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THE GARDEN GATE.

BY

E. F. BENSON.

(Author of Dodo," "Sheaves," etc.).

Miss Elizabeth Courtney was delight fully young in everything but years and of a very agreeable age with regard to those poisoners of peace. Moreover, she did not make the smallest secret about the number of them, and it ever the date of some occurrence, not quite recent, camo socially in question, she would say in a manner both natural and accurate:-"I remem- ber I was just fifteen when it happened, so it must have been twenty years ago. Faney!" This gave rise in the minds of those who were not "quite nice" on the subject of Miss Courtney to very disagree able conclusions, and Mrs. Rawlina, for instance, who. had two grown-up daughters, said several times, directly afterwards, that she happened to know the event in question took place "twenty five years ago at least, my dear." Thereby libelling Miss Courtney.

Marian, Elizabeth's niece, was an extra- ordinarily pretty girl just over twenty, mind, unlike Elizabeth's, bad whose succumbed under the deathly narcotic of the rosidential quarter, and might be said to be non-existent. She was always occupied, never intorcated, and slept like a top for nine hours every night. She

played practically interminable finger- exercises on the piano most of the morn- of her doing so appeared to have vanished, ing, stopping suddenly when all prospect and embarked on a sonate of Beethoven's which under har fingers sounded like a finger exercise also, She walked in the afternoon, and did absolutely intermin. able needlework all evening,

She was never in the least bored, for her inherent dullness protected her like chain-armour from the assaults of ennui.

year was backward, and it was doubtful Garden-party season had begun, but the whether the strawberry beds at the." Ever greens" would furnish sufficient trait to supply the wants of Miss Courtney's

guests.

answer to a depressing suggestion from "But it's no use," said Elizabeth in Marian that they should eat no straw- berries themselves until the garden-party was over, it's no use in not having na many as we want in the interval.

At least, dear, I should be very sorry to cffer berries which are ripe to-day." to our guests on Thursday week the straw.

Mr. Courtney poured himself out his He had two every first glass of port. evening. the first while the ladies were eating dessert,, the second after they had gone to the drawing-room.

he said. "I should be afraid to eat many "They are chiefly not very ripe to-day,” of them. I should not advise you to eat them too freely, Marian, nor you, Eliza beth."

with her usual accuracy, haring counted I have only eaten fivo," said Marian the stalks," and I have but three more."

"Well, take my advice, and let five be sufficient."

"I've eaten more than I should like to count, Daddy," said Elizabeth, as well as some before dinner."

dinner; I should suffer for it," said Mr. Dear me, if I ate strawberries before Courtney." Besides, I should spoil my dinner. But you always had an excellent digestion, my dear."

too,"

said Elizabeth.

How did your

Mr. Courtney, after a moment's thought. I won two rubbers and lost two,” said Those that I won were not so big as those I lost."

That always happens, doesn't it ?? said Elizabeth.

Marian could not Jet this pass.

There were not, however, many of Miss Courtney's neighbours and acquaintances who showed so scratching a disposition, for there was no one of the residents in the pleasant country-town where sho lived, more justly popular. Of course she had her weaknesses, and it was not to be expected that due diseassion, should not be held over them, bat sensitiveness with regard to her age did not happen to be one of them. But it was pleasant to look young, to preserve, as she did, that mode- rate (but adequate) allowance of comeli- ness which she had when a girl, and to find that at the garden-parties, which formed the staple of the social festivities during the summer months at Coleton, and the tea-parties with Bridge afterwards which took their place when dusk was early and winds were shrill, she still ranked among the more active lawn tennis players, and was not yet relegated to the staider, tables at Bridge. On the conclusion of these winter entertainments Mise Courney's maid was always announced, who took her down home, perhaps, a hundred yards of well-lit road and Mrs Rawlins would wonder, sometimes to herself, sometimes to others, at what age an active woman might hope to be able to take care of herself. "Yes, thank goodness, and I'm greedy," Mrs. Rawlins observed also with undeni-Bridge go this evening, Daddy?" able accuracy that during the winter just before which Elizabeth had bought a fur-coat, she usually found that she had left behind in the drawing-room her handkerchief or purse, and returned with that famous garment not yet buttoned, so as to show that it was fur-lined through- out, but without her goloshes, ahout which there was no striking feature (except, said Mrs. Rawlins, their size). A residue of truth lurked there, for undeniably Eliza both liked pretty clothes and in excuse For Mrs. Rawlins it must be urged again that she had two daughters about whom also there was nothing remarkable except their size, who had long been of marriage- able age, and had wizen little giraffe-faces at the tops of their long thin necks.

Miss Courtney was one of those women with regard to whose continued spinster- hood all that can be said is that it was an unfortunate accident. She had all the qualities that go to make lovable wives and mothers: simply the conjunction of the right man and the right moment had not occurred. The right man had indeed occurred, but he had occurred at the wrong moment, many years ago, when marriage for him was out of the question, since, he, like she, was barely out of his tcens, and the matter of his livelihood was a question that yet required provision, Harry Sugden was the son of one of the partners in an eminent firm of solicitors which had its headquarters in London and a branch office down here in Coleton, and just when matters were beginning to be a-quiver between him and Elizabeth, his father had been moved to take charge of the central office in London. That was fourteen years ago and Elizabeth, though she had not seen Harry since, kept the warmest corner in her heart for him. To her he had remained that slim shy youth, whose brown eyes looked always as if they had some special communication for her,

No, Aunt Elizabeth,” she said, "for Uncle Edward's adversaries must therefore have won more in the rubbers they won, than they lost in the rubbers they lost."

And I held four aces when it was not my deal," added Mr. Courtney, Elizabeth.

That always happens anyhow," said

Marian did not feel sure of that, but the conversation being uuumally brisk' this evening, she did not have time to ques-

tion it.

card-room to-night," said Mr. Courtney. "By the way, there was a new face in the

Mr. Harry Sugden. Perhaps you re- member him, Elizabeth. He said he re charge of the firm's office here. Dear me membered you. He has come to take it must be ten years since he went away."

"Fourteen," said Elizabeth: "I was just twenty-one at the time."

"Fancy your remembering that," said Marian, without malicious intention, but as a matter of fair comment,

He asked if he might call to-morrow,” continued Mr. Courtney," and I proposed that he should come in to lunch, so that we can walk up to the club together after- wards."

"Or drive up together if it is wet,” said Marian.

Elizabeth longed to ask further ques tions, but fearing more fair comment, pre ferred to be silent. She told herself that Harry Sugden'e return was a mattor that could not interest her any more than it in Coleton, but her heart refused to interested any other middle-aged woman

while she confusedly felt that she had some She wanted to know what he looked like, acquiesce in this unsentimental truth Fecret answer for him. But the ripening had never come, and it seemed that Eliza whether he was married or not (“as if,' beth's tree of love, like so many others, matter "), whether he was bald or stout, said commonsense, that could possibly was of the sort that bear one fruit only, whether his eres would still seem to have and that had romained green and un-

his wife.

not

plucked on her tree. How keenly Herry a question waiting behind them. Yet it had desired to be its gatherer, she did not was almost certain that he was know, and, since this subject was hardly married: otherwise renewed intercourse maidenly one, ahe forebore to conjecture. would have taken the form of calling on Twice since those days, had the wrong mAD approached her, but never another right one, and now, as seemed more than prob able (especially to Mrs. Rawlins) the right time had passed by her, and the shadow of irrevocable celibacy begun to lengthen over her unvisited garden.

Her mother had died some ten years ago and she lived with a kind dull father and an orphaned niece, in a comfortable ugly house with a charming garden, in what was known as the residential quarter of Coleton, where life flowed with so deadly a regularity and monotony that it was almost miraculous that Elizabeth. had retained so vivid and eager an interest in life. Her fathor read the morning paper every day, except Sunday, until half-past twelve, when he walked very slowly down the road away from the town. till one. At one o'clock he turned and thus reached The Evergreens" at half- past. At half-past three he again set forth; and arrived at the County Club at four. There he took a cup of tea and some buttered toast, and played Bridge till half-past-six. He afe an excellent dinner at home at half-past seven, and played Patience till half-past ten. Up till four years ago be bad played a round of golf every afternoon, and since then had never played another, though the family still took their summer holiday at Westward Ho, and strolled on the links. Finally if it rained he sat indoors instead of going out at half-past twelve, and drove to the County Chib in a closed fly, instead of walking there. He had retired from businese ten years before, and there seemed no reason why he should not live. for ever, except that he was in a chrquic state of slight anxiety about his health, which was admirable.

And then she pulled herself up short. It was all fourteen years ago, and as Marian said, it was strange that she re- membered anything about him. But she than was convenient, remembrance tugged was conscious of remembering far morÉ

at her heart-strings, and it was of the fourteen intervening years that she seemed (Continued to Puge 7.)

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