CHAPTER XXI.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 24 October 1908, Page 3

CHAPTER XXI.

Lady Brantynbunj's lack cf <\ag(irress in tlif inve&tiga.ticai rather surpriaad her lm&band. Ho would lrivjospected a. woman aftar such a lo&a to bo eager to mova heaven and aadi for any chanco of recovery of the n:ishmg geina, or at luast to find and punish the thief. But Cara's attitude seiomed to l>a inert a^nd defsiiorident. "Tho jewels were goaie 1 ? Well, thoy were gone!" He did not understand hec pa:-4 av< rmd pogsumistic acceptance of tho situation, unless indeed it avciiv tha mere physical languor of jndis-i'o-sition. 'J'hc chill faint mist or constraint and lestrvo lietwecin thcan rhowad no sign of lifting 1 , rathiot*, it seemed to thicken, till from a. faint cobweb-like veal it grew to. a datrk inapanetrablc curtain botwaeai them, shutting tJioni apai-t. Day by day they drifted, further from each other, and ha, recognising and resenting the change, without in the least comprehending it, held aloof in nettled prida from any sleeking to force an explanation or understanding. Even when, ialkir:g- of the robbery, site once said to him with a timid touch of wistful tendennjoss, appealing yot half sluonkmg, "I am soaiy — ao sorry about thia, George, for your aaka !" ha was half annoyed as well as puzzled and touched 1 . Why was ahe not sorry for her own sake • for Uie lons of those family jewels which had so admirably become and set off her beauty — lhat raroi and delicatu beauty which was &o fast fading and paling now. What had come to her, once liia Crtvu happy lavhii. r w ile, in these l^at few weuka? X never occurred to him that ihe ehango in her dated irora the dayrjf DusonLury m tii^t vi&it a,nd her faintiag fit. Tho doctor suggested trying change of air and scene »,o rouse Lady Brautyah&an fiom hor ifia^'U/DO* and deprt'hwon, and Sir Geoige caught at the idea aa a happy iihought. A shadow of gloom hung over the neighborhood sinco the tragedy 0? St. Quontna's Jatei. Change of air and scwic would tone his wife up mentally a? well as. physically. It would to good for them all. Ho would return to town, finish his business there, then his wife and sister would come up and join him, and they would go to Switzerland and try what Alpine" braazes could do in the blowing away of tho cloud that seemed to ha,vei sattled upon them. Both Alice and Cam took kindh to the proposal. It seemed to oiYea' some chanc* of distraction, though they both knew too well that we cannot over-run sorrow nor play hide-and-aeiak with destiny. In Alice's mind there) rose the thought of a story she had heard, of a family who being sorely annoyed by the nightly pranks of a ghoat who haunted their house, determined to "inovo." A neighbor seeing tJieir -van heavy laden with goods and chattels, hailed them w^th a cheery "So you : re moving?" The voice of tjhe ghost from the innermost recesses of tha van was heard to reply with sepulchral choarfulnoss, "Yes, we're all goin^» !'' So we all livei to find ilt. Travel where we will, by land or oca, our ghost goes with us. Wa cannot leave the. skeleton behind locked in its cupboard. So fea,r and remorse wovld gc with Cara, and by Alice's sido the ghost of the grief of tho might-have-been would walk — thq ghost of a hope that was slain almost us soon as it bud birth. (To be cootimied.}

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