| Show 88 KOT ALL DROSS 'eix months prior to our introduction of Terese as thoprima donna will make our readers familiar with the CHUoC of' Spontini coming to Home to bring out in public Consider my child Sir "Walter Templar is an English nobleman” “()! but ho thinks not liis Hebrew maiden beneath him Ho has so often wished I was his sister 0 ! say that you think he will love mo as something more dear kind Maestro He does love me! O ! say ho docs good dear Spontini You think he loves me ? I know vou do only your caution is timid lest your words should make me hope too much lie always calls me his Hebrew Maiden and lias said a thousand times how much he loves me in that character I am sure I always thought he did before I know its meaning as now I do O ! say dear good Maestro you think he will still bo lord of his Hebrew Maiden!” il He is the promised husband of an- - 'bis pupil ' other Terese” But she loves him not as I do I am sure I think he loves not her as he doc3 ice" lie talks of her as a twin sister whom’ he describes as much like himself ‘I know by my own heart that the love he entertains for his cousin is the deep calm affection of a brother Has he not everbeen more like thelov-ero- f Terese than of Eleanor? “I grant it my child still ho is her " promised husband” A promise of childhood formed by liis uncle and mother 0 Spontini: what then has not the- relations of the last four years promised mo ? It ha3 made him master of my soul and destiny 0 I fear my hereafter a3 well as toy present if I lose him !” “ JBe just my child Eleanor looking upon Walter as her future husband may well as love him as you can What may he not be to her my Terese? 0 what is ho “And to me— to me not to me? My universe! Take him away and there appears blank— a black impalpable abyss into which I I strain my gaze look with fearfulness to catch the glimmering of some distant Btar but see no looming star for me” “ Look to art my child Terese look to the star of lame before you ’Tis 7Tis glorious !” bright Terese )“‘0dear 3Iaestrol Life stretched out before me like a sea troubled in every wave If I cross it without my convoy my barque will be wrecked'” Spontini had not the heart to urge more and from that moment he strained every effort to bring about the union of Walter and Terese “Well well child say no’ more I own Walter may be the lord of his Hebrew maiden for life” said the compo- - CHAPTER THE SUPPLAXTER ! ! ter soothingly The afflicted child threw her arips around her sympalhy-sinmaster's neck and wept The comforting words of hope from his lips for the first time brought soothing feedings from Jhe maiden's heart iu gushes of relief Spontini was much moved and regretted not tho hope he had g given tU We will storm him with the batteries of art: Music shall plead with him with her ’’ powerful voices Spontini has d I tell yon my a' design child your magician Walter shall be life-lon- g master of Terese” the “ 0 if I lose him dear maestro then from me let all things piiss away I lose my all in him” From that time Spontini began preparations to bring out Terese to the nrusloal His design wai to world n ‘ ’i t secret track than from fear of intrcsioiL-Youmiser will lock himself into his den storm Walter’s heart by the genius of tho gifted girl and make the love which he not unlikely entertained for her He speak in umndtakblc language could not give Walter n higher estimato of her talents and voice than he possessed but fame could repeat it to him with a thousand lounges and all Ilomo' Could W alter be be brought to berfeet brought to declare what he foresaw many a noble would his declaration at least would not be unworthy of his character liis Hebrew maiden — bis fellow pupil — bis companion of a romance cf years would become Sir Walter Templar’s wife If he loved Terese even jealousy of noble admirers would help Spontini's scheme Thus far it had succeeded But they worHomo was at her feet Twas Walter the on-- 1 shipped afar off chantress wanted not at her feet but nestling on his great heart as her liferesting place For this she strained all her powers to their utmost tension and his genius manifested through her and her yearning love helped Terese mightly to win her triumphs There they sat still in the mimic room of their beautiful secluded villa still as usual pouring forth their musical They were a glorious pair! lie resembling a magnificent nigbt she as beautiful and gifted a daughter of Zion as ever sprang from Jpdah’s royal bouse would be revealed to Walter bis Hebrew maiden’3 love! How will the romance of the youths’ commencing with tho meeting of the beautiful orphan Jewess stand after the Will the end of that opera romance be tho wreck cf the gifted lov? ing Terese w’itli liis gold even if within the walk of ail impenetrable castle your plotter will do the same and deeds of villainy VI ALAItMED Since the fight at Eton some thirty years before Herbert Blakely now Sir Herbert has not appeared as an actor in the scene of events until he entered into the action of our story among tho Revellers at Rome Tie had however played his part and had been a principal in tho consummation of the ruin of the D’Lacys hut it has not been necessary to bring him into notice until liis encounter with the two young Englishmen in the last chapter Indeed we have had to leap long intervals of time for though the foundation of our story was laid years before most the whole of its development and issue even yet remains lor tho fut ure After the death of Lord Frederick D’Laey at the ancestral mansion of liis beloved friend Sir Richard Courtney there had elapsed an interval of sixteen yeaivs before the next great link had come in tbe meeting between Sir Walter Templar and JLord Frederick D’Lacy on the one side and Sir Herbert Blakely the supplanter and the possessor of tho D’Lacy estates on tho other Sir Herbert4Blakely was correct in his surmises as to the identity' of his young countryman and that which he had in so craftily’ liis rage and mortification turned upon Count Ossini was the literal truth The cider dark young Englishman was Sir Walter Templar nephew of Sir Richard Courtney and his friend a fair haired well made handsome fellow was Lord Frederick D'Eacy Now' the reason why Sir Herbert so readily took the cue of their identity' was as we shall see because lie had been looking for their track for four years As soon as Sir Herbert reached tho ' Hotel where he was staying ho locked himself in his room more however from i an instinct of bncaan nature when on & ' or matters of secrecy stealthily close the doors and whisper “the walls have’ears” Sir Herbert had no deed designed for that day to conceal nor had he anything clearly defined in his mind which lie might bo likely to do or say at any outburst of bis thought which might bo noted by' listeners or spies in a country where espionage is an institution The supplanter was alarmed! That was the chief instinct which prompted him The meeting with Sir Walter and Lord Frederick D’Laey brought lip the unpleasant fact that the D’Lacy estates had not passed out of the family of the original possessors — had not become the Tho property of Sir Herbert Blakely rental paid the interest of the mortgage and Sir Herbert was strictly the tenant of young Lord Frederick whom he had now met and not tho owner of estates Sir Richard Courtney was the guardian of the orphan Freddy and he had been very strict in all legal formula concerning the D’Laey estates and had constantly kept Sir Herbert in the eye of the law as simply' tenant of his ward young Lord Frederick Them was no legal or business looseness in Sir Richard Courtney like that which had been the ruin of Lord Reginald Indeed when the Blakelys several times attempted a sequel of this plot to obtain tho actual ownership of the D'Lacy estates they found themselves checkmated by Sir Richard Courtney anil on the last ttempt Sir Herbert nearly lost his hold On that occasion tho ai the mortgagee boy Sir Walter Templar appeared in tho ' affair strongly marked in the foreground as he ever wasr both as boy and man in everything into which he entered- Sinco then Sir Herbert Blakely feared the rich strong-wille- d Walter Temimpetuous plar more even than he did Sir Richard Slid infinitely more than ho Courtney would have feared young Lord Frederick unsupported by his guardian and his friend Walter “ Hell and furies burst from Sir Her- bert when he bad locked himself into his private room “ Hell and furies !” That cub of Satan ' lias again thrown down the gauntlet to me Curse him! He means war just as I have expected since the young tiger showed his teeth so fiercely when only a boy of fourteen Boy! By the infernal ' powers ’twas a young Satan Courtney was lion enough to face in the D’Lacy cause— eurso the whole race but his tiger nephew' ! Wortley declared he was afraid tho young devil would tear him to pieces and lawyer Wortley w'ould havo prosecuted a caso against the archangel Gabriel if lie was oulv himself legal armour proof Yes the lawyer w’as right ! It is this Sir Walter Templar whom I shall have to meet as my antagonist in the issue of the battle of my father and myself for the D’Lacy estate As for this beggar young Lord Frederick — pshaw ! I should not fear a host of them They would but help each other to pawn themselves for more Sir Herbert took from the cupboard a bottle of brandy and after drinking a s deep draught and lighting a cigar he threw himself into a luxurious chair and for au hour followed torturous intricacies of future plots and shadowings of some thing darker still — assassination Sir Walter Templar constantly rose before him in his dark revery end alwavs cp? eared to him in the character of the |
