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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9552, 27 July 1909, Page 2

"When Love Rules The Heart, BY OWEN MASTEES. Author of "Captain Euilyn's Daughter," "The Woman Wins," "The Heir of Avisford," "One Impassioned Hour," Etc., Etc.

CHAPTER. XL—Continued. Mountarbon bowed, and walked out of the room. In the passage he turned and added mockingly: "My love to the pretty Zilla, and a happy meeting with papa!" Tor a few moments Duncan Armitage stood helpless, bis hands twitching, his l.ps working convulsively. He ground his teeth with fury. Should he follow his false friend, and exact retribution ,then and there? Blood alone could wash out the vile in.'.ults which has been heaped upon him! "And I have likened our love in the old days to the love of Damon and Pythias!" he bitterly muttered. "Why is it that contact with the world warps the character of man, and brings out all his latent vices? What is human nature? As fierce and selfish as the murderous instincts of the biitcher-bird, as treacherous as the tiger! Bah! Every smiling face hides a tragedy. Unwittingly I have supplanted this man in the affections of a woman whom I dislike and distrust. He hates me for it, and his worst passions are aroused." He laughed harshly, and hia handsome boyish face was disfigured by a frown. "I hope he will not cross my path too often!" It was in no pleasant frame of mind that Armitage left the hotel for his father's house in May fair. "A happy meeting with papa!' ' he thought. "It is difficult to forecast the outcome of our interview." He assumed a jaunty air that was far from genuine. He tried to sum up his father's real character, but with no satisfactory result. He knew so little of him. They had hardly spent an hour together in their lives. There was no sympathy between them. Lord Rainhill had always appeared to be cold, emo-tionless--a slave to social requirements and duties, the very antithesis of his passionate and impulsive son. Duncan paused for a moment at the foot of tne steps of hi* father's house. "It will be over in ten minutes," he thought—there was a pang at his heart—"then gocd-bye to the old life, and gto.i fortune to the new '" Then ha sprang up the steps. "His lordsnip is in the library, Mr Duncan," said Ravvson, the butler, in answer to the young man's inquiry. "You are to be shown in to him at once." "All right—l know my way." He iooked so fierce that the welltrained butler was startled from his usual solemnity and recoiled a pace. Duncan strode to the library door, and tapped at it. He was invited to enter, and discovered his father impatiently pacing the floor. "Good morning, Duncan," bord Rainhilll kindly said. He held out his hand and the young man gripped it. "You lo'ik exceedingly warm. Why did you walk in the hot sun?" Duncan was astonished. This was so different from Lord RainhiU's usual cold manner! "I preferred walking," he anwsered. ,;,"I nad eo much to think about. My brain is in a whirl." Lord Rainhill regarded hia son keenly, and smiled. Then r.e sat down, .and clasping his hand 3 together rested his elbows on the table and leaned forward, his pale-clue eyes gleaming with tenderness. "I can see that you are strongly agitated, Duncan," he remarked. "I want you to tell me the truth." His son was bewildered. This was not the attack he had expected. "Sir!" he began; but his father interrupted him. "Nay," he said, "I beg you to dispense with formalities. We aie father and son—vou are my only son, in whom I have taken no natural interest until now, Duncan, I lost your dear mother when you were a "little child, and I think that my grief iroze the well-spring of my heart. Since then I have been little better than an animated marionette, obeying the calls of duty, though not the duty I owed to my children, and ;you most of all." "Great heavens! how can I tell him? thought Duncan. "Is he playing a part? Oh, if I had known him sooner!" "You have understood my wishes from myself, from your sister Florence, and I believe that your independent spirit resents a curb being placed upon your freedom of action. My dear boy, I have no desire to shift the blame to other shoulders, and I admit that I have made a mistake in treating you as though you were a soulless block." "Father, you have placed me in a very awkward position!" Duncan bliirted out. "I am myself in a «ery awkward position. I don't know that I should have discovered my mistake but for certain letters from Florence." Lord Rainhiil made a deprecatory movement. "She is passionately fond : of you, while she fears me. She is afraid of your future, and has a horror j of a family quarrel. There shall be no family quarrel if I can prevent it. To be brier. I desired you to travel for a year or two. Travel is a worldly education, which broadens one's views and expands one's mind and sympathies. Then I was anxious that you should make a wealthy marriage. There are so many beautiful and wealthy women who would care <

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