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The 8«pt«inV>er sun was setting stormily, down there on tlio VVi.-k low coast. Far off, 11)6 purple mountains were fast losing them- •clv.H in the double darkness of coiniiiff night and stortn. Nuar ed ohceks, under his merry gaze. ' So you'ifi going to King's Heail to-niehk, my lord, ' Kathleen said, making a petulant little mouth. 'Well, I dire say you'll be safe in spite of the stor.n. Any one born to be hanged — you know the pruverb.' ' " Hanged will never bo drowned." Very likely, Miss O'Neal. I won't be the first Desmonil wlic has been hanged for his coun- try's benefit either, by long odds. Weal- ways do come to grief as a rule, and I don't think half a dozen of us ever died decently in our beils. We've been pink ;d in the " Fhaynix." we've had our h^'adsset up to ornami.'nt Tower Hill, we've been toasted alive in our own stroiighohls, we'v«j been ciurt-martialed and shot at day-dawn, we've hail our heads chopp.>d ofl like sp'ing chick- ens, for high treason. I never heani of but one Desmond who was drowmil, and he was a pirat<', cursed with " bf ook ami can- dle, " so could expect no b«. .. Yes .Vuss Kathleen O'Neal, I'm otf lor Kinjr'a Head in my bonny N>ira Creina, and I'll Uke yon with me, if yon choose, with all the pleasure m lite.' ' Thank yon, Lord Rory! I'm not tired of my life vet. When I leel like suicide, I'll 1 t you know. There's the hoat. Good- evening to you — I'm going home.' '♦" My boat is on the shore, .and my barque is on the sea." And so you won't com^? Well, then, I woulil recommend you to cro luime, for stani'iing here in the wind is neith- er p easant nor profitable th.\t I can see, (Jo d nii'lit, Kathleen ! If quite convenient, dreinn of uie. Oh, I say, how's the English- man ?' The girl turned upon him sudlonly, her face reildening, her eyes Hashing passionate- ly in the half light. ' Lord Rory,' she crieil. He laughed, bounding like achamoin down tbe'lleep crags. 'Then you won't smile on your Invert Poor fellow, how I pity him ! My own heart has been broken so often, yf;U see, Kathleen, that I can nfl'ord to sympathize with fellow martyrs. Any messages for King's Head? No ? Tlien, for the second time, good night 1' He waved Ins gold-banded cap courteouply in gay sainie, tiiia i)oyisii Lord Rodenc Desmond, oul^ son of the Ejtrl of CloDtarf, i \.' ! getting I Hu 'poll my word, Miini), niider my larely.' ccptor for youth, ith his langhing 111 the red light iretty, aunbiirn* B Head to-niffht, »kiiig a petulant e nay you'll be Any one born t* r{»i, tlien went headlong down, and an awful IdacknesH reigned. Of all her living crew, only this one woman remained to tell the tale. She lay on the deck where tliey had fdacf'd her— still aa one dead. Lord Roderic iftfd her in li>a arnm, •.an ied her into the lamp lit cabin, and laid iier on a couch. .Sle waa drippi-ig wet, mimI tier hair, long as a inerniaidV, cluii;: nlioiit lier ; her eves were closed ; the t cu was niuible wliite. Cold and still she lay there liefore him in a dead bwo if. Ami tiieyoiiTig Lord R ideric stnod above her, a brandyllasl; in Ina hand, g:izing down on that wiiit.-, still lace. For, in all theone-and-twenty years of his briglit. brief life, Kari Clontarf's only son had never ' looked on anything half so lovelv as thii aukaown girl he had saved from deatlk i CHAPTER IL OKRALD DKSMOND. Sunset hour again, low there on the pic- turesque Wicklow coast. An Oeto' er sun- set — cloudless and brilliant. An oriflanime of splendour, of golden, and ciimson, and purple, a royal canopy for the King of Day, nUed all the west with indescribiMe glory. And once asrain, all a'oiie, on the wild an i and solitary shore, Kathleen O'Neal stood, looking over the boundless sea at that crini- •oh glory in the sky. The soft, abundant brown hnir hungloose, and fluttered in the light evening wind. In and out of the red glow on the sea the fish- ing-boats glanced. Far away white sails •hone ill the ofliiig, and rising and falling airily in its sheltered cove, the Nora Creiua lay at anchor. Kathlteii looked at none of these things. 8hc had suiTk down on a beil of sea-mr'ss, half-lying, half-sitting, one round, white arm thrown iipoveraiall rock, her head lying wearily on th.it arm. The great, soft blue eyes, so brilliant, so Joyous i-ix weeks before, looked blankly over the ocean, with a dull and d.eamy lone- liness, inexproskiblv Had to see ; the pretty, ' ■ ■ "" 1)1 l)Ioom, piquant face had lost all its bright Its clad, pay smiles and dimples. She lay there listless'y and forlornly enon!.'h, p.ale .a.-, ihr. ai;rf "V.r^tikin^ -^^n the sands belnw. Only six weeks since that lurid sunset, when she had waited impa- tiently here for her lover, with a heart ai bright and as light as a bird's, ^ovi sh« sat haggard and pale, we.iry and hopeleMS, for insix briei weeks the light had faded from pretty Kathleen's life, and her lover Wis as utterly and entirely lost to her at though the an cry waves of that stormy night had swept over his golden head forever. Her lover 1 Yes, hers, by the raeinury of a lhou^alld words, of a thoutand hjvinjj smiles, of a thousand tender kii^ses, of w Iks, ami ta ks, and sails, and presents, and loiks, and whispers. Only boy and-girl ove, perhaps, but verjr 8 weft and ch rming to them both, until now— and now the boy-lord had forgotten Ilia low-bom love as comp'etely as though she had never existed, ana the girl waa breaking lier heart over it, as girls have dune from tinie immemorial. ' Will she ever love him as I have done J' Kathleen thought, her heart full of h.ipe- less, bitter pain, 'half so dearly as I have done? And he did love me a little, before she came between us I Oh, Mother of «id, keep my soul from the sinful wisn th.it the black waves had swallowed her that night I' A step came down the shingly strand, a man's step, but the girl never stirred. It was not /lis ; what then did it matter if all the world passed before her? All would still be desolation, and he wero not there. •Give you good -even, my pr.^tty Kath- leen!' said a soft, low voice, that Kathleen knew well, and a whiflf of scented cigar- smnke puffed on her face. ' On my life, von make a very charming pictcie, my dear. I never wished I were an artist uutil this mo- ment. Come here to see the sun go down, ch ?— well 1' with a lazy sigh, ' neat thing in the way of sunsets, toa How's the dear old efore lier —a gentlemanly looking personiige.of thirty or thereabouts, well dressed, well looking-1 with a shatlowy resemblance in his light blue eyes and fair hair to the golden -haired, azure-eyed dailiiig of her heart. He was not one hundredth part no handsome, but he vaguely res.inbled I>ord Roderic Desmond, and was that young lordling's thiid cousin— the pennici^s sou of a penniless y* nnger brother, a barnster-at-law, of Lincoln's Inn, London. Fie looked mnch more like in Englishman thnn an Irish Desmond, with his carefully. Iniincd siuc-wiiiskcrs, his blow, languid voice, and his nff ctation of utter indiffdieuM to all things under the sun. i t LADY EVELYN. itli a heart &i id's. Noti' she and hopcii'HS, i;ht had faded and lier lover lost to her at ! that aturniy I golden head r the memory liuui'and lnving \.\f:W.», of u' Iks, silts, and lo'>ks, haps, but very II both, until had forgotten ely as though the girl was girls have done I have done T' fidl of hiipe> .rly as I have a little, bffore lother of i)d, wisn that the iT that niKht I' igly strand, a ur stirred. It it inatt«:r if r? All woald * not there, prrtty Kath- hat Kathleen icented cigar- '11 my life, voo -', tny dear. I uutil this mo- sun go down, * neat tliiuK in ow's the dear oiind, flushing larrasaed little ood Itefore her natfc.of tliirty well looking — I his light bill* Ejoldeii- haired, irt. He was •Isome, but he M'ic Desmond, tliiid couaiii— iifRS yfunger Lincoln's Tun, in Englisliman his carefully- »iow, ianguid «r indifTdi-euoe • Gerald I' Kathleen cried, ' yoa here 1 I didn't know— I thoueht you wert— ' ' At home, as I slioiild be very likely. But hard work all auniincr has used me up. ai)d I've taken a run orer to Clontarf to freshen for the auturan and winter campagn. "Men must work and voinen must weep," and they avail themselves of their prerogative, the dear, moist creatures, to the ful' I must ■ay, equally at weddincs and <'i' You don't know the song of the " 1).'; ;shers," I dare B;iy, Kathleen, but yrt iO' k as though you had gone in f"r the v-epina busin' ss y()«rRe}f, of late. Six weeks iign I ■aw you as blooming as one of your own Irish roses ; now, a belU- ••f wasons coubl hardly look more chalky and Imegard th;in my wild, fresh Wicklow rosebini. Th it spi'edy consumption, Kathie, or a lutre fatal dis'-ase — crossed in love ?' He took the cigar from between his lips and l)ent toward her, a keenly knowing look ill his small, liglit-blne eyes. He and little Kathleeu knew each other well — from the days when he, a tall, hob- bUdehoy of sixteen, had been ' coac!>ed ' by old O'Neal, a decayed gentleman and a tlx'i'fjiiL'h I'laHsical scholar, and had romped with the prettiest four-year-old fairy in tha country. Old O'Neal had l)een prond of his clever pnpil, and Gerald Desmond, who wap always nnxUgal of those fine words which cost so little nnd butter so delicionsly the parsnips of society, was a regular visitor at the cot- tage of his old preceptor during his flying visits to Clontarf. He had seen Rory and Kathleen together more times than he could count, and he had pulled bisl ng, blonde whiskers, and smiled sardonically at Rory's boyish devotion and Kathleen's innocent blushes. ' Quite a chapter out of Arcadia, really,' he said, with his cynical sneer ; for ho had been a cynic before he left off roumlabouts. ' Paul and Virginia — the Baliesof the Wood — anything innocent and turtle-dove like you please ! My dear.artless Rory, and my pretty, blushing Kathleen I as guileless as a pair of newly-fledged goslings I Kow re- freshing it is to know that such sweet sim- p'icitv yet reigns on this big, wicked eaith!' And Mr. Gerald, in his hard, old preco- city — a man ' mad-about-town' at-t^vo-and twenty, with all the knowledge of a wicked old age— chatted his lordly cnusin,and caused that ingenious youth to blush nearly as sii'.ch as little K-athl^en hen«df. half in bny. ish shame, half in honest indignation. ' It's quite a pastoral, the " Loves of Bory and Katbleea. " I think I'll turn poe- taster " id wrife it ont. and beat the " Venca and Adunis" all to sticks. Uow's it goingto end, Rory, my lad 7' Is it to be the gush- ing legend of Lord Burleigh and his Ellen over again, and is artless Kathleen, the village school-master's daughter, to grace a coronet? Or will it be, "Oh, weep For the hour when to Eveleen's bower the Lord of the Valley with false vows came?" Uey, my Wicklow Apolo V And t > all of which Mr. Gerald nerer got any more explicit answer than a modest bUish and an indignant ' Oh, hang it, Ger I none of your nagging ! Let a fellow alone, can't you 1' He bent over Kathleen now, and saw the red blood rising to the low, fair brow, and the hot mist that tilled the soft, blue eyes. ' Rory hasn't been to the cottage for the past six weeks. I dare swear,' he said, care- lessly : ' he is taken up by night and by day, sleeping and waking, )H>dy and soul, with that dark-eyed donna from old Castile. Seen her yet, Kathleen?' He could see the tempestuous heaving of Kathleen's breast, the passionate ciouu of jealousy that darkened her whole fair face. ' Yes, I have seen her — again, and again, and again !' ' And sluj is beautiful as one's dreams of the angels, oh ? Not that I ever dream of these celestial messengers myself ; and I don'tsuppose they lave big, blank eyes, and a shower of midnight tresses down to their waists, if one did see them. But she is love- ly as a houri from Stamlioul, and— you bate her as Old Nick hates holy water !' 'Mr. Gerald 1 I?' 'You, Kathleen— for this reason: Rofy has gone mad for her I Ah, what an impetu- ous hot-heatled, reckless, hair-brained fellow tliat is ! On my word it takee my breath away only to think of him. And impeta* osity is so very pronounced, anil in such ex- cessively bad style I But he is madly in love, and really the Senorita d'Alvarez is very well wortn loving — KUpposing anything is worth getti' g the steam up to such a pitch here below. She's a royal beauty ; she's the heiress of a millionaire, witli shares and bpn convent, in Vala.lana I beheve. and rC Vc.lro and hi» K..«lish .lonna went in or h gh life in our modern Van.ty l-a,r-- Pnris Then tl>e Knt'liBh lady dies and the sJuuBh papa w«x. h.nely. goes to the con- ve i clain.» hi. daughter, and starU w th her for E..«lan.l, to pri-iPi.t her to her Kng- lish reh t vcH l.y the distaff aide, and- the .h ipScl es fire, off the Irish coast, an.l t,.e crew taUe to the boats, and the two passen- Trs aSlorgotten in the hubbub, and Ma«ter llorv and his yacht arrive in the n.ck of S to bear ir the ahr.cking beauty from c devouring Han.es a moder,. St George and the D. agon. What a scene it wou d make for the Ix.ar.lsof the I'nnc.ss' or Porte S Martin 1 How the pit and the galler.ea would applaud 1 You've not read many novels iu yur lifetiune. i.iy Kathleen, andvm're all the better for it ; but .f yru had you wouldn't need me tell you the iemurto tins delightful romance. The c« la in invariably falls, after a score or two ofsucll tren.eudous sensations, on the crowu- incfollv of man— marriaBel •Ma.riaL'e I" Cathleen icpeated, her orcath conii.ig short and quick-' man. age, Mr. g3 ! ^Vill Lord ll..leric marr ■ her ? •1 h nk it extremely likely. Ah I sa.d, he is in a state of utter i.nbec.hly «»"•" '^^ and she— well, th.se impassioned, tall, blacH eJed dark.skiui.ed. fiery-blooded Southrons S e erally the very devil to love or hate. AinfRory'. thews and sinew., h.s s.x-foot of X7°l'i» yellow locks and ins b li.o eyes have made their mark already. 1 he hut s S^d-looking. aa you know Kathleen am , bonna De Castilla is suscept.bl.-. In spite ] Kam'8 recent .loath, and her trailing crape aKbles. she looks graciously already ou the hti^r; Karl of felonUrf. Yea. Miss O-Neal I think 1 will be called upon to draw UD the marringe aettlement. f<.i my lord y cousin befeie the world waga twelve montha ^"siiTwas tearing up the turf with a fierce ■oppressed excitement that must fi'»l v«"J loniebow. Gerald Desmond glanced at l.cr """^And if I were you. Kathleen. I would Uke the initiative. 1 would marry Morgan out of band.' Shi"*' turned upon him. her pale cheek, flashing i., the twilight. ^.^^^^ c^,,i^_p^,,. He'll make a lady ol yo«' "^ * ^'^^ ,?f ^ small scale, an.l no cue "eel «ver »PP»y ^ you that nasty little w<.rd-j Ited I ^ 'Gerald Desmond I How dare yon » Gerald Desmond shrugged hi. .hoalder. and omiled. He rarely laugl'^J. • Coming the tragic muse, eh ? Pray rt on i cxcitej-mLlf. my .lear I'"' ^f "'8 >£ ' fatter to you. 1 met Morgan down then, beyaut as they say here, and he begged mo most p toously tojput in a good ^ordfor h.m. You've lost L.)rd Aoderic. you s.*.»ud J g'^« vou mv word. Kathleen, I thought at one time his it le flirtation would have ended seriousW Bat he ha. gone down beyond ZvlVlore the Spanish ey,e. of the Cas^. -n b,.iutv. and your cake'a dough Many Morgan, like a good girl. »ud live happy '^'shroruSrhed a hamful of gia... and flung it passionately over the rooks. •1 would die ten thousand death.-l would jump into the sea yonder^ »>efore I ^vould marry Morgan 1 I »'»»«,>->■"» ^^, ■ p„c.r fellow !• said Morgan's lutercewor, plaintively ; ' but you'll ma> ry 8ome on«. some time, you know, Kathleen. It ^ wo- r^Sdestinv-theend and aim of ber whole ^'^Vsl'lT re; marry.' her voice choked « she said it. and she turned away. /I wiU ffo to my grave what I am to-mpht, i«".M./dear little gushing ^**5''^,"A,T Oeral.l Desmond absolutely laughed a little, so amused wa« he-' -ni 1'- *-J.; 1^ J»» maid." as the old song says, for Rorv ssweel sake. Don't .10 it. Kathleen. Go up tO Clontarf and forbid the bann.. < What do you mean T _, , . __ • Why this, little one : The donna " •• . proud as the deuce-all theee ugh-and- ' mighty Spanish U*uties are-an.l as jeaU 8 a. the devil I Go up to the castle, insist on an interview, tell her Rory ..your., not hers that your claim to Inm 18 beyond d«. mite"; so it^ia, you know-he ha. been court- F„K j^u ever since he was three feet high, TeVher he loves you still «"«i '^^'y fj* her tioubloons. By Jove 1 Kathleen, shell drop him like a hot poUto 1 ' Mr. Gerald I' . Tue amazement, the indignation, the Bupeib hauteur with which KatTileeu regard- ed him, 18 utterly beyond .b'scnption. Slie iod drawn up to her full heig'.t, her eyes ablaze in the silvery light. •Yes, mignonne.' _ ♦„ „« i'^ • How dare you say such things to me I — I Tintt't flfirft u... __ .. . . .__,. neM"r"'Yc., I wouUl 1 Morgan's an Ei.giisn- i sac =""'l^^-^2-.-i™j,^„ yo„ jn.ult me by mTn. andan attorney-heinous cr.me.b^^^^^^ ComeLtween him. ani iur;o:'::n'rdo^b^rHe%' w^^^ -^^^^ '"• - LADY EVELYN. M. or ft Iftdy on » eed ever apply ** -jilted !' )W Uare you V eil his •honldert uglied. se. eh ? Pray don't I'm t-xlking like a ori;an down there anil he beeged me good word for him. , yousi-e.aud I give 1 thought at one voulil have ended one down beyond yes of the CaRtilian o'b doiigh. Marvy , and live happy ful of tjians, and r tiie rocks, houaand deaths— 1 a yonder, »H;fore I I hate him 1' Iorf?an'B intercessor, I mairy some onoi ^atlileen. ItV wo- uld aim of her whole her voice choked as led away. 'I will in to-ninht.' lahine Kathleen!'— tely Tauglied a little, I'll live and die ft lays, for Rorv'ssweel :atlileen. Go up U> ! banns.' ! • The donna w a« -all theae highand- es are — and as jeaU ip to the castle, insist er Rory is yours, not to him is beyond dia- iw— he has been court- ft-as three feet high, still, and is only after jve I Kathleen, sholl aUtol' the indignation, the vhichKatlilceu regard, rond dttscriptjon. She rfullheig'.t, her eye* light. f such things to me f— , and h«r little biflWB dare you insult me by 3ome bfitween him ftno when I would die •• bis feet to iflahe him happy t Go to thftt noble l.tdy and Ixilie him — the uublest, the bravest, the truest — ' Her voice broke down — poor Kathleen was no orator. She covered her face with her hands, and burst into a very passion of tmtrs. Cierald Desmond shrngged his shonlders, took out a ci){ar, Htnick a fusee, and lit it. 'Tliey are all filike,' he murmured — 'peas- ant and piiiici'88. They will go in for hyuterics in pite of you Well, Kathleen, doii'i cry — phase yourself, you know — I've only been t liking to you for your gvjod. 'Fore Georjre ! he must be the darlini; of the ffods, tliis Roderic Desniond, since yon nil lose your heads for him ; and he "an jilt you in cold blood, and the most spirited of you haven't spirit enough left to resent it.'" ' Ha never jilted me,' Kalhleen retorted, ftnt;rily ; 'it was aP my own folly from first to last. What was I, that he — so iiolile so handsome, so highlwru— siiould stoop to care lor nie? I tell yoj it wis all my own mad folly, nothing else ; and I am properly punished. I beij your pardon, Mr. (Jeiahl ; you make me pay rude thiues in spite of my- self. Uood-evcning to you I I must ^^o home.' ' Wait one moment, Kathleen,' he said, with a siufular smile. ' You are most generou!^ — most magnanimous ; now take }-oui- reward. Look yonder. ' He pointed — she followed the direction of his finjfer. Up from the shore, inthesilveiy haze of the risinu moon, two lovers canio, walking as lovers walk, talking as loveia talk. She leaned on his arm, clinginsr to him — a tall, slender, black-robed cirl, with ft nameless, high-bred grace ; and he — ah ! ' the tall, fair head bent over her, the devoted 1 eyes watched her, in a way that toldthe tale. ' 'Lord Roderic Desmond and Donna Inez,' •aid Gerald Desmond. 'Has he asked her already to be his wife ? It would bs very like him, impetuous that he is.and very hke her, passionate and impulsive, to say yes. Well, good-night, Kathleen.and— pleosantdreams I' He touched his hat carelessly and tu ced •way, humming an old song as he went — Thou hast learned to love another, Thou has* broken every vow — ' •nd each word went through the girl's heart like a knife. Where he had left her, she crouched down, her free hidden in her hands with the low, dumb moan of astriclieu ani- mal. The tears had conio to Gerald Des- mAnd'a wnrrl* i Httf. Tin t^iirs C^me UC^-^=o:dv .liQte, dumb despair was left Gerald Desmond walked slowly home- ward, in the silvery light of the moon, U Clontart Castle. His pale face was at al times fixelly calm, but his light-cold eyoi gleamed with %n evil gleam. For he covet- el this Spanish beauty, with his whole suul, for her r&re lovelinoas, th.it h,i