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^PR^t5^^^^RPJ^5^^ff^^,^^^^^^^^*5?^^^R^!n^^^^^^^?^^^^V?^^^^-"r'a,*^'?s:!'" By Stealthy footstep* By CHARLES E. PEARCE. Author of "The Hidden Hand," "In Temptation's Way," "Lucknow," "John Dale, Convict," "Miss Doon, of Manchester," Etc., Etc. Copyright, 1803, by the National Press Agency. CHAPTER XV.Continued. _ j Dare Not Walts Upon I Would. They were standing gazing at the ship ping In the Thames, the tops of the masts Just visible over the forest of unlovely chimneys, when he suddenly turned to wards her. "May I say without offense what was to my -mind just now?" "Without offense?" she repeated. "How can I tell until I hear what it Is? I sup- pose," she added, after a pause, "that you would not willingly utter a word that would offend me?" "No, indeed, but this concerns a matter In -which I have no right to pry. Yet I feel at all risks I must speak to you upon it." His voice had quite a tremor of excite ment, and she raised her eyes to his face wonderingly. "That person from whose Insults I was fortunate enough to rescue you. Do you 'thinkHeaven knows I do not wish to be unjust, I have suffered too much to wish any one else to go thru the same ordeal he Is In any way mixed up in this mys- tery?" "Good Heavens, no!" cried Eleanor, shocked at the Idea. "What induces you to suggest such a thing?" "Only this, that if I were lying helpless at a man's feet, and there was such an expression on his face as I saw on that fellow's, I wouldn't give much for my life, that's all." "You are wrong," cried Eleanor, agitat edly. "I am certain you misjudge him." This might be, but had not she herself shuddered at Hargrave Denton's sinister glances, at his ungovernable passion, at his threats? No wonder Frank Holt re garded her doubtfully, for there was some thing in her manner which belied her words. "You think I misjudge him," he an swered, gloomily. "I hope to Heaven I do. I don't seek to know anything about the fellow. Miss Tremaine I don't even ask his name I only hope you do not fear any further persecution. I confess I have misgivings, for if I am any reader of char acter I doubt if even the thrashing he had will prevent him annoying you again if he gets the chance." - r Eleanor returned no answer. How true was Frank Holt's conjecture she knew too well. On the following day Hargrave would expect her decision, and tho the ipower to coerce her thru the discovery Of some secret of her father's past life no longer existed, she did not think he would desist from his attempt to terrorize her. . She had come to recognize a. dogged per tinacity in Hargrave Denton which filled her with a secret dread, but that he had the least knowledge or complicity with the hidden crime that had deprived her father of his life was too monstrous for belief. She looked wistfully at Frank Holt, and for an Instant was tempted to tell him everything. Why not? He was one whom she felt she could trust, who would not fail her in the hour of need. Would he be likely to misconstrue her confidence? That |Was the poinj she could not decide. Yet words were trembling on her lips which she knew would make him her close friend nay, her slave. Another second and she would have uttered them, when a porter came slouching by, shouting: "Fenchurch-street train." The opportunity was lost, the temptation gone. "Good bye, Mr Holt," said she, with a faint smile. "Do not forget I have given you full permission to copy the Gainsbor ough. When you go to Tremaine court you will find Mrs. Jackson ready to wait upon you hand and foot." Her fingers rested in his, and a brief glance shot from between her dark eye lashesa glance that sent him tingling to his Anger-tipsand she stepped lightly into the carriage and was borne away,, leaving Frank Holt standing amid the grimy and unromantic surroundings of Stepney Station with a feeling that some how he was in the center of romance, that the dark and mysterious power which had drawn him into the atmosphere of crime had not ceased working. He walked pensively down the stairs Into the street, trying to recall every word, every look of Eleanor Tremaine. How friendly had been her tone, how attentive ly she had listened to his every suggestion, but how little he had discovered of her real feelings. They had certainly advanced a stage or two toward friendship, but would he ever get beyond? It all depended upon her. Well, it was something to feel that not a shred of the suspicion with which she evidently regarded him during that even ing ride along the silent, solitary Epplng forest roadthat ride which ended in such a dire discoveryremained. . CHAPTER XVI. A Scheme That Failed. Mrs. Denton sat In her desert-like draw ing-room the picture of gloomy disappoint ment. Opposite to her was a young lady, pale of complexion,- plain of feature, destl Itude of figurethe despair, Indeed, of 'dressmakers, for the resources of their art ver powerless to give to Linda Clare what Was called "style." "If it were not that our engagement had Jbeen announced," said the angular young lady, with a kind of sob in her voice, "I wouldn't have minded so muchtho It's bad enough in any case." "BadI can hardly believe it," returned CMrs. Denton, in her most tragic air. "It 'has come upon me like a thunder-clap. [When did Hargrave tell you his marriage with you was impossible?" "O, he didn't say absolutelyIn so many words, you know, untiluntil the 'day before yesterday, but for quite a month I have felt uneasy." Mrs. Denton relapsed into silence. She, too, had felt uneasy during the past month. Since she had settled half her Income on her son he had been less cau tious, and had horrified his mother by [appearing before her more than once in la state which was simply a revelation. To - f - ^,^^*^^i*SH^v^:*ltV,^?^^*^^S^^5^ FBIDAY* EVENING, use the convenient words of the newspa per reporter, he was "the worse for drink." Of course, she made excuses, and at tributed his yielding to temptation to the unaccustomed handling of so much wealth. No doubt he would soon settle down. At the same time, it was disappointing, for she had always cherished the belief that her Hargrave was above such a weak ness as taking too much, champagne. But never did "she imagine her matri monial scheme was not proceeding smoothlyindeed, she congratulated her self on her prudence in providing her son with a wife who had been brought up amid such good InfluencesLady Clare was strictly evangelicaland under whose guidance a young man inclined to kick over the traces would soon acquire a quiet, steady-going jog-trot. And now all these hopes were to be shattered. Linda Clare's announcement, uttered half angrily, half tearfully, with much screwing up of a diminutive lace handkerchief, had not only crushed her, but had crushed Mrs. Denton. "And what reason did he give for break ing off the engagement?" at last she forced herself to ask. "O, he said he had been thinking seri ously over the matter, and had come to the conclusion that marriages arranged by parents never turned out well. Besides, he said, his consent had never been Ob tained, and " "But I had his consent," Interposed Mrs. Denton. "You told me so, Mrs. Denton, and I believed you. Then I asked Hargrave why he allowed the paragraph to appear in the papers, and he told me he never saw it that he was away in Cornwall at the time." T know, but I showed It to him after wards, and he said nothing. "Why, that Is quite two months ago." "Yes, and all that time he led me to believe we were engagedat least, he never said we weren't, and I could hardly ask him whether it was so, could I? Nei ther you nor mama ever threw any doubt on the matter, and I-I took it for granted it was all right." . And once more the young lady dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief. Linda Clare had never been absolutely in love with Hargrave Denton, but she felt a pleasurable flutter when her mother said it was her wish she should marry him, which she imagined represented the feeling. The girl was of that placid, col orless slightly indolent disposition partly, no dcubt, arising from a weakly constitutionwhich is never deeply stirred, because there is little to stir. She was quite conscious she was plain and uninteresting, and had not the chances of a husband which girls poorer, ,but handsomer, more robust, had. Despite her feeble intellect and lack of worldly knowledge she had shrewdly come to the conclusion that if a man ever asked her to be his wife, it would be for the sake of what she would bring him and not for herself alone. When, therefore, it was represented to her that Hargrave Denton had reallly fallen In love -with her, she de luded herself that it was so because Mrs. Denton was rich, and her son, of course, would be rich also. Money could be no object with him. When he called upon her after that paragraph in the papers, which, when she first read It, sent a flush to her sal low cheek, she received him shyly, nervously, awkwardly, and anything less like a meeting between lovers could scarcely be imagined. If she expected any passionate declara tion on the part of Hargrave Denton, she was disappointed. Neither his manner nor his looks, much less his words, were .those of a lover. The weather, the theaters, the last new novelall the usual topics were gone over in the vapid so ciety way, and there the conversation ended. . He was neither very regular In his visits nor particularly attentive when he called. The poor girl thought this kind of love making, if not quite what love making is represented in books, was at least not embmarrass'ing. But soon It began to dawn upon her that if Hargrave Denton could not be at tracted by her money-box, neither was he attracted by herself, for at times he was decidedly rude, at others, irritable, and not infrequently was he plunged in a silence, during which he seemed, quite to forget she was present. Then came the climax, brusquely intro duced by Hargrave with the remark he thought It.well there should be no mis understanding. The rest Linda Clara has told us. "I don't know -what to say," exclaimed Mrs. Denton, smoothing her skirts ab stractedly. "I am sure there must be some mistake somewhere, and a word or two from me to Hargrave will set it right." "Please don't speak to him. I would rather you did not," said the girl, piteously. "It was a mistake altogether. I believe Mr. Denton was right when he said an 'arranged marriage' was not likely to turn out well. Perhaps it is all for the best. Suppose we had discovered after we were married we were not suited to each other, and that there was no love! That would have been worse, wouldn't it?" Mrs. Denton bit- h/er lips with annoyance. Linda Clare was actually defending Har grave In his repudiation of the carefully laid scheme. She heartily wished now she had never attempted anything of the kind. "Let me clearly understand," she went on, impressively. "Do you distinctly aver that during the whole time you were en gaged -" "We never were engaged, Mrs. Denton you know we were not," cried the girl, with something like heat. Linda Clare's heightened tone fanned slightly the elder lady's, smouldering wrath. "If you were not the fault was not al together Hargrave's," she rejoined tartly. "I am quite sure, in the first Instance, he was willing, and I can only think you played your cards badly. You could not expect your mother and I to do more than we did." "I didn't expect you to do anything. I wish you hadn't. You have only made me ridiculous. I can't tell my friends the real historythat Hargrave Denton was told by his mother to marry me, and that after making believe to be engaged he backed out. I seem to have been a pup pet all thru the business. Perhaps it's better as It Is. If I thought Hargrave had really meant to make me his wife and had thrown me over for some one else it would have been much worse. A woman who is Jilted is humiliated.* I can see now Hargrave never meant anything, and tho I may look ridiculous, I suppose I am not humiliated." Every word was a home thrust. Mrs. Denton stared In amozement. She had always regarded Linda Clare as a simple minded girl with "not two Ideas in heir head.". The way In which she took her disappointmentthe most bitter a young girl can experienceshowed she possessed more force of character than she had hitherto been credited with. . Mrs. Denton knew not what to say. The ground was rapidly slipping from under her feet. If Linda had come to her heart broken she would have felt all was not lost Hargrave might be induced to .see the enormity of his behavior. She could have painted, a pathetic picture of this poor girl dying of consumption, killed by his heartlessness. But Linda had no thought of dying, either by consumption or anything else. True, she shed a few tears, but they were tears of mortifica tion and not wounded love. Indeed, the ' disappointment seemed to have roused &tf fe^ids \ \ THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. GROCERS QbO. R. NEWELL & CO. Wholesale -GROCERS, Corner First Av. N. and Third St. WINSION, HARPER, PIS HER & CO., Grocers & Cigars 2dAv. N. and 4th St. MINNEAPOLIS, - MINN. QREEN & DELAITTRE COMPANY. Importers and Wholesale Grocers. 18-20-22 Third Street N . %2Z0?" || Plate Glass || %&5. We carry a Complete Stock 0/ WINDOW & ORNAMENTAL GLASS. Northwestern Distributing Agents of Patten's Pmlatm. and carry a full line of Painters' Sun- WfcSi. FLOUR MILL MACHINERY Strong & NorthwayMfg. Co r^LOUR [ ^ MILL MACHINERY Iron and Bronze Stairs, Elevator Enclosures and Cars, Store Fronts, Bank and Office Railings. 27th Ave., 27th St. & 28th Ave. 5. some spirit Iri her which had long laid dormant. "Ridiculous, but not humiliated," this was how she summed up the situation, and, on the whole, it put the case fairly. The girl rose, -wiped her pale lips, and replaced her handkerchief in her pocket with an air which seemed to say the in terview was at an end. "I wanted to make it clear to you how the matter stood, and you'll oblige me if you will never speak to me about it again, I don't blame Mr. Denton he was put in a false position, and he has got out of it. That is all that can be said. Of course, I shall be pitied by some and laughed at by others, but I shall hear nothing of it, and I dare say so unimportant an affair will soon be forgotten." Mrs. Denton made a last despairing effort to unravel the tangle. "My dear Linda, you must hot talk like that. Pray don't go. 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