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it is the backyard of British Columbia, but these are in error.
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With seeming anxiety to atone fo
ithe excesses of the week, the weathe
| that morning justified the claim of
|Cornwall to be the summer land of
England. The sun shone from a blue
isky flecked with white clouds. The
waters of Mount’s Bay sparkled and
}danced in. miniature wavelets. The
|air was so mild, the temperature so
equable, that it was hard to credit sea
and wind with the havoc of the pre
ceding days.

The Gulf Rock disaster did net
stand alone in the records of the hur
ricane. Even the day’s papers con:
tained belated accounts of casualties
on the coasts of Normandy, Holland,
and far-off Denmark. But nowhere
else had there been such toss of life,
whilst renewed interest was evoked
by the final relief of all the survivor

Pyne’s appearance outside the sit
ting-room wes hailed with a yell. Net
withstanding her own perplexities,
Mrs. Vansittart had taken good cart
that the children were well provided
for. They were beactifully drecsec,
and the smiling maid who frced them
from control when t! : speced
said that they might gc out without
jackets, the day was co {Ino

He descended the ¢«tairs, with a cl
gar in his mouth and a delighted
youngster clinging to éach hand.

In the hall he encount.r.d a dozen
journalists waiting to devour him
They had failed to peneirate th. etras
tegic screen interposcd by the head
waiter. Now the enemy was unmask
ed, and they advanced to the attack

Pyne was readv for them. He ha
already oultined his defence.

“Will one of you gentiemen, repre
senting all, kindly give me a word in
private?” he asked.

This was readily agreed to.

“Now this is the deal I will make,"
he said, when the two were isolated
“T will meet you all here in an hour's
time. I will be interviewed, sketched,
| snap-shotted, give you locks of my
| hair, my autograph, my views on thé
Far East, the next Presidential elec-
tion, and the fiscal question, if you
bind yourself to one thing.”

“And that is?”

“Among the passengers saved from
| the Chinnook is a Mrs. Vansittart,
She is very ill, and is being cared for
by Mr. Brand and his daughters. Make
no reference to her in any way what-
ever beyond including her name in
the published lists. Promise that and
I'll talk a page.”

“I am sure I can agree without con
sulting my colleagues,” said the sur-
prised reporter.

“Come along, kids,” said Pyne. “I
am delivered bound to the torture.”

He passed out into the street, when
Elsie’s sharp eyes, searching for a
shop, suddenly caught sight of Enid
| hurrying towards the hotel.

The child ran to meet her, and Enid,
| flushed with excitement, began to ex-
| plain that Mrs. Vansittart was in bed,
| suffering from collapse and in a fever-
|ish state. The doctor’s verdict was
;}that she was in some danger, but
| would recover if carefully tended and
kept in absolute quiet.

“Is Constance with her?” asked
| Pyne.

“Yes.”

“And where is Mr. Brand?”

“He will be here soon. He asked me
| to call—and tell you—and Mr. Traill—
| what had happened.”
| Enid’s speech was not prone to
trip. Pyne’s eyes gleamed into hers.

“Mr. Brand asked you to see my
}uncle?” he said cautiously.
| “Yes,” she faltered.
| “Did he say anything else?”
“Yes—cousin,.”
| “Let me take you right in. I guess
| it would make a sensation if I—here,
Mamie, just hug Miss Enid good and
| hard for me, will you?”
| Whilst the children waited in the
| hall, be accompanied the girl up the
stairs and threw open the door of the
sitting-room.
| “Here is somebody you want to see,
}uncle?” he cried, and rejoined the
little ones.
| ‘“Hoo-roosh!” he yelped.
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“Now let's

Enid and her father faced each
| other fof some seconds in silent be-
wildermen, Then Mr, Traill rose and
came near to her. She did not know
what to do or say. ‘This tall, stately
| man was one who should be dearer to
her than anyone else in the world.
| She was his daughter, yet they were
strangers one to the other.

“I—I—” How could she utter con-
ventional words in such a moment?
Her lips quivered and tears trembled
}in her eyes. Then he knew. The lace
around her white neck was fastened
with a little goid brooch bearing a
four-leafed shamrock in emeralds. He
looked at her with a profound rever-
ence, and caught her by the shoulders.
| “My dear,” he murmured, “you are
| very like your mother.”
|} “I am glad,” she sald,
| him,

and kissed

CHAPTER XIX,

THE HOUSE THAT STOOD UPON
A ROCK

A week passed. In the fickle mem
ory of the outer world (he story of the
Gulf Rock lighthouse was becomi
mellow with age. Men now talked o}
war in Africa, of the Yellow Peril, of
some baccarat squabble in a West-end
club. But its vitality lingered in Pens
zance. ‘There were side issues which
Pyne’s device had kept from the pub
lic ken, but which the town’s folk pon.
dered, Lady Margaret Stanhope,
obeying her son's behests, tantalized
her friends by smiling serenely and
telling them nothing when they pes-
tered her with questions. That is to
say, she spoke not one word about the
lady who was being nursed back to
health in the lighthouse-keeper’s cot-
tage, but filled their souls with bitter.
ness when she hinted at marvels con-
cerning Constance and Enid.

In such a emal!l place, where every
man's affairs are canvassed by his
neighbors, it was impossible to pre
vent an atmosphere of mystery from
clinging to Mrs. Vansittart. Again,
the goss were greatly concerned
about Dai. For a young woman “in

 

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d to an offt

cer in the Royal Navy and admitted

to the sacred ranks of (he aristocracy
was a wonderful thing in itself. But
that she should be on open terms of
the greatest intimacy vione with
the elderly Mr. Trail), but with his

good-looking nephew, alling the
latter “Charlie” and t him as @
near relative, was an : ireum- |
stance only surpassed ‘omp! a |
cency with which Lad t and
her son rcparded it.

The actors in this co
be sublinely indifferent to public
opinion. That was t st of it.
Knid was escorted ab: town by
each and al! of the n it all hours.
Now she was at the h al, cheering
Bates and Jackson or red peo-
ple from the wreck, vy arranging
for the departure of some of (he poorer
survivors when they
travel, now flitting over to Marazion
to see Jim Spence, ar e actually
visiting Mr. Jones, the n-keeper,

At last a part of th t eked out.
Enid went with her fai! ) ask how
Mr. Emmett, the sick ef officer,
was getting on. They found him smok-
ing in the front garden of the house in
which Brand had lodged him.

He started when he saw them ap-
proaching, and hia weather-beaten
face wore the puzzled look with which
he regarded Enid one night on the
lighthouse stairs.

Traill noticed the saflor’s covert
glances at Enid, so he said

“By the way, Mr. Emmett, you were
on the Britunnia when my wife and I,
her sister, and two children, came to
England before the Esmeralda was
lost?”

“Yes, sir.” He paused.

During many an Atlantic crossing he
and Mr. Traill had talked of that last
joyous journey, when he, a boy who
had just joined the service, sat at theif
table, as was the custom of junior
officers in those years.

Mr. Traill smiled. He knew what
was in the other man’s mind

“Do you see a likeness in this young
lady to anyone you have ever known?
he asked.

“Well, sir, I hope it will not hurt
your feelings, and it’s a good many
years ago now, but I could have sworn
—well, | must out with it. She is the
living image of your wife.”

“Indeed, that cannot hurt my feel
ings, as she is her daughter.”

“Her daughter! Your daughter!”
gasped Emmett.

A small serving-maid, with the ears
of a rabbit, was listening spell-bound
at the open window. Here, indeed,
was a choice tit-bit for the miikinan,
and the postman, and the butcher's
and grocer’s boys. From this lower
current the stream of talk flowed up
wards until it reached the august
drawing-room of Mrs. Taylor-Smith.

She drove in frantic haste to Lady
Margaret's villa, and fired questions
broadside. |

“Oh, yes,” said Jack's mother,
suavely. “It is quite true. Of course
I have known it from the first. Ac|
cording to present arrangements the
marriage will take place in the spring,
Enid’s marriage settlement will be
nearly a quarter of a million.” |

Like most women, she loved that
word. A million, even in fractions, is
so glib, yet so unattainable. |

The only person who was slightly)
dissatisfied with the progress of
events was Pyne. Constance never}
appeared. She shared with Mrs. Shep
pard the care of her mother. Enid,
blithe and guileless in the public eye, |
did the house-keeping and represented
the household. |

Brand, too, save for a couple of vis-
its to the hotel, remained invisible,
He was pale and worn, a man at war
with himself. The young Philadel
phian—for Pyne’s family home was
in the Quaker City, though his estate
lay principally in New York—was not
pleased by the slight signs percepti-
ble behind the screen of Brand's re.
serve.

“Constance

eemed to

able to

takes after her father,”
he told himself. “There may be trow
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may get left. I must think this out.”

At last came a day of warm sun
shine, when Enid announced that the
invalid, by the doctor’s orders, was
carried downstairs.

“Has Mr, Brand seen her yet?” ask
ed Pyne.

“No,” replied Enid, with a little
cloud on her fair face. “He never men
tions her. And how we wish he
would. He is suffering, but keeps si
bent, and neither Constance nor | can
make any suggestion.”

“But what will be the outcome?”

“How can I tell? That night—aftei
we left the hotel—he told us the story
of his married life. I did not seem to
be utterly impossible to straighten
matters, but we knew nothing of her
career during so many years Wags
Bhe married again? I have asked my
father. He believes she was, but ia
not certain.”

“Father” was Mr. Traill; Brand re
mained “dad.” Thus did Enid solve
the difficulty.

“Is she aware that Constance knews
Bhe is her mother?”

“We think so. Indeed, we are sure
She has been so ill, and is yet so fra
gile, that we dare not excite her in
the least degree. So Constance has
been very careful, but every look
every syllable, shows that her mother
is in no doubt on that point.”

“It's @ pretty hard nut to crack,
said Pyne. He blew cigar smoke inte
rings. Seemingly the operation aided
reflection. .

“Bay, Enid,” he went on, “If the
weather is fine to-morrow, do you
think Connie would come out for 4
drive?”

“I don’t know, Certainly she necds
some fresh air. What between he
anxiety and her mother's illness, they
are beginning to look like sisters.”

“Just mention to Connie, in her fa
ther’s presence, that if the sun shinca
at eleven, I will be along in a dog
cart. Mrs. Vansitiart will be down
stairs by that time?”

“Yes.”

“And if Connie comes out with me
you just find an errand in town, Rop«!
Jack into the scheme, or any old dodg:
of that sort. Take care Mr. Bran¢
knows of it. By the way, send Mrs
Sheppard out too,”

“What in the world—”

“You're just too pretty to think
hard, Enid. It causes wrinkles. Do as
l ask, there's a good girl.”

Enid was delighted to find tha)!
Brand strongly supported the sugges
tion that Consiance should take the!
drive. Pyne, sharp on time, drew ul
& smart pony in front of the cottage
and did not twitch a muscle when.Con
stance, veiled and gloved, ran dowz
the pathway,

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