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PO BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND

CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JANUARY 3–1

THE COUNT'S COURTSHIP BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE

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She stayed; and we krani z restless footfall upon the beneath the window.

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In scoffed at every rentek 1 made, cand scoffed at his scoffing. But at

to better purpose. I am in some arciety. You see it. You are not blind. Bat you are saying to your self, in your conceit and pique, won't ask her what it is You think, PH wait for the old lady's confession, it's bound to come. ask you caudidly, is that open_and manly? Is that the English Trank- "I never thought I should be the bottom of the hollow his mood. ness and chivalry we never weary saying all this stuff to you; I had swerved to the opposite extreme.

He walked, bent morosely, with- af boasting about? Do you supno such intention, Richard. But pose that mere cleverness watched you're of my own blood, and that's out raising ha tres from the Do you think something And now on to bed grass. His only answer to every jover your cradle?

mere cleverness will ever win you with you, and not another word little remark 1 volunteered was a wife? Would would the Out with him ab-ben and Back with jabrug or a grit. His pare dimin- 3.

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"You are going to tell me," she said, "that it's all my fancy; that "I did not suppose you wished my eyes are as good as yours; that "I heard your aunt calling.”

"Nonsense," I said; "she's two to intrude," I stammered. I shall wreck our old friend's hap “You have your own reasons, I apiness. My dear Richard, do you miles distant at least.”

door. "Say no more, I spoke has-1But my poor old friend died the *Nonsense!" said he, angrily. I have thought it out; the next evening, and the last stillness sume for ordering me about. suppose that my questions to the assume you had your own reasons,ittle snuff-coloured, oculist were "I say I heard her callings Am 1 too, for not taking me into your not sharp and to the point? Do all shin, and bone? I'm done with day will pass; and all the noise and had fallen upon the house before

ifret over. But, but are you she could answer his summOLX. condence, I sin sorry, Aunt Lucy you think life has not given me the Heath"

On the day following I was sit- but I don't see what else I could the courage to know that one's eye- I remonstrated in vain. It any there, Richard?"

She whispered in so low-a volce ting in the empty and dazkened {have done".

sight is at least as precious and served to make things worse. At

that I could scarcely catch "the dining-room when I heard the sound "Sit down, Richard," she said. mortal as one's "heart? Do you each word the Count's disquietude

was the more ob- words. "I go because I'm tired of of wheels, and somehow divining "Look here. Aunt Lacy." I in-think that an old woman, who was increased, he

it all; want liberty, ease; tell him what they portended I looked out` terposed a little hotly, "you ask me never idle in learning, has not by stinately bent on returning-

**Just like a woman!" say; through the venetian blind. to speak out You've said a good this time read through and through "Home, boy, home! I not be

anything that sounds best to rid My aunt had come as she had many things a fellow would resent your old friend's warm, fickle, gainsaid.”

I threatened to go on alone; him of this fancy. Do you see? gone, in a hackney cah, and, refus- pretty warmly from anyone else. proud fantastic heart?

"There are good things a woman but the threat, I knew, was fatile.and not a single word about the ing any assistance from the maid Now let me have my say, too. And I can't help it if I do offend 502, can admire in a man besides mere and proved me at my last resource eyes. Richard! do you see? You who was there with her, she step- or you think I'm batting in on stubbor adoration. And It was not until we were within have failed me once. I am trust-ped painfully down out of it, and, tapping the ground at her fest I say Count has most of 'em.

So you a few yards of the house that, on ing you again. That's all":

So I went down and sat awhile with her, ebony stick, the wintry what doesn't concern me.

see, you would have told me only turning a corner, we came in sight this-it's a mean, shabby thing to treat the Count Bike this. You're what ninety-nine young men would of the cab. With a sagacity that with my own thoughts to enter sun glinting red upon her blue weil. I almost amounted to divination, the tain me, in the little room with the spectacles as she moved, she began talked and walked with him. You have told me nearly as know what he thinks what he think too much of you to listen to Count jumped at once to the cause French windows and the stuffed to climb the fight of steps alone, with difficulty, but with a vigorous for The hundredth

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"Now is it fair and square, then, My stint rose hastily, kissed me the air. "What's that cab mean? She was all but groping wars sight of her. Something in

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mind, I was tempted at once to through it like a cloud. My aunt I blundered on and on to the betray her secret to the Count was not in the dining-room Janet is past My dear friend, all that stretched out her hand towards the grim lady, venturing much further He, too, could be resolute and had filed away into the kitchen ask now is this-will you be my house. than I had ever dreamed of doing: rational and inflexible at nerd And I suppose by this time my and then fell suddenly silent

Nevertheless, I realised how futile, aunt had beard the uproar of his My ant's eyebrows were arched rang against the stucco wali "In some respects, that is the how fatal the attempt might prove home-coming, for when the Count above her spectacles. She smooth- this the house? What's wrong with

led her wrinkled forehead with her the house?" truth. Richard," she said at last,

To the letter, then, I determined assailed her door it was

{fingers. "What did you say, The cabman began to climb down quite gently "I own that freely to obey her, trusting to the Count's and-she was in a stronghold

from his bet But it's not fear or pusillanimity, genius and the placability of fate

“Mrs. Lindsay! What's this Count?" she said.

“I said I am sorry beyond all "Agnes, do you hear me?" she "What have and no injury, my boy. I am in for a happier conclusion.

And mean?" he shouted.

And oh, my dear, dear cried with a shrill piercing horror the right; and yet it's true I dare even at that a young man, a good I done, that you should be leaving words.

in her voice."Agnes, Agnes—is n't go to him and tell him 30- If deal incensed with the ridiculous my house like this? Am I so far lady, will you be my wife?"

“Ach-nonsense, nonsense, old the house darit media I lifted a finger-if, just as I am obligations these two elderly vic-in my dotage that I must be cheat- I walked downstairs and went out times had thrust upon him, founded like a child? Is it open with friend," said my aunt and you The Winds are all down, m'm," and took a tara with him in the sleep that night very stubborn of me? You shall not go. You shall and me so old and staid Grey answered the girl, looking out of

not go. T'I burn the cab first hairs Withered sticks. From the the window garden, on the man's arm-well, I jask you, what would he do?". I had little expected to see my You daren't face me, Mrs. Land- bottom of my heart I thank you My aunt turned her head slowly,

"He'd pop the question" I said aunt at breakfast next morning. 227.” vulgarly and resentfully, "and you but when the Count came in from "Count, Count," said 1, "every you know it. And a jolly good thing, the garden, hot and boisterous, word the neighbours."

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"Richard, may I ask you just once refrain myself no longer. 4T say that's untrue Richaze the tragic truth of her secret of Lindsay, now!" And who asked for your views on the night before

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The Count, Fon 883, the table, gazing steadily across it, instant there was no sound in the My aunt was speaking in a foreignAunt my dear Aunt Lucy," I The Count strode after said at the window, peering into would sak me to be his wife-what her hands wandering lightly over house.

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the musty gloom. “Won't you gazing please come into the house? I have.

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ald he he spoke often---

She turned and confronted me, cald be speechless entresty

we went blind face--an entreaty not to me,

then? I am not too old; I am not the cape, already half endowed "Count" she said, “I will just too feeble; I am a practical house with the delicacy at length to come. ask you to go quietly down to your keeper, and I like the man. He'd Never had the Comt been so high study and retain there for five into her face. ask me to be his wife and then spirited, and she, answered him minutes. By that time I shall be stare me out

as I walked in the garden with jest for jest - Yet not one sign did ready to say good-boye to you.” him I should be stumbling and she vouchsafe to assure me of our

Locy, my dear friend," said the Her hand peering, pushing and poking my compact. She acted her part with-Count and all the resentment was eath her out a symptom of fiuching to the gone out of his voice-I ask only out of the

one thing you will not treat me "Dark to me!.. Whatever the end. happiness withir Richard, you In a rather clumsy fashion like poor blind creature, don't you see fear, I at last proposed to it? Can the Count marry a woman Count a walk over the Heath.

The Count came downstairs. who's all but eyeless, who can but **An** excellent - suggestion, glimmer to-day out of what will Richard", said my aunt cordially. He paid no heed to me; went into be sightless and hopeless as that "There, Count, put on your hat, his study and shut the door. The night outside, to-morrow? I have and take your stick, and walk off cabman was on the doorstep. been struggling against the truth the steam It's no use looking at "Pichard" said my aunt from added this one more to many I like being here. I like On, 1 me. I have business to attend to, the loop of the stairs, the cab have stayed too long. You stupid, so I can't come."""

the

“Five minutes.. Count minutes,” said my aunt.

.

short-sighted man! He has seen But the Count was exceedingly went up slowly and tapped at

me day after day. He has seen me unwilling, to go. go Angering on from chair to chair. more charm for Was I hiding It? Dolor. de 1 com Hict wear spectacles? Do they dis-jeasi

tort my eyes till I look like D OW!

in a belfry Should wear this hideous monstrosity you should sert have seen, you should have guess-

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