Show A A WONDERFUL WOMAN BY MAY AGNES FLEMING But Dut still the fair fail face haunted him the tue the novelty of such a neighbor was not to be got over ovel Ho flung Hung the Iliad awa away at length and going out on the grassy plateau looked down the valley valhey val val- Ie hey ley to where the cottage JI lights twinkled twinkled twink twink- led lell far and faint two miles oft off And from her chamber window ero she went to bed bcd Lad Lady Cecil Clive gazed up at the lie starlit sky and the ruined towers of what had once been a great and mighty stron stronghold hold The storm hind had spent snout Its itc fury tury and passed the autumn lars tars large and white shone out tho the fresh Cresh hillside wind blew ble down In her fair Calr wistful face It was a sad fate tate she thought the thought the last scion o of a kingly king king- ly Iy and beggared race brave as a n. lion and penniless as n it pauper dwelling alono alone In fn that ruined pile and wasting his youth and best years ears amid the wilds of or this ruined land Poor fellow tellow Lad Lady Cecil thought So young oung and anti so o utterly friendless friendless- loo Io proud to labor and too poor to live as a gentleman gentleman wasting wasting his life In these savage ruins Papa must do something for fOl him when we return to England He lie saved ved my life liCe at the risk of his own and so heavy a de debt t of gratitude as that must be paid CHAPTER CIL X An Au IrIsh Id lily I I. I In very small things lunge hinge very great events A horse minus a 11 shoe changed the whole course COUlse of Redmond Hedmond life life altered altered his entire destiny He neither went vent to the mountains nor the moon to nor the the the- dark majesty of oC the Inferno He staid at home and ho saw tho the Earl of nUS nU'S land and the Lady Cecil Clive It happened thus Going to the stables stables stab stab- stables les next morning to lall saddle lo his favorito favorIte favorite favor favor- ite ito mare marc Kathleen athleen he found round her In need of the blacksmiths blacksmith's services Lanty Lanty Lan- Lan Lanty ty led her off and find returning to the I house the young oung ODonnell O'Donnell came face race to face with his English visitors He stood for fOl a moment mute with surprise and ch chagrin He had notI not I di di earned in fn the remotest way of oC their coming so soon or 01 so bO carl early and hero here here th they y were Escape was Impossible the they were before him him amid and by birth and training by race mid and n nat nature rc the time lad was a gentleman He took oft off hl his cap and the young mountaineer bowed to the tho earls earl's daughter like e a n. prince Lord advanced with extended extend extend- e ed hand and ani his sweetest smile Aim Ah Ah Mr ODonnell O'Donnell you OU fled fied iri- iri gloriously before me yester yesterday yesterday not nol ay-nol not like an ODonnell O'Donnell b by the bye to fly Ily even from Crom gratitude No No-don't No don't dont look so alarmed alarmed nobody nobody Is going to thank you You saved my daughters daughter's life at the Imminent risk of your own own own-a a mere trifle not worth wom-th m mentioning Cecil m my dear come and shako shake hands with our om young hc hero o of yesterday yesterday- ah I beg heg pardon I promised ed to call no names Alt Mr Redmond ODonnell O'Donnell Lad Lady Cecil Clive And Amid tho thol two large soft oCt e eyes es of liquid light looked up Into his him a littie lit lit- tie tic gray gloved hand was given a little little lit lit- tle tIc soft low voice murmured something poor pOOl poor Mr Ir Redmond ODonnell O'Donnell never nevol knew what what and and from that moment his doom was scaled Sudden perhaps perhaps per per- haps but then this young man was an Irishman Irishman thing is h said in iii that He flung open the half hait wholly lockless front door dOOl and led the way with some sonic laughing halt apology for tor the tumble down don state slate of oC ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnell O'Donnell ODon nell Castle Dont blame hiame us Lord tho tiit young oung man said sadly half blame blamo your our own countrymen and anti confiscation We Ve were an Improvident dent race perhaps but hut when they took our lands and amI our OUI country countr from lom us we let Jet the little they left go to rack and ruin When hen a n. man loses a n. hundred thousand pounds or so It doesn't seem worth his while to hoard ver very carefully the dozen or so o of oC shillings shil lings Hugs remaining Lad Lady Cecil you take this j seat beat at We Yo can give you a afine atine atine tine fine view at least from our windows If we can give Ive you nothing else The earl tall and his daughter were loud loudIn loudIn loudIn In their praises It was fine Miles of or violet and purple heather heathel here and there touched with golden solden green or rosy tinges blue hills melting into tho the blu bluer I sk sky and deepest blue of all tho the wide sea spreading miles awa away sparkling in the sunshine as If sown with stars Tho They remained nearl nearly an hour The young seigneur of this ruined castle conducted them then to the gates nay gates nay to the two tuo huge butlre buttresses es where gates once had been been and and stood cap In hand watching them bern depart And so so with the tho sunshine on his handsome tanned face on his uncovered tall head Lady Lally Cecil bore away the Image of Redmond ODonnell O'Donnell You know this stor story before I tell toil it She Sho was as sixteen years of or age lie age he had saved sa her life lite risking his own to S save lve It without a moments moment's thought and like a true woman she adored braer bravery bras bra er cry ery almost above all aJl other things inman In man She pitied him unspeakably so proud so poor so noble of ot birth and ancestry a de descendant of ot kings and anda a a. pauper And he had an eye eo like an a n. voice oleo tender tendel and spirited to together together to- to I gether ther and ami a a. a a smile Lad Cecil thought bright as as tho the sunshine on yonder onder Ulster hills It was love lovo at first sight sight boy boy and girl love of oC course and the Earl of Rusland shrewd old that he was might knight have known it Iter er very well if iC he lie had given the subject one thought But ho did not He was a great deal too absorbed in his own 0 personal concerns concerns concerns con con- cerns about this time to have much solicitude about his little daughters daughter's affaires du Lad Lady Cecil had pitied Redmond ODonnell O'Donnell for being a pauper without in the least dreamIng dreamIng dream- dream Ing lug she was one herself Through no fancy for fOl the country countr through no desire to ameliorate the condition of or orthe the Inhabitants had my lord come conic to to Ireland Grim poverty had driven him hither and was as lII likely el to keep him here for some sonic time limo to come His life had been one long round of pleasure and excess of or luxury and ox- ox ex ex- He had come conic into a a. f fOrtune fortune for fOr- l'- l' tune tunc when ho lie attained his majority and squandered It He came Into another another another an- an an an- other when he married his wealthy wife and squandered that too Now ho was isas over head and cars ears in debt deut Clive Court was mortgaged past all redemption redemption-In In flight was his only safety and he fled to fled to Ii eland There was that that lint little hunting-box hunting of oC his lims among tho the Ulster hills ho lie could havo that made habitable and go there and rough It until the storm blew over over Roughing It himself he did not so o much mind Roughing It It- It In his phraseology meaning a n. valet to wait walt upon unon him all the ele ole gances of oC his hits life transported from his lIs lodgings and anti a rato cook cool cook but there was his daughter For the first limo In her sixteen years CalS of life ure she was vas thrown ul upon on his hands At her hel birth hirth and her mothers mother's death she had hind been beon placed out at nurse at the age of three a cousin oCher of oC her mothers mother's living in Paris Palis had hod taken laken her hel a and brought blought her up tip Brought her up on French principles taught princIples taught her hel- that love Jo and court courtship as English girls understand stand them are arc Indelicate criminal almost that for tor tho the present she must attend to her hel bool books s her mu music lc her drawing and embroidery and that when tho proper time came caine she would receive her husband as she did her Jewelry Jo and dresses from dresses from tho the hand of papa Papa came caine to see sec her hel tolerably often oCten took her with him him once In a n. while when he visited his friend and crOll crony Sit Sir John Tregenna an and she was told If It sho she were a good girl Irl she should one oneda da day when whet properly grown up marl marry young ounG Arthur and bo ho Lady Tregenna herself and queen It In the old sea sea- girt Cornish castle c And little Cecil always laughed and ani dimpled and danced away and thought no more about It She Sho had seen t-een very little tittle of Arthur thur Tre Tregenna-sho Tregenna enna she was somewhat In awe of or him as has been boom said He was so grave so HO wise so o learned and she was tas such a frivolous little butterfly butter butter- fI fly Ily dancing in the sunshine eating bonbons and singing from morning till night h t. t Her hem tim first grief was the death of or the tho kind English woman who had been her Her i father tather on the eve evo of his IrIsh Ilish exile went to Paris brought her with him and her old bonn bonny Therese and for tor forthe tho the first time In her life me little Lad Lady Cecil met with an adventure and became became be be- came Caine a 0 heroine I 1 wonder If Ir he will vIll call upon u us she thought now as she walked homeward homeward homeward home home- ward through the soft autumn noonday noon noon- day day the the personal pronoun of course having reference to the young ODonnell ODon nell He did not nol really promise but butI I think I think I think h he lie looked as though he would like to conic como It would be pleasant ajla to have some one ono to talk to when papa is awa away and he lie tolls S me he will be be bea a away va la V 1 grea deal At tt Bally the the town with the unpronounceable uro- uro Irish name How very ory very tery poor he lie seems his Jacket was vas quite shabby his whole dress like that of the peasantry And such a tumbledown tum turn down ble-down place place only only fit lit for foP fowls and bats and rooks Papa aloud you have a great deal of ot Influence and man many friends In could England could you do nothing for fOI this Mr 1 ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnell O'Donnell ODon nell He seems so dreadfully poor papa Tho The earl shrugged his shoulders and laughed My l little unsophisticated I It Cecil A great deal of or Influence and t many friends My dear deal I have not Influence enough to keep myself out of tho the bankrupt court nor friends friend enough to enable me to sta stay In England Eng Eng- land Do you think I would cometo come coni cometo to this confounded half half-civilized land If I could sta stay away Poor Indeed Your Mr Ir ODonnell O'Donnell Isn't half a as poor as I am for fOl at least I suppose ho I Isn't mt very deeply In debt debU His daughter laughter 1 In hii sheer sheel surprise And you OU ar You poor Poor she he tried to tp p corn com J I h ii Jav Javit gave navo It up I 1 always thought y you u rich papa I pala-I I always thought English peers had more moro money than they knew what to do with How can we wc webe webe be poor with poor with servants ervant and horses an and plate and andOne and j One must have the lie necessities 01 of r life child her father fattier broke brolie In Impatiently Im Im- in- in patiently as lon long as tho they are living hiving One cant can't go back to primitive days and live In a wigwam or In a rickety rookery rooker HI like e that I wish to Heaven 1 ono one could could Ill Id I'd tr try It I tell you ou I haven't a farthing In the world world yot you I may as well sehl learn It now as later Inter an and I have more debts than I can ever er pa pay payoff oft off from Iron now to the crack of doom I I dont don't want to pay my a While Im I'm In hidIng hiding hid hid- ing here Ill I'll try tn to compromise In I some way with my confounded ed creditors creditors credi credi- tors tom un and the Jens s. Poor indeed ByI ByJoe By ByJoe I Jo e we may live and die dlo in fn this hi I Irish exile for what wha t I see the earl carl I said with a sort of oC groan A little smile dimpled Lady Cecil's Cecils rose bud face tace a happy light lIht shone In her lier gold brown eyes She glanced at the lie little cottage nestling In its it green cup myrtle and clematis climbing climbing climbing climb climb- ing over H it at the fair fah fairfields Holds daisy spangled at tho the glowing uplands In Iii their purple put dress at the rugged towelS towel'S towers tow tow- ers elS of the tho old castle boldly outlined against the soft oCt sunn sunny sky with a faco taco that showed to her lier at least the tIle prospect prospect prospect pros pros- of an eternal Irish exile had no HO terrors Vel Very well papa she he said dream dreamily ily ly suppose we wc do Its It's a very pretty place Im I'm sure ann and 11 Ir wo we are arc poor It surely will not take alto much to keep u us here While I have you and Therese and m my books hooles and piano I Iam Iam Iam am content to stay here forever Her Hel father fathel turned and and looked at ather ather ather her astonishment and disgust t struggling gling in his face Good Heaven listen to her hel Content Con Con- tent lent to stay here Yes and live JIve on potatoes like Ilko the tho natives and convert tho the skins Into clothing to go barefooted barefooted bare bare- footed and wear striped linsey- linsey woolsey gowns reaching below the tho knee talk tall with a mellifluous North of Ireland accent and end by marr marrying marry marry- log Ins Lanty Latterly Lafferty I suppose er 01 the other fellow Mickey If you cant can't talk sense Cecil hold your tongue Lady Laly Cecil blushed and obeyed Marry Lanty Lafferty L. No o she would hardly do that But oh Cecil whence that rosy blush Whence that droop of or the fair tail fresh face Whence that hint sudden rising In your mind of the tall figure ure the lie bold flashing eyes of Red fled Redmond mond mend ODonnell O'Donnell Is this why the tho Irish exile Is of oC Its terrors for you No no the carl earl said after a little litHe as ns his Imis daughter remained silent Well VoU get out of or this howling wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness noss of or roaring rivers and wild young younS' chieftains and tumble-down tumble castles as speedily a as we can I havo ono hope IoU teU and that Is Is It he looked looke at her keenly keenly ln In you m my dear I papa Yes in 11 your YOUl marriage What's tho the child hild blushing at In th a year or two you'll be old enough and Tregenna will vill be 10 back In England Of or course you OU know It has been heen an un understood thing these many years that hint you ou were to marr marry him when you grew up He lie HeIs HoIs lieis Is perfectly ready to to tn fulfill the tue compact com corn pact and certainly you will be You have been brought up In iii a wa way to understand this Tregenna Is v rich mon rich and wont won't see his law father up a tree I 1 give s-Ive you ou oum m my word he lie Is m my last hope hope hope- your hope your om marriage with him I mean I will willI I U try and compromise with m my creditors credi croci- to tots tors I say and ond when things are moo straightened out a bit well we'll go back to England You shall be presented at court and will make I rather rathel fancy a sensation We Ve will let you OU enjoy yourself for your our first season eagon and |