"Mrs Lorrimer's Folly."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 June 1913, Page 2

"Mrs Lorrimer's Folly."

(OUR SERiAL

By Charlotte M. Stanley. Author of "Edna's Vow," "Hia Country Cousin," "How an Oath Was Kept," "A Wo man Wronged."

CHAFrER XXl.—Continued. "That's because she fancies I saved her daughter's life," Will answered gaily. "I don't know that I did so much as all tint, but Lady Holme thinks so. The little girl had got into a scrape, certainly, and was frightened, aJid, I suppose, really might have been drowned; but any other boy on the shore would have done just as T did, so I don't, tike any credit for saving her, Mr Brown. It was this way," he went on, in answer to Mr Brown's inquiring glance: "Job Tomlinson had left that boat of his on the beach, unmoored — as he's done to my certain knowledge, half a dozen times before, and richly deserves to lose her—and the little girl got into it,, not knowing, and sat swaying about with the tide. Lady Holmo was sitting farther up the beach watching her daughter, and never dreaming of nny danger. Well, it must have been nearly full water when the boat got fairly afloat, and, of course, a s soon as the tide began to turn, out she drifted. Then there was a pretty piece of work! There were seven] people near, but nobody I seemed to have their wits about them. 1 Job came running up and said there wa s no danger, and went blundering about for another boat to go after her. No danger! and that poor little child standing up in the boat, screaming and going on so that she was in danger of capsizing it, in which case she stood a good chance of being drowned before any ono could reach her, and Lady Holme, poor soul, half dead with terror. Somehow, her trouble touched me more than the little one's danger. Nobody had noticed me standing by watching, but I made up my mind in a minute. I'm a strong swimmer, and I knew the oar s were in the boat, so I just shouted out to the child to keep still and not be frightened, and then I off with my boots and jacket, and jumped in and swam out to her. The poor little thing! If you'd seen how she welcomed'me, Mr Brown! Why, I had to hold her in my arm s and coax her to stop crying, quite a while, before I could get the oars out to row in. But we got in safely, and that's why Lady Holme makes so much of me. Not that there was anything in it, as you can see, for Job Tomlinson or anybody else would have done the very same, of course, if they'd thought of it."

"They didn't think of -it, however, and it was well for this lady and her daughter that you did," said John Brown dryly. * "And what did the lady say to you when vou brought back her child?"

He hardly knew what made him ask that question. It seemed rather trivial and out of place upon his lips, be thought, the moment he had uttered it. But his effect upon the boy was remarkable.

He started as if suddenly reminded of something. The smile faded from his face and eyes, and into the latter an expression of half-uneasy wonder came, as he turned them upon John Brown.

"What did s he say?" ho repeated. "Well, now, what she said wis, something very strange, and I had forgotten it until this minute. You'd never guess it." : His companion did not make the attempt.

"What did she say?" he repeated earnestly and curiously this time. Will looked straight before him thoughtfully, as ho replied :

"She was at the water's edge— aye, and fairly in the water —as we came up, and she took the little girl from the boat and up the beach a bit. I followed them after a mi mite just to see if she were all right, and Lady Holme turned to me, as I thought, to thank me. But she didn't thank me. Instead of that, as soon as she fairly saw me she gave a scream, and turned as pale as death. 'Can the sea give back its dead?' she s aid, and stood looking at me as if I were a ghost. Then she began to wring her bands and cry, 'Fred! my Fred!' and then s he asked me, all wild and trem!>ling: 'Child, is your name Fred Lorrimer?' "

He turned to John Brown as lie concluded the recital and looked anxiously into his face. "It was curious, wasn't it," lie said. "I had' forgotten it —what with plans at home afld the story you told me—though it all happened only yesterday. But these were the very words Lady Holme said to me. I told her my name was Will Saville, of course.," the boy added, more indifferently. "But it's curious that mother's cousin who was lost at sea was named Wilfred, and called Fred, and I'm named Wilfred, too, perhaps named after him." Ho added that Lady Holme had ju.st informed him that, she had been at Saville's Ho'tel, where she had seen his mother, and Mrs S:villo had promised to return the visit to-morrow, and bring him with her. "They live at that pretty villa with gardens around it in yonder lane* turning down from the beach," Jie said, pointing in the direction named. can almost see it from 'here. [ don't know how long they'll stay. Sir Gilbert, is not with them." Well,'" as he arose and held out his hand, "I must say good-by for to-night, Mr Brown, and I'll tell my mother you want her advice, and bring her to see you to-morrow." "Not to-morrow, Will," ho «aid — "not to-morrow. Tell your mother to take time to think the matter over. It need s a lot of thinking over, my dear boy. Good night." He put one arm over the boy's shoulders, and drew him toward him and kissed him almost solemnly. *'Good-by until we meet again. God blesg you !"

He walked away rapidly, as if to avoid an answer, but when Will had fairly started on his homeward road, turned round again, and stood looking after him. "My boy!" he sighed, "my dear, noble boy! Life might have had some sweetness in it even yet, if he could have shared it with me. But it cannot be. For her sake —for her sake! How beautiful she is! Fairer than ever is my darling. But not fair for me, ahs! She has 'lain in the lilies and fed on the roses of life' too long to return to poverty now. Oh, well, live sweetly and sleep sound, my lost love, no ghost of the dead shall rise from the deep sea to fright you from yoar dream of happiness." CHAPTER XXII.

It was nine o'clock when Will reached home. Bertha, looking pale and disturbed as he had never before, seen her, greeted him half reproachfully. "I have heard the story of your 'turnhie'' into the water yesterday," she said gravely. "Why, when I asked you how your doilies got so wet. didn't vou tell me the whole truth ?" Will, in his utter unconsciousness, laughed aloud at her serious face. "What else did I tell ■you, mammie dear?" said he.. "I s.id a child got out in a boat, and in trying, "with others, to save her, 1 tumbled into the water. Now, what else was that but the whole truth?" Bertha shook her head renronchfullv.

"If you had mentioned \ ady Holme," she said, "I shouldn't have been taken so unawares a s T was today. Such a shock! I shan't easily get over it."

Will stared at her, and noted how pale she was.

"Why.not?" he asked. "Wh:t is Lady Holme more than another lady? More beautiful and gentle, perhaps, hut that makes it all the easier to meet her. Surely, mammie, you are not frightened by her title? I think no more, and care no more for Lady Holme than I should for' plain Mrs Holme myself, and T'm sure'the real woman herself would be equally charming whatever her name was." (To be Continaed.)

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