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"No, indeed," she said, with a faint smite for much more than it is worth, I'm afraid."
Well, I'm not in the way of com- pliments, but sympathy-and help if need be, Remember, at least, I've known him longer, if not hatter than you have,"
She had risen, and was looking at me oddly.
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Kent was certainly an overbearing mun, He carried all things by storm-his art, his meals, his amusements, his friendships; finally his love. By storia, I say; but it was a genial storm a south-westerly gale, 1 is very clever of you," she mur refreshing even in its bluster. He couldmared at last, and then suddenly sha laugh like a Berserker. Ons had to accept swept her hand across her eyes. "This his views, his tastes, his judgments for subterfuge," she said, "it is ao silly, and the mere jollity of the thing; and, after yes, I did want to speak to you. all, in nine cases out of ten they were the About him? ** right sound ones, Then he had his way so agreeably that one felt it a privilege to be trodden on by him, and rose apologetic for one's fatness. He had a large manner of forgiveness for weaker vessels.
For three or four years we shared o studio together in Glebe Placs, Chelsea, and during all that time Kent was my school senior and monitor. I do not think he painted very well he was too royally scornful of tradition; but there is no denying that he could wring starting effects out of a sympathetic atmosphere, and it was generally true enough of him. that if he hesitated he was lost.” I should have called him on the whele an inspired amateur. On the other hand, no doubt. he would have called me an Academic plodder.
"You"
"What has he been doing "
She hesitated a moment, and then began to speak rapidly, impulsively, as if wish- ing to get it all off her mind in a rush.
What has he been doing It is that that worries me. You knew him--know him sp well, and-it is hateful; but people. will talk, and I am alone, and my father is so preoccupied and irresolute, and I have to think and discriminate for all.”
She was obviously and greatly dis-
tressed.
** Now," 1 said; *Dick is an old friend of raine, and familiar to me, I flatter my-
inside and out; and will you confide in me, wholly and frankly? Are you in fear that he has done something wrong-- dishonourable 7"
Kent had
an income of his own nothing great, but sufficient. He was
1 Lelieve in him,” she answered="0, nian of good family, and in appearance do! Only his manner has grown so like the ghost of Christmas Present. strange of late-distraught, moody, ex- While liking the best of things for him-cited and our confidences seem at an und; self, he was hoisterously insistent on his friends getting the second-best. And generally, so god-like was he, they were content to have it thus ruled.
and he and my father, whom he completely over-rides, are just as if joined in a con spiracy of silence against me. And, Mr. Travers, I have to listen to things-it is He was constantly away from London, hateful, I say, but I know so little of Lis
· cramming | nature as he described it. past life; and sometimes he talks of in- and returning unexpectedly like Jost cluding us all in a plot- of forcing us to week's fine weather with perhaps a compound a felony. So I thought that. thought too much of wind. During one without saying anything to them of my occasion of an absence of his, somewhat | real purpose, I would get you down on prolonged, I had a commission to paint & the pretext of finishing my portrait, so portrait of Miss Lyle, daughter to Gen-that you might advise me, if you would, eral Lyle, an extremely attractive girl, | and-"" who, I may as well say at once, comed my heart some indefinita flutterings. But Kent, appearing suddenly during the sit Linge, decided that question, at once and finally for me, by falling in love with the young lady himself.
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She stopped.Willingly and whole. "And now tell me; heartedly, ́ ́ ́I said. what are the things they say that you have to listen to ?
- Ti was ever since the strange man came down," she answered low-e horrid He carried her by storm, of course, and vulgar little creature who follows him went down without hesitation to visit her about wherever he goes, and who turned father (she was staying during the sitting up on the very morning after Dick had under the chaperonage of an aunt, heen to town for the day. If it was only colourless indefinite quantity), who lived something mental I should mind less; but in retirement somewhere on the Suffolk that they won't allow, insisting on a past, coast. And his suit was accepted-equally and using a vile word, poor Dick!" of course to me. General Lyle was well
The strange man hipped me a little; but circumstanced: Kent, relatively, was I reassured her confidently enough. poor; but, like a Towka warrior, when he wanted a wife he simply took her, and nobody thought of objecting.
"You did quite right to send for me. I'll stake my reputation there's no real cause for alarm. I know Dick, I say, and trust nie. Miss Lyle, that the truth, when revealed, will prove less disturbing then
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She thanked me very gratefully; and I went out to see if I could find my friend.
Kent's first words to me were discançert- ing.
'D, I see! said he: "You've been ask- ed down to find out what's the matter.
Miss Lyle and I became in the meantime extremely friendly. I discovered an an- imation in her face which I had once fond-yon think.” ly hoped to awaken on my own account, and which I now had to record for the benefit of another. Kent, when he regard- ed my efforts, patronised them very ap- provingly, saying that they would do in default of anything better. Finally, he carried away the portrait, when nearly finished, into Suffolk to show to the General, and I heard no more of hine or it or the lady for a considerable time.
The reminder, when it came, took the form of a hurried note from Miss Lyle herself written from Dunstan Gap in Buffolk. She had every wish to study my. convenience, she said, but her own would be most signally served by my running down there and then to finish the portraitable. I decided to humour him, pending My old friend, Mr. Kent, she added an explanation. a postscript, particularly desired my pros.
"O, have I 1 1 answered. "Very per spicacious of you. I've been asked down. as a matter of fact, to finish the portrait." "You see," said he. You give your self away. But never mind. I should have wanted you soon in any case,"
I expressed no surprise, though I was. not without feeling some. His manner was decidedly changed-odd, truculent, irrit
The Lyles' house stood on the top of a ence and so, on his account-he did not shallow rocube, thick with gorse and; seems quite himself-did she,
heather, that dropped to within fifty feet There seemed to be something oddly sug-of a beach to which the final descent was gestive, even sinister, in that studied after by way of a flight of wooden steps. It! thought. What had happened, was hap-bung up there isolated and lonely, one of pening, about to happen Impulsive, overlearing natures had a way, I knew, of assuming all the credit for escapes from the consequences of their own actione pro cured them by devoted friendship, and I looked confidently to my sacrifice on the altar of disinterestedness. Well, it was, as it chaneed, particularly inconvenient to me to leave London just then; bub of course 1, went..
It way November--a month in which the chill desolation of the Suffolk coast pre- figured itself to me with a quite emphatic dreariness. I had a long cold drive from the station to the house-about which more anon-and there. Miss Lyle in person received me.
the few scattered coast residences that break the solitude of those corroded and haunted shores. It was five miles from a village; ten from any railway station. Remcte and peaceful, it was settled to sleep out, in its beds of bracken, some in definite generations of life. By and by; no doubt, the tides would undermine and the waves devour it, as they aro devouring year by year the whole of that eastern littoral. All along the coasts there, near or far under the water, lie countless houses, churches, townships-fastnesses of pride and religion that the encroaching sea has claimed. All along the coasts are" fanes and monasteries even now, in process of destruction-ruineil chancels, unerown- I saw at once that there was something ed battlements; and here and there is wrong. The girl's face was distraught and a solitary tower denuded of every trace sired looking. Papa was out, she said, of its one-time dependencies. Such a one with Johnny, and Dick (that was Kent)stood, within sight up the coast, under the had not been in all the morning. She gave very shadow of the cliff, from the lower me an impression of loneliness and per-slope of which it projected, plexity, not natural under the circum- What do you take it for?" asked Kent. on the morning after my arrival. We sat, basking in the November sunlight, on our host's little jetty. The family yowl, a hindred yarde away, danced sleepily, like Dinorah to her own shadow, in the blue water. I was sketching, and Kent smoking.
stances, and 1 felt, sure that more was to be revealed in a little while.
A late inch had been prepared for me, and the portrait awaited my attack on an easel in a pleasant room. I presently posed the young lady to my satisfaction, and set to work. By degrees, judiciously probing as I wrought. I was possession of the main facts of the life at. Dunstan Gap.
The General was a widower with two children, my own fair subject, Georgie by name, and Johnny, aged thirteen. I gathered that the father was a simple in- effectual nuan, a dreamer, an antiquarian, and a corresponding member of the Anti- scrape Society. How he, a military pen- sioner, came to deteriorate to this condition I do not know, nor does it matter. The army is not an intellectual monopoly, nor are aptable dodilerers unknown amongst its survivals. In any case the General had had no wit or faculty to resist the im petuous assault of my friend-sympathetic Archeologist as he was and Kent had taken him by storm as he did all of us. And then all of a sudden, it appeared, had come the check, and the realization of a possibly undesirable connection blindly accepted. Kent was giving them trouble and how That was whore I came in, After painting through a half-hour of desultory conversation. I laid down my brushes decisively.
Now, Miss Lyle," I said. "I have reached a psychologic point, and can knock off to listen."
"Listen to what, Mr. Travers?" she ex- claimed, with a glance of affected surprise. That is the thing. But I have not read your face all these weeks for nothing."
"Church "I suggested.
"Pretty lank for that, ain't it?" said Kent.
I shaded my eyet, and took a longer survey.
"A watch-tower, perhaps, dating from. the Danish invasions. There are plenty of them hereabouts, I believe."
"Come and look at it.".
I grunted, collected my traps, and foi- lowed him down the beach. The object, as we approached it, took on the appearance of a broken and stunted factory chimney, and 1 said so.
That's what they call it here," said Kent: "The laundry flue," and he went off suddenly into a short strident laugh.
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Kent," I said gravely; "what's the
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