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Oe DP DP Ds Ds OE 900 ERED 0 tee 0 0 cage OE 0 EO BH BY JEAN AP AEG Rn 4 =e 06 0 ag EE 6 ee | CHAPTER I. A “Commencement.” It was commencement day at Madam ! s fashionable academy. Her spaciou lon was filled with the elite | of the city. Doting mammas were; there, fluttering their matronly feath- ers with pride and pleasure; solid | papas, whose beaming countenances | iadowed with no premonitory | were suggestions of the madam’s semi-an-| nual bills; sympathetic aunts, benevo- lent uncles and masculine cousins in- numerable. For the 1 patronized m’s establishment was : sively by the creme de | madam’s young ladies ! were remarkable everywhere for their stylish manne. and elegant deport- me the midam’s diploma, embossed | in and mounted on sandal-wood, | 18 she proudly boasted, a pass- , to the best society everywhere. | There were fifty figures, faultless arrayed in imported “commencement dresses, seated on the carpeted stage, | that had been temporarily erected for the proper display of these human ex- otics. With their elegant coiffures all in; shionable style, their elab- | cut in the same pattern, | their elaborate music, elaborate essays and elaborate manners, the effect! might have been satisfactory, but was} slightly monotonous. S least, thought Herbert Clive, | as, ensconced in a remote corner of the j room, he submitted, with polite resig- | nation, to a three-hours’ “classical en- tertainment.” “If they don’t all look like the rows ! of pa r dois Fan used to cut when | she 2s a little girl, there might be | some fun in picking out the pretty ones; but—” Mr. Cliv ism was brought to an abrupt termination, for at that mo- ment a young girl stepped out from the ranks which seemed a direct con- tradiction of h i Her simple w S of all orname the hair, of a pale, golden hue as neither puffed nor coiled, but rippled back from a low, ! broad brow, and fell in wavy clouds to ter slender waist; her face, a pure Grecian contour, w of a transparent whiteness, that it seemed no pain, nor pride, nor pleasure could tinge with life. With careless but unconscious grace, | she took her seat at the harp, that! stood alone on a crimson dais, and at ! the first touch of her delicate hand upon the strings, every whisper in the | room w hushed; all eyes were | turned toward the fairy-like creature, who could sweep the golden chords in- to such magic harmony—who could wake the soul that sleeps within the poet's soul. A wild, sweet prelude, very grateful to ears w ‘y of crashing .overtures and shrill choruses, floated through | the room for a moment, and died into a low accompaniment, and then the musi n’s voice arose in a song whose weird melody haunted Herbert Clive until his dying day. “T’ll bind thee with a charm, my love, I'll seal thee with a spell, That thou shalt love me more than; all— Shalt love me more than well For all my dower is magic power— A power I dare not tell!” The pathos of the last two lines seemed to Herbert Clive indescribable. ; They were like the moan of some be- ing cursed with unearthly powers that ted it from hum kind; they! at once a ery of triumph and a was devoid } “For all my dower is magic power— A power I dare not tell!” into silence. A mur- , admiration, and per- an through the audi- ger was not encored. sited by her song were not of the or¢ agreeable to fashion- able society. There was a heartbreak in the tones, of which society scarcely approved. “Who is she?” puffed a stately dow- ager, near Herbert, as the young mu- sician arose from the harp, and re- turned to her place among her compan- fons. “I don’t know,” was her friend’s re- ply. “A pretty little creature, but with- out any style. Ah, let me see,” and, with a second thought, the lady glanced at her perfumed programme. “ Ballad —original— by Miss Sybil Wraye.’ That must be her name, then —Sybil W “Sybil Wraye!” That name brought back some f-forgotton associations to Herbert Clive. Fan bad written something home about the girl. What was it? His sis- ter’s school-girl letters had in general very little interest for him. He had glanced over them carelessly, smiling, perhaps, at some outburst of girlish enthusiasm, and then (ungallant fel- fow) twisted them into lights for his cigars. What was it Fan had written about this Sybil Wraye? It was a strange name, yet it seemed appropriate to her. And all through the remaining exer- cises Herbert Clive’s eyes were drawn, as if by fascination, to that alabaster profile, that, shaded by its veil of gold- en hair, seemed to stand forth like some exquisite carving from the groups of pretty, aristocratic but meaningless faces around it. Sybil Wraye, who was she? . She seemed to have neither, father, mother nor friend among this gay au- dience, when the graduates stood up to receive their diplomas. She alone was without a floral offering from lov- ‘ng hands. Happier girls smiled their thanks for costly baskets and rare bou- quets. The song died mur chance of relief, ence; but the s' The emotions e: Or, UNDER A SPELL. HER HEART'S SECRET, ee 6 cer ee 0 cm 8 ee 0 ce 00 ce 0 0 ee ‘lonely she was! {heap at his side. ‘ Sybil, Sybil! I did not think you could WARNER. Pale, and proud, and silent, she took the hard-earned tribute of her success with a quiet bow, and turned away without blossom or bud to sweeten this hour of girlish triumph with promises sweeter still. Who was this Sybil Wraye? Herfert glanced at the bouquet he held in his | hands. He had purchased it for his | sister, but Fannie was laden down | with flowers now. So, without waiting for a sober sec- | ond thought, the young man scribbled on a card the name that had so awak- ened his interest, and dispatched the bouquet, by a polite usher, to Miss Sybil Wraye. He saw the swift look of surprise that passed over the girl’s pale count- | enance as the flowers were handed to her; he noted the faint smiie dawn upon her lips, and then change into a} quiver of pain; he caught one glance at the wondrous gray eyes hidden be- neath those silken lashes, and a strange, pitiful tenderness stole into his heart. Poor child — friendless, sorrowful child! How young, how lovely, how | What charm was it) that seemed to set her apart from all the others? What fascination drew his gaze to her fair, delicate face? He had seen thousands of women far more beautiful, thousands more at- | tractive; yet this pale, slender girl had | go home with you; | a rapture of delight. awakened emotions in his heart he had never felt before. “Good gracious, brother!’ and Fan- nie’s merry voice ‘aroused him from his | dream, “are you napping in this dark corner? I where for you. Do carry some of | these flowers, and my fan, and my di- | ploma. Oh, dear, dear! I am so excit- | ed and nervous, and delighted, that 1| scarcely know what I am about. To | think that my stupid school days are over at last. There! good gracious, | some horrid man has nearly torn my | dress off. Bertie, did papa send me | the bracelet he promised me, and do you think the dear old darling will give me a summer at the springs?” “Take a long breath, Fan—do,” laughed her brother. “I can’t answer forty questions at a time. Why, ten minutes ago you were a very model of elegant composure. I was gazing at you in silent and wondering admira- tion.’ “Don’t be aggravating, brother, please,” pouted the pretty graduate. “You were not looking at me at all, or I need not have searched the room over half a dozen times to find you. There were plenty more gallant cava- liers ready to escort me, but I had an especial reason for finding you; and, dear me! that reminds me—where is she?’ cried Fan, looking around her with sudden self-reproach. “I declare, I have been in such a flutter that I lost sight of the darling girl entirely. It’s just like her to go off in some dark cor- ner by herself; she is so sensitive. Take care of all these things, brother,” and the heedless girl dropped books, diploma, fan and flowers in a careless “J must go find Sybil.” And, without waiting for another word, Fannie Clive, whose charming impulsiveness had been a very thorn in Madam Fleury’s flesh, darted off through the gay crowd to search for her forgotten friend. The audience was dispersing now, and so many admiring friends stopped the pretty graduate with compliments and congratulations that it was some time before she could follow the: ob- ject of her search. Sybil’s harp was covered, and she was gone; the stage was vacant, and | the busy groups, laughing and chat- | ting in the spa us salon; there was | no sign of the golden-haired songstress, | whose bewitching melody had a few | moments ago held the gay audience | speil-bound. | A long, covered balcony led from the | drawing room to a miniature conserva: | tory; where the madam gave elegant | lessons in botany, and here it was that | Fannie at last found her friend. She was standing beneath the shad- ow of some dark-leaved Egyptian plant (whose classification had defied | all the researches of feminine science). and the fair, flower-like head was bent over a bouquet of snowy blossoms she held in her hand. “Sybil—dear Sybil!” cried Fanny, springing forward to her side, “what are you doing here, you naughty girl, all alone? Why did you run away from me? Herbert is here, and—” Something in the death-white face up- treed fa hers, made. the impulsive girl pause a moment, and ‘then ask, quickly: “Are you ill, darling? Are | you suffering? What is the matter, Sybil?” “Nothing,” was the slow reply— “nothing, I am very well, Fannie. You should not have sought one like me, dear, in the hour of glad triumph. Yet it is like you—like you, and only you.” “It was like me to rush off in my headlong way and leave you to mope here by yourself!” said Fannie, re- morsefully. “Come, darling; Herbert has the carriage waiting. I wrote them all that I was going to bring the sweetest, dearest girl in the world home with me. Let us go change our dresses, so that we can take the even- ing train, for I know that dear fellow is fuming himself into a fever at our delay, even now.” A quick change passed over Sybi"s face—a spasm, whether of pain, terror or fear, it was impossible to tell. “No, no! don’t ask me, Fannie, my dearest, kindest old friend—don’t take me with you to your home. It is bet- ter for you, for me, for us all. to part now—now. I cannot go with you. I— I must not!” “Must not! Cannot!” echoed Fannie, in blank dismay. “After promising me, for six months—after all my plans and projects are settled—after I had set my whole heart on this visit? Oh, ave been looking every- | a | mands. treat me so unkindly—I did not think! “What an old grimalkin she is!” was you could be so fickle, so false!” ‘The sudden blow was too much for warm-hearted Fan’s already excited nerves, and she dropped on the bench behind ‘her and gave way to a very tempest of childish tears. “Don’t dear—don’t!’ said a low, con- strained voice in her ear, and Sybil's icy hand was laid upon her brow. “Den’t cry this way, Fan, er—or you _will make me yield, despite myself.” “T’ll never forgive you Sybil Wraye!” sobbed the spoiled pet of fortune ve- hemently, “never, never, never! You promised me .nd you deceived me— you that I have loved better than any ene in the world—you promised me and you deceived me!” “No, no, no!’ the answer came, as if wrung in desperation from the white lips; “you shall never say that of me, Fannie, you, who have been my only friend. I will keep my promise—I will but, oh, Fannie, Fannie! it is not of my own free will. Remember that you forced me, by tears and reproaches that I could. not withstand.” “I knew you would, you delightful girl!” exclaimed Fannie, kissing her in “There is Her- bert now, looking for us. Brother,” ining her arm about her friend’s Fan smiled pt the tall gentle- man whom Madam Fleury had just le& to the conservatory door, ‘this is the dearest and best of friends, who is coming to spend the summer with us. Mr. Clive—Miss Sybil Wraye.” CHAPTER I, A Double Warning. Madame Fleury had evidently some- thing upon her mind, disturbing its usual elegant composure. Her bright black eyes followed the two young girls as they left the room to make the necessary changes in their | toilet, and then, with a little prepara- tory cough, she motioned Mr. Clive to one of the seats under the orange trees. “There is something I intended to mention to your father, Mr. Clive, if he had honored us with his presence to-day. But—ahem!—that being Herbert’s mental comment, as the two young girls entered the room. And Sybil, in her dainty brown trav- eling dress, with her pale-golden hair caught up in a Grecian knot under a gracefal straw fat, seemed lovely and ladylike enough to have stepped from a throne. His generous heart swelled indignant- ly as he noticed the contrast in the madam’s farewells—how gushingly- gracious was her embrace of dear Ian- nie, how cold and constrained her good-bye to Miss Wraye; and he vowed inwardly that all he could do should be done to make this beautiful girl, for awhile, at least, forget the shadow that seemed to rest so unnaturally on her opening life. He would brighten her path with sunshine, though it only gleamed a day. It was not a very difficult task for Herbert Clive to b2 agreeable. Gifted with a natural charm of manner and graceful address, a warm heart and a lively fancy, he could net fail to please, even without making any particular exertion to do so. But the madam’s cold, and, it seemed to him, cruel, warning, had served as a spur to his ardent, generous nature. He felt as if he could not do enough to show this friendless, lonely girl she was a welcome and honored visitor to his home. It was a twelye-hours’, journey to Clive Towers, and as the sun set in purple glory behind the western hills, the travelers began the pleasantest portion of their trip—their sail up the broad river, on whose sloping banks was situated Herbert’s princely home. Fannie had scarcely set foot on the steamer ere she was met by a party of merry young friends; and after the first introductions and supper were over, a moonlight dance was impro- vised on the spacious decks, and the sounds of gay music and happy laughs ter woke the echoes of the solemn hills | beneath whose shadows the noble ves- im- | ple, I feel that I owe it to myself, | ahem!—the reputation my acade- | my has always held in the highest and | Mest setect circles o1 society, to men- tion to you, as your father’s fitting rep- resentative.” Herbert bowed. The madam’s pre- face was somewhat appalling. Had Fan been found guilty in problems of | propriety? Had she lost her heart or her diamonds? or run up too large a bill in ribbons and sugar-plums? ‘Fhe young man’s ideas of feminine difficult- ies were rather vague. “Your sister,” continued the madam, gradually recovering her usual suavity of manner, “is, as I need not informa you, Mr. Clive, one of the loveliest, frankest and most impulsive of girls. Buth the very candor and simplicity which we all find so bewitching in the young, makes it incumbent upon friends and guardians, whose judg- ment has been ripened by knowledge of the world—renders it incumbent on them, I repeat, to be doubly vigilant and prudent in all that concerns— ahem!—the welfare of those committed to our charge. Do you follow me?” Herbert, with rather a perplexed expression of countenance, implied that he did. “This being the case,” continued the preceptress, with a gracious smile, “and knowing, well, as I do, the high position which your sister will right- fully assume in society, I have ob- served with no little anxiety the choice she has made of friends; and I assure you, Mr .Clive, that the intimacy she has formed with Miss Wraye has been entirely without my approbation. I have remonstrated with Miss Clive more than once. I have pointed out to her young ladies of her own standing in society, with whom she could prop- erly and naturally form ties of friend- ship; I seriously objected to this visit to your home; but your sister has been deaf alike to my advice and remon- strances. I found that I was entirely powerless to control the singular in- fatuation for this, chosen friend.” Herbert’s brow had darkened strange- ly during this lengthy address. “May I ask,” he inquired, briefly, “on | what you ground your objections to this young lady’s intimacy with my sis- ter? Do you know of anything preju- dicial to her as a companion to those | of her own sex and age?” “She would not be among my pupils, sir, if I did,” was the lofty reply. “No; my objections are grounded on my knowledge of society, and what it de- Miss Wraye has no position, no friends, no influence to elevate her to an equality with your sister. She was placed here by a lawyer, who acts as her guardian, pays her bills prompt- ly, and denies her nothing that a young lady in good society requires; but be- yond this I know nothing of her.” She 's been here now for more than a year, during which time she has re- ceived no letters, seen no friends, and maintained the singular, ungirlish re- serve of manner, which I consider both unnatural and ungracious in one so young, though, in justice to her, I must add that her remarkable talents and ladylike deportment have been beyond question of criticism.’ Mr. Clive’s brow brightened, and he drew a breath of relief. It would have been rather hard for him to have heard anything against Fan’s cherished friend. That cameo-like countenance was surely above all shadow of re- proach. “J understand the responsibility of your position, madam,” he answered, politely; “but I am too much of a democrat to give your objections the weight they may, perhaps, deserve. Miss Wraye seems to be a very charm- ing young lady, and annie is undoubt- edly attached to her. It would be'a pity, I think, to let a cold, worldly wis- dom sever a tie that seems to me the natural and spontaneous outspringing of heart to heart. There is something so very charming in a first friendship —it has all the freshness and fragrance of spring.” Herbert would have launched inte the metaphorical, had not the cold, ir- responsive light of the madam’s black eyes suddenly brought him back to a matter of fact. “As you please, Mr. Clive.” she an- swered, with her set, society smile. “I have only done my duty in explain- ing to you the position the young lady holds in my academy; and, haying done so, I shall consider myself re- lieved of all further responsibility.’ sel passed. Herbert did his devoir manfully, though somewhat wearily, to seveval blooming partners, ere he contrived to slip away from the mirtiful scene. He missed one fairy-hke form from the light-hearted group—one sweet, low voice from the silvery chorus—and al- ready he felt a void and silence be- eause Sybil was not there. He found her all alone, standing at the stern of the steamer, looking into the waters that were here tossed into turbulent waves and showers of pearly spray by the mighty wheels. As he reached her side, Herbert no- ticed her start nervously and throw something which she held in her hand into the seething waters; and, with a feeling akin to pain, he recognized the flowers he had given her that evening floating for a moment, worthless waits, upon the moonlit waves. He had fancied she valued them a lit- tle—a very little. She had held them in her hand all the evening, had touched them tenderly, and once or twice in- haled their perfume, as though it brought some sweet, sad memory. And now she had flung them away like withered weeds. “Why have you stolen off from us all, Miss Sybil?’ he asked, with as- sumed lightness. “I did not know young ladies were so fond of indulging in maiden meditation fancy free.” “T am used to being alone,” she an- swered, simply, “and these tossing wa- ters have a charm for me. I like to hear their passionate murmur as the st@imer passes through their heart. By-and-by they will be all still again— all still. We can only see the life and the spirit here.” “You would like the ocean better,” he answered. “There you see, you feel, the life everywhere. There the swelling, seething, restless waves are never still, and the proudest vessels are their sports and playthings, just as our frail human skiffs are tossed about on the sea of life.” “Is there not always a Fate at the helm?” she asked, dreamily—‘a stern, impassive Fate, that steers our little barques where and when she will? I have found it so already.” “T prefer to think I hol@ my own helm,” answered Herbert, cheerfully, “and, so far, have found it very fair sailing. And the Fate to whom I re- sign my post must come in a very charming guise, Miss Sybil. I have never seen her except in dreams un- til’— he paused, and then added, reck- lessly, “until to-day. Why did you throw away my flowers?” he contin- ued, eagerly. “Did you not know I breathed a spell upon them?” “I have no right to accept gifts from you,” she answered, coldly. “We are strangers, Mr. Clive.” “Not so,’ he answered. “Fannie’s friendship is a link between us. You must call Fannie’s brother friend, Miss Sybil.” “J haye no friends,” she answered, with a stifled sigh. ‘I can make none. Forgive me, Mr. Clive, if—if I seem cold and ungracious; but if I am here as your sister's guest, it fs against my own will, against my own judgment, against my own sense of justice and right. I am here in a false position that I scorn to hold under a false—” She paused suddenly, as if some pas- sionate impulse had made her say too much. But, with Madam Fleury’s cold, worldly warning still echoing in his ears, Herbert thought he understood the girl’s proud, indignant protest. She would not be patronized, pitied, protected, even as his sister’s guest. She would hold herself aloof from his world and from him. It would need sunshine, indeed to thaw this icy wall of maidenly reserve; and, with a man’s pertinacity, Herbert vowed he would do it. “You have thrown away my flowers and cast aside my friendship,” he said, in a tone of half-playful reproach; “and yet I don’t despair, Miss Sybil. Some intuition fells me we will be warm friends yet. I feel already the magic power of which you sung this evening drawing me to your side.” ~ She lifted her face to his for one in- stant, and he was startled at its look of white dismay. There was no girl ish affection in her strange answer: “Heaven forbid! If I believed that any dark Fate was drawing our paths together, I would east myself this mo- ment into the waters swelling beneath our feet, and end all!” (fo be Continued.) Save the pennies. Doesn’t the per- fume maker prove that “every scent counts?” ‘ ‘ PECULIARTIES OF GENIUS. + Stories of Mme. Sembrich, Sige Ta- magno and Sig, Foll. | One prima donna at least has been known to take her own cook to prepare dinner for her when she was invited out to dine. Mme. Sembrich is not so exacting in her requirements. In one respect she is unyielding—everything She drinks must be warm, even cham- pagne. The other night at a large dinner party she surprised her hostess by asking for a pitcher of hot water. When it was brought to her she pro- ceeded to dilute the champagne in her glass, “to keep,” as she expressed it, “from taking cold.” Her husband, possibly fearing that with such a sen- sitive organization Mme. Sembrich might take cold if he failed to pour hot water in his champagne, followed the same hygienic course. But Tamag- no was the trying one, when it came to dinner parties. Upon one:occasion, the last, indeed, of the kind, he was invited to dine in the sacred and inner- most circles. Some of his fellow sing- ers, including the De Reszkes and Mme. Melba, were also invited. The first thing he did was to open his opera hat and put it on the floor beside his chair, The soup, fish and the earlier courses passed without surprise. But after awhile hothouse grapes, bon- bons and other edibles found their way into his hat. With each relay he would say briefly, “For my daughter.” Finally, when the company arose from the table, his colleagues completely overcome with chagrin, he took the bouquet of the lady who sat next to him, calmly saying, “For my daugh- ter,” and placed that on top of the collection, put his hat under his arm and marched out. Signor Foli some years since took part in a concert at St. Helen’s; where he sung “The Raft.” He had just finished his first verse when an infant in arms made the hall resound with its cries. Foli commenced the second verse, the first line of which runs “Hark What is that which greets the mother’s ear?” He could get no farther than the end of the line by reason of a fit of uncontrolla- ble laughter. He left the stage, but soon returned, smiling, and sung in his inimitable style, “Out on _ the Deep.”—Denver Times. REBUKE TO A BRIDE During the Honeymoon That Lasted Through Her Life, “Never shall I forget,” said a bride, “the first word of criticism I received from my husband. Everything was moving along beautifully. There. had- n’t been a single cloud over our honey- moon. Then one morning I found Hal standing before my dressing table looking down disgustedly at the comb lying there. ‘What was the matter?’ Here two cheeks blushed like scarlet geraniums. Well, I had it full of combings, a habit, I frankly admit, I had always been guilty of. This time it got me into a jickle. Hal held that comb out at arm’s length, the untidy mat of hair clinging to it, and I will say he tried to make ‘his voice nice and lamb-like, but I saw by the line of his lips and the flash of his eye that he was thoroughly put out. ‘Elizabeth,’ he said, ‘is this your comb?’ just as if he don’t know it was the very comb he had given my last birthday. I meekly answered ‘yes.’ ‘Then,’ he said, ‘I would try to keep it like a lady’s comb.’ With that he turned on his heel and stalked out of the room, leaving me sniffly and terribly abused. But it was a wholesome lesson. I never forgot it, and my comb rested in spick and span cleanliness on my dresser ever afterwards. Not that comb. I packed it out of sight, hand- some as it was, that very morning, and couldn’t bear to use it again. But I’ve never been caught napping with its substitute. Not a single hair is al- lowed to remain in it over time.” This bride’s husband had the courage to correct her for her fault. How many men, though, naturally neat them- selves, have to endure the petty trials of a wife who is careless in just such toilet trifles?—Philadelphia Inquirer. A Scientific Bequest. An important bequest has been made to the University of France by M. Raphael Bischoffsheim, the banker of Dutch origin who became a naturalized Frenchman nineteen years ago and now sits in parliament for a division of the Alpes Maritimes. He has made over the freehold of the Nice observa- tory, founded by himself, with its branches, instruments, library and lands, to the university, together with a sum of £100,000, to be devoted to the maintenance of the establishment on Mont Gros, so well known to English visitors who patronize Nice or its neighbors in winter. The total value of the Bischoffsheim bequest is esti- mated at 5,000,000 francs, or £200,000. 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