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(A STRANGE LOVE STORY),
MY
TOM GALLON,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 7TH, 1904.
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more than I can say. I never would have married anyone, you know, Frank dear, if I hadn't wanted to help them all, and if I hadn't In less than an bow from that time, Miss believed that you were at the bottom of the rea. Nails we back at work in the grimy little and that I should never sco yon again.”
Seriously, my dear Dora--and coming out basement, as though nothing had happened. But on that very morning when Mr. Jake of Dreamland for a moment-I think I can Mealing had put in an appearance, she contrived help you more than you imagine, I know the to come upon Dora, listlessly going through story of this marriage, by the merest accident come domestic duties; in a moment Miss Nudds There is a light thrown upon it, in a very Now, I want you to tell me, drew back from hor, with a shocked expression.trange way: I have been told the whole story
Why, wotever are you hin doin' to yorself, by someone else. Miss!" she exclaimed, taking the frail little on your own account, all that led up to it: I figure by the shoulders, and turning her round want to understand clearly what has happoned, to the light. "Never 'ave I seen anythink like so that I may judge of the position in which it, talk about two burat 'oles in a blanket—”
"I didn't sleep well. Jape," said Dora, turning away her face.
It happens, however, in this world of cross-/ listeners. Frank gravely concealed a rising purposes, that there are certain kindly-natured, smile, thanked her again, and went off with blundering people, who will look after overy. her to the door. one's business but their own, and whose oze desire is to brin about events which should not, in the strictly moral sense, occur at all. (Author of Tatlericy," "The Mystery of Jola
And ons of those persons was Miss Jaue Nudds. Peppercorn," &c.).
But for Miss Jeno Nudds, it is highly Sysory of InHTALMENT I ya IV-Mr. Cle-probable that Mr. Frank Dorne might, at this ment Frith, a Loumission Agent, living in Kensing tor, finde himself in eather low water. His daughter very moment, be a hopeless wanderer of the Dora trina soreral means by which to make botis face of the earth, never having for a moment each inget, but ders not succeed until the tales in a Indger, a wealthy gent eman of the name of bagden, again sot eyes upon Dora; and Dors, for her and with an ar of mystery about hiki. On his being part, might have the sereno consciousness of taken ill one day a doctor is summoned who tells them their lodger in past recovery. Lagdon makes a having held fast to the strict line of duty. Miss Nadds, however, being on the scene, will leaving Bara all his property providing site is
rather changed the aspect of affairs, as shall be willing to un-ry in at once. It appours that Frith gives e consoit to this strange request before ho inforias his daughter of it. After a con ersation told. with the dying man, Dom refuses to marry hits. At last her father persuades her to consanta clergyman in callei, and the ceroniony performed. Ingdon after wards gives the girl a packet which, he Airs, mert not be opened mutil the rightful owner chains it. Inter in the day, on looking into the man' room, Dora is astonishal to flud that he has disappeared. The next morning Frank Dome, le former lover, who, the thongst, had died abroad, calls. On hear ing that Doa has been married only the day botore, Porno returns to his hutol, determined to go abroad again a soul as opportunity server. His route ni
"Bat Jane-I don't want-" old friorat, Jim Cowle, who tells him strango story
"It ain't wut you want," said Miss Nudis Frith's house, in the possession of Jesal Lagden. Jane Nadde, the servant at Frith's, raaker the sing table, ronding a letter. More than that, it's pain things like me wot's got to protect graintance of Jake Meuling, who, white ont ne evening, quatrives to get from the girl all the infor she saw the girlish face drop down on to the theirselves.. I can do all your little trit on my ination lo es concerning the mau, Lagdon. On letter, and the young shoulders houve and shake'eal, so to speak; w'ile you just go an' lave a their return, he foigus illness, and asks to be allower to go into the house and rest. Jane is called out of, with suppressed sobbing. Miss Nudds, with a quiet little walk in Kensin`ton Gardins. You the kitchen by her master, and Mealing as the tightened mouth, slipped out of the room again, wan't find anybody about in the Brond Walk; in you'll come back to find the 'ouse like a opportunity to conceal himself, afterwards following without having been obanṛved. Clemont Frith upstairs.
200 pia."
of a diamond In is in quest of. Ho han traced it to
CHAPTER V.
LOVE-AND A LITTLE WIDOW.
Miss Nudda was of a sympathetic nature and she had seen Dora's white face and heavy- rimmed aves for a couple of days. At ärst, turally enough, she set that down to the unexplained absence of the bridegroom; then, quith unexpectedly, she discovered the real
CARRO.
She happened to walk into Dora's room ono morning, believing it to bo empty; she saw hor mistress sitting by the shabby little dress.
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"Now, you put down that there düster, Miss this instant miinute." commanded Miss Nudde severely, “an' upstairs you go, an' on with yer at. I never did; if anything was to appon to you, w'ore's my wages, I'd like to know. You never think about a pore gel like mo-de yar! Up you goes, Miss!"
It really was a very beautiful morning-much too fine a morning to spend within doors, if there was any ohanes of getting out. Dera
wavered for a moment, but Miss Nudds was adamant; laughing a little, she went upstairs, and put on her hat.
At that very moment the impatient voice of Mr. Clement Frith called landly for "Dora"; It in the vasiest thing in the world to be very the girl came running out from her room. Miss angry with anyone, and very contemptuous; it Nadds was very busy with a brush on the is not by any means an easy thing to keep that stairs, end did not evan look up; but no sooner anger and that contempt alive for any length of had Dera, disappeared than she slipped into time. Of course, it must clearly be understood the room, and found, as she had anticipated,
It was not a great way to the Broad Walk; that no reference is intended to those extra-that the lotter was lying on the dressing table. ordinary beings who have allowed a passion to It took her just about fifteen seconds to master and that long road through Kensington Gardens smolder for a life-tiore, and have curried it to the contents, and to get the address of the hotel was a very pleasant one on that summer morn- their graves. It is doubtful, in fact, if even firmly fixed in her mind. By the time Dorsing. Once free from that dreadful house, a few with such people, some momentary Aicker of came slowly upstairs again, Miss Nudes was of her troubles seemed to be lifted from her remorse has not at times touched theru; still busy once more with the stairs, and was ham the light breeze, the glorious sun overhead, and tho few well-dressed happy people she me more doubtful, if a mere obstinate pride in ming cheerfully to herself,
thore-all seemed to tell her that life was not their own power of hating has not been the
really the sordid thing it had seemed to be, and mainstay of that hatred.
that all was very well, after all.
Mr. Frank Dorna had made up his mind that, from the hour he crossed the aquare, after part ing with Miss Dora Frith (as he still obstinate ly insisted on calling her) he would never again look upon her face, if he could avoid doing so. It is probable that he had not gone a hundred yards before he began to report; it is certain that he repented a hundred times on his way back to his
hotel.
Probably from the fact that she had her own little affairs on at that time--that very day, in fact, for the butcher had not yet heen formally ismissed, Mr. Jaze Moaling not having put in an appearance--she was keen to sea that here was reni romance; a young man (Nulls decided that he must be young, and probably very handsome) sighing for his old love; going alread preferably to die, while she was bound to another. Flesh and blood especially the desh and blood of Miss Nudde-could not stand it: they must meet,
The wonderful Nudds found a way; and that very afternoon Mr. Frank Dorne was summoned into the hall of the great hotel-to meet un apparition. Miss Nulds-very upright, on the extreme edge ofja soft easy chair, glaring defiance at a hall boy who scented sport. anil As Frank did not know was watching her. Miss Kuds in the least, he could only, of conre, awkwardly smile at hor, and ask what it was she wanted.
Then again, after that extraordinary interview with Mr. Jim Cowie, he saw that, whatever his future position with the girl might be, one duty lay clearly before him. Still believing in her, and in the purity of her motivos, he saw in this sudden and strange marriage some plot in which she played the part of an innocent an unwilling tool; moreover, the suggested character of her husband. Josiah Lagden, made it imperative that she should at least know her danger, even though it might be too late to do anything, beyond warning her. Again, tho
Miss Nudds rose slowly, and beckoned Frank long and frightful conspiracy to obtain possos-mysteriously intoja corner. Conscions that the sion of this wonderful diamond had ended, for the moment, at the young figure of this gist the terrible idon occurred to Frank Derno that she might even be in possession of it, without knowing its value, or the tragedy that was a past of that value. Again, more than all else, Frank Dorne knew the charactor of the man Cowle, ami that no life would be sacred to him. if once he had made up his mind to get tho, Ftona.
Accident had placed the thread of the matter
in Frank's hands, and that thread led straight to the girl. For many reasons, other than mere personal ones, he decided that he must see her.
eyes of all sorts of undesirable people were upon him, and that the girl had various colours apon her person which did not exactly harmonise with each other, or with her hair, Frank waited
for what was to come.
It ain't the right thing, I know, sir, to meet a gent unbeknown like," began Miss Nudde, in a mysterious whisper--" but w'en a young lady, as corkscrews wouldn't drag or nams out of me, is cryin' or ayes out, an' murmurin yer name, I asks you, sir, to are
merey!"
The whole of this amazing speth Miss Nudds
you stand,"
Greatly surprised, she told him the story; of tho coming of the strange man to the houps; of his refusal to son visitors; of the strange doctor, who had assured her and her father that the man must-die before midnight on the as possible the part her father had jinyed in the day of the marriage. She passed over a lightly business; but Frank Dorne understood, only too well, that he had taken a lead in the matter. Finally, after he land heard the story from bo- ginning to end, he begged her, in the old
mies the matter from her mind. boyish fashion she remembered so well, to dis-
"Don't think anything more about it-at least, for the moment," he said. “It'll al come right one of these days; and I haven't gives you up, by any means. It's a little hard, porhaps, that things should have happened us they have; because I came back with a fortune to lay at your feet, and with the hope in my
and smooth fer you in the future." heart that I might make everything straight
"A fortune**
"Yos. After that deplorable shipwreck, in which it happened that I was one of those savet, I got to Ceylon. There, & good-hearted fellow took pity on me, when I was wandering, hopeless and homeless, and took me in his end- ploy. He was a very wealthy man, and had several plantations; there was only cue draw back to his luck; he was dying. To cut a long story short, I was useful to him, and he took a fancy to me. He hadn't kith nor kin in the world: he died, and left me verything he pos- And than the obvious miracle, Sauntering sensed. Dora, I'm quite a rich man,"
"I sm so glad," she said simply. "And now, Dora, let's back to Dreamland." along, as though he had no purpose in the world, and was very distinctly bored with story. thing, came Mr. Frank Dorns. So pre-ocen-ha oxclaimed suddenly, "To-day, I mean to pied was he apparently, that he had come right taka yon prisoner; to live for a few hours the up to the little trombling figure, sunted on one old life we promised ourselves, when we were of the seats, before he saw ber; and then you little more than boy and girl. You shall take never saw anyone go surprised in all your life.holiday from your troubles, aud-in Dreamland Which of them at that moment blessed Miss we will go and lunch l'* Nudds the mere forvently, will for over remain an open question..
Dora rose nervously from her seat, and stood before him, without daring to raise her eyes; perhaps she felt they might tell him some tale he ought not to read. Seeing, however, a hand stretched out before her, she had of course to take it. The hand she gave him was warmly grasped, and then drawn quickly under the arm of a tweel coat. When a man treats yon in that masterful fashion, what on you possibly do P
They strolled quietly on together for a few tuements, Freak waiting for the girl to regain her composure. Sho regained it, more rapidly than he had imagined; and it was she who
spoke first
Of course, there was a faint little struggle on the part of the girl about the matter; some thought that she ought not to be going of in that fashion, to spend a holiday with the wan she loved, whep she was in reality bound to another. But she was young, and so was Frank; and the sun was shining, and holidays were rare events. So it ended in their going back to Dreamland, and forgotting everything that led happened in the real substantial work.
Thus it came about that they drove through a dream city. with a cheerful ghost of a cabman up behind them, and a rather fine specimen of a spectra horse in front; that dream waiters barried to pat unsubstantial food before them; and that they talked happy talk, that might have been possible if Frank Dorne bad never "It's not right at all," she said, in a low gone on his voyage, and Dora had never met Voice."Of course, I couldn't actually turn Josiah Lagdan. They forgot, in fact, all the round and insult you, and refuse to speak to unpleasant things just for an hour or two, and you when you mot me in public; but will you lived in an ideal world, which they peopled to please give me back my hand, and say good-suit their own fancy. bye quietly--and go away."
Curiously enough, although the little hand lay quite lightly on his sleeve, she made no at He laughed, a Ettle tempt to withdraw it.
It was quite late when they got back to the little house in Diprose Square. There, for the first time that day, Frank became suddenly serious. It had not been possible for him to
Ho sat down, then and there, and wrole u dinle. poured into the oar of Mr. Frank Darue in one borishly, after a moment or two, and squeezed apoak of anpleasant things before; but he knew
matic little note to the girl.
He wasted quite a lot of the hotel's best note-
breath, and then paused for a reply. Frank, probably thinking that she was nuwell, quietly asked her to sit down, and seated himself beside
her. Sening that the hall boy was still watching him, with a vacuous grin, Frank scowled at him so suddenly and effectually, that the grin faded, and the boy discovered he had business in an- other part of the building..
"Now, perhaps you will be good sasugh to tell me what I can do to assist you," said Frank,
It's a
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now that the time had come when he must speak the hand against his side; and spoke in his turn, without answering her request, however,
of them. He remembered all that Cowle hnd very remarkable thing," he said said; he knew the flanger in which the girl stood. lightly. I've been dreaming a dream Dora: "Dora-I told you, just a few hours ago. eno of those waking dreams, you know; and that I knew the real story of your marriage.
Port Arthur felt that wanted to carry it out to the end.
It doesn't matter how I found it out," he went Dalny That brought me here this moching."
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paper before he could get the thing straight It was altogether such an extraordinary sit tion; he was writing to a married lady, asking her to mest him in a clandestine fashion; and ho could ant disgules from himself the fact that he loved that married lady, quite as much as he had ever done when she was single. How over, there was more in this the mere socialI can only imagine that you have mistaken me convention; and at last the noto went.
for someone else; in fact, that there has been
"I want you to believe, Dora, that what I Chinking Will you tell some extraordinary blunder.
did, I would have one clear day, in which any is true," he said. This marriaga is a me-"
would forget all the disagreeable things that more artifice a blind, to cover something else. Well, of course, sir, if Miss Dora...” Miss Nudds suddenly found that her hands had happened one clear, bright day in which I don't understand it myself yet; I only know had been seized in a strong pressure, and that I would remember only that the sun was shin-somacthing of what this husband of yours is. the carnest eyes of Mr. Frank Dorne were looking, and the birds wore singing, and that I was won't tell you now anything about him; I only want you to understand, without being frigh "Tell me," he cried, "tell me in love with Dora-"
tened too mach, that you are in dangor." what she says. I suppose she sent you to ine?"
"In danger?" she gasped, looking at his "Never did I think," said Miss Nodds, "as
with wide, startled eyes. how I should set in a place like this 'ere, an on a seat that lets you down so soft, with anybody a 'olding me 'ands in public. Not but wot I know, six," she added hastily, it don't mean nothink; but I could on's wish as a few of them as 'are looked down on me might see me this. hour!"'
It proved to be merely an ordinary letter: and the writer begged that his old friend Dora would meet him, if only for a few moments, somewhere or other where he could talk to her, At all events, he felt he could not go abroad again (he was careful to underline that sugges tion of departure) without at least saying good-ing into hers. bye to her.
Aftor &
Ho went off a messenger with that note, with instructions to wait for an answer. fearful delay, as it seemed, the messenger boy came back, with the verbal reply that "the lady would write.
"Will you answer my question "exclaimed Frank, impatiently: "You know something about a friend of mine ia Diprose Square ?"
"No. $7," said Miss Nadds calmly.
Hus she sent you to me?"
"Oh. but you mustn't," she interposed hurriedly. "You see, everything is changed; I am not the Dora you know any longer."
"Oh, but you are," replied Frank stontly. "That is, of course, in my dream. In my dream we all stand still for over; the sun is ahways shining, and we are always together and we live, and we love, and there's never anything wrong or unhappy, or mean or sordid."
It's a beautiful dream!" said Dora 'softly. "Quly you sex, Frank-"
"Don't wake me from it," said Frank Dorne, hurriedly. "In my dream, at least, Dora, I may love you may feel that you still belong
You do love me, dear--don't you ?” to me.
In the dream-yes," said Dora, demurely. In real life, you know-it's all different. I am married to someone I don't know, and don't like; someone who ought to be dead... Do no-I don't mean that; it sounds so brutal. Only he really ought to have kept his promise, and not have placed any poor girl in this
Now, if Mr. Frank Dorne had only known how his letter had been received, he might not have raged and fumed as he did all that more ing, and, in fact, all that day, and all the next- day after that. If he could, in fact, have been able, by some magic agency, to lift the roof off thut little house in the dingy square in Ken. sington, he might have seen Dora carrying that
She doesn't even know I'm ere this letter abont with her, as her most cherished possession; weeping bitter tears over it, at the minute," said Miss Nudds. But I see-quite thought that she was driving him again out of by accident, sir-a letter from you, a uskin for England he who had been anved from the grave, one last look at 'er. It ain't for me to do any as it were, to come back to find her faithless.
think; but if you should appen to be strollin' But, as little Dola was above all things per in the Broad Walk at Kensin ton Gardins shout fectly honest and pure, she made up her mind eleven-thirty to-morrow, I shouldn't be a bit that she must not, under any circumstances, surprised if you didn't see someone you know.”
Frank squeezed her hand again, quite grate.position," she added petulantly. Certain sulemn words had been 600 Frank,
He had slipped one hand into his spoken over her, and she was irrecoverably fully. bound to another man. The thing was done, pocket, with the intention of giving her some- and could not be undone; nothing but death thing; but a look from Miss Nadds checked the could end the business, and she trembled when impulse.
Well-I must do a toddle," said Miss she thought that she was perhaps, anxious, in
"Dunne' w'en I've ad a desporeté fashion, to hear of that death. No Nadds cheerfully. it was entirely out of the question. So far as sich a pleasant little chat. Quite like old times, she was concerned, Frank Dozne might nevor ain't it " she added, as she rose and shook out have come back at all, and certainly might not. her skirts. This was evidently said with the intention of averting suspicion, in case of at the present time, even exist.
!
"Yes-in danger. Tell me: something was given you, as a sort of wedding present, was it not? That is only a guess on my part; part of?
theory I have formed."
"Yes-something very strange was given to me," she replierl.
"I thought so. He est his lips tightly, and looked at her with a grave free. "I'll guess again. Was it a diamond".
She nodded slowly, without speaking, "There could be no worse wedding present for anyone, tay dear." he said. "Mon have been murdered for that stone; it has behind it a long and awful track of crime. Even now. while I speak to you, there are men in this great.city who believe that yon possers it; even now, while I speak, men are laying plots against you, in order to get that diamond. You pro mised to trust me; give the stone to me."
"But you you would be ju danger them," He shook his head. "I think not," be re-
Very well, then-in real life we'B call you she cried quickly. a. widow, Dora; because he may have becz
considerate enough to go away, in order to dieplied. "In the first place, I can look after my comfortably somewhere else. Consequently self; in the second, there is no one to suspect as we are not sure that you are a widow-I that I have it. Go at once into the house, and mustn't make love to you; but, as we are both bring the diamond to me.” in Dreamland this morning, I may make love. to you-maya't I?"
“I don't think so," said Ders. “But of Franks, I really do need a friend very much;
She glanced at him for a moment, and then went quickly in. She had put the stone in the place where it would be least likely to be sought for, ovea if anyone guessed or know that she
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