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morning till night, and his old housekeeper, of course, took his John Sheldon, a young solicitor, living with his aunt, receives a letter part against me. I was everything Ahat was bad in his eyes, and I cer- from a firm of American lawyers tainly did appear at my very worst asking him to become guardian to when with him. At last, when I a young girl in the place of his could stand it no longer, I told father, who had died before the father, that if he didn't let me go atory opens. Thinking she is a childaway again I would leave Billiport he decides to accept the trust The on my own account, so he sent nic girl-Elizabeth Hyde-is heiress to back to the convent as a boarder, a large fortune, and her guardian and I studied music and languages will be paid £500 a year for her in the hope that I should be able maintenance. John becomes en-to earn my own living as a teacher. gaged to Myra Gayle, the prettyThen my father died--and you daughter of a local doctor.
know the rest. I was only too Elizabeth Hyde has an interview
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Lisztian langunge in praise of Galli- j guardian is not her father's old from the hated memorica of my friend but his son. She is anxious unhappy childhood; but if you can- Curel, who comes on March 26th, to go to England, and begs her not like me, or at any rate try to appear in the press this week. It was so full of rapturous praise and solicitor not to disclose her address put up with me, I really don't know
to become of me. I am flowery phrase, that it evoked a let to a man named Austin Melford, who had been manager of her sure you will allow that there later to the press from "Musicus" some excuse for me, however, in protest against the superlatives father's works, and whom she hates the fact that nobody has ever cared which were laviehed so freely. It and fears. Johu Sheldon has a for me sufficiently to understand would, I think, be better if those great shock when he discovers hime: that I have become so ne sending out the "puffs" gave ex- ward to be not a child but a girl of customed to being sneered at for my tracts from critiques of her concerta eighteen."
unattractive appearance and taunt from serious papers such ed with being so morose and Daily Telegraph, The Observer; CHAPTER HII.
tempered that no one can do with Musical Opinion, ele. These would Dinner that evening was by no me, that. I have actually prided my-carry far more weight than the meuna a sociable meal. As a rule self on being an object of dislike insertion of several paragraphs of John Sheldon and his aunt discussed and, in some cases, fear. I have exaggerated praise from the doings of the day while the maid never had any friends whose friend-known author. The result of the was waiting at table, and then over ship I cared for, or who cared for latter may be seen in the letter of That correspondent their coffee and John's cigarette mine: but now everything is dif- "Musicus", he told, her how business had gone fervat. It this is to be my home distinctly states that he has no and how it allected the inicial 1 want to be happy in it, if there is wish to cramp the booking for the outlook. ffo-night no confidences such a thing as happiness for wr: concert, and I sincerely hope it could, of course be excaanged, and Fenn't be if jou, Jolin and Miss will not be affected. But one or Elizabeth, who resented her tardy Sheldon, make up your minds to two more letters in the same strain appearance havlug evidently river follow the general tule and dislike might well affect the attendance. given offence, was moody and me."
Let us disregard the fulsome the [ taciturn scarcely replying to her
Though Dame Nature had not descriptions of her voice an guardian's efforts to draw her into
endowed · Elizabeth' Hyde with one hand, and the hypercritical conversation, althen only in beauty of form or feature, she had comments of disappointed critics nignosyllables,
At length, the meaî, at an end at least endeavoured to make up for on the other, and go with an open and the coffee tray plated before it by bestowing upon her certain mind to hear one of the leading attributes which, if the girl learn-prima-donnas of our day. Her Miss Sheldon, John took out hts to use them properly, would go name la probably as well-known as itongkong Oftest 11. Queen's Road. Cautral gigarette ease, selected a cigarette and lighted it. This was apparent-ar to make up for the want of mere that of any other opera singer, and Authorised Capital.....Gulida 360,000,000 by the signal for his ward to di liked looks; and one was a singular except for Miss Mabel Garrison; wise, and she promptly obeyed it.y attractive voice, lowpitched, and who cannot really be placed in the taking a gold case from her bag on a slight business in its tone same class is the firal one to give Reserve Fund ..............................Guildere £9,000,000,- which made it fashating.to listena recital in Hongkong. Her con- the table beside her.
and his cert will be at the Queen's Theatre, "A match, please," she said, Loid-to. Both John Sheldon ligot her band towards her found it so, and the girl's as it accommodates more people. -frank-ayowal of her own sharticom- ings and her desire to stand well
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"Lank here," Miss Hyde-no, shill call you Elizabeth, of course." John's voice was sterk to anger: be melint to assert himself one and for all. must strictly forbid Mur smoking. It is not a nice thing for a young girl, and, in furt, obje to H."
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programme of which was to have been sustained by Mrs. Cashman, is not taking place, owing to the indisposition of that artiste. many people, who were looking forward to Hearing her again hope that the concert will be given at a later date.
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"Im sure, my dear," she said, "that both my nephew and I have no desire to be anything, but kind and friendly; but we have led very gnist lives here, just the two of us and perhaps we do not quite realize that things may be different in the world beyond Shrimpton. There
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"Do you indeed, John? Of course, if you call me Elizabeth I shall call y John and suppase / object to dur forbidden to smoke? Every body does it nowadays. When 1 stayed that day and a night at the hotel in London with the Van Houltza, every woman there was spanking and having cocktails. didn't do that, but Mrs. Van Houltz gid Eugenie did.". h
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That's no argument to me," was the reply. "I am old-fashioned, and to see a woman 'sanking disgusts for dne thing; if it annoys you."
“Well, I'll promise not to smoke,consists solely of works by local era and
Fromposers some people may wonder "I'm afraid you are rather a Elizabeth suit rather regretfully, what the standard of quality will ir, John Miss Hyde said enhuly, I got into the habit of it at Mile, but I would remind them that Alexandra It's your bringing up, no doubt, port. I think began 11, to annoy the entrance fee is but 50 rents,
father, and then I found it se soath and ey may, he, agreeably sur-Huen: Ayres
}}?*ise] ! to my temper that I kept on with it, but I daresay i stall soon break myself of it!
and living in the country. You should go to Kandon sometimes, should love London, i know, if Fived Bagne"
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"You Will exetise me Miss Bydy. But on you think that is the way to sprik to your guardian?" Miss Stul," John Shelton said, laughing, Sheldon said in her must martyr-krow a fellow who has given up like tones.
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You're Hience. Remember he has absolute
a smoker yourself, though control over you till you are tweny
"Yes, I prefer a pipe, 'however, lo one. 11 is scaredy wise to began.
ehrafettes as a bad temper intidote, by rebelling against him."
but I don't smoke one indoors out respect to Aunt Lucy's feelings, who ates the sight of my beloved old brinr."
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"Au may ask if you call it rebelling against him to object to bring nude to give up ong of the only pleasures have, just use
differently to other; he thinks people? Don't any of the girls suid-
"No, not in so many words, per- about here smoke?" suddenly turn-
haps, for fear of hurting my feel- ing to John,
"Certainly not. They would beings. Shall we go into the garden? horrified at the iden
Elizabeth hasn't seen my wonderful "Great Carsar! What a place to arbour-all my very own work?" live in! Well, of course, I don't)
And as they strolled about the want to make myself disagreeable pretty garden, so beautifully kept, first go off, so--" She put the with its soft velvety lawns and beds cigarette back into her case and of gay flowers, the pergula covered shut the latter with a loud anup with Dorothy Perkins and crimson Then her manner suddenly changed. ramblers, and at last seated them- covered The grey eyes lost their gloomy ex-selves in John's urbour, pression and gazed with wistful with roses and containing com- friendliness at the two people who, fortable wicker chairs and a table, she knew, were sitting in uniriend-where presently Miss Sheldon left them to go and see if the hen-house ly judgment upon her.
"Look here," she began, and now down in the paddock was her eyes were fixed unen the spoon locked up for the night, Elizabeth she was carefully tilting on her realised that though her guardian coffee cup, "I badly want you two had not ratified his aunt's little to like me and be kind to me. 1 speech in words, he was trying to know I've a beastly temper and am intimate his intention to be friend-
Here is the solution to the make her sojourn at awfully difficult to manage some-y and ta
Adencroft" as pleasant as circum-puzzle on another page.
MOCK, SOCK, SOAK, SOAR, times, but you must try to rentine how it feels to have had nobody to stances permitted, the said circum
you all your life. My stances being the absence of genial SEAN, SEER, JEER, father hated me because my mother companionship with young people died soon after I was born. He of her own age and the pleasures was devoted to her, and was al- which youth usually craves for..
She told him again of her carly ways telling me how beautiful se days, her studies and her ambition was and how strange he thought it that she should have had such to make a career for herself, and an ugly daughter. As a child be Jolin listened and sympathised, and never took any notice of ma at all, told her in his turn of her father's and when I was old enough to go to letter to his father and of his own, school packed me off to St. Anne's consent to undertake the care of her Convent at Montreal, where I re during her minority, because he mained till I was nearly seventeen. knew that his father would never hayo allowed his old friend's Then I went to port. Home, daughter to be alone in the world did I say? It was never that to me. If it rested with him to prevent it. My father and 1 quarrelled from
(To Be Continued.)
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