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"Very well, my dear; do Just as you like; you know best, of course. I will sny that you do not feel very well. Go to your room, by all means. I hopo you will soon bo better. Now try to cheer up; it will be all right. I will see to thl3 difficulty with your hus band for you." Sho looked up at him proudly. "You must not Interfere, papa. I Ehall never return to him now!' lie looked rdtylngly at the white face. "You appear very 111, HlWred. Is there nothing that I can do for you?" "Nothing." she replied, coldly. In her heart she felt bitterly angry with her father. She had trusted him; he had misled her. She did not offer to kiss him or to touch his hand, but went quietly out of the room and upstairs, leaving him with Eome very unpleas ant thoughts. It had not been an agreeable Inter ruption to his breakfast, but he tried to think little of it. It was only a quarrel, after all, and hl3 daughter had done nothing wrong. He should make It all right In a few seconds when he saw the earl. He wrote to him before he went to the city, telling him that hi3 wife had reached home safely, but was looking very ill. The rest of that day Hildrcd remain ed In her room, and on the morning following she did not come downstairs. It was afternoon when Arley Ransome, with a face as pale as death, asked for admittance to her apartment. She bade him enter, and he did so, with an open letter in his hand. It was her husband's writing, ehe perceived. "You have deceived me." BAld her father, sternly; "you told me that you had hidden nothing from me. Your husband tells me that he ha3 hidden you here because you shot Lady Ham ilton on the evening of the thirty-first shot her with intent to murder, and that you confessed your guilt." Without a word or a murmur sho looked at him, and then fell like one dead at hi3 feet. CHAPTER XLII. HE young count ess, as she stood behind the alder trees of Ravens mere, had heard the sound of the Bhot; she was too dazed with her own grief and misery to note the direction from whlch.it had proceeded. She had fancied that something went whirring through the trees. That something was the ball that had been fired at La dy Hamilton, which pierced her shoul der and would have pierced her heart had it gone In the direction in which it had been aimed. For the moment Lord Caraven had been too bewildered to know what had happened; what he was saying in reality to his guest was that he liked hla wife's maiden name better than any ho had ever heard. Lady Hamilton, who never liked to hear any one praised but herself, asked at once what it was. He had an swered, "Hildred Ransome;" and those were the words Lady Caraven had heard. They had been no sooner ut tered than Lady Hamilton fell on his shoulder with a faint, low cry a cry that seemed almost simultaneous with the firing of the shot. The earl knew she had been shot, but by whom or why he could not guess. He laid her down for one minute while he looked around; then It was that he saw the white face of hla wife. He Jumped to the conclusion that she had done it; she, and no other, was there on the spot. She had even to himself avowed her Jealousy. She had follow ed them, and In the madness of her fol ly had shot Lady Hamilton. No other Idea occurred to him. He said to him self at once that it was so, and he im plicitly believed it. He had rushed to her and told her that she was "a guilty woman." She had owned It But they were speaking of different kinds of guilt. He meant the guilt of murder; she meant the guilt of being a spy up on him. No doubt of her guilt relieved his mind. Even in that first bewilder ed moment he had said to himself that she should never enter hla house again, but that he would shield her because she bore his name. He had told her to remain where she was while he car ried the senseless lady to the house. There was terrible consternation. He had the presence of mind to throw the agitated inquirers off the scent. He said that the poachers were out must be out, for a chance shot fired in the woods had wounded Lady Hamilton. Some of the gentlemen staying at the hou38 went with the keepers to scour the woods. Dire were the threats of vengeance as to the rogue who had done the mischief. Meanwhile a groom was dispatched to Court Raven to sum mon a doctor the wounded lady had been taken to her room and laid on the bed. At first the earl was frightened lest the wound should prove mortal; but one of the ladles staying at the cas tle, who knew something of surgery, declared that the wound was not dan gerous, and that the ball could soon be extracted. AJter hearing that the earl returned to his unhappy young wife. Ill first great fear that she had been guilty of murder had been removed; there remained the fear lest the wound should provo dangerous in the end. It was better, he thought, than she should go away at once. He made two announcements to his household, which no one even thought of connecting. The first and most startling was, of course, that Lady Hamilton had been shot accidentally a chance shot though why a ball car tridge had been used was a puzzle supposed to have been fired by poach ers in the wood; the second was that Lady Caraven had been suddenly sum money to her father's home In London. No one dreamed of connecting the two announcements, and in the disordered state of the household it never occurred to any of the guests to question the servants as to when the countess had gone. She had been sent for after din. ner, and the apologies that the earl made were deemed quite sufficient. Some of the guests Indeed said that It was as well Lady Caraven was out of the way, as she would probably havo been greatly distressed. To this day the earl is uncertain what in his panic he said or did. The only idea quite clear to him was that he must shield the woman who bore his name. It was not very long before the doc tor arrived, and then all alarm was at an end. He found the ball at once; It had not gone very deep into the shoulder. It was extracted and the wound bound up. Then lovely Lady Hamilton raised nor golden head and asked, languid ly: "Shall I bo very ill, doctor?" "No, I hope not. You will suffer a little pain nothing much, I trust." "Shall I be ill for a long time?" she asked. "Ah, me, how little I dreamed that I was coming to Ravensmcre to be shot!" "It is very unfortunate." said the doctor; "but I do not think you will be 111 very long. Lady Hamilton. You must take heart." "To think that of all the people In the world they should select me! I suppose it was quite an accident, though. They were poachers, I am told. Now, doctor, I want to ask you a very serious question." The doctor seemed to Imply by his manner that he was all attention. "I shall be very happy to answer It, if It lies In my power," he said. "Tell me, shall I lose that Is will my temporary seclusion interfere at all with what I may call my good looks?" He told himself that the amusement he felt must bo carefully concealed. "I think," ho replied, confidentially, "that I may reassure your ladyship. I do not see how It can possibly affect you in that fashion, and the needed rest will be most beneficial to you." Then ehe was content to remain In her room, not suffering very much pain. The keepers had made strenuous ef forts to find the poachers, but they had evidently made their escape.frlght ened doubtless at what they had done. No trace of them could be found. It was with a sense of relief that Lord Caraven went to hi3 room that night. He wanted to be alone to think over the events of the day. He found himself dwelling less on the ter rible fact that his wife had shot Lady Hamilton than on the wonderful fact that she loved him. "I have gone nir.d I love you let me die!" The words haunted him like the re frain of a song. He could not sleep. All night the pale, passionate, beauti ful face was before him. The words rang in hl3 ears a3 they had rung when he Eaw Hildred in the star light, pleading, praying, accusing him, all in one vehement storm of words. "SHALL I BE VERY ILL?" So he would see her until he died. He felt as though she had been a stranger to him until then. The passionate love which had flamed into hot Jealousy had been hidden under a cold, calm exterior. How she loved him. He had never seen any woman's face light up so splendidly. For the first time in his life he had owned to himself that by the side of her mag nificent beauty blonde loveliness faded Into nothing. He wondered that he had lived so long in the house with her, so long under one roof, yet ho had not noticed that which every one else re marked. He was struck most of all by the fact that she loved him. It did not matter about anything else. He had read her truth and lovo In her face. She loved him as no one else ever would or could; I, Mm I ml ft and it flashed across him that the wife ha had neglected and despised was, notwithstanding what she had done, one of the noblest women In the world. If it had but been different: if he had but thought more of her before this happened! How she must have loved him to let herself drift into such a crime! Was there any one who had ever loved him half so well? "I wish it had never happened," he said to himself, "bho la a noble wom an In spite of all, and I well, I could have loved her, but now she must nev er return." Yet it showed how strongly his feel ings were swayed when he thought far less of wounded Lady Hamilton than of tho fact that his wife loved him. He could not sleep or rest. Never had his pillow seemed bo hard, his thoughts so troublesome. Tho excite ment had been too much for him. Wherever he went, whatever he did, his thoughts were with Hildred. Had she reached Arley Ransome's house? Had he acted wisely In letting her go alone? Would any clew to her guilt ever bo found? Th6se questions fol lowed him, haunted him, pursued him. If he went to talk to any of his visitors, tho conversation was sure to turn up on the poachers and Lady Hamilton. Wearied of it all ho sought refuge with Sir Raoul in his room; and the old soldier noted with concern how worn and haggard tho handsome earl looked. CHAPTER XLIII. ET me stay with you, Raoul," said the earl on enter ing his room; "my guests tease me to death. One hears of nothing but La dy Hamilton and the poachers. I have had to tell tho story over and over again, until I am fairly tired of it. Let me find rest here." Sir Raoul looked at the earl's hag gard face. "Poor boy," he said; "it is rather hard for you, certainly. I promise you that I will mention neither Lady Hamilton nor the poachers." "Poachers!" replied the earl, con temptuously. "Surely you " He paused; ho had been on tho brink of betraying the f-ccret that he had sworn never to reveal. Sir Raoul laughed. "It seems to me," he said, that you are Just as bad as any one else. You cannot keep away from the topic." "We will discuss the weather, the last new book, politics, the papers any thing," proposed the earl; and then he added: "That reminds me some ver sion of this tory is sure, I suppose, to get abroad. The papers will make a sensational affair of It." "I thought we were to avoid the topic," said Sir Raoul quietly. "Now you have touched upon It again." "And to make matters worse," re marked tho earl, with a gesture of weary despair, "here comes tho doc tor." Dr. Randall entered the room unan nounced and in great haste. Tho earl sprang to his feet at the sound of his agitated voice, hl3 face growing pale and anxious. "Surely," ho said, "Ladr Hamilton Is not worse?'' "No. sho seems better. It is not about Lady Hamilton that I want you. Lord Caraven. I was sent for the mo ment I left here in behalf of the man who used to act as your steward John Blantyre." "John Blantyre," said the earl, vaguely. "Is he ill?" The subject did not Interest him very much indeed, he thought it trivial amidst the excite ment of his own affairs. "No, not ill in the common accept ation of the term." answered the doc tor. "He is dying, I fear." (To be Continued.) Tardy Reckoning. "Ste-raw-berrles, nice ripe stc-raw-berries," shouted the street vender as his horse Jogged slowly through Bag ley avenue. 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