her drawers Sir Robert had been watching her keenly, rbgt hepqw tqrfned to Bessie: and baskets, reading every bit of a letter she can get in a fireplace; and â€"andâ€"listens at- deorsâ€"l saw you, Miss Penn l~â€"and tries to open letters and papers, andâ€"andâ€"” (Bessie broke down with a sob) “ and tells the most dreadful lies ofa dear, beau- tiful, kind, good, sweet lady, that she’s not fit to hold her slippers to, and frightens her, that she says she wishes she was in Heaven, to be free from spices and enemies. There, new â€"and I don’t careâ€"«you may say what you like, Miss Penn; every word is truth that I’ve said, and moth- er knows it. And I beg your pardon, Sir Robert; I’m ready to cry my eyes out to see the way my lady is treated, because she's gentle andâ€"” “Hold your‘ tongue, girl!” com- manded Sir Robert, but. he did not utter the words very angrily. “There is no one would dare to treat Lady Lindcsay with anything but the ut- most; respect while she is mistress of Abbeylands.” Bessie shook her head doubtingly, and sobbod in her handkerchief. “Sir Robert, you are quite aware of the real facts ofthe case, which this girl’s attachment to her mistress“ who has certainly been lavish of costly presents to her,” said Miss Penn, Venomously; “ has representh in so distorted a light.” “Unless you wish the young per- son to remain, after her insulting language to me, Sir Robertâ€"N “ Yes, yes, I know," he muttered, moodily. “ No, no; you may go, Bessie Max'- tyn; and see that you keep your tongue silent,” said Sir Robert, abâ€" sently locking and unlocking a desk. “ Yes, I’ll go now,” muttered Bes- sie to herself; “ but you’ll hear more from me, Sir Robert, when Madame Pry isn’t at your elbow I” Beesie’s indignation and schemes of vengeance were heard throughout the day; they flamed up fiercely in the servants’ hall during dinner, when she dealt out mysteriously wrathful hints to her companions “that they might expect to hear something soon,” and that “there was one too many in Abbeylands, for certain,” and that “she wonld not stand it if she were to be shot for it." AN ENGLISH STORY. CHAPTER IV‘ 521m @313. RICHMOND HLLL, ONTARIO, CANADA: FRIDAY, A sharp knock at the door startled Bessie violently, and she sprang to her feet with a bewildered stare at the twilight outside and the semi-ob- scurity inside. “It’s my lady! and I’ve been asleep for hoursl” gasped Bessie, shivering; “and I’m perished to death. Oh, dear! thercdl’ve knocked down the chair.” It was a sultry, lowering day, and as the hot, silent hours of the afterâ€" noon rolled on, Bessie grew sleepy and languid over her work, and at length put it aside; and taking a, richlyâ€"bound novel from one of the rosewood shelves, she sat down by the open window to amuse herself. But the book was of rather to high a class of literature for Bessie’s taste; she began to listen dreamily to the sleepy ehirps of Lady Lindesay’s, canaries, to the ticking 0f the ormoln clock, to the steady pading of Sir Robert’s feet on the gravelled walk of the terrace; then fell to wondering where Miss Penn was, and finally slipped away into slumberous obli- v10n. the flosay violet mat. “ Has your mistress not reLurned yet ‘8” he demanded, and there was something in his voice that fright- ened Bessie. Half awake, and Lhox‘oughly con~ fused, Bessie rushed to the doorgand unlocked it. It was not “ my lady,” but Sir Robert, who stood there on the flosay violet mat. “ Something may have delayed her ladyship,” urged Bessie, trembling, she knew not why. “ I dare say she will be at home in a few minutes, Sir Robert; she is always back at six 01- halfâ€"past six.” He made no reply, but strode over to the easy-chair by the open window, and flung himself into it, leaning out on the sill, wet with dew. More could not be extracted from Bessie; but the servants coughed and nodded their heads with Masonic inâ€" telligenee. “N0, Sir Robert,” said Bessie, timidly. ' “It is nearly eight o’clock,” he re- marked. “Shall I have the lamp lighted, Sir Robert?” asked Bessie, half fear- ful of the darkness. E “No,” he said, in a Iowgtgne. , > 3 . And so they’Féifiained, Sir Robert at the open dressing room window, and Bessie in my lady’s bedâ€"room, afraid to look at the tall mirrors in the spectral gloom of the apartment â€"â€"â€"both listening and waiting. Bessie watched in silent fear while Sir Robert put on his overcoat, and seizing his w’hip, ran down the stops. “Will you hurry?” he Shouted, like a man beside himself, to the bustling .grooms’and stable boys. Suddenly Miss Penn, dressed in bonnet and shawl, brushed past Bessie, and joined Sir Robert as he waited. He said something in a sharp, dissatisfied tone to her, and as the phaeton swept round from the stableâ€" yard, Bessie ran down desperately and touched his arm. “ Sir Robert, will you blame speak to you one minute ?” she Whispered, beseechingly. “ N0, 1 cannot! Be off!" he cried, pushing her away roughly. “ Go in, you forward lying minx I" said Miss Penn, in a savage under- Lone. “Sir Robert,” untreated Bessie, “one word!” A “What isit, gin-1?” he said impa- Liontl y. “if you are going to look for my lady, don’t take Miss Penn with you I Don’t, Sir Robert I” implored Bessie, an urgent whisper. “Elie hates my lady; she has told shameful lies of a good, beautiful Christian lady,” added Bessie, mixing up her adjectives in her distress; “ don’t take her; she’d send you wrong just 1,0 do my lady harm.” Bessie spoke rather at random in her agitation, but Sir Robert only said, “I‘m not going to take her, Bessie Martyn,” and springing into the phaeton he drove away. “Bessie Martyn, I will make you repent this 1" said Caroline Penn, in a suffocated tone, While her pale face looked cadavcrous in the moonlight. “ So you may, but 1’“ never stand to HOG you try to ruin an innocent lady I” rctorted Bessie, courageously. “ Miss Penn, you let my daughter alone, please; she’s a good, kind girl, who needn’t be ashamed of anything she’s said or done in her life,” inter- posed Mrs. Martyn, with cutting sigâ€" nificance. The night passed away, and the gray dawn stoic over the sleeping woods and lawns, and the grim silent. 01d Abbey. Who would say that the sunlight. could ever more bring joy and brightness to the desolate home ? While he lives, the memory of that night’s drive to Charlton Mere will haunt Sir Robert Lindesay. The pale cloudy moonlight, the weird shapes of the trees and bushes as he swept past them, the deadened roll of the wheels on the early fallen leaves, the damp earthy scent of the close woodâ€" lands, the fragrance of the pine groves, and the gnawing agony of pain and anxiety goading him every step of the weary way beneath the CHAPTER V. ‘ Ml-V'l‘eémfl- "ii. an. 7o.- ‘71 “I may have been always wrong,” said he, with a sharp pang of remorse; “Caroline may have warped my judgement by her malice, since she hated Katherine so. Perhaps she might have cared a. little for me, if I had tried to please her more in her own way, indulged her more, and been gayer with her.” “Oh, Katherine, my darling!” he cried, “I cannot believe this! There must be some reason. some mistake. I will not believe Camiine’s hints and stories, and yetâ€"yetâ€"-have I not the "evidence of my own senses ‘P But not thatâ€"not thatâ€"my p001“, beautiful girl! VVilfulness, wem'iness, disobe- dience, but not dishonorâ€"it could never touch her ; it could never touch her i” ' ~ In his dire extremity, lobert Lindcsay took ofi' his hat, and prayed aloud 10 Heaven to protect his Wife. Then he thought of the gray hairs in his beard and of his forty-five years against her twenty-four, and groaned with sick impatience. It was past; eleven o’cloek‘when Sir Robert; reached Charlton Mere. About a mile from the village he had stopped at a roadside hostelry which Caroline Penn had told him of, and procured a guide in one of the tavern- keeper’s sons; and now b y the latter’s directions he drove across by the com- mon and imo the long deep lane. H “By the way, said be. asking the question which he had forgotten amid his troubled tliougth, “you have 11. pair of gray ponies in your stableâ€"the lady has not taken them home yet ?” calm pure eyes of Heaven, namely, the few sleepless stars that peered out here and there at him from be- hind hilltops and woodsâ€"all were vivid to him in after years. There were no other eyes upon him but those above, and the strong, proud man gave way t9 his grief and fear in frenzied words. “Sir Robert said not a word, but; drove slowly to the flu‘nrhouse (rate and stopped there, “as if he were dazed,” the lad said, tcliing the story afterward. Sir Robert pulled up the. horses on their haunches. “ Gone 1” he cried. “Yes, but,” said the lad, wishing- himself anywhere but on Sir ,Robert’ cushions and otter-skin rug‘. “ ‘Naw, sur, naw 1111 but the groom ?” replied the young fellow. “Naw, sir,” said the rustic, in some trepidation as to whom this st anger, who know the interior of the stables, might be, “they’re gone long" ago.” “What i0 you want? Who are on?” cried a stronr clear feminine . ' ‘ , vows. The furious mastifl‘ made no delay in his frantic leaps and hoarse raging barks, and soon the sound of unfasten- ing bolts was heard, and light stream- od forth from a door nea - at hand. “I will tell you, if you will keep your dug quiet,” said Sir Robert. The\vonuu1bade filodogliedo“wy anci carnc nut \vith a. hzntern in llcr hand. “Are you Furs. Chivers ‘3” asde Sir Robert, springing»; down. “Yes,” said she, holding the hm tern to his face. “ Ia Lady Lindcsay 112x073” he doâ€" manded, laying his hand on her shoulder. “ You must. tell me, woman â€"-do you hearâ€"1 must know.” “ Who are you ?” said the woman, rather stifily. AUGUST 15, 1873 “ Sir Robert Lindesay,” he repiiud ; “and there is some secret or {some mystery about this house which brings Lady .[Aindesay here, and 1 will know in. Is my wife hero ?” “ 1' never saw Sir Robert Lindesay in my life; I don’t know you, sir nor dol know who yourwii'e may be; but this J, know. that you have 110 right to come to a respectable dwell- ing at the dead ofnight, and storm at people in this way,” said Mrs. Ohi- vers, indignanbly, shaking his hand ofl’, and retreating inside her gate. “Listen to me, woman,” returned Sir Robert, lmm'sely; “I. will pay you well. I am nearly distracted, and I want you to help me. 11‘ Lady Lindesay is here I will take herhomc; if she has left,you must give me what traces you can of her whereabouts.” “Lady Lintlesny is safe wherever she is Lhatis all I will tell you sir,” said the woman, when a second perâ€" son 'an over from the house door, and Sir Robert saw in the rays of light from the lantern the face of a young man. He whispered scmething to the woman, and she turned to Sir {obert with n (lifl’crent expression. “You may come in, Sir Robert,” she said; “Lady Lindcsay is in the house. Softly, sir, there is one dying here, too.” “Who is dying?" demanded Robert. “A poor lady,” said Mrs. Chivem. He entered through the lowâ€"ceilcd kitchen, in which was a small fire burnng redly cm the hearth; through long narrow passages, light ed by Mrs. Ohivcrs with a tallow candle; and then into a small, neat parlor communicating with a bedâ€" room. The door was ajar, and Mrs. Chivers motioned him to ntcr: \v'th the warning, “ Hugh 1” A low "bed drupcd'in handsome damask, a small table beside it laden “Aug.” Ladyâ€"Jobs lady and the with a plate of fruit, a medicine bottle, and a. decanter of wine, a shaded lamp burned softly on an- other table, a. figure standing by the bedside, and a dark face and long tresses of shining hair streaming over the pillowsâ€"~13heso were what he be- held, while a camphorous, sick-room odor filled the apartment. “And this woan is your mother, Katherine ?” “ Yes, and she is dying. I must gr) to her now, Sir Robert,” said his, wife, endeavoring to pass him. He looked at her bright hair girlâ€" ishiy curling" on her black dress, [IL i 3';- xpv'rituclle fuee downermt and pale, {LL hm' lime white hands nervously -t]‘emblin;", as with one swift e0mpre< .‘ hensi‘ve bound his mind flew back i over the past, :«eeing the wrong made right and the mi. knees clear, and in his joy finding his wil'e all that he be- lieved her to be-â€"}nii-e :uui trueâ€"his yearning love, pity and Linwkfnlness melted down the iey harriora of hit] pride at once and forever. The figure by the bedside was Katherine, Lady Lindesay, and the face on the pillow startled Sir Robert by its being a haggard, ruined like- ness of his Wife. “ I told you three months before you married me that she was dead,” interrupted his wife, “ and I told you what I believed. She was not dead, though, as I discovered afterward. It is a long story, Sir Robert, but I must tell it now, 1 supposeâ€"long as I have striverl to hide it.” “Kaiherine,” 1:0 saidâ€"his anger and fear fading before Katherine’s: sad, gentle face, and the serious light in her eyesâ€"“What are you doing here? who is that?” “Your mother!” gasped Sir Bob Mfrâ€"“Why, you told meâ€"” “You have not been very tolerant of my whims and fancies, Sir Rob- ert,” said Kathering, somewhat, bitr terly; “you have not been very 11n- willing to believe the worst 01' me, who never vrm’lged you in thought, word, or deed; but you might be generous enough. to spare me from further questioning. I came to see my mother here ; 1 could not let you know the feet of her existence; and she is (lying now. I found she was (lying today, and 1 could not leave her, but I sent the groom home with a note toyou.’f 7‘ - . “My mother, SirRober‘v,” Robbed his Wife. “ Hush 1 She is dying. Come into this room to speak to me.” “ Yes,” said Katherine Lindesay, with a deep sigh. ' “And why did you kee ) it secret from me, Katherine?” he askedfialc ins: her hand. “Because, Sir Robert,” said his wife, drawing her hand away and looking straight into his eyes, “I Could not let you know my mother,” and then her eyes fell, and her face quivered all over. “ Why, Katherine ?” he questioned, very gently. “Was it her Whom you came to see here ?” he asked, trcmulously. “] never got it,” be interrupted, eagerly; “ it was because I did not know where you were, Katherine, and because I was nearly mad with alarm and anxiety, than I came after you. You say you have never wronged me, Katherine; but}, in With- holding your confidence from me, and sufTering malicious people to make What assertions they pleased respect- ing your strange conduct, have you not wronged mo cruelly ?” “ I was wrong,” said Katherine with tears, “ but I was so unhappy and lonely, that 1 did not know what I had best do. Ioould not tell you that you had made a worse mesallc’ance than you thought,” she added, drying 1101' [021139, and confronting her hus- band proudly. “ I could not; tell you,” said Katlr erine, sadly and resolutely. “ But you (would let others say WOI'SC things of yourself, Katherine,” he observed; “which do you think would touch me more nearly?” ‘5 Katherine, my darling,” he Crier}, taking her in his arms, “who so fit to be your confidant and protector as your husband? You do not care much for me, I know, but, after all, you might be sure 1 would be your best Counsellor and friem ; indeed 1 would, Katherine.” She gave a startled glance at her bus und‘s face, to 5:00 if he was in earnest "I did not think you uu'od anyâ€" thing for me,” shesaid, in a low tone; “ I thought you only married me fur my money.” “ So I did, Katherine,” hoanswered, truthfully, though 1101‘ reproach cut him to the heart; "‘ but), my darling, 1 came to love you afterwm'd. \Von’t you share your troubles with me, Katherine 7” “ Why,” said-Sac, sorrowfully, “did you never tell me that before?” Oh, Robert, it would have saved me such pain ! I dared not tell you of my poor mother, when I knew how you valued your noble pedigree, and all those great names in your fzunily history that you told me were so spotless, and concerning which there was never a blot on the oscutcheon of the house of Lindesuy.” Sir Robert colored with shame ; his young wife had his pompous expres- biOHS so sadly by heart. “There never was a spot or stain on our name, my darling,” he said, “and there never was a purer or fairer wearer of it; than Katherine Lindesay.” ' She glanced through the open door- way at the figure on the bed. “Tell me of her, Katherine,” he whispered; “ tell me, my dear Wife.” She looked at him, the color com- ing and going in her cheeks, and her bright eyes troubled. " She is my mother, and she was a gay, b9agtiful girl when my father marmed her,” Vsaid Lady Uindesay; “ but he was too grave, andâ€"I mean, 0.110 was very young, andâ€"” “ Yea, I know,” put in Sir Robert, with a sigh. “ She was fond of dress and admira- tion, and she had a passion for theatreâ€" going, and the end was she ran away from him, and went on the stageâ€"â€" ran away and left her husband, Sir Robert, and went on the stage,” re- peated Lady Lindesay, distinctly. “ And he said she was dead, and in- tended she should. be dead to him from that time forth. That is two- gndâ€"twenty yeah? ago, Sir Robert, and THE YORK HERALD I know little of the life she led in those years, save that it was a miser able one : and when, at the time of my marriage, one of my solicitors disâ€" covered that a strange, Wild-looking woman who came to his ofliee to make inquiries about me, was no other than my long-lost mother, he informed me of the feet, meaning to give her money and send her out of the coun- try; but when I saw her in spite of him, and when she wept and kissed my hands, and asked to be let live somewhere near me, that she might see me a few times before she died, I resolyed I would. not forsake my 001‘ wretched mother. And‘then, Sir Reb- ert, I took this place for- her, and and Mrs. Chivers, who was an old servant of mine, kept the secret Well, even from her own daughter and. sonâ€" inâ€"lawâ€"the young man you sawâ€"and never told them]. was Lady Lindeâ€" say; and I used to disguise my drese and leave my carriage and ponies at the hostelry beyond the Village, and walk here across the fields. I have done this once or twice aweek for nearly twelve months; but it is over newâ€"she is dying.” There was a dead silence for a minâ€" ute aft-er she had spoken; all the pride of the Lindesays was doing battle with his love in Sir Robert’s heart~but only for a minute} Ilis living, beloved Katherine “Was a thousand times dearer than the digâ€" nity of his dead ancestors; still itwns a. struggle between the two. “ A disgraceful secret 1” said Kath- erine, coldly, “ Yes, it was very pain- ful; but 1 came to feel such deep pity, and love even, fer this‘ poor desolate women, that itmnde it easier to bear.” She moved away a few steps. “ Mrs. Chivers will get aroom ready for you, Sir Robert, in a few minutes, it' you wish to stay. I am going to sit beside my mother,” said Lady Lindesay, with One of her old resolute expressions, though her feaâ€" tures were wan and wear '. “ We mayâ€"3’ she began, then quit- tcd him abruptly. “ Yes, mother,” she said, softly leaning over the bed ‘*' Won’t you let me keep watch with you, Kathmine ?” asked her husband. "' Do you imagine 1 should think harshly oi'tho poor soul passing away 2 Have we not both been wronging each other, Katherine?” The haggard face was raised from the pillow, and the dark eyes, pain- fully distended, fixed on Katherine’s face. They were so dreadfully like and unlike those two facesâ€"she so pitying, and gentle, and youthful, the other so lined, and hardened, and scarred. “ It; is a sad, terrible story, Kathar- ine, he said, with a sigh. “You must have suffered a great deal to keep aâ€" Termszâ€"One Dollar per Ammm in Advance Qubor‘u Lindesuy shuddercd as he looked. The skeleton fingers of' the trembling hand were pointing at him. “Who is that ?" came the faint, gurghng whisper. “That is my husband, mother,” mi": Katherine. “ You know I told you w" him.” “ Yes, ,i §_z‘:m\v~â€"-I know.” The face WM mist again in St mggling anxiety. “ \Vili he speak {u an“? Sirâ€"Robert #you willâ€"«not be angry ~â€"Katherine was married whcnâ€"â€"” "’ No, notangry; how could I be ‘3" sald he, earnestly, “ Katherine my beloved wife,” and in sightol' the fad- ing eyes he drew Katherine’s arm within his. “\Vhen I found her 0m," mid Katherine, wiping the cold brow, while her tearsfell fast. In due fading eyes flashed with some of the 10ngâ€"101‘g0tten light of ham):- ness, and then turned to Katherine again. “ (.‘rod Mess my daughter, andâ€"" “ She is gone, Katherine-poor soul, sbe iH gone !” said Sir Robert,b1‘okenâ€" ly. “ My darling, I will try to make up for the mmE'xer’s love you novcr knew.” “ 0h, Kobert, why did you not, tell me before?” sobbcd Katherine. “ 1 never thought you cared for me, and â€"-L loved you at first, until I grew afraid of you.” “Your poor 'muthm- tried to MCSH us buth ; will you not try 10 love me again, Katherine ?” he entl‘eated. “ I will,” Stud Katherine. And thus in the presence of death the hurb‘md and wife were united. ,UBLISHED AT THE OFFICE Issued \Vcekly on Friday Morning YONGE Sm, RICHMOND HrLL. ALEX. SCOTT, PROPRIETOR‘ WHOLE NO. 786