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CHAPTEH III
I Vbh I were a •horthand writer.
would Lave takes down the i
for word aa it happeoed. John. In spite
of hie lack of polish, his hist; voice, hie
rs reKea attire and his fondness for the
society of English Tom, la a gentleman to
the marrow of his sturdy boom. This
fact frequently produces complications
and embarrassments from which he
would otherwise he free.
The careless expression of his fscs un
derwent an instant transformation. The
blood rushed to hia cheeks and forehead,
lie straightened hia broad shoulders and
drew himself up as rigid as a soldier on
He did not attempt to speak,
(turnUsgaiefrom her. I don't
1 would have been the end of
’ been alone. Aa it was, 1 had
a moment, “John, this is
, Miss Forrests!. ”
’ a long breath and held out his
. Into which she put hers. "1
that—you are our cousin," said
(.which I laughed, Mias Forrest*]
_htly, but with a very bright
look in ker ayes, and John sat down on n
chair, with a baud on aach hue*
‘ Tour Cousin ha* Just arrived from
England," said mother and went on to
tell the efpry. John maintained the
same exgjksion and attitude through
out and seemed unable to turn hie face
away tram the newcomer, whose eyes
rested #metlmee on the speaker, some-
me and occasionally on John,
aha prAerving meanwhile an appear
anoecf quiet composure and nowand
then supplementing mother's narrative
with a remark of her own. When this
was over, John said: “I hope you will
enjoy yourself here. Mother understands
company better than I do, but I'll do my
best—and Frank too. I wish my other
brother were here. I'm sure you'd get
along with him.”
“You have ar-'l'ier brother?" asked
Mias ForrestaL
“Haury—myaaeond son," putin moth
er. “Yes, 1 think you would find him
entertaining. I miss him sadly. Ha has
been traveling abroad nearly fonr years.
We hear from Mm only once in two or
three months. He has been in India
too. He might easily have seen you and
your father there If he had known."
While my mother was saying this 1
noticed that for the first time Mias For
rester* color slowly deepened. 1 cannot
imagine why. Perhaps the blush be
longed to an earlier period of the evening,
and she had merely postponed It till now.
That is sometimes the way with persons
whose thoughts and emotions come from
far below the surface.
“Henry MainwaringP she said, as if
to herself. Then to mother. “Do you
expect him back soon?"
Mother shook her head mournfully. 1
said, “Perhaps in seven days, perhaps in
asvsn yean—there’s no tolling.’'
"If I only knew where he was. Id
write him to come on at once." said John
in aa emphatic tone.
At this point the servant came la to
announce supper—a meal which is ordi
narily little more than a ceremony with
us, but which tonight was more substan
tial on account of our cousin, who had
probably had no dinner. “If you would
like to make any changes in your dress,
my dear,’' said mother aa wa arose,
“you can take all the time you want"
“Perhaps I had better brush my hair,'
she answered. And so th* two ladies
went out, leaving John and me together.
He thrust his hands In his pockets,
turned on Ms heel and walked to the
window, where he stood looking out.
though he could see nothing.
“Do you think she's prettyP I inquired
at leagth.
“I don’t know. Ire seen nobody like
her,” be replied after a pause. Then he
came away from the window and sat
down and patted the collie until the
ladies reappeared. So far aa I remember
nothing of importance occarred during
that evening.
I am of John’s way of thinking. I
hrfve seen nobody like her. But 1 hare
no doubt about her good looks. She las
beautiful girl She has baanty of ea-
movement aa well aa of
, feature and color. But It la an un
usual type. She is as dark as a Spaniard,
with abundance of black hair, not shiny,
hut soft and lustorlesa, like black smoke
condensed. Her akin is a pula trpaspar-
ant brown, looking like antique ivory at
night and almost golden when the sun
falls on it Her eyebrows and eyelashes
are black, but her eye* are bin*—a warm
blue, like spring violets, Th* blood
•hows through bar cheeks more than
with Spanish women.
Bar nos* is a rather small, delicately
motdsd aqullins. Mother has a hand-
aura* nose, but it seem* coarse in com
parison with tMa. It gives an exquisitely
aristocratic effect to her face, and ydl
it is not suck ■ nose as members of the
English aristocracy are apt to have. It
teems to indicate refinement of soul and
aoM* spirit, rather than mere high breed
ing and blue Mood. Her conntenono*
baa the charm of originality—aa if aha
War* the first of her kind, rather than
tb* lost of somebody else'*. 1 never saw
my uncle Edward, but he most have
b*m an oxtreocdinmy .BagUahmah if Ms
' resembles him. She must take
r mother, if any on*, and yet.
to mother. Unde Edward’s
i was aa invalid and rather plain,
fo doubt there is a great deal efexag-
‘ lea and humbug in the theory of
ity.
I have already intimated, John
unquestionably many Sinfire if
would hare Mm. But neither he
I nor mother eaa toll for certain
ririU hare Mm. Alltkoctr-
render ft probable, but you
no more look into tM* girl’s heart
i yon can look into a poUatod
Yet there mast be
1 of reading bar, and I
in time. 8k* ia probably ro>
I came into mother’s boudoir
Mother waa not
i was standing in front
. tit, which hangs on th.
wall, rapt to contemplation of it Hen
ry is a very good looking follow. The
portrait scarcely does Mm justice, and
I said aa much when ah* became aware
Mother was not there, but Sfngrs tra*
standing in/rent e/ Henry’s portrait.
“There are tome people,” replied Sin-
fire, “who** portraits I prefer to them-
seivea."
“It would need a very good portrait
to make that true of Henry," said L
“Oh, 1 mean a portrait can do no
hennr she rejoined.
“Has any on* ever done yon any
harm?” I could not helo asMnir.
But aha only looked at me tranquilly
and mid: “I was not thinking of myself.
A good portrait might correct a mistake
one had made about the original of it
The artist would see without prejudice,
and so his interpretation would be deep
er and truer."
I replied that there might be two sides
to thflt question. Prejudice might see
more keenly If not more broadly than
impartiality, and leve, which is the
height of prejudice. Is not blind, us the
vulgar proverb asserts. It “lends a pre-
cions seeing to the eye.”
“I always supposed," she answered,
•that the weak point of love wee it has
no judgment It sees faults, but It in
terprets them ae a kind of virtues, and
It counts as fully developed qualities
that exist .only in the germ and do not
affect the character."
Now, though all Shis waa put hypo
thetically, it bore Internal evidence of
mature codsiderstion. My cousin had
discussed the matter with herself before
discussing it with me. But whether she
spoke from experience or from imagina
tion who can toll? It hardly seems like
ly that so handsome a young woman
should have hitherto eecaped all person
al knowledge of the great passioni but,
on the other hand, she may be younger
than she looks, and then her life In
India (I believe she was born there) may
have isolated her from available soci
ety. The fact is we knew nothing more
than the bare outline of the girl's pre
vious Ufa it ia not that she ever hesi
tates to answer queetioa*. but she never
volunteers information, and as there is
no 6B* but mother to interrogate her.
and «• mother is a poor hand at cross
examination, that amounts to nearly the
same thing. The only question John
win ever put to her ia, "Will you marry
moT while, so for as I am concerned, I
cannot approach her save by indirec-
tiqu. And it ia by ao means easy to sur
prise her tato saying anything she does
not Intend to say.
For th* last week John has been hav
ing Ms gray hors* Sibyl trained to the
sidesaddle so that our cousin might go
ridliu? Sibyl is a superb animal, with
moat agreeable action, but there is some
thing tameless in her still. Yesterday
morning before breakfast Tom had just
girthed the sidesaddle on her and had
gone inside to fill Ms pipe before monnt-
Ing, leaving her attached by her halter
to the stable entrance. At that moment!
happened to be standing at my bedroom
window, which la above my study and
laboratory in the right wing. I saw
Stnfire appear and croea the court
yard. She had on a scarlet riding habit
trimmed with black. It waa the first
time she bad worn it since she has been
here, and It had a very striking effect.
She seemed to have made np her mind
that Sibyl was trained enough for her to
rid*
Tom came out of tb* stable and stood
in Mtoniahment at the young lady’s ap-
pearanc* He la her devoted slave (like
* vary body else) because, aa he explains
it, she ia fresh from Ms native land.
After a short parlay, which of course 1
could not hoar, ha gave her a baud, and
she sprang into tbs saddl* There was
no bridle on the bore* Tom was in the
habit of riding her with the halter only
Ska had stood pretty quietly thus far,
but just as Tom had loosened the end of
th* halter from the ring in th* doorpost
sod was in the act of handing it to Bin-
fire th* oollis came racing up and emit
ted ao axploaiao of barks right under
tiibyl’e noe* She threw up her head,
jerking the halter from Tom's hand,
danced about for a moment and aet off
at a full run in the direction of the
drlv*
This brought them directly nnder-
aeath my window. Sinfire was of course
powerless to guide the horse, but she
kept bar sent well, and to judge from
the expression of her face as she flashed
past she seemed exhilarated rather than
Mgbtoaed. Nevertheless she was In
hnminent danger. If Sibyl kept on her
present course for MO yards, it would
bring bar to the cliff, and that was near
ly certain death. Tom was in pursuit,
but ha would never overtake her. It
looked Mk* good by forever to our Eng-
Th* situation wftsri l go* mere was
somewhat different from what I had ex
pected. Tom bad hold of Sibyl's halter
and was soothing and scolding her by
turns and at the same time exonerating
Mmaelf to Sinfire, who hail dismounted
and was w'ated on the grass with John's
bead supportod on her knee. At first I
thought he was dead. It was a terrible
thought But when she saw me she said
immediately, “Ha has only fainted.
But just then 1 saw John running oa
a line which would intersect their oourse
at a Mint about 80 yards from the cliff's
brink Where ho came from I know
not, but ha waa running as I never be
fore saw a man run He had a good
■tart, but I oould hardly think it poe-
Mbb that ha would be in time. At the
moment when I thought the horse had
passed Mm. however, I saw Mm give a
spring. Ha waa dragged off hia feet in
an instent, and I knew ho had caught
1 waited to re* no more, but
aa fast as I could and
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Biggest Vulm\in the Countvy»\
1 sent Tom on Sibyl after restoratives
and held John against my shoulder. Sin
fire had already loosened Ms collar. He
was unconscious,'and bis face had a
strange look that I did not tike. I oould
not find tha* he had been struck any
where, and according to Sintra he had
assured her that he waa not touched.
“But just aa he wa* saying it,’ to* add
ed, “he dropped down aa if he wen shot
and has been this way ever sine*”
I put my finger on his puls* That
told the whole Story. I wonder I had
never suspected It before, especially as
heart disease la my specialty in pathology.
At any rate, there (a no doubt that John
baa it, and be must have had It for sosa*
time. He is such s robust man that one
would never respect it He may live for
many year* It might even be possible
to cure Mm. but when he does die the
chance* are that he will die of a stroke of
the heart
Naturally 1 said nothing of my discov
ery to Sinfire. It is a serious matter and
may mean a great deal. 1 remember
that when John waa a boy be once
climbed to the roof of the barn and tried
to stand on his bead on the ridge pole.
Some fool or other bad dared Mm to do
it He lost hia balance, rolled down the
roof and fell not on the ground, luckily,
but on a heap of straw that was about te
be used as bedding for the hone* He
escaped with a few insignificant bruises,
but the doctor who attended him said he
had strained Ms heart. Probably It has
been weak ever since, and the active ex
ercise he has been in the habit of takjpg
can have done it no good. However,
what is done cant be mended. All we
can hope for la to guard against mischief
in the future. I wish .John were leas
headstrong aud more phlegmatic.
He began to come.to before long, and
then I made Min sip a doxen teaspoon
fuls of brandy, which I administered one
after the other. The sipping, more than
the brandy, stimulated hie circulation,
and he was able to get up and walk. He
hod no idea what had been the matter
with him; thought Sibyl must have
kicked him. But it waa of Sinfire that
his head was full, and I suppose he must
have suffered a strong agony of emotion
during that minnte and a half that she
was in deadly peril and he was trying to
save her. If there had been any doubt
about Ms feeling for her before, there can
be non* now. And, as for her, if she is a
woman and not a witch (as I sometime*
fancy), she cannot resist a handsome
young millionaire whose first love she is
and who has saved her life, for beyond
peradventure she would have been in
kingdom come but for John.
Much obliged, old fellow; don’t need
any help," said the heir of Cedarcliffe to
his yonnger brother, and I took the hint
like the dutiful youngster I am, and re
turned with my brandy flask to my
study, wMle John and Sinfire sauntered
slowly across the lawn together. I ex
pected it would have been all settled by
the time they reached the house, but at
breakfast, half an hour later, John's face
proclaimed more loudly than even his
sturdy tongue could have done that the
engagement was still hi the future. Men
tally as well as physically he was much
depressed. Sinfire. who was still in her
Mephistophelian riding habit, was being
tenderly scolded by mother for having
exposed herself to such danger, and she
seemed to be in high spirits and laughed
and talked with a freedom and brilliance
that she had never exMMtod before. As
I looked and 'istened I could forgive poor
John for his infatuation. I oould almost
have fallen in love with the supCrb young
creature myself. And yet. strange to
say, I never distrusted her so much as 1
did then. She is hiding some secret, and
it concerns ua
But what a range and scope she has.
There was an oriental quality In her face
at that moment which struck me for the
first time. 1 could Imagine that the
young Cleopatra might have looked os
Sinfire did then. But Cleopatra never
looked like a cold, subdued English girl,
yet that Is one of Sinfire's phase* 1
wonder whether she is ambitious; I won
der whether she hates anybody, aud, if
te, whom and why?
It is time to give Saprani a bowl of
milk. Saprani Is another superb crea
ture, more trustworthy than my cousin
Sinfire, not less oriental and not perhaps
more deadly. And Saprani ia very fond
of the youngest and most insignificant of
the Mainwaring family. Reason and
gratitude unite therefore in prompting
me to bestow upon her my budding af
fections. and since I am sure not to be
Interfered with by rivals the course of
our true love has every prospect of run
ning smooth. 1 will serenade her on the
toumril tonight.
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