THE END OF HER JOURNEY.

IN FOUR CHAPTERS,

•iROM " TiiJll'LK BAK."

CHAPTER IV.—Continued

Teddy and his wife were standing on board the P. and 0. at Southampton. He had come down to see her off. They had lunched togetliei downstairs* and Teddy had quite won over the captain? who knew him by reputation, and Avas delighted to make his acquaintance. There were a good many passengers, the captain said, and when they were within two or three days of Gibraltar Mrs Archerson would find everything delightful —weather warm, sea smooth, and everyone friendly.

'By the way, you stop at Gibraltar, Millie, probably for a few hours,' Teddy said, as they took a lastwalk up and down the deck, 'soyoumay beableto go ashore and have a look at the big guns and the orange trees. I remember George writing homo when he stopped on his •way to India, and saying it was all big guns and orange-trees.'

' Yes,' she answered. She could only think of him, just of him whom sho'WQS about to leave, and not of any place in the world. But he rattled on :

(Lucky little woman you are to get away into the sunshine, Avhile your husband stays behind, and slaves ' She turned round quickly; it seemed as if some words rose to her lips, but if so they were left unsaid. He misun derstood the action. 'Of course, I shan't slave realty,' he said, consolingly. 'I daresay I shall manage to take things pretty easily.'

' Oh, yes,' she said, with a long sigh. She had .no words to talk with, no thoughts- that she dared put into words. She was living through a crisis in

which everything but a silent struggle for self-control was impossible. She shivered suddenly—it Avas all so terrible, and she was so utterly alone in her suffering. He thought she was trembling, and stopping, adjusted her furs closer round her neck, while she submitted half-bewildered. For a passing moment he vaguely guessed that she was going through some terrible ordeal, and his heavt smote him. He pulled her hand through his arm and drew her a little closer to him as they resumed their walk.

'You will soon be in the sunshine,' he said. 'You will get rather too much of it at Malta. They say there isn't a bit of shade to be had, and not a tree higher than a gooseberry-bush.' ' Oh, I don't mind,' she cried ; ' I don't mind anything.' She could not bear to hear him talking as lightly as if to-morrow's sun would not rise and find them far apart. Her voice betrayed plainly enough this time that she was suffering, and the knowledge gave him a dull gnawing pain.

f You must take care of yourself,' he said, looking into her grey eyes with a quaking conscience, thankful with a thankfulness that knew no bounds that she had never guessed his secret. He piviyed in his heart that she might never know it. ' You don't looked up to much now, poor child,' he said tenderly; 'but George and Nellie will take care of you, and cheer you up, and do you a world of good.'

'Yes,' she said, almost gratefully. It was. how she understood all that ■was in his thoughts on that last walk they took together.

' You will come back quite strong and well.'

'If I die,' she said suddenly, ' you must marry again soon and be very happy—do you hear V

' Nonsense !' and he tried to laugh— a sorry sort of laugh.. ' You are not going to die; you must not get mor bid.'

' I am not morbid,' she said gravely. Then, after a moment's pause, she went on : (I wish I had been better to yon, Teddy, brighter and more com panionable, and more lovable —oh, I do!'she cried. 'I would give all the world to have been different.' The last words came almost in a whisper from her trembling lips. He stopped, and with a troubled face answered her earnestly:

'No one in the world could have been better —no one in the world. You are the gentlest woman alive, Millie; I "wish I had been worthier of you.' " i ; She could not speak, but for answer she stooped and kissed his coat-sleeve, It was unlike her, but it was the action by which he remembered her through all the after years.

They stopped by the stern for a moment. The wheelhouse was there, and behind it, at the extreme end of the ship, there were two raised steps that formed a seat. It was the/point from which the log was taken. Mil dred looked at the place for a moment, and hesitated; then mounting the steps, looked down at the water beneath. 'I shall come- and sit here when it is warm enough/ die said. • I shall have my face to wards home, and my back towards Malta.'

'Don't you want to go V he asked, lating himself. 'Oh, yes; I couldn't have stayed onger in England.' She sat down on ,he steps for an instant, and looked jut towards the distance.

' You must mind how you sit there,' he said, [ unless it is very calm. If the ship gave a lurch you would go over before you knew where you were, and not a soul have an inkling of it in time to pick you uj).' • Yes,' she answered slowly, 'if the Ship gave a lurch I might go over.' They went for one more turn along the deck, and then it was time for Teddy to go ashore. He turned back us he stood by the gangway.

' I'll send you a line to Gibraltar, though I am.not sure that it will get therein time,' he said. 'But at any rate you can post me ono from there, and tell me how you are getting on.' She nodded her head, she could not speak, but he understood, lie waved his hand, and she stood watching him going farther and farther away. Just before he vanished altogether he turned and made one more sign of farewell. ' Good-bye,' she whispered to herself, 'good-bye,' and looked at the water— at the sea that already divided them.

Gibraltar, '27th January

" Deakkst Tkddv, s

" Wo gtay here about six hours, hut I am riot going n'slidrc. There is no letter from you. They say it is impossible for one to arrive in time. We have had lovely weather since Saturday, warm and soft; and I have gone to the little seat we found behind thewheel-hou.se, and sat with my back to the ship and my face towards England, and watched the long line of foam we left behind a.s we came through the water. I have thought of yon all the time ; sometimes I have hold out my arms to that long white line stretching and stretching between us, and felt as if I would die gladly for one more look at your dear face. 1 hope you are very happy, Teddy. lam always hoping that. "Ida not know what has come to my fingers, I cannot write. 1 stop to think of one evening, years ago now—it was very soon after wo were married —l met you in the hall, and you held mo fast and kissed me. It felt as if I could never get away, as if you loved me. If 1 had only died then — my darling, my love, my husband, mine! Don't think that 1 have not loved yon much or passionately because I have kept my heart hidden and my lips Still. No woman has loved you nor ever will love you as I have, not if you live to be a thousand. Good-bye. Be happy, vqi-y, very happy. Your happiness is the thing I long for most in the world. Always remember that.

" Mu.diu;u."

Teddy moved from the little house at Kensington before his second marriage, and took a better one nearer town. It war, prettier and cosier as well as grander than the one over

which poor Mildred had presided— more like a home to which a man hurries back from his work and is proud to ask his friends. He could not bear to spend an evening away from it; he had almost forgotten the short cuts to the club, he. went there so seldom ; and sometimes, when he was obliged to work in the evening, brought his papers home, and did it in the pretty drawing-room, while his wife sat near him. Many a time when he was absorbed in some legal problem, or framing some eloquent ex planation of a difficult point, it helped him to look up and for a moment to see her face. It was like a'gleaih of sudden sunshine in a lawyer's office. He told her so once, and she laughed—that little merry laugh that seems to live in a happy life, like a bird iv a wood— and said she should never have dreamt of calling him a lawyer's oflice. People said that she had been a widow, that Teddy had fallen head and ears in love, with her, and was a wonderful step father to her children. He and she, laughed at the little deception some-~ times. They laughed that night when George's letter came, saying that he was on his way home at last, and should be with them before the mouth was out. ' I wonder if he will be curious about Mr Grey ?.' Teddy said. ' I shall say you ill-used him, Mary; do you hear ?' She was writing notes at a little table beside the fireplace. Her husband sat pretending to turn over a pile of new books, but in reality looking at her, and at all the prettiness gathered round her. She had altered little since herinterview with Mildred, nearly two years ago. The idealism of youth still looked out of her eyes, and there was more of the strength and passion of womanhood, in the lines of her mouth and the tones of her voice. But she was girl-like still, though the white throat was a shade fuller, the sweet face a little graver, perhaps more thoughtful. She was even prettier — she might often have been called beautiful. Teddj thought so as he looked at hei —his sweetheart, his dear one, his wife of whom he was so proud. She had a knack of making hei surroundings picturesque, too, and yet most thoroughly comfortable. He had never realised the happy re-stfulness oi home till her hands had made one for him. She had raised in his eyes the whole value of woman. ' Dear Mr Grey,' she said, holding out her hand to him. 'I wonder what he was like.' He stooped and kissed her fingers. . 'A disagreeable sort of fellow, no

doubt' ' That is ungenerous,' she laughed. 'I wonder if he was fond of his wife V 'Perhaps so, poor fellow.' •And why poor V 'No doubt she killed him.'

'Yourmanners are positively shock ing !' she said gaily; ' but I forgive you. I am so happy that I can afford to be generous,' she added, with a toudi of gravity. ♦Happier than—than before?' he asked.

She clasped her hands together, and answered, with a long sigh of con tent : 'Oh, a thousand times. I can breathe more freely and look round and not feel ashamed.'

' Ah, I thought Mr Grey was not so very delightful,' he said, trying to laugh away her seriousness. She

understood him, she always did, almost instinctively—and tried to fall in with his humour.

'I was very fond of him,' she laughed. 'He was quite as nice as you are, Mr Vanity. Let us draw his portrait.' She took up a pencil and made a grotesque'likeness of Teddy, at which he, leaning over her shoulder,

laughed, then he looked down at her iiead and smoothed her hair.

'My pretty wife,' he said. 'Then you can breathe freely now ?' ' Yes, but not altogether^—it troubles

now to think of it,'

'Ah, you women put an enormous value on respectability,'he answered. He liked to provoke her a little; he thought his words would do it* and he was right. Sho got up quickly and looked at him. 'It isn't that,' she flashed, 'you know it isn't,' she cried, passionately ; 'but there are the children. Some times when I think of it I feel ashamed to look them In the face — not for what I did, but for what it may yet cause them to suffer.' He hardly listened. She was so j pretty when she was roused, when her cheeks were flashed and her eyes sparkling. She knew how ito make herself look pretty, too, I and did it always for Teddy. He looked at her bright hair, at her trail ing dress, at the lace ruffles at her elbows, leaving the white arms bare. There were some Mowers in her bosom —he had brought them home that day —round her throat there was a twist of soft lace fastened with a diamond arrow. He thought of the day when lie had bought it and sold it to her for a kiss, while she had declared it was far too deal*. ' My prettiest,' he exclajmed, ' how I love you ! Don't think of the chil dren—they can never suffer or know. Don't be foolish, my sweet,' and he caught her in his arms and kissed hor. ' If I could only know that you would never hate me for it—Mary, I am a fool about you. I love you so, my darling.' ' Hate you !' she cried, ' how could I 1 And yet I wish it had been right,1 she whispered. «I usedn't to care, but I do now. I would give anything if we had waited. We' called what we did fine names, and I felt them all to be true then ; but now I seem to see more clearly how wrong it was. I wish we had waited. I remember reading somewhere once, 'All sin is dogged; and though that which fol lows may lag, it never loses the track.' Sometimes I feel as if that which fol lows wore overtaking us. Just when I am happiest its shadow is in my h^art.' 'Thank God she never knew, my darling.' Ho sat down on her chair by the writing-table as he spoke, and she kneeling beside him clasped her hands upon his shoulder. ' No, she never knew,' she said, with a sigh of thankfulness ; ' but— did it ever strike you what a thin curtain sometimes divides us from the most terrible suffering ? If .she had known—oh, Teddy, what would she have done V 'It would have broken her heart, I think,' lie said, sadly. Then trying to shake off tho subject, he played with the arrow at her throat. 'Sweet, would it break your heart if I were false to you ?" he asked. The ques tion was half a joke ; for he knew how fast her chains bound him. She looked up._ There was none of Mildred's patience in her. She was a woman to win love easily, but not easily to let it go

' Yes, it would break my heart, too,' she answered. 'But first I would kill

you."

' Kill me ! Why not kill her ?' 'The woman for whose sake you were false ? No, I would kill you. Sl^e would suffer more in living.' •Mary, I am half afraid of you,' he said.

With one of herquickchangesof mood she laughed, a happy, triumphant little laugh. She unclasped herhandsfrom his shoulder. ' Are you V she said. ' Then you are free. Go and love elsewhere, if you will.' 'You know I can't,' he said fer vently. 'Nor I,' she whispered. 'I never did or could, right or wrong. But oh, how glad I am that it is right at last,' she added, with a sigh. 'So am I, my own—more thankful than I can say.' ' Teddy,' she whispered, * I never dared say it before; but I wish that she had died naturally—that she had not been drowned.' He nodded his head. Many and many a time had the same thought come over him too. ' It is so strange, but in the twilight I can often see her face looking up from a grey sea to a grey sky, a dead whito face.'

' Nonsense!' he shuddered

' I am thankful thatl never saw her,' she went on, with a little shiver— ' that I never even saw a portrait of her. I could not bear to shape her face, her real face, in my thoughts.' ' You shall never see a portrait of her, my darling/ he said. 'But let us shake this off; we are only making ourselves miserable.'

•I know,' she answered. 'Let .is shake it off. If she had only lot been drowned—it is what might lave happened, had she known!

She would not have killed you, as I should!'

' No, she would not have killed me. Yes, it is perhaps what she might done, had she known.'

'Oh, Teddy! it would have killed me too. I should have shrank away from you for ever afterwards.' And

even as she spoke she shuddered and

draw back from him. ' I would never

aye let you kiss me again—never 1 should have died too.1

\ But she never did know, darlings Let us stop all this painful talk. Are

we not happy together, in spite of all we did? And were we not happy even then V

1 Yes, oh yes!' she said; and putting her arms round his neck again she rested her face against his, and wafl silent for a minute. Then she spoke calmljl-. 'Teddy, dear,' she said, 'I

want to tell you something. . It is the only secret I ever had from j rou. It

cost mo so much at the time, but I

promised not to tell, and a sort

of superstition has kept me silent.

Besides, I wanted to save you pain. I

do not; think there has been a day since

—hardly an hour -in which I have not

thought of it. Wait a minute.' She

went back to the writing-table, and kneeling before it, took up her pencil, and began to draw some one from memory—some one in a bonnet, with a veil tied under her chin.. Suddenly he, watching, started with an exclama tion.

• Great Heaven !' ho cried, *it is Mildred !' She got up and stood fac ing him, holding out her hands as one blinded, while her lips grew white and trembled.

' Then she knew !' she cried, and stretched out her arms, but they did not reach him. ' She knew ! oh, God she knew 1' she cried, shrinking as though she dreaded lest he should touch her. Slowly, with scared faces, they looked at each other, it seemed as if across a great space—as if between them flowed the sea.

He shut the door and locked it, feeling that if anyone came near him he should go mad. With a shiver he looked round the chilly empty room, and towards the shady corners. Then going to the writing-table, with a hand he vainly tried to make steady he unlocked a drawer, and taking out her letter read it once again. There was a line under the word ' mine,' a thick line, blurred, as though a tear had fallen on it. He had wondered when it came—at its passionate tone, at its sadness, at the living something in it that had haunted him many a time since. He remembered the night it had all happened ; how he in England had sat through the twilight before the fire talking to Mary. He closed his eyes and gioaned as he thought of it: he could see her sitting at the ship's end on the little seat they had looked at together. He remembered that her maid had described how she had not gone down to dinner that night after the ship had left Gibraltar, she had wished to be left alone. He could see her watching the track of the white foam, while the shadows gathered round her, and through the open hatchments came the clink of glasses, the sound of voices, as the passengers dined and laughed in the salocn below. He could feel the cool breeze that swept over her face, could see her hold out her hands to him once more, could feel all the agony in her heart, the bitter, bitter loneliness, and then—ah, God! and the ship went on, and the white line stretched and stretched. And he had, sat the while with his arms round another woman.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, 30, 1,887.

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