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Brand stroked

| hair.

“One does not cry, little one, when
one is suddenly endowed with 4
wealthy and distinguished relative,

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inscrutable decree, ordained that my
wife and I should meet after twenty
one years. That cannot have been &
purposeless meeting. In my careless
youth, when I assigned all things
their scientific place, I have scoffed
at presentiments and vague portents
of coming evils. I retract the imma-
ture judgment then formed. During
when [
lantern would bp
hurled into the sea, I was vouchsafei
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things baffle a
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words & supreme crisis. As the storm

| feared the very

that he had formerly declared that it was imperative in the “4. se I became normal, and T at

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tributed a glimpse of the unseen to
mere physical facts. I was wrong.
The coming of that ill-fated vessel
was herajded to me. I lacked the key
of the hidden message. Now I! posses$
On board that ship, Constance,
was your mother. How strange that
| her advent should be bound up also

with the mystery of Enid’s  paren-
tage?”
“Father, dear, if you can bear It,

tell me of my mother. She knew me,
and that is why she asked me to kiss
her.”

“She asked you to kiss her?” Each
word was a crescendo of surprise.

“Yes. One nigh came to me
Oh, I remember. She wished Mr. Pyne
to telegraph to his uncle. When h
quitted us to take message she
too—how weird it all seems now—ad
mitted that she experienced something
of the intuitive knowledge of the fu
ture you have just spoken of.”

“I am not surprised. Poor Nanette!
She was always a dreamer, in a sense
Never content, she longed for highe:

  

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tion ‘ere she ceased to be a child
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| Was an attache at the British Embassy
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compelled to assume the style de
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the island. There is something quaint
in the idea, as it worked out. The
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we were married the _ stipulation
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for me to retain my own name. I wag
then the heir to a title I can now
claim. I am legally and lawfully Sir
Stephen Brand, ninth baronet, of
Lesser Hambledon, in Northumber.
| land.”

“And you
keeper!”

It was Enid who found breath for
; the exclamation. Constance braced
) herself for that which was to come.
That Stephen Brand was a well-born
; man was not a new thing in their in-
telligence.
| “Yes, a cleaner of lamps and trans-
mitter of ship's signals. Have we been
less happy?” A most vehement “No!”
| Was the answer.
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means. There are baronets poorer
than some crossing-sweepers. The es
tate was encumbered. During my
father’s life, during my own until five
years ago, it yielded only a thousand a
| year. Even now, after fifteen years
of retrenchment—you both forget that
whilst J was stationed at Flamborough
Head I was absent for a few days to
attend my father’s funeral—it pro-
duces only a little over three thousand,
Enough for us, eh, to enjoy life on?
Enough to satisfy Lady Margaret's
scruples, Enid, as to her son's absurd
notion of matrimony? Enough, too,
Constance, to mate you to the man of
| your choice, whatever his position?”

| “Dad,” murmured Constance, “M™
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| family revenues was barely sufficient
{to maintain a junior in the diplomatio
service. Yet 1 married, Heaven help
|me, in the pursuance of an ideal, only
| to find my ideal realized, after much
| suffering, on lonely rocks and bleak
| headlands. With strict economy, we
existed happily until you were born,
| My wife, at first, was sufficiently de
| Ughted to exchange Jersey society for
| Paris and the distirguished circle in
| which we moved there. But you were
not many months old until a change
A Frenchman, a rich fop, be
gan to pay her attentions which turn-
her head, I do not think she

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an who!

fatally. I did that 1a

tespects himself loath«s (0 do—] pro
tested. There was a ears, and
wild reproaches. N: ay the crash)
Game, She endeavor ( to m'sicad me)
ag to an appointme ( knows Ij
only wished to sav: r, but it wag
too much to ask nm pass over maT
silence the schen yer)

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though he, too, wa:
beauty. I discovers a
destine meeting, a: )
was hot and the country was France
We fought next morning, and I killed
him.”

Constance bent he:

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his right hand. Here, at least, was &|
lineal descendant of nine generauions
of border raiders, who held their

swords of greater worth than musty
laws. d }

Brand's eyes kindled. His voice be- |
came more vehement. The girl's im-
pulsive action seemed to sanctify the
deed.

“I did not regret, 1 have never re
gretted, the outcome of the duel. H
was mortally wounded, and was car
ried to his house to die. I fled from
Paris to escape arrest, but the woman
in whose defence I encountered him
behaved most cruelly deserted
me, and went to him k Mrs. Shep
pard. She was your English nurse at
the time, Constance, It was she who
brought you to England. | never met
my wife again. I believe, on my soul,
that she was innocent of the greater
offence. 1 think she rebelled against
the thought that I had slain one who
said he worshiped her. Anyhow, she
had her price. She remained with him,
in sheer defiance of me, until his
death, and_her reward was his wealth.
Were it not for this we might have
come together again and striven to for-
get the past in mutual toleration. The
knowledge that she was enriched with
that man’s gold maddened me. I
could not forget that. I loathed all
that. money could give, the diamonds,
the dresses, the insane devices of 50
ciety to pour out treasure on the vani-
ties of the hour. By idle chance I was
drawn to the lighthouse service. It
was the mere whim of a friend into
whose sympathetic ears I gave my
sorrows. It is true I did not intend to
devote my life to my present occupa-
tion. But its vast silences, its isola:
tion, its seclusion from the petty, sor
did, money-grabbing life ashore, at-
tracted me. I found quiet joys, peace-
ful days, and dreamless nights in its
comparative dangers and privations.,
Excepting my loyal servant and
friend, Mrs. Sheppard, and the agent
and solicitors of my estate, none knew
of my whercabouts. I was a lost man,
and, as | imagined, a fortunate one,
Now, in the last week of my service—

She

 

They rose obediently. Although
they knew he was acting a part ob
their account they were sensible that
he was adopting a sane course.

Enid tried to contribute to the new
note. She bobbed tn the approved
style of the country domestic,

“Please, Sir Stephen,” she said,
“would you like some lemon in the
toddy?"

Constance placed a little copper
kettle on the fire Their gicom had
given way to a not wholly forced
cheerfulness—for in that pleasant cot-
tage sorrow was an unwelcome guest
—when they were surprised to hear @
sharp knock on the outer door,

At another time the incident. though
unusual at a late hour, would not have
disturbed them. But the emotions of
the night were too recent, their sub
sidence too artificially achie cd, that
they should not dread the p ss. bilities
which lay beyond that imperative sum
mons.

Mrs, Sheppard and the servant had
retired to rest, worn out with the anx-
fous uncertainties of events reported
from the lighthouse.

So Brand went to the door, and the
giris listened in nervous foreboding.

They heard their father say:

“Hello, Jenkins, what is the matter
now?"

Jenkins was a sergeant of police
whom they knew.

“Sorry to trouble you, Mr. Brand, but
an odd thing has happened. A lady, a
stranger, met me ten minutes ago and
asked me to direct her to your house.
I did so. She appeared to be in great
trouble, so I strolled slowly after her.
I was surprised to see her looking in
through the window of your sitting
room. Ags far as I could make out she
was crying fit to break her heart, and
1 imagined she meant to knock at the
door but was afraid.”

“Where is she? What has become
of her?”

Brand stepped cut into the moon-
light. The girls, white and trembling,
followed.

“Well, she ran off down the garden
path and tumbled in a dead faint near
the gate. I was too late to save her,
1 picked her up and placed her on @
seat. She is there now. I thought f
best, before carrying her here—to te
you—”’

Before Brand moved, Constance
out, followed by Enid. In a whirl o!
pain, the lighthouse-keeper strode af-
ter them. He saw Constance stooping
over a@ motionless figure lying prone
on the garden seat. To those strong
young arms the slight graceful form
offered an easy task.

Brand heard Enid’s whisper:

“Oh, Connie, it is she!”

But the daughter, clasping her mo

 

 

for I would have retired in a few days,
and it was my intention to tell you
something, not all,
largely on account of your love-mak-

ing, Enid—the debacle has come, and| could he

with it my wife.”

“Father,” asked Constance, “is
mother still your wife by law?”
“She cannot be otherwise.”
“I wonder if you are right.
too yourlg to judge these things, but
she spoke of her approaching mar
riage with Mr. Traill in a way that
suggested she would not do him a
grievous wrong. She does not love
him, as I understand love. She regards
him as a man admirable in many woys,
but she impressed me with the Ilea
that she believed she was doing that
which was right though she feared

some unforeseen difficulty.”

Brand looked at her with troubled
eyes. !t is always amazing to a par-
ent to find unexpected powers of divi-
nation in a child. Constance was still
a little girl in his heart. What had
conferred this insight into a complex
nature like her mother’s?

“There is something to be said for
that view,” he admitted, “I recollect
pow that Pyne told me she had lived
some years in the Western States,
But hé said, too, that her husband, the
man whose name she bears, died there,
My poor gir's, I do, indeed, pity you if
all this story of miserable intrigue,
this squalid romance of the law-courts,
is to be dragged into the light in a
town where you are honored. Enid,
you see now how doubly fortunate you

my

 

are in being restored to a father’s
arms—”

“Oh, no, no!” wailed Enid. “Do not
say that. It seems to cut us apart.

What have you done that you should
dread the worst that can be said
And why should there be any scandal
at all? I cannot bear you to say such
things.”

“1 think I understand you, dad,”
said Constance, her burning glance
striving to read his hidden thought,
“Matters cannot rest where they are,
You will not allow—-my mother—to ga

away—a second time—without a clear
statement as to the future and ay
squally honest explanation of thq
past.”

This was precisely the question hé
dreaded, [t had forced its unwelcom@g
presence upon him in the first moment

of the meeting with his wife. But hd
was a man of order, of discipline, Tha
habits of years might not be flung
aside so readily. It was absurd, he
held, to ir‘lict the self-torture of use
less imaginings on the first night of
their home-coming after the severe
trials of thelr precarious life on the

rock.

Above all else it was necessarg to
reassure Constance, whose strength
only concealed the raging fire be

neath, and Enid, whose highly strung
temperament was on the borderland
of hysteria.

He was still the arbiter of their
lives, the one to whom they looked for
guidance. He rebelled against the
prospect of a night of sleepless misery
for these two, and it needed his em
phatic dominance to direct their
thoughts into a more peaceful chan:
nel,

So he assumed the settled purpose
he was far from feeling and summon-
ed a kindly smile to his aid.

“Surely we have discussed our diffi
culties sufficiently to-night,” he said
“In the morning, Constance, | will
meet Mr. Traill. He is a gentleman
and a man of the world, | think, too,
that his nephew will be resourceful
and wise in counsel beyond his years,

Now we are all going to obtain some!

much-needed rest. Neither you nor |
will yield to sleepless hours of brood.
ing. Neither of you knows that, not
forty-eight hours ago, I made myzell
a thief in the determination to save
our lives and mine. It was a need
ess burglary. I! persuaded myself
that it was necessary in the interests
of the Trinity Brethren, those grave
gentlemen in velvet cloaks, Enid, who
would be horrified by the mere sug
gestion. I refuse to place myself on
the moral rack another time. In the
old days, when I was a boy, the drama

was wont to be followed by a more!

Nvely scene. I forbid further discus:
pion, Come, kiss me, both of you. 1
think that a stiff glass of hot punch
wil) not do me any harm, nor you, un
less you imbibed freely of that cham
pagne I saw nestling in the ice-pail.’

of my history.) may be dying

I am} he said; “w

ther to her breast, said quietly:

“Dad, she has come home, and she
We must take her in.”
He made no direct answer. What
say? The girl's fearless!
words admitted of neither “Yes” nor)
“NG.”

He turned to the policeman,

“I am much obliged to you, Jenkins,” |
know the lady. Unless—|
unless there are serious consequences, |
| will you oblige me by saying nothing |
about her? But stay. When you pass}
| the Mount’s Bay Hotel, please call and/|
|say that Mrs. Vansittart has been |
| seized with sudden illness and is be-
ing cared for at my house.”
| “Yes, sir,” said the sergeant, salut-|
| ing.
| As he walked away down the garden|
path he wondered who Mrs. Vansit- |
tart could be, and why Miss Brand
said she had “come home.”

Then he glanced back at the house, |
into which the others had vanished, |
He laughed.

“Just fancy it,” he said; “I treated |
him as if he was a bloomin’ lord. And}
I suppose my position is a_better one!
than his. Anyhow he is a splendid |
chap. I'm glad now I did it for his|
sake and the sake of those two girls. |
How nicely they were dressed, It |
has always been a puzzle to me how |
they can afford to live in that style on|
the pay of a lighthouse-keeper. Well, |
it’s none of my business.”

'
j

CHAPTER XVIIL
ENID WEARS AN OLD ORNAMENT

Lady Margaret took her departure)
| from the hotel at an early hour. Her |
}s0n went with her. Their house was
situated on the outskirts of the town,
and, although Stanhope would gladly |
have remained with the two men to}
discuss the events of this night of sur-}
prises, he felt that his mother demand- |
ed his present attention.

Indeed, her ladyship had much to)
say to him. She, like the others, had
been impressed by Mrs. Vansittart's
appearance, even under the extraordi-|
nary difficult circumstances of the
occasion. The feminine mind judges
its peers with the utmost precision. |
Its analytical methods are pitilessly
simple, It calculates with mathemati: |
cal nicety those details of toilette, |
those delicate nuances of manner,|
which distinguish the woman habitu: |
ated to refinement and good society |
from the interloper or mere copyist. |

It had always been a matter of mild!
wonder in Penzance bow Constanca
Brand had acquired her French trick!
of wearing her clothes. Some women!
are not properly dressed after they |
have been an hour posing in front of |
4 full-length mirror; others can give)
one glance at a costume, twist and
pull it into the one correct position, |
and walk out, perfectly gowned, with |
a@ happy consciousness that all is well, |

Every Parisienne, some Americans,
a few English women, possess this
gift. Constance had it, and Lady Mar-
garet knew now that it was a lineal
acquisition from her mother, The die
covery enhanced the belief, always
prevalent locally, that Brand was &
gentleman born, and her ladyship was
now eager for her son's assistance in
looking up the “Landed Gentry” and
other works of reference which define
and glorify the upper ten thousand of
the United Kingdom. Perhaps, that
way, light would be vouchsafed. '

Being a little narrow-minded, the
excellent creature believed that a
scandal among “good” people was not
half s0 scandalous as an affair in
which the principals were tradesmen,
“or worse.”

She confided something of this to
her son as they drove homewards, and
was very wroth with him when he
treated the idea with unbecoming
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