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The two following days, during which he could hear nothing and do nothing, were a time of torture to the young fellow; for solitary brooding over the matter brought him to the conclusion that there was some- thing more than an accidental resemblance between the snappish old Earl and Mr. Beresford. Lord Kingsclifle was much old- er than Mr. Beresford, and, in spite of the paralysis of the latter, weaker and more in- firm; his face was thinner, more sunlren, and his voice feeller and less under control; but there was sucha strong undefinable like- ness between the two iren in Fpeech and manner, that, with a sudden hot flush, Ger- ald felt the question darting into his mind, “ Could Mr. Beresford be the relation Lord Kingsclit‘fe meant 2” He felt horribly asham- ed of himself the next moment for allowing sucha suggestion to take shape; but, in spite of himself, it would come back again and again, each time strengthened by the suspicions and prejudices of Mr. Shaw, Peggy, and Madame de Lincry. But if so, if Mr. Beresford were really the ne’er- do-weel connection of the Earl’s, who had taken the ring thirteen years ago, why, what of that? He had repented of the wild ways of his youthâ€"by the bye, he couldn’t have been so very young thir- teen years agoâ€"well, at any rate, he had settled down respects.ny long since; and if he did drop a stone out of his ring in the railway-carriage on the night of the robbery, that did not proveâ€"-â€" Gerald did not shape the thought further. But again Mr. Shaw’s 00Lviction that the stone was a valuable clue to the robber came into his mind to t)r- ture him with new and alarming fancies. As soon ss Gerald got back to Mrs. Wal- ton’s house, after his visit to Lord Kings- clifie, he wrote a long letter to Madame (’e Lancry, telling her all about. it, and asking her what he should do next. Peggy was still ill, so he was spared the pain of evading the questions she would have been sure to ask. He had been so much preoccupied by thoughts of her, and anxiety about the business he had in hand, that the small persecutions and insults of his fellow- boarder, Mr. Hicks. had for the last few days entirely failed of their effect; and when, on the third Sunday after his own and Peggy’s arrival in London, he was told that his tormentor had gone away for his yearly holiday, the intelligence afforded him much less relief than it would have done a. fortnight before. Mr. Hicks, how- ever, never forgot to pay ofl’ a. grudge, such as he considered he owed Peggy for snubbing him, and Gerald for aupplanting him in the estimation of all the women in the house by the very simple means of practising ordin- ary courtesy toward them. On this particular Sunday, Girald was surprised at luncheon-time, when the ladies had returned from church, to find that there was a. flutter of curiosity, surprise, and amusement among them, of which apparent- ly he was the object As soon as they saw that he noticed this, he was assailed by a. fire of nods and smiles, half nervous, half malicious, of congratulations, of innuendoes, of " You might have told me !" and “ When is it coming off ‘3” which made him look from one to the other in a nazement. Only Miss Simpson remained silent ; and this fact awoke his suspicions that some trick had been played upon him. “ What does all this mean, Miss Simpson â€"cag you t_ell me '3” he asked qgietly. “ Only that, at the suggestion of Mr. Hicks, who told us we should hear some- thing worth listening to, we all went; to the parish church this morning, and heard the bums between you and Miss Bereeford pub- lished for the third time.” No one could have told, from the manner in which Gerald received this announcement, that he heard it for the first time. He had been so well prepared, by the expression of vulgar malice on her face, for some disagree- able news, that he was able to look straight at her and lafugh quite naturally. “ I thought“ it Awould surpriâ€"se you, said simply. And every face at the table underwent a sudden change. Miss Simpson, who had spread the report that he knew nothin about the publication of the banns, and ha told them all to watch his face when he heard of it, was aghast ; Mrs. W alton. who had only just got wind of the affair, looked unutterably relieved ; While the sympathies of m st of the rest turned at once in the right direction, the laugh raised was at the expense of Mr. Hicks and Miss Simpson; and, with the heartiness of reaction. real congratulations were showered upon Ger-all instead of the mocking sham felicitations of a. few minutes before. He received them with perfect self-possession, and did not even hurry away from the luncheon-table; but he was much relieved when the party broke up and dispersed in search of nap or novel, and he was free to snatch up his hat and dash out of doors for a. little steady thought. His anger against the perpetrator of the impudent trick soon spent itself; the fel- low was out of reach, and there was an end to that side of the matter. But Peggy, what would she say if the tory were to come to her ears? He cmld only hope that she would not be so deeply hurt and ofl'ended that she would break 01f her old affectionate intercourse with him, and either refuse to speak to him again at all or be so stiff and prim as to make him wish she had done so. Gerald did not know much about girls, but he understood thatthey werewilful creatures, who never saw any matter by the man's light of common sense, and he thought it very likely that Peggy might refuse to believe that he had no hand in the matter, and quite improbable that she should treat him as a fellow-victim. He had spent; some time in Regent’s Park, and was making his way through the throng of young men and maidens with the unmis- takable impress of Sunday on their unhe- coming clothes, when it occurred to him that he had been very foolish not to take the good-natured Mrs. \Valton into his con- fidence, and beg her to help him in keeping the affair a secret from Peggy until she should get well. The fever was over now, and there was nothing the matter with her but extreme weakness, which kept her in her room still. Gerald hoped that by the time she came downstairs he might summon enough courage to tell her the story as a. joke, and at the same time he thought he was subtle enough to tell, by the way EREAT SECRET; CHAPTER XX 11. SHALL I”,F BE DONE. n he OR, lshe received it, how she would be likely to listen to a. suggestion that she should lbecome his wife if he should ever be in position to make it. She would never marry Vicwr, that was certain ; then why not marry him, in than dim future of all penniless young men, In which money is to be had for the mere trquble of dr‘a-wiug a v nun. nu nu. “n..- .. - 7 , , , \heque 1 Why not, indeed, when he loved her as nobody else ever would, as the fairest woman only gets one man to love her? The first irregular impulses of his passion had now been fanned into the steady fire of utter devotion, fed by her innocent caresses, by the sisterly kisses he received, but scarcely dared to return. If she had only been some other man's daughter, and not Mr. Beresiord's, he felt that he, inexper- ienced in woman’s ways as he was, would have a better chance than any other man with this girl, who, petulant and wayward as he knew her to he, would always be a fairy princess to him. He hurried back to Mrs. VValtou’s hoping that it might not be too late to warn her. But as soon as the door was opened by the servant he saw the landlady herself flutter- ing downthe stairs, witha. bunch of longrih- bons, which she wore on the left shoulder of her sunday dress, floating behind her: she stopped excitedly and beckoned to Ger- ald, who came up the stairs three at a time, delighted at having found his opportunity so soon. But no sooner had he come nearer, and had time to whisper to her, “ Mrs. Walton. 1 want to speak to you particular 1y,” than she turned and tripped upward liae a wili.o’-the-wisp, nodding to him encourag- ingly as he followed her. 1 ,,,,,.:___ __,: On the first floor she paused, panting, and hissing out, “ Ib‘s all right. Mr. and Mrs. Nesbitt are out, so you can go in here," she opened the door of the drawing-room, half-ushered, half-pushed him in, and then, instead of following, shut the door and ran down-stairs. Gerald could have sunk into the earth : leaning baek on the sofa, sup- ported by pillows, Was Peggy. He could only see the top of her head ever the cush- ions, and, as she did not move, he, after a moment’s opeuse, turned to the door to escape. But he was not clever enough to do so unheard ;a.s his fingers touched the handle she called teebly, “ Gerald l" and he had to turn back again with a. crimson face. "WS'he was holding out her hand to him, so he came forward as boldly as he could, and stood in front of her, without at first daring to meet her eyqs._ “ I‘m veridglgd you are so much better. We didn’t expect to see you down so soon,” said he, in a. stiflegi, _constra.ined voice. It was all right, then ; she had not heard of the trick. Gerald’s head went up with an expression of great relief, and he knelt down beside the sofa and looked at her for the first time. Her face was very thin and very white ; but her eyes were so bright, and the smile about her mouth was such a happy one, that Gerald thought he had never seen her so pretty or so sweet before. As, kneeling he bent his head to look more closely at her, she stretched out her arms and put them lovingly around his neck. He was astonished, but very much pleased, by this tenderness; and, with his heart heat- ing so violently that he was afraid its throb- bing would frighten her and make her draw her arms away, he kept very still under her caress, and for the first moment dared not even lift his eyes to hers. When he did look at her again, she dropped her head gently upon his arm with a low sigh of utter content. “ Nybu glaid to ee me down, then, Gerald '2 h9p_ed y_ou wot‘lld‘bez” A u 1 -'oDJ ' * She moved her head so that she could look up into his face, and said rather shyly, “Iâ€"I don’t know.” Then, suddenly rais- ing herself, and burying her face on his shoulder with an impulse of irrepressible passionate affection, she whispered, “ Mrs. Walton has told me.” “ Told youâ€"What '3" “ You knowâ€"what she heard in church this morning.” "‘V‘Vfi’hVat makes you so happy to-day Peggy ?" he §sl§ed spitly. n . u I] m"; 370;] are not angry '2 I was afraidt you would be so angry,” said Gerald, much relieved, but spjll miore puzzled: _ “ Angry? No ; I was astonishedâ€"I was almost frightened. It came upon me so suddenly, you knowâ€"so very suddenly. For I had never thought youâ€"you loved me â€"1ike that. I had fancied, when I began to think about it at 9.11, thntâ€"_that you liked He, gecéfisé Vyou weré kind, and because ! was lonelyLbut not fiecfiqsewnot because wan luucly, uuu uuu van-nun» "uvv vauluuv I was myself; I didn’t think I was nice enough. And soâ€"and so, of course, I was very much surprised this morning, and very, very happy." “ Happy! Youflike me well enough toâ€"" Gerald stopped short. He saw now how the story had been repeated to herâ€"sew that she loved him so well that even the un- heard-of liberty of tnkin her consent for granted seemed no great o ence in her eyes ; and, in the burst of joy which succeeded to his bewilderment. he took her in his arms and kissed her over and over again. But presently came her inevitable demand for an expleaeti°9:. _ She did not finish her sentence. But the simple-minded absence of any trace of coqm-try from her voice and manner made her meaning clear. Gerald hesitated. “ \Vhat did you think when you first heard of it ?” he asked. “Well, at firstI didn’t; know what to think. Then it came into my head that you might be going away somewhere â€"to emigrate perhapsâ€"and that you didn't like to -lea.ve me all alone by mysdf, and that you hadn’t yet found courage to tell me so â€"you know you’re rather shy With me sometimes; and yet there was no time to lose. So youâ€"so you got everything readyf and, of courserhen I wasill you couldn’t tell me, and you had to wait untilâ€"until now. That's what I thought, Gerald. Was I 7‘ Why didn‘t you tell me you wwted to marry me, Gerald? You might have knownâ€"” rlghtj “You are always right, my darlin ,” said he tenderly, but rather vaguely. %{e was utterly bewildered by the positionâ€"did not confess to her that it was a. false oneâ€" snd was battling with 9. great longing to take advsntage of it. So he evaded the question, and yielded to the delight of being with her. and holding her little hands, list- ening to the almost childish prsttle she 9n poured into his ears in the pleasure If talk ing to? him again: and so th: afternoon slipped away into evening. and Mrs. \Valton brought tea up to them with her own hands, and overwhelm- ed them both with a. flood of congratulations which Gerald did not dare to try no stem. And at seven o’clock. Peggy being very tired, kind-hearted Mrs. Walton insisted on taking her up to bed; and Gerald, as he received the girl‘s loving good-night kiss and pressed her in his arms, felt: that con- fession was growing every moment more im- possible. He passed the night in a fever, which re- vented his taking any rest. As he stoo at the little window of his room in the early morning, watching the first rays of the sun shining on the‘glass panes of a studio op- posite, and wishing to goodness that a sud- den eclipse would let him go to sleep, he came to the conclusion that the only course open to him was to go boldly to Mr. Beres- ford as soon as his errand for Madame de Lancry was accomplished, and to ask him to let him take another situation, with a view to getting a position which would en- able him to become a suitor for Peggy's hand. Having made up his mind to this course, he felt madly anxious to get his busi- ness in London over ; and when, soon after breakfast. Peggy came down-stairs into Mrs. Walton‘s sitting-room, she found him restlesst wandering about the room with his hat in his hand, not liking to leave the house without having seen her, and yet eager to start on his daily journey to the Charing Cross Hotel. “ Why does Madame de Lancry want you to see Mr. Smith, Gerald ?” asked Peggy when they were sitting by the fire together. “ I have to give him a letter from her, as I told you.” “ V\ by couldn’t she send it by post? She must have some other reason, Gerald.” After the discoveries he had lately made about the confidential clerk, Gerald thought this very probable. He wished to keep his suspicions to himself, however, but Peggy saw that something was being kept from her, and she coaxed, and teased. and guess- ed, and suggested, until at last Gerald was forced to confess that he held something stronger than mere suspicion :that Smith was an accomplice in the robbery, if not in the murder. r‘r‘ Stronger than suspicion ! 0h Gerald, do you mean proqf . :- .u J 7“ Yes; ‘and.’ I have proof of more than that.” W“Of what? Gerald, Gerald, you can trust me.” “ I have in my possession the clue to the murder that poor Mr. '_Shaw told us about the night he slept at ‘Les Bouleaux.’ " He said these words very slowly, very distinctly, in a low voice, with his eyes fixed upon her white quivering face and his hand laid impressively upon hers. Both remained for a few seconds very quiet, very still, breathing heavily, and reading in each other’s eyes the full measure of importance which each attached to the startling an- nouncement. Then both started violently at the same moment, and turned their heads sharply to the screen before the door. Gerald got up and looked round it, but nobody was there. “ I thought I heard somebody come- softly into the mom,” said he. “ I‘m sure I did,” said Peggy. “ You don't mind my leaving you for a. minute, P_eggy '2" She said wNo,” and he went: out into the hall. There, talking to the servant, and glancing about him all the time with his sharp little blapk eyes, was Mr. Smith. Gerald was so much startled that he allowed the clerk to wring his hand heartily, With- out at first having a Word to any in greeting. “ I got to town late last night, and went to the Charing Cross Hotel, Where they gave me your card, and said you had been ca‘l ing incessantly for the last fortnight. So I came straight up here this morning to find out what; you wanted with me.~” I have a. letter to give you,” said Gerald. And he took it out of his pocket and hand- ed it to Smith, who changed color at sight: of the hand-Writing, and tore the envelope with clumsy fingers. It contained nothing but a. blank sheet of paper. Both men were equally surprised by this discovery, and they glanced suspiciously at each other, trying to learn the meaning of the trick from each other’s face. “ Who is this interesting missive from '2" asked Smitfihilirghtly. _ “From Madame de Lancry,” answered Gerald. “If you are going back to the hotel now, you might let me walk '9. little Way with vou.” He was anxious to 90 to the telegraph-of- flice, anxious to get Smith out of the house Without his having seen Peggy, if indeed it was not too late already. The two men walked part of the way down Portland Place together, and Gerald left the other near the Langham Hotel, on the plea that he wanted to get some stem 3. He then went into the post office, and te e- graphed the news of Smith’s arrival to Ma- dame de Lancry. When he came out the other had disappeared. Gerald hurried back to Mrs. Walton‘s, only to find that the artful clerk had got back before him. When the young fellow entered the sittingvroom, Smith was walking up and down, talking volubly, and with much excitement, while Peggy was sitting crouched in the armchair by the fire, in_flooderof tears. _ «“lie sa'ys I must: go back, Gerald; he says I must go back,” she burst out. “Is is true? Must I go ‘2" “Idon’t; see how there canbeany question about it, under the circumstances,” said Smith, wagging his head sympathetically. “Her father is ill, and has sent for her_ scrawled this note to her with his own hand. How could any daughterfefuse to go '2" And he gave Gerald a piece of papér, upon which, in Mr. Beresford’s well-known left- handed scrawl, were written a few Words, imploriug his dagghter‘yo coqie to him. “ Gernajd, you know that. ill or well, he never wants me,” said Peggy piteously. “ Must I go ‘2” “I‘m afraid you must, dear. You can’t refuse to go to your father when he’s ill," answered he gravely. Smith looked much relieved by this de- cision, and, having fulfilled his purpose, he left the house, telling them he would call again in the evening. Some other inmates of the house came into the room as he went out, and Gerald and Peggy had no further opportunity of talking together until after dinner, when a telegram was brought to the former. He read it, glanced involuntarily with a troubled expression at Peggy, and left the room. She sprang up and followed him into the hall. “ What is it, Gerald? It is from Mldnme de Lsncry, I know. What does it say 2" “ I must go to Paris at once, and take the ring stone with me," whispered he. “ 0 Gerald, and l have to go to that ter- rible house, ‘ Les Bouleaux,’ without you ! They will marry me to Victor, I know they will I" Gerald started, and his face grew hot and crim§on 51% he_ caugptuhef in his arms: “ Gerld ! Gerard !" she whispered. cling- ing to him. “ You on save me from that; you will, won’t you? Marry me before I g°£ ..... .. -.-1 ~"As shé-ilevaned bale her head' on his shoulder in the ill-lighted little hall, a shud- der passedgve: hlm _fr2m head to foot ; for, by some odd effect of light and shadow, the face of the girl he loved, and to whom he had just plighted his faith, brought back to his mind the clear cut features of the face that had bent over his in the darkness of the carriole on the night of the murder. As she looked up, feeling him shiver, the odd resemblance was gone. He pressed his lips to here as she twined her arms lovingly, entreatingly about him. Hé-r touch, her voice intoxicated him; no reason, no duty could stand against. the charm she had for him. ‘fizfiywciiarling, my darling l I willâ€"I swear I will l” he whispexied hpski}y. NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS. But Gerald wasustill cold from the shock‘ as he led Pe gy, who was beaming with ex citement an happiness, back to the sittinv room. Hotels are utilized as homes by the peo- ple of the United States to a far greater ex- tent than by any other people. This fact and the rapid growth of the population of the country explain the wonderful in- crease in the number of hotels. It is estimated that on an average forty ho- tels are destroyed by fire every month in the United States, and yet the whole number does not decrease because the average of new ones erected every month is sixty-five. It is no wonder that the hotel clerk across the lines feels that he is a. power in the land. The London correspondent of *he Ne 1 York Times_cab!e§ to that paper as follow; 2 “ if the English press comments on the fisheries treaty have been cab ed ro America it ought to be explained that they represent nothing beyond a general and natural satis- faction that some sort of result has been reached. So far as I have seen, there is not an editor in England who understands the subject well enough to know whether the treaty is favourable to Canada or not. Cer- tainly nobody can be discovered who cares a continental. The solitary desire here all along has been to have the dispute closed, no matter how, so long as there is an end to it. Nothing could be more mistaken than the idea that England was anxious to get the better of America in this matter. There would never have been a voice raised in op- position in the Commons if the whole Canaâ€" dian case had been abandoned. As it is, Mr. Chamberlain is felt to have got through a delicate job very cleverly and successfully, and, I should say, he will return to England with a distinct increase in his political pres- tige.” 1 he relationships existing among the members of the various royal families of Europe would puzzle the most expert gen- ealogist, and must be somewhat confusing even to the royalties themselves. As t‘a process of intermarriage goes on the degrees of kinship become more and more mixed and it will not be surprising if, at no distant date, a. European king should be able to boast that he is his own grandfather. It is reported that Prince Albert Victor of Wales is betrothed to his first cousm, the Princess Alexandra. of Greece, while the Princess Victoria is betrothed to her first cousin, the Crown Prince of Greece. There is a good deal of truth in the remark of a. contempor- ary that the next generation of European monarchs will be mainly brothers and sisters and first cousins. It is to be hoped that the usual consequences will not follow this close intermerriage. Those who are not possessed of much riches may console themselves in the con- templation of the unhappy state of mind of “Bonanza.” Flood. Although two or three years ago he was worth $40.000,0C0, he is now oppressed with the fear that he will die a pauper. Lmst summer he and “ Bon- anza.” Mackey lost between them something like $12,000,000 on the disastrous California Wheat deal. and sinca then they have had a falling out. In a. but? Flood determined to withdraw from business and invest the re- mainder of his fortune in such a. way that it would not be liable to further shrinkage. He accordingly dumped all his local stocks, bonds and other quick assets on the San Francisco stock market, with the result that the market became demoralized, and Mr. Mickey bought up such of the securifies as he wanted on his own terms, and the rest, as the Chicago Mail puts it, “ went knocking about like loose barrels of pork in the hold of a. storm-tossed ship, liable any minute to punch hole: through the bottom." The result is that Mr. Flood is losing his sleep o’nights through dread thlt he will die a pauper, and is said to be in e Eitiable state of mind. The old moral can e extracted from these facts. A New Method of Steam Heating on the Erie. The Motive Department- of the Erie rail way has invented a. new system of steam heating, which does not infringe 'on any patent, has givun great promise of success, and will doubtless be universally adopted by that company. The new system consists in direct heating by steam from the locomo- tive, which passes through a rubber hose coupling, running from car to car, each of which is filled with rsdisting pipes placed along the sides and under the seats. The heat in each car is controlled independently by a regulating valve. The coupling is carried from car to car in a similar manner to thnt which has been used successfully in Surden for many years. The cars) an be easily coupled and when disconnected the coupling disconnects and closes off the steam auto- matically. No dvfiiculty has been experi- enced in keeping the cars at an eqnable tem- p r Lture in cold or mild weather: A num- ber of cars are already equipped and in service, and others are being titted up as rapidly as possible. There is nothing like dressing your local items in rhetorical finery even it you have to come to plain English at the end. A D;kota. paper describes a fire by saying that “the red flames danced in the heavens and flung their fiery arms about like a. black funeral all, until Sam J one: got'upou the roof and flushed them out with a few pail: of water.” (T0 In: comqun.) A military contributa- to the Cologn Gazette writes: “ The whole of the Rus« sian cavalry and artillery are on the war footing. The plan of an invasion of Prussia is cleverly conceived and more threatening than has hitherto been believed. All the important Russian garrisons are located at railroad depots, which greatly facilitates a. mobilization. Three Russian army corps, fully mobilized, are at present faced by only a part of the first German army corps, which cannot receive reinforcements but by way of the bridges of Thorn, ‘randenz and Dirschan. The possibility of defending Eastern Prussia depends entirely upon these three bridges. On the eastern side of the Vistula there are only two railroads running through as far as the frontier to Insterburg. It is clear. no doubt, that with so small a force Germany is not able to make an ag- gressive movement ; what, then, is the end of the concentrations of troops on the part of Russia? What of the enlargement of the fortifications of Koons, Bialvstock and Lom- sha ‘3 They can have no other aim but that of accelerating the advance of troops to the German frontier as much as possible. The whole of the military proceedings at Russia bear the looks of a plan of invasion. of good health is found in the regular move- ment of the bowels and perfect action of the Liver. These organs were intended by na- ture to remove from the system all impuri- ties. 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