A CORSICAN VENDETTA

Bi/ C. A. GUNTER,

The Successful, American- Playwright.

CHAPTER XIV,

THE TELEGRAM II.OM OIBRAMA-t.

_he next day is a very bright one at Monaco; the sun rises gloriously in all its Mediterranean splendour, perhaps a Htble too warm when nob tempered by bhe genble breeze of bhe Riviera, but in the shade of the olive trees and bhe ilex tho temperature is perfect, lb would be romantic to any one not dead to all the charms of nature ; but to Barnes, as he dresses himself, look ing oub of his window on bhe quiet scene, tb seems an inspiration. He mutters "To day I" to himself: then look* ab his hand to see if it is as steady nsuaiiiil, and proudly says, "Not a tnsmoi■'.'' though what be means by this it would bo difficult for any one bub himself to tell. Miss Anstruther comes down to break fast. She has no headache this morning, and gives him one or two flashes of the eye and several little blushes in a curious, wistful, pathetic sorb of manner, bhongh sho seems in a kind of half frighb and doesn't eat very much. Towards the end of the meal Lady Char trissays: "You have lost your appetite, Enid !"

"Yes! and I know what caused it!" This last comes from Maud, who has re gained her spirits over night. "It's be cause of that letter you gob rids morning, ma! That tells that 'the other one' is coming!" "The other one?" pays the girl's mother. . I don't ! ah ! yes ! Lord Ferris!" And then, seeing she has made a slip of the tongue—for Miss Ans trubher is a very red colour, and Barnes is cutting his beefsteak as savagely as if he were operating upon "tho other one" in Lady Chart, is turns upon her too candid offspring, and, in a voice +-hat carries dismay to that young lady, remarks: " Have I not told you, Maud, never to read my letters . Go upstairs and go to bed!" " Ma, I haven't had any breakfast." "Go upstairs." " Ma, I haven't " " Obey me!" •' Ma—a—!" This last, is a wail of anguish in the distance. Barnes look? up and finds Mis? Anstruther gone also. Arising, he steps out on to the balcony, and lighting a cigar, after a pull'or two, say.? to himself, "No time like the present," then walks into bho "arden of the Casino. Here, after looking about for some little time, he sees the fluttering of a dress he knows on the most retired part of the terrace, and, on following it, throws away hi_ weed, and say* very gently, " Enid."

Thris it comes to pass th_b half an hour afterward Maud Chartris bursts into MarinYs room and whispers to her in -a hoam; voice: . Don't cry out! Ma thinks I'm bad ! But go <j_urn and save Enid ! '* "rktve Enid ! what '"" cries the beautiful Corsican, springing up, her eyes brightening at the thought of danger to one she loves.

"From that fearful Mr Barnes! He's making her cry behind the olive trees on tho terrace!" p7 •■-,-.;.

" What do you mean VI " I mean that he's cngtwjed to her ! . It.. awful! I—l " (the child is panting from excitement)—" I had never seeii a girl asked to marry before.-! knew he was un. Jo it; ahtl so, instead of going to bed, 1---I sneaked down the other way and followed him, and oh ! they-tVightcned me !"

At this Marina laughs v little, and then sighs. " When I first saw bhem, from behind some rose-bushes, ho was a little way from her, and she was shooting such flashes from her eyes at Wm that'l thought she would frighten him away. Bub "he is vei y brat"., lie is, and he came near to her and said three words, ' I love you !' and they nearly knocked her down ; for she got all limp and would have falh.li, "but he caught her and held her to him. And then she began to say ' Hdw he astonished her !'-— winch was. a lie—and he whispered some • tiling I. couldn't catch, but it seemed to knock her out of time, and she sneaked at Win jnst one look tliac sct-med to set him crazy." ' " And Enid said nothing ?'' ask. Marina, excitedly.

"How could she open her lips whon he waf kissing Jier so? Then he asked her soinefching about a month, and she cried: 4 Oh, no ! not so soon !' And tl.cn hosaid : 'Two impnths■!' And she said: 'Do as you will j you.have robbed me of my heart— only don't, fyreak it by giving it back to me.' I learnt that last sentence coming up here ; I though.' it would be nice to say myself, someday.". ' ■ i,.. f *~-;, '.':; . But hero Marina suddenly quiets the loquacious Maud with this astounding in vective : "Not another word, you miser able one ! You have desecrated with youi\ eyes the holy mystery of a woman's life, an&foklMeofkr.

•"I—a—thought you wanted to hear. Why, you were pumping me." "Of such a secret? Never! Get to your apartment, and if I >soe your lace again to-day your mother shall know of your atrocity. Away !" And she sends the infant prodigy _obbing to bed with a fierce glance of her Corsicr.ii eye_aaurad r a majestic wave of her hand. _ Marina has a ; woman,'- curiosity ancl a woriian'K conscience. Maud had tempted her curiosity,'and she did -eat, but, having gorged conscience reigned '_£ her once uiooa: and. -she turnccf upon..the creature who had tempted her, as EvO, theiirsfc woman, did oy.pn.the serpent. * The child's jfasfc sob haying vanished in Marina .-heels a little -tear her self. Her -eyes arc still red'wlth this exer-, ctse when Miss walks coolly in ? ; though there- is ablush on her "face and her ■ hair "is a little out of. trim, as she says, "Why did.ydu-not come with me 'for my, walkirftdrbrerikfast?"' .'

-'" Spyon -went hlone.?" 'asks Marina, gaz ing at her curiously. ! -. "Yes/; 'butdtthe last, .Burton—l mean Mr Ba. rtes^todk : 'pity oh: .iiy lotreliness, an _— w hy do you look at me so ? Heavens'! almost hysterically. " Maud !'.' , ' " Maud ? How did-she-know ?" "She sa,Wi!" ...... r _ ,\ , ■. -■■ 1 " Great Heavens ! She did not see him jfiss —_.? .Oh I Marina! I—that fearful child ! I must find her! She'll 'tell the hotel. . Oh . Hvh_.t .hall I do ." *!____& df mortification and shame .are in Enid's eyes ; she is about to run from the; room to seize upon this "female Peeping Tom and bfibfe 'hCr with .kindnesp or terrify her wi-h -liVeats, when Marina puts her arm rottnd herand says-: "'l've silenced Maud she's, in bed fdr all day ; and now tell me— yfruibve ''Mm, Garissinia?" .<i • •'fjovebim.:? :Do you suppose I'd 'marry him in two months if I didn't ?". _.^T#s ; _i_rrths Would be a long time for me .to -wait, if.l were you." : ; "'Yes! You're a'Corsicah / you'd marry himin ; a teembli, ,6s ; He Wanted me to do ;, y6u*d :; De'jas 'impetuous as he—you'd suit him." .With .this _fiss-Anstruthergives her a secdnd^hand'Mse dfMr ©Arties, saying: "I have to leaveyou -know . I must write a how shall I dp El It. i. ?an inwfftl thing. to be en gaged*!' and rune away. Meantime Mr ©arnes has walked up and (demanded-the «_tw«ic»n- of I_.dyChftrfcpf?,

and gob it, from the very depths of her sou!. , - ... _ ,\ "My dear Madame' he opens, "would you do me a favour. just write to Lord Ferris—yoit know _be is (.t present' . , " Yes," murmurs the matron, "he is in Nice to-day ; to-morrow he will be here." " Precisely, " continues the American ; "write to him in Nice, and incidentally mention in your letter, in a soi't of casual. ofF.hand manner, bhab Enid is engaged to marry me. ' " Engaged to marry you ?" Lady ChArbHs repeat, these words after bim in a scream of astonishment. ■ • ■ •• Yes—<ribhin two months."

" , Vyjbhin two months !" "I thoughbitiusb as well thab Lord Ferris knew ib, as ib'mighb save Enid some embarmssmenfc, and that gentleman a use less journey, with disappointment at the end of ib; be .ides it was a duty to. you us Miss Ansbrubber's chaperon to tell you ab once." " And Enid preferred yon to a lord ?'' gasps Lpdy Chaitiis, for a lord is a big thing in her eyes, a., her dead husband hud only bowi a knight. " She bad that peculiar taste." ''Very well! J .presume you have enough to support her in the stylo in which she has been accustomed to live ? You will excuse my asking the question, bub Enid is* very young, and I feel responsible* to her brother for her not making a mistake under my charge !" '"Certainly," says Barnes. " You have a perfect right to b .aUHwevod on thab point." "Very well"—here Lady Chartris be comes grandly important—" What are your expectations?" < "Expectations? All \— Oh, of money I suppose you mean ? I bftvon'b any." "Noexpectations? Arid you dome here to marry a girl that was the belle of the last London season ; whose family is one of tho oldest in England, and who might make a grand match I" " I've something better than expecta tions : I've the rash," says Barnes, slowly.

" What is your income ?" says the matron, curiously. "About, sixty thousand a-year." '■*• Pomid&f? Almost .ci.ams Lady Char tris.

" No, only dollars, I am sorry to say: but it's enough." "Enoutrh ! I should say it. was. Well, Burton—J suppose I must call you Btirtoh now—yon know Enid is my cousin. You've got the best girl in England, and I hope you'll make her happy—sixty thousand dollars; that'll twelve thousand pounds a-year—-of course, you'll make her nappy. If I wasn't so young I'd kiss you ; but it might mako yo'av/aiicee jealous !" and she shakes his hand very cordially. Mr Barnes is well pleased that Lady Chartris is too young to kiss him, but it sets him 10 thinking of his betrothed, and he says: "Lady Chartris, would you be kind enough to send Enid to mo, here : and give tis the use of your parlour for n little time ? I wish to speak to her on a matter of business 1" "Of course—on a matter of business?' and the frisky widow gives a little laugh. " Yes !'' echoes Barnes, sternly, " Jiittu mm! 1 want to tell her we have your con sent !" Thiß deference to her authority make's Lady Chartris his ally at. one., and she govs. " You can have my parlour as longoß you waut, dear Mr llat.t-S !" then goes off bo do his bidding. ■As ho waits the coming of his love, that gentleman reflects that having got his own affair pretty well in hand, ho had better settle his doubts in regard to Enid's brother, and goes to speculating on that in y story. His reverie Is disturbed by a small hand being laid upon his arm, atitl a soft voice whispering: . What do you want mo for?" Ho.mprisons the hand, asking: "Have ypn the -letter written lor your brother?" here it Is." and 'ilt.s. '■ Ah'st. _th_r' hands it to him.

"I sent mine off half an hour ago," re marks Barnes, " for we've got to be rushing tilings," H« rings the bell and gives the epistle to the servant to post. "And now I suppose that is all—Bur ton V

It is tho first time she has ever called him by his Christian name. Though the girl blushes arid hesitate., she li UK-i -8 over it as if she loves it; yet, having snid it, turns bashfully and makes a show of going to tho door.

by a grofeb -deal,' cries' Barnes, catching her in her retreat. "No?"

" First "—he laughs it little—" tell me why you stammer .d so over my name; don't you like it?" . "Oh ! what, makes you ask sitc'h ques tions ? Don't you know it was tho first time —Burton?'' here she give- a tremendous blush.

" Yes — you said it much better tho second time !" says be, meditatively. "Do you know that Lady Chartris has loaned mo this p____ur for an hour, and you're to spend-the whole of it hero !" "As I am to be your slave in twp months, I presumo I'd better lear_ obedienfcg at onoe !"' She says thiswith a very resigned expression, and permits him to s.at her on the sofa beside hiffl:

"And now I wish to speak to you very seriously, Enid !"

Here her eyes open in astonishment, as she,turns them on him iv a pathetic way that s<.tS his heai-fc to beating, and cries : "Speak to me seriously !—l—what have I don©'.—you're,-yon _o not going to scold me !—Oh ! you must have enchanted mo !— ---1, -Who but yoetorday was proud—l_--oh, if you ever treat mo unkindly !" _voti/, this-kind of mood requires consola tion, and after Barnes had consoled his fiancee-, until they are both in the seventh heaven c_ happiness, he remarks . " Apropos of obedienco, I want to ask, y6u a very serious question !" . Yes t" • "Iwant you to tell m_ what j^ou meant by making love to a man irt Marina's p(ct«> ; e in Paris, and then say it was a ruse ? " He asks this with intense earnestness, an/d receives a -scream of laughter for reply.' A.tser a minute Miss Anstruther manages itb-fgasp, " Whyryou'i.' jealous of th._ creature on Canvas !" '"' .. 'fNot a bit! but all the same, I've a curiosity to know !" . "Well, Mrs Vavassou_ was teasing me aboutmy-Mriyaffectioii fdrac_t_aih'gfentte _nan — IjOvA--y(m know—' the oth_r one '— he's her nephew, and as she is a niosfc per sistent woman, I stopped bet" by telling her —my heart w_s thb most harmless individual I could find tt throw away my affections .upon—and-it was the man of the canvas ? " i "Wasthat_«!" rf % f' .! V F \ i '

j " Oh ! now you are, jealous !*-_hia is- (je. Ughtfiil! Do ym_ know that at times;*' here she looks at Barnes closely, " you rather re mind me of him 1" P

"Much obliged for your kind compli ment!— May I ask you another question ?" "What; not satisfied—-still jealous?— I'm afraid you will be my Bluebeard !" " No, I a>n not jealous I Some day you'll know that i could npfc be jealous—of him I But you were interested in, the pic ture before that—what made you so ?" : The laughter leaves Enid's face ; she hesitated a moment and then says : ";l kup.w I blight to have no secrets from you— Burton ; but it is not ,my secret, it is another's." '. Very well, tell me what you can without compromising anyone," says Mr.Barnes. )' Believe I d on't ask without a reason." "What reason ?" asks Miss Anstrutjber, whbhas tiow become curious herself, j.i.-.-.i Here the gentleman, counter, her with r "il khtrw I ought to no secrets from; y£u,' Enid > \ but it is not, n.y ( secret, it |is another's." ■,. ' . .'",-■" ~/,-, H.-j ■ - ■ " All," cries the young lady, " ft secret j tell me all about it." '['>'■> . . . ■ :"ff|rsfc answer Biyqueltio.,",

" Wdl, it wa. a letter from _.gypt. that interested mo in the picture. It described a duel with a lucky penny episode m it, something like the "one on the canvas ; but the encounter in my letter did not end fatally for either combatant." "The letter came from your brother, 1 suppose ?" , „ „ " I-you see, I hardly like to tell you. " Oh, then ib did nob come from your brobher ?—From some other man I've no doubt!" " Yes, ib did come from my brother, you jealous creature," says Miss Ansbrubher with a little laugh. " Do you know the principal ol the duel.' "No ! Edwin did not tell me—in fact he asked me to say nothing about the affair ; as if ib were known, ib would bring bhe officer to a court-martial. You know be couldn't get bis comrade into a scrape. " Of courso nob." " And now why do you wanb to know ? "I was jealous," says Barnes, tdbng a : story, for he is now more than ever certain that his suspicions in regard to Edwin Anstruther are correct; but he feels be cannot tell Enid her brother has the blood of a fellow-creature on his soul, and decides in his mind that. Edwin and Marina musb never meet again. .'_■"■' "Jealous!" says bhe girl; "jealous, first of a canvas man, then of a man m a letter-! Oh, what a life I shall lead you ! Don'b you know I'm a flirt!" "I've no doubb you used to bo,; but now," replies Barnes, attempting an Othello expression of the face, " you have reformed." " Perhaps ! " remarks Enid ; " I haven t got tired of you yet—l've only known you IX WGGK " Yes, jusb a week ago you were cutting me in the most severe manner on the rail way train between Paris and Tonnerre," says Barnes, looking at his watch. "A week ago 1 didn't know you! and yet I was happy. Now, if I didn't know you, life would be a blank to me !" "Oh! there would still be 'the other one !'" laughs Barnes airly. At this he receives a glance of such re proach from Enid's eyes that he feels be owes her reputation ; and there takea place between them a little poem of sentiment at Which cynics would sneer, bub which they enjoy so thoroughly that Lady Chartris finds Mr Barnes's business interview with. _is/a?_ee a very long ono. (To be Continued.)

SKINNY MEN.

" Wells's Health Kenewer" restoreshealth and

vigor, oures Dyspepaia, Impotence, Sexual Dtibility. At chemists' and druggists'.—Kemp ihorne, Prosser & Co., Agents. Auckland.

THE AUCKLAND. *EVENING STAR., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1887.

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Onehunga tweed suits at 47s 6d, at ; Smith and Caughey'B.—(ADVT.) Butchers. *W ALL IS * CoATES, CROWN BUTCHERY. KARANGAHAPE ROAD. PRIMEST MEAT PROCURABLE. Fivk S____i.ro Orders Delivered to axy , Part op the Crry. !,■,•'• ; • i ;.■)■. ".-;. ---i*j Vn ■■ .-.*,.... . CIHEAPER mHAN TCIYER! / X Hi STILL FURTHER REDUCTIONS To clear the Shop during the Summer Months. _____________j_______^_**ii*s*"^^ Educational. BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL . ori YOUNG LADIES AND LITTLE BOYS, OXFJIfXCA, Conducted by G«t>eral Juiid M_* STODDARp- Kdupation thorough and high class. Religious and Moral Training' Cleanliness, Manners, ami Good Food well attended to. Terms on application. HaKTcrmbegin, NoY-tober Is t. MISS LILIAN EDGER, M.A. (late first assistant In the Girls* High School, Chrißtchurch), intends to open a Select School for Girls ih Ponsonbj. after the Christmas vaca tion. All the branches ot a thorough -Cngllsh education will be taught. Special Classes will also be arranged for any who may desire to pre §aro for the Matriculation or Junior Scholarship iXaminations in tho New Zealand University, Only a limited number of pupils can bo __o_i ved. Address: Care Mrs Judson, Arthur-street, Pon_onby. ' ' ' '' MR G. OSWALD Gires Lessons in Elocution, 12 to 2, at Moars's. Entertilpments given and attended. Terms in advance. I: Address—Chainptaloup and Cooper, Quera strect. m i OICTURE-FRAME MANUFAC 'W a X TORY AND MUSICAL INSTR U igj. . MENT WAREHOUSE, fe AtJCJ-tAM^ 0| . ,"-T. E. tiARTEB/ [ < «S' '. TEACHER Oi_p! ; 'litTStC. '- Eg , VIOHN, §gi- PIANQ, CORNET, fetTlTAfi,' &&, *0.; &r '• , Musical Instruments Tuned and ~.- i E. Repaired. RIBbJ-NTATION iU)DRESSES.-rAU: branches .of Herald ie Emblazoning, Photo. Shields. &c.; artistically .prepared,™w. F, Burrows, T)rau_lit__iap. Httftj Chambers: Quoe_.-str.eet; - ■'■■.: ''■ - ,: '" i Tailoring. ANOTHER Fact is that J. H. Dalton rhasgiven away 2.000 Pairs of Trousers In ti. clvej_o_ths, arid intenfib to try to double the number noxtyear. EXTRA PAIR OF TROUSERS f _, I TAIIj-_t i T 1 tH_j COs. figs, 603. g % . .j6ft; ,709. 15b. hfel feS TROUSERS g* 3 I 12a. 6d. . 15a. 17_."i5d. fc2 g.» . 20s. 225. 6d. 265. ?, W «Ai H. Tarn-Ob, '&.'$ g Cook & Grey J3ts. J&y • _X | «K«y J| {-, j y 1| j Pl.t) I.) |)1.1. I I 1,1, 11... ~.»IMI_ ~-l| I' -, MY Summer Tweeds have just arrived, i and can't bo surpassed.--J. IL Dalton, -i ■. Ylctorla-Btreet Ep,st, . , : .. IF there is any om who Avant* to give a ' Christinas Box to their son, let them call aridwet _ Watet-tiury Watfch for hothlhg, at J. H< Daltpn'fl, Vict_*ia*teeQt Ea-t,



SHOW ROOMS, Corner Hobson Street, Corner Cook Street. APPLY FOE NEW CATALOGUES. Iron Cottage Grand Pianos ... ... £40 American Organs, 6.stops .;..,, ... £15 Pianos in stock, from ... ... ... £-.5 ' All Instruments can be purchased on our 20 months' Hire System from 20s a month. ~V7~. -EEC. _E _B _B _E, MANAGER. Messrs. Webb and Co., of Oak House, are in no way connected with this Company.



Business Notices. . N j ir . . . , *■-. — .■..-■ ■ . <W__ ■ i ■"r'"» W M -M C A RTHUR & G O- ' IMPORTERB OF EARTHENWARE, CHINA, & GLASS. Queen-street. Auckland, HAVE ON HAND: A LARGE AND WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF EARTHENWARE. Consignments of Nevp Goods every month.* Now Landing, ex Star of the East, — MASON'S PATENT GLASS FRU.T . __ JARS,. "■ Ex l?iako,-- ASSORTED CRATES OF EARTHENWARE j~; X . . . j (Suitable for Coua. ry Storekeepers). ai_.»| W* M C A R I G 0? . ALEX AN D E R . TT AR-Y E V, ; ALBERT-STREiET ' ' ' ". (Corner of Durham-_treet),, .',' '. .'.',.", Direc. Importer and ManitEact-Rer op Aiih Kinds of Dairy Utekslls, . >!,- Tin, Iron, and Coiper 'Work. :;' DAIRY FACTORIES AND CREAMERIES SUPPI4ED WITH ALL REQUISITES. Estimates Given. BEST VALUE IN JAM TINS, HONEY TINS, BUTTER TINS, Etc. mUCKER'S TtffHEATEN TpoOD FOR PORRIDGE, fee, fee., Specially prepared, c-naists of the elements for the perfect nutrition of the human body. Has. had high commendation in England from Hospital Authorities and -from Physicians, Dentists, and the Public .. /, ._ J. BYCROFT & Co. Have now completed the erection of costly plant, and having made arrangements with'Mr W. F. TUCKER to produce this artiola. oonfi* dently recommend it as more suitable than oatmeal for this climate. ASA PRICE WI-SnREACHOF ALL,-] In 71b and 251b bags. _.*n3 Tub ebad of all Grocers and Storekeeper, _!i -, and Wholesale of the Manufacturers. ; ■ T T>YCROFT AND fj)., . ClTjst Fx.onß, -Mills,--'w.i Shbr .land-.tree. ~.'] Auckland, , Aif \ ' .TUGKER'S ':'"'" .i ''" FAMILY BAKING POWDER. TUCKER'S 13AMNG T3OWDER For JDWhoIe-omeA Bread TUCKER'S j X>AKING Tea Cakes _D Pastry X Scones TUCKER'S TDAKING ThiOWDER Aakyour JO Grocer JL for it - Once Tried, Alw&yii Used* DEVONSHIRE DAIRY FACTORY 1 _ - ; BUTTER, STAR BRAND. Haying completed our Factory for the manuv facture of Butter (in the district of Mangash and are now receiving a large supply Cf milk, we are selling our Star Brand Butter at 10d per lb at the Devonshire Dairy Depot, Karflngahape Road, and at our branch, corner of Pioton-street and Ponsonby Road. Any Star Brand sold else where (for the present) will not be from our Factory. Haying secured the most modem, machinery obtainable, and being situated in ma i best hutter-produoing district in the Province of Auckland, we aro in position to supply a better article than can be obtained from any other source. We respectfully solicit a trial from all who desire to obtain first-class b. tlor. _«} AMBURY AND ENGLISH, ,■■•;;.. thai Proprietors. TNVENTIONS and TRADE MARKS J, registered in all part* All drawings, etc... accurately prepared at tbe International Agency, Offioea: HQFa Chambers, Queen-street, , ■*.■■:■ ;'.„»



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