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HER SILENCE JUSTIFIED. ' BY HENRIETTA 13. RUTHVEN. Author of "His Second Love," " Corydon's Infatuation," " Daring Doia," " An Unlucky Legacy," Etc., Etc.

CHAPTER XXXL—Continued. "Will not'?' Laurence angrily echoed. "Will fie encourage you to defy me? I shall tell him it is my desire that you accept Sir Kollo's proposals; and if he sides with vou in your ridiculous opposition, I shall remove you fronj his roof. It will be strange, indeed, if I am not not have a voice in disposing of my only daughter!" Lois was stunned by this threat. Taking her from the general's house would be talking her from Hal Dartford ; and yet it was no use to let her father imagine that she could he either frighened or coaxed into marriage with such a man as the baronet. "I will never marry Sir Rollo — never!" she said, at last, conscious of the impolicy of such a blunt declaration, yet unable to say aught else. Then Laurence Haydon, in his most caressing manner, endeavoured to open her eyes to the advantages of the match. He described Sir Rollo's country-seat; talked of his horses and his dogs; and of the freedom Lois would enjoy as the mistress of so fair a domain. To dilate to one who cared so litttle for riches or the jewels and handsome trousseau she would possess would have been useless; but he could make her listen with rapt attention when he spoke of the forest and of the days and weeks she would be able to spend there. She sighed when he paused. If she could enjoy with Hal Dartford such a life as he painted she would be the happiest of the happy; as it was, nothing he said could tempt her to look kindly on Sir Rollo Rawlings. At last he perceived this, and lost his temper. Laurence Haydon had grown strangly morose and irritable of late; and when Lois said, with a sigh, she would rather stay quietly with grandfather, he became' furious. "She is the bane of my existence!" he exclaimed. "To her I owe the coldness and unkindnes3 with which the general has treated me! Through her I am a stranger in my father's house!—through her Amtra has been banished! But let her take care!" He was too iluse an observer of human nature not to have discovered that she had some reason for rejecting Sir Rollo's attentions. "You are as cunning as the worst of your sex usually are!" he went on. "You have some lowbred lover — some course lout in your head —and it is for hi in you refuse, better offers! But do you thi'k I will let you disgrace me rrore than you have done already I wili not only keep a close watch on you, but I will find' the fellow who is at the bottom of your obstinacy; and. by Heaven! I'll make him repent raising his eyes to my daughter!" "if you are cruel enough to hurt him " panted Lois, white with terror of what he might do to injure Hal Daitford. Sne was heard with a taunting smile. "Then I was right. Cruel or not cruel, I'll keep my word!" And, turning on his he*2l, he left her. CHAPTER XXXI. JNURSE MAY STARTLES AMHRA. Wringing her hands in distress, Lois paced her chamber,' not knowing what form her father's vengeance would take, or how to shield the unconsciuus Hal from it. JjjShe would have gone to the general and confided in him —for who loved her as well, or was as forebearing with her as he? But, with all her simplicity and inexpeiience, she could not but beware that the proud old veteran would look very grave if he discovered that his heiress had pledged herself to wait for this ambitious young man till he was in a position to ask her hand. Then she thought of Nurse May, the quiet, silent, yet energetic, woman, in whom she had Jearned to have great reliance. A fancy — on what founded she could not tell—that the nurse liked Hal, and that he owed to her in some measure the favour with which the general regarded him, inclined poor, harrassed Lois to go to her; but it is doubtful whether she would have had .courage to do so if her hesitation had not be eneded by a tap at her door, and the entrance of the person then in her thoughts. "You have been vexing Mr Haydon. How often must I point out the folly of it? If you valued your home here you would control yourself better." "I do value it," sobbed Lois. "At first I was miserable; all was strange to me, and I felt so stupid, so awkward, that I longed to hide from the faces no which I saw nothing but contempt or dislike; but now—now I love my grandfather dearly, and I want to make myself more like Ambra Neville. How can I ever be thus if that father of mine take 3 me away?—and what shall J do if, to punish me, he injures Hal?" "Is this what he threatens?" and for a moment the eyes of Nurse May sparkled with a fiery light, and she clenched her hands; but as soon as she saw that Lois was gazing at her with surprise she calmed herself. "Wipe away your tears, child; you have nothing to fear cither for yourself or the voung (nan in whom

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9526, 25 June 1909, Page 2

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Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9526, 25 June 1909, Page 2

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