| Show I 1 kjar e A p j international PRESS association 1111 f it III you hive have something to ba u to me jr grant I 1 I 1 remarked its I 1 ini am only considering how to ay it 0 I 1 am something of a phyll 0 rao inet anti have hae been stud ing ia our L ce for my guidance j ailed scornfully but said no more als welcome to look it at me all night it be he chose to do to so Sud suddenly deni in a ohp abrupt way he spoke chy br are YOU 0 pailag pail ng under a false o be asked 0 1 CHAPTER IV oh hat at a tangled meb we e weave eme then ln ort or nr t me e practice to ilece dece lve lel HE AT rack waa so unexpected that I 1 crimsoned and for a mome D t was ft a speechless echles I 1 knew that nv inv true motive Us th e for the conceal 1 I ment was aag in respect W I 1 to viola it unworthily conceived at least treo freo from evil this lot ought strengthened me and I 1 was or die aleto le to face ace my interrogator Inter rog aitor hut but all all asame it was a great mortification oceel eel that in order to matten 0 othlin this jiin in I 1 must as it were v ere lay bare EN y most sensitive feelings co tou enoi mv my true name I 1 asked wa 0 o but I 1 have seen vou oil soine Es liere paris I 1 forget where mm eoon were ere not calle I 1 V vine tile he my name 1 julian loraine Lor alne julian loriene I 1 he repeated mus ly I 1 lne lithe lie ird thit that name in the orld anil and pitr little go roil I 1 attached to bocket but it could not ha have e referred to ad iel I 1 lou ou are too oung but your ison tor for deception speak alit he Q d lercel I 1 curbed a in rising inger and as RS IBIN 1 ht well as I 1 could told him why I 1 had tock kd liola ioa under a false name I 1 ik A be he believed me nie but I 1 saw sa scorn his face as hr lis tenell IN the act of i i fool he said M mr r 1 l nine such romantic affairs should at PR fw mt left to poets and novelists viola jj I 1 th beed no riches nor PON poverty ert ADI A the man she loved I 1 tell iou ou it if ki were re to go to morrow and make 7 cm own to her y our doubt of her single alg ss rt edness I 1 could shatter the whole its 4 of conr happiness why should lot ot do so 80 IEL a t wo ild be tho the act of a fiend I 1 I 1 iiii 1 ae elaugh laughed ed not pleasantly I 1 es laub I 1 will ill not do it I 1 will even D your secret and let you carra out S tf ridiculous plan but I 1 will also 10 Q his 1 I 1 iv will follow ou oil on bour our wed el ficici tv s aning and see with my own aw t ref that ou have marrlow d miss keith 1 0 jour your right name no not I 1 he said I 1 I 1 I 1 was ready to cpr spring ing from my u la in indignation no not I 1 will have CHE P i cal I 1 ou have brought this up yourself lou ao have aa given gay me the ofal its bi 11 tto te mistrust you BU a ill you be good enough to show roe me right bv alch oi interfere at r pit 1 said te DE caul bill her twenty first birthday I 1 ui keith a guardian very young one I 1 sneered el bu bul ul ler ter than you think her iler ORK fork erdlee led six sl ears go I 1 was then I 1 she thought me old enough to r f child a e guardian and I 1 will see mr trust ito to the end I 1 meaning thrown into the laet last 1 did not escape me it ini im ht hr fl fil lit t he still viewed me with dis its 11 ly inger anger hii thoroughly jsck d il 4 04 90 P ats mr ur I 1 grant I 1 said there Is ot er r and beirer right you wish to pw ward one which she a ilone can bestow 11 himself aw up to his full height he said calmly 11 Is angen I 1 1 had hoped that my love for ith vas ag a matter unknown to ar 1 C aielt li melt I 1 love her as it may be I 1 your your power to love a woman HAI A 4 iny 1 down my life for her far cisily than to today day I 1 lay dow n ni LIVER let t I 1 do this and to you my go pa 16 in eav a take her and make tf y ost make her happy I 1 M ca petition 0 of the last three words nish ish it w avae as a command a tiu still standing above me I 1 raten 1 I 1 1 looked at him I 1 siw saw that his I 1 ewt Is I 1 A pale and on his forehead brods of moisture sture ills appear croos I 1 t startled me but I 1 said 1 rose and v wished him good aa Z how in spite of the dislike ira lelch the man had inspired me 1 i k I about 1 him a strength leistn lens tn and which ch to impressed me more than he ile accompanied me to sers r t U ahn lt it isea I sea I 1 paused for I 1 in i one ut f my own 1 then I 1 crose I 1 the road ro ail AB As I 1 did 0 fo o I 1 glanced back rhe rw pis wis was burning in the room which I 1 lad 13 J just left the blind was as drawn up III I 1 saw grant enter throw himself into the r clr I 1 dir which aich I 1 had left vacant Ms his arms out on the tible and hy lay his au head upon them like or 01 e in of grief he ile was bewailing the loss ot of the happiness that I 1 ha hal I 1 won ft on I 1 pitied him but I 1 datil him it seemed to me that if this man bet set his heart upon i 1 comans womans oman a live sooner or later late she roust must rive give it to him NN h hat at would it be if nov now he used all his powel to rob me of N tola I 1 knew that till the ring ft as on her inger finger I 1 should have h no peace of mind the next dav day uhn I 1 paid my visit to kioh lot I 1 was A as full of the feir fear hit that I 1 should filid I 1 ustace cratit at her bid all his hig craft in spite of his ills assumption of frankness I 1 belac believed ed him to be crafts to nu m disadvantage ahan tige iiii feir which had no foundation neither on tint that nor the succeeding dis did grant rant in any in wa i interfere with mith mv m monopoly of moll 1011 loll once or twice I 1 met hlin him apparent apparently coming from the house hou on the occasions he bouce gravely gravel but not stop to speak his ills i visits wore were evidently paid at buch times is did lid not ca dish ish with mine I 1 raged inwardly to think that he lie had the right to visit viola at any time but I 1 was too proud to remonstrate it was ft as some comfort to heir bear miss Kossl te occasional remark that they au i little or nothing of eus bus tace now viola seldom mentioned his ills name no doubt with i a womans comans quickness she understood that it was nas distasteful to me nevertheless I 1 knew tint that th at ehe she held her guardian in the greatest es teem and looked forward to the time when hen we ne should be friends this I 1 swore should never come viola met my wife the acquaintance between her and this strong willed billed attractive man should aca e A As I 1 said I 1 am indeed a pitiful hero hut but if I 1 saw nothing of grant I 1 heard from him he ile wrote me tell ing me he had been informed by miss keith heith that our marriage was nas to take place very shortly he ile would b glad to know mv intentions respect respecting ini the of her own small fortune there was as a peremptoriness about the wording arding of the letter u which aich nettled me extremely ex I 1 wrote back that it was mas quite true that we ne were ere to be married in a few weeks time but that it was nias not my intention to settle my wife afes mone upon her the sum surn was too paltry to trouble about as it would be quite lost sight of in the large postnuptial settlement which I 1 prop proposed obed making if mr nir grant felt any doubt as to my means he could make inquiries of nu solicitor who had my In instructions to answer all his questions fully to this letter he did lid not reply but I 1 heard tint that he made the inquiries as I 1 suggested no doubt in violas interest he was aas right in so doing but I 1 liked him none the more for the action yes N viola iola overcome by b my impassioned had consented to an almost immediate marriage there tele was indeed no reason we e should wit a day she loved me and anti was as willing to trust her future in my hands I 1 loved her and longed for the moment which would make her mine forever moreover I 1 longed for the time to come when I 1 might tell her all confess the innocent but foolish dc deception eption I 1 I 1 had practiced and beg her forgiveness not for mistrusting her but her sex in general I 1 was as sorely tempted to re reveal ea I 1 the true sate slate of affairs without further delay but grants warning arning A rose to m my mind and I 1 determined that until the irrevocable ible words nords were spoken I 1 would mould keep my scent we were marof d lu in the quietest way possible viola it seemed to me had hall no bosom fir friends lends no relatives who would be morti mortified fled unless they were asked to the tile wedding the old spinster who nho looked very vcr prim and readi ready to apply her tier favorite word indecorous to the whole proceedings a brother as prim as herself and one trusted friend of mv my own formed the wedding guests eustace grant had bem becia asked to ac compan us but viola told me that for some reason or other he had excused him elf kt t this she seemed deeply vexed I 1 wis as also troubled by his refusal it showed shoed too his feelings toward me and toward rd viola hut he was as in the chil church ach he was there oven even before I 1 wis was As I 1 walked up the aisle I 1 caught a glimpse of his strongly et rongi marked profile he ile was in a far off pew and was as almost the only spectator of the ceremony doubtless when viola and I 1 left the church man and wife eustace grant walked into in the vestry and as he had expressed ex his intention of doing saw with his own on ebes ses that I 1 bid bad married viola in my true name ne e drove straight from the church to th thi ralla 3 station hali alone in the arriage cairl airi aRP age the tile first words my if gild said wore were juliel austace ft N is I 1 in church dil ill I 1 ou ail see ee him leq e I 1 paw saw him hv hn did lid he lie not come coni panI and weh me rne goodbye good ba e I 1 it wag not like him I 1 must hive have offended him I 1 a aill arite i and arid isk uk i sk him how flow I 1 b hied the I 1 alei lei le i of being in such 1 t moment as this in ni my alfes thoughts never min I 1 dearest de irest I 1 said what is gannt to us its I 1 oh much er pra much k rolv mf julian lull in he lie wis w 14 m my mothers mother a friend ht h his has bien my out friend ever since I 1 c cm ill remember I 1 do not like him I 1 sill sit I 1 hut but vou ou will aill like him loll 1011 must like him he ile 1 so good po so caver promise me julian ou will aill III him for ID my bake although I 1 would not credit him with the two first goodness goodne s and nobi nobility lit I 1 was willing to beleve believe thit Eust grant was clever perhaps too clever cleer the disadvantage at bicci he had held me upon gnat night f ben bell I 1 was for the time an impostor 11 PoRtor tn in his III a ees rankled in my mind hut but today toda I 1 could atford I 1 to be generous I 1 arely drew loll 1011 close to me dearest I 1 said sald I 1 will A ill tr try and get rid of m my brej i lice I 1 will to try and forret forget thit that this nian loved aou ou and would have made ou oil his wife I 1 will to tr to caie from wondering wh h when he Is oo 00 0 good noble and clever vou ou should have chosen nie mola iola laid her soft cheek check against mine wine julian my husband she whispered are you not all that eustace rant Is and morea I 1 love ou alth ith her tier w words all mv my doubt all my fear of eustace Eus tact grant grants tie alel I 1 never I 1 hoped to return inith alth violis iolas viol is arms around me her kisses on my lips I 1 could afford to pit my m unsuccessful rival ahen hen we c were installer Install cl el in the compartment of the train which was as b a venal arrangement of 0 the guards reserved served ic to ours ourselves elies I 1 fell to consid ring 1 how I 1 should best mike make known to loli ION that the name ne by which she hid had hitherto known me was nas assumed ass aimed II 11 I 1 was mas beginning or fancied I 1 was beginning to know something of my aides true nature and I 1 told myself m self that the task before me was as not so easy as I 1 had once imagined it would be my confession was hurried on by a question she herself asked me jullin julian jull in what hat name was it you signed in the book at church I 1 hoped that in the agitation natural to a bride who signs h hr r maiden i ii ame for the list last time she bad had not noticed my aph but she must I 1 have hane done so il though she had bald nothing about it until now so I 1 made the plunge ind and told her all told her my true name told her I 1 of the beautiful house in the west which would be ours told her of the life free from care and anxiety as to the future which sr stretched etched before ua us then I 1 besought besot beso her forgiveness for keeping her in ignorance of these things I 1 had be it said given hr to understand that I 1 was a man with an income lust just enough to live upon in comfort grant gt was as right he lie knew viola when he told me that b revealing my deception he might destroy the fabric of roy my happiness she said little hut but her look told me she was hurt and wounded I 1 veril verily believe beliele her first A rat thoughts were that she would rather I 1 had been what hat I 1 represented myself to be than to have the power of sharing such a home and so much wealth with her how ikle II ae men understand undra tand women ent perhaps no two women are alike e dut but viola forgave foi gave me A woman always ways forgives the man she love loves but I 1 knew that she was sad at the thought that I 1 could have dreamed that richea riches might have influenced her nevertheless it was as days before I 1 could get her to join me unrestrainedly in the schemes act emes which I 1 wove for our future life TO BB rr |
