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CHAPTER IV.
The oil-lamp which hang in the hall was flickering uncertainly as Poleon and the General walked towards the foot of the stair case, leaving the passage in darkness for a second or two at a time and then faring up with an nawonted brilliance. The young man took a bedroom candle from a table at the stair TWO SPACIOUS GODOWNS-Nas, 95 foot, lit it, and motioned the General to procede
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feeling of heavy misery. He sat motionless for a fuil half hour, staring at the fire. At last a singlo dry sob, which shook him from head to out, excaped hiat. He rose with a bull-dog shake of the head, throw back his shouldors, and walked resolutely bat shawly down the stair- He would have it out then and there, ho declared to himself, and would come to an understanding with his father. He would actually know the truth without disguise, and having learned it, would decide upon the con- duct of his future life. Thers was no thought of desertion in his mind, but there was great longing to be at action, to be striving with something for a settled purpose; and no settled purpose was possible for him until he und his father could stand heart to heart and face to face, with all pretence between them broken down-
The hall lamp bad fiskered out, as it had threatened to do, and he roped his way in darkness, thongh at another moment he would have walked with the sure foot of custom blindfold about the house. Eomehow, the whale tide of his purpose seemed suddenly to abb. He became conscious of the night, and stood in the
dark to listen to its wild voices. There were other voices in the air, for he could hear bis Jerroyce austrering from time to time in a father speaking in a deep. leud hun, and treble like that of an hysteric woman.
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a steady glow on the bearth, and to the parlour door, and it down there to wait with a the rich dark maroon curtains and bangings of notil he should find bis father alone. He could the room gave it a secluded, sheltered and hear no words from where he sat, but through homely look which under other circunstances all the plangent nolare of the storm he could would bare boen wholly comfortable by con- trast with the elemental war ontside. The voice, and a qneratons appeal which had a noto
disco augor and command in his father' Goneril walked into the appartment bolt up of rage in it in the voice of his father's right, and Felson stood with the door handle paaou. He paid hat little heed, for his heart in his grasp, waiting to catch his eye for a
was growing numbed, and to distinct thought any longer found a place in fue mind. Sitting man "Come in!" he said. Como in and close there in the dark and the cold, he grew the door." Polson obeyed, wondering what was mercy. When the wound is beyond bearing conscious of his own pain. This is Naturs's about to happen. "I suspect, Boscoll began she draws away the sufferor's consciousness, that I shall have cause to be sorry for myself and an extremity of agony brings its own and fer somebody much dearer to me then relief. if only for a little while. A dull ache of myself before this bust ess is over. But I am respite follows the keener agonies alike of sorry for you, in the meantime, my lad, sud bodily and of mental pain. So he eat there. wont to tell you that you will have to rovise dulled and numb and empty, and for the your ideas a little."
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A gleam of light and the sound of a coming' foulste awoke him to a knowledge of his surroundings. He did not wish to be found there sitting miserably in the dark, and he
arose, and stood uncertain in what direction to move. The light grow clearer and nearor, and as it turned the corner he saw that it was carried I had made up my mind about that alight, and stood routed, staring as if he beheld by Irene. He forgot hie impulse towards ready," said the youngster.
a vision. The little figure came forward with **Wall," the General returned, “it's bitter uncertain footsteps, one hand holding the pill for you to swallow, and as I have said, I candlestick overhead and the other groping for am sorry for you. It will not be easy for you the wall. The feet trod with a harsh sound o to be on terms of intimare frioadship with a
one or two fragments of broken gloss which man who is compelled to fight your father tooth had escaped the housemaid's broom, A
yearn. and mail, and there is nothing eles for it at thising ache filled him as the girl come nearer, for moment but for you me to say good-bye.he Baw that her eyes were blind with tears. Things may right themselves, but I see no 1 There was uo distortion of this features, save in mincing muiters, and I t il you the hemost
that the small month qu vered; and the shin- truth when I say that I don't believe it, and that for the mount. I don't even hop for it. Not a sigh escaped her, and she can on like a ing drops brimmed over heavily and silootly. There are some men," he addet," who can't
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She paused and pressed her disengaged hand upon her eyes to clear them of that bitter rain. Then she looked up at him in silence, and the big tears began to well over, shining like diamonds as they tell to the busom of her dress,
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youth work acor, and manhood's heart had upon the window panes in driving sheets. food safe anchorage, and the dear head was he heard no sound and was unconscious of bis touched with silver, immediate surroundings. Only two hours ago he had been sitting in swat penruss to the girl he loved; and he had been transcendently and tumul tuously happy. How happy he had not known antil the blow came which had dashed the stractairs of his life to pieces. He had always longed for a career in the army, and the runters of was which had flown so thickly for the past year and a half had served naturally to set a
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She stood there weeping, and he had no power to comfort her-no right to comfort her.
Good-bye, Irous." He had the right at loast to say that to the sweetheart of his boy- bood, and the obosen idol of his young manhool's heart. I have seria your father, doar, sed whatever there might have been. it's all over. Good-bye, and-God bless you, always. Always. Always."
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