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Show THE LOVES of the LADY ARABELLA By HOLLY ELLIOT SEA WELL V ) were at home, but came in shortly after Giles had left. Lady Arabella made some slighting remark about Giles, as she always did whenever opportunity op-portunity offered. Daphne was very kind to me, and I gave her to understand under-stand privately that I was ready to haul down my flag at the first summons sum-mons to surrender. The family from Berkeley Square was going to the play that night, and I mentioned that Giles and I would be there together. And so, just as the playhouse was lighting up, we walked in. After the curtain was up, and when Mrs. Trenchard was making her great speech in "Percy," I motioned Giles to look toward Lady Hawkshaw's bos. Her ladyship entered on Sir Peter's arm; his face was very red, and he was growling under his breath, to which Lady Hawkshaw contributed an obligato accompaniment in a sepulchral sepul-chral voice; and behind them, in all the splendor of her beauty, walked Lady Arabella, and last, came sweet, sweet Daphne. The first glimpse Giles caught of Lady Arabella seemed to renew in an instant the spell she had cast on him five years before. He seemed almost like a madman. He could do nothing but gaze at her with eyes that seemed starting out of his head. He grew pale and then red, and was like a man in a frenzy. It was all I could do to moderate his voice and his looks in that public place. Luckily, Mrs. Trenchard being on the stage, all eyes were, for the time, bent on her. I hardly knew how we sat the play out. I had to promise Giles a dozen times that the next day I would take him to Berkeley Square. When the curtain went down, he fairly leaped his way out of the playhouse to see Lady Arabella get into the coach. ' That was a fair sample of the way he raved for days afterward. He haunted Berkeley Square, where he was welcomed always by Sir Peter and Lady Hawkshaw, asked to dine frequently, and every mark of favor shown him. Lady Arabella remained' cold and indifferent to him.' About that time Overton appeared a little in his old haunts, although much changed and sobered. Neither wounds nor illness "If we should elope, he would make a great hullabaloo." This admirable suggestion at ones commended itself to me. "His hullabaloo could not separate us, if we were married," I replied. "True," said Daphne; "and, after all, he and Lady Hawkshaw as good as eloped, and she was but 18 a yeai younger than I." Thus was I supplied with anothei argument. I again swear that I had not t thought of Daphne's fortune in all this. I would have taken the deai girl with nothing but the clothes upon her back. True to his word, Sir Peter worked like a Trojan to get me a berth on the Bellona, and, meaning to do Giles the greatest service in the world, tried likewise for him; and mightily afraid we were that he would soon succeed This brought matters to a crisis wit! Daphne. I mentioned the word "elope' to her again, and she made a grea1 outcry, after the manner of young women, and then began straightwaj to show me precisely how it might b done, protesting, meanwhile, that sh would never, no, never, consent. W both agreed, though, that it was proper we should lay the matter oi our marriage before Sir Peter and Lady Hawkshaw; but I saw that Daphne, Daph-ne, who was of a romantic turn, had her imagination fired by the notion ol an elopement. "A pair of good horses and a ligh. traveling chaise!" she exclaimed. "Ii only it were not wrong!" "No, no! Four horses!" cried I; "and there is nothing wrong in either a two or a four horse chaise." Daphne clapped her hands. "A trip to Scotland I have always longed for Scotland. I know a dozen people who have married in Scotland, and happy marriages, every one ol them. But I forbid you, Richard, to think of an elopement." "We shall set out at midnight; we shall not be missed until morning, and we shall have at least 12 hours' start. Then, at every stage we shall leave something behind, which will insure a broken axle, or a linchpin gone, for our pursuers." We were both so charmed with the picture we had conjured up, that when (Copyright, 190C, Bobba-MerriU Co.) SYNOPSIS. At 14 years of age Admiral Sir Peter Hawkshaw's nephew, Richard Glyn, fell deeply In love at first sight with Lady Arabella Stormont, who spurned his attentions. at-tentions. The lad, an orphan, was given ft Berth as midshipman on the Ajax by his uncle. Giles Vernon, nephew of Sir Thomas Vernon, became the boy's pal. They attended a theater where Hawkshaw's Hawk-shaw's nephew saw Lady Arabella. Vernon Ver-non met Philip Overton, next in line for Sir Thomas Vernon's estate. They started start-ed ft duel which was interrupted. Vernon, Ovrton and Hawkshaw's nephew found themselves attracted by pretty Lady Arabella. Ara-bella. The Ajax in battle defeated French warships In the Mediterranean. Richard Glyn got 2,000 prize money. He was called home by Lady Hawkshaw as he was about to "blow in" his earnings with Vernon. At a Hawkshaw party Glyn discovered dis-covered that Lady Arabella was a poor but persistent gambler. He talked much with her cousin Daphne. Lady Arabella again showed love for gaming. Later she held Glyn and Overton prisoners, thus delaying the duel. In the Overton-Vernon duel, neither was hurt. Lady Arabella Ara-bella humiliated Richard by her pranks. ' Richard and Giles shipped on a frigate. Biles was captured by the French. Sir Peter arranged for his exchange. Daphne Daph-ne showed a liking for Glyn, who was men 21 years of age. Giles was released. 1 said: suppose, atter an, mougn, that Sir Peter consents?" Daphne's face fell; but presently she smiled, when I said: "If he does consent, why, then, there is no harm in our marrying any way we like, and he will excuse us for running away. And if he does not consent, there is no help for it we must elope!" I considered myself a casuist of the first order. I felt obliged to take the first opportunity of letting Sir Peter know the state of affairs, and, aa usual, I determined to begin through Lady Hawkshaw. "And," as Daphne shrewdly remarked, re-marked, "they will certainly differ, so we shall at least have one of them on our side." I sought Lady Hawkshaw and found her in her usual place, in the Chinese room. I began, halting, stammering, and blushing, as if I were a charity schoolboy instead of a lieutenant in his majesty's service, who had been thanked by Lord Nelson. "M-m-my lady," I stuttered, "I have experienced so much k-k-kindness from you that I have come to you in the greatest emergency of my life." "You want to get married," promptly prompt-ly replied Lady Hawkshaw. (TO BE CONTINUED.) CHAPTER VII. Continued. "And how I am to live until I get another ship I am at a loss, my boy," Giles cried quite cheerfully. "Two courses are open to me play and running run-ning away with an heiress. Do you know of a charming girl, Dicky, with something under 100,000, who could be reconciled to a penniless lieutenant in his majesty's navy? And remem--w--v-'lier, she must be as beautiful as the dawn besides, and of good family, and keen of wit no lunkhead of a woman for me." To this, fate impelled me to reply that Lady Arabella Stormont was still single. "Faith!" cried Giles, slapping his knee, "she is the girl for me. I always al-ways intended to marry her, if only to spite her." I was sorry I had raked up the embers em-bers of his passion of five years before, be-fore, and attempted to cover my step by saying: "She is still Infatuated with Overton, whom, however, she sees rarely, and that only at the houses of others; but he has ever looked coldly upon her." "She'll not be coldly looked on by me. And let me see: There is her cousin you used to tell me about the Carmichael girl suppose you, Dicky, run away with her; then no two lieutenants lieu-tenants in the service will have more of the rhino than we!" I declare this was the first time I tiad remembered Daphne's 30,000. She had the same fortune as Lady Arabella. The reflection damped my spirits dreadfully. Giles saw it directly, and in a moment mo-ment he had my secret from me. He snouted with delight, and immediately began a grotesque planning for us to run away with the two heiresses. He recalled that the abduction of an heiress heir-ess was a capital crime, and drew a fantastic picture of us two standing in the prisoners' dock, on trial for She Suddenly Fell Into My Arms. had impaired his looks and charms, but rather he had become an object of interest and sympathy from his gallant gal-lant behavior in the field. Sir Peter, who had always liked him, began to pester him to come to Berkeley Square, which he did a few times because be-cause he could not well decline Sir Peter and Lady Hawkshaw's pressing and friendly invitations. I believed, however, that in spite of his forced cmposure he felt cruelly abashed before be-fore Lady Arabella. She, however, showed an amazing coolness, and even began to be a little kind to Giles, from some obscure motive of her own. I believe every act of her life with regard re-gard to men had some reference to her passion for Overton. All this time, though, from the night of the play, Daphne and I had been secretly happy; for on the very next day, catching her alone, I told her, in plain and seamanlike language, that I loved her, and when she showed a disposition to cut and run, I said to her, very boldly: "Since you scorn my love, I have the resource that every one of my calling has in these days. I shall soon go to sea, and upon the deck of my ship I can find death, since life is nothing to me without my Daphne's love." At which, without the least warning, she suddenly fell into my arms, crying: cry-ing: "You'll break my heart, if you talk In that way!" and I perceived that she was only maneuvering for position. I do not know exactly what happened hap-pened next, except I was in that heaven, Daphne's arms, when I looked up and caught the butler and two footmen foot-men grinning at me. But it mattered not. Next morning Daphne and I met in the drawing room, as usual, after breakfast: but what a meeting it was! We had barely time to scuttle back to our chairs when Sir Peter entered with the newspaper, and informed me that the Bellona frigate was being fitted for the West Indies, and he thought he could get me a berth in her, at which I felt myself grow weak in the knees, so great is the power of love. Presently he went out. Then Daphne Daph-ne and I began to speculate upon Sir Peter's personal equation In our affairs. af-fairs. "He will never let me marry you," she said. "He will say I am too young." This depressed me so that I could say nothing in reply. Daphne continued, con-tinued, auite in an offhand manner: our lives, with Lady Arabella and Daphne swearing our lives away, and then relenting and marrying us at the gallows' foot. And this tale, told with the greatest glee, amid laughter and bumpers of hot brandy and water, had a singular effect upon me. It sobered me at once, and suddenly I seemed to see a vision, as Macbeth saw Banquo's ghost, passing before my very eyes just such a scene as Giles described. Only I got no farther than the spectacle spec-tacle of Giles a prisoner in the dock, on trial for his life. My own part seemed misty and confused, but I saw, instead of the lodging house parlor, a great hall of justice dimly lighted with lamps, the judges in their robes on the bench, one with a black cap on his head, and Giles standing up to receive re-ceive sentence. I passed into a kind of nightmare, from which I was aroused by Giles whacking me on the back and saying in a surprised voice: "What ails you, Dicky, boy? You look as if you had seen a ghost. Rouse up here and open your lantern jaws for a glass of brandy and rid yourself of that long face." I came out of this singular state as quickly as 1 had gone into it. and, ashamed to show my weakness to Giles, grew merry, carried on the joke about the abduction, and shortly felt like myself, a light-hearted lieutenant of 21. I proposed that we should go to the play the next night or rather that night, for it was now about four In the morning and shortly after we tumbled into bed together and slept until late the next day. Giles and I went to Berkeley Square in the afternoon, professing just to have arrived from Portsmouth. Giles expressed hh thanks in the handsomest hand-somest manner to Sir Peter for his kindness, and made himself, as usual, highly agreeable to Lady Hawkshaw. Neither Ladv Arabella nor Daohne |