“He laughed a laugh of merry scorn;
He turned and kissed her where she stood;
‘If you are not the heiress born,
And I,’ said he, ‘the next in blood--
“‘If you are not the heiress born,
And I,’ said he, ‘the lawful heir,
We two will wed to-morrow morn,
And you shall still be Lady Clare!’”
When Arthur Varian Dawn left his father’s room so hastily that day, it
was with the firm determination to see his parents married again before
the set of sun, if it could possibly be accomplished without injury to
his father’s poor hold on life.
He had a brief talk with Doctor Deane, who agreed with him that the
consummation of so joyful an event ought to do good to the patient,
giving him new hold on life, if such a thing were possible in his
precarious state.
“I do not wish to deceive you,” he said, with professional frankness.
“The case is serious. I am not frightened at the scalp-wound, because
it is doing nicely, and the compound fracture of the leg, below the
knee, might get well in six weeks if the patient will lie in bed all
that time; but there are symptoms of internal injuries that make me
uneasy. If I am mistaken about that, he may pull through.”
“God grant it!” cried Arthur, fervently.
“And as you say,” continued the doctor, “whether he lives or dies, it
will be a comfort to him to marry his divorced wife over again, so I
will go with you to get the license and the preacher.”
So, together with Frederick Foster, they went to arrange the
necessary details, and in their absence there occurred that scene by
the death-bed of Rachel Dane that was to make such a change in the
destinies of Arthur and Cinthia, the sorely tried lovers.
When they returned, several hours later, with the minister, Mrs. Flint
was informed of what was about to occur, and begged her new-found
nephew to let her have the services of the man of God first for a dying
sinner.
“Poor Rachel Dane is going fast, and she is afraid to die, poor soul!
We must try to hold a light for her feet, as she goes groping down into
the dark valley,” she said, pitifully.
“Has her life been so wicked?” he asked, wonderingly; and the old lady
answered:
“She has lived without God, and her sins are many. She made a most
interesting confession awhile ago, and I would like for you to go and
hear it, dear nephew, from Madame Ray, while the minister is engaged
with Rachel.”
Mrs. Flint spoke with such a glad and cheerful smile, that he was quite
puzzled.
He was sorry for the dying woman, but not much interested in her sins
and confessions. His thoughts were hovering around Cinthia.
She had been carried unconscious from Mr. Dawn’s room, and only revived
to go into such hysterical spasms that they almost feared for her life.
It was thought best to quiet her by strong opiates, and she had been
sleeping heavily now for hours.
Poor Cinthia! They had thought the truth would not shock her now,
because she was betrothed to another; but they had been terribly
mistaken. The hopeless love that had tortured her heart with secret
pain threatened to end in death or madness, now that they had told her
that Arthur was her brother.
With an aching heart, the young man turned his steps to her door to ask
Madame Ray how the hapless girl fared.
Meanwhile, the lady had hurried from Rachel’s death-bed back to
Cinthia’s room.
Kneeling down, she pressed joyful kisses on the sleeping face, so pale
and woeful even in slumber, so that it was easy to guess at last the
guarded secret of that young heart--the love that had never strayed
from its object through long and hopeless years.
Softly, tenderly the happy mother drew aside the soft folds of lace
and lines, and laid bare the beautiful white bosom of her daughter,
searching until she found, just above the heart a remembered
birthmark--a tiny crimson cross.
“The birthmark of the Rays! Oh, how well I remember this! Oh, my
darling, my own, you are indeed my lost treasure! No wonder that I have
always loved you so! It was the mother-heart that claimed you!” she
cried, gladly, longing for Cinthia to awake and learn the happy truth
that she was her own daughter, and not at all related to Arthur, whom
she might marry when she would, only for the rash promise given to Fred
Foster in a moment of reckless pride.
“Poor fellow! This will be sad news for him; but I believe that he will
be generous to dear Cinthia,” she concluded; and sat down to watch the
sleeper with the glad eyes of love.
It was awhile later that she heard a timid rap at the door, and
found Arthur waiting outside, with a grave, sad face, though he said
cheerfully:
“I have come to invite you and Cinthia to a wedding.”
“A wedding?”
In a few words he told her of the reconciliation between his father and
mother, and the impending marriage.
She congratulated him warmly, and said, meaningly:
“I will be glad to be present at the ceremony, but my daughter is
asleep.”
Arthur started wildly, and echoed:
“Your daughter!”
“Yes, Arthur;” and she drew him gently into the room. “Come and look at
her, how pale and ill she lies, almost stricken to death by the thought
that she was your sister. Oh, I have such happy news for you both,
Arthur!”
“She is stirring, she is waking!” he exclaimed, eagerly; and indeed at
that moment the girl opened wide her large dark eyes, with a dazed look.
Madame Ray, all joyful excitement, covered her daughter’s face with
kisses, exclaiming:
“Oh, Cinthia, oh, Arthur, such joyful news! I have found out that you
are my lost daughter, my darling! You know, Arthur, you always declared
we resembled each other. Well, the nurse stole her from me to sell her
to your father’s second wife; for she deceived her husband, the wicked
woman; she never had a child of her own. That dying woman in yonder,
Rachel Dane, has confessed everything. You and Cinthia are not brother
and sister at all, but lovers as in past days. Kiss her, Arthur, if you
wish, and be happy again.”
He bent down to obey, but drew back again, with a cry of grief:
“I can not! She is promised to my cousin.”
“He will give her back her freedom when he learns the truth, for he has
a noble nature,” cried Madame Ray; and the event proved that she was
right.
Fred Foster’s heart was very sad already, for Cinthia’s grief had shown
him, but awhile ago, that he could never hope to win her heart; so,
when he heard the wonderful news, and saw the new joy on Cinthia’s
lovely face, he said, generously:
“Cinthia, I have long known of your past love affair with Arthur, and
since things have fallen out so happily for you, I will restore you the
troth-plight so lately given, and trust to time to heal my heart-wound.
To-morrow is Christmas you know, and I shall present you as a precious
gift to Arthur.”
Oh, how thankful they were for his generosity, and how glad that
another love cured his heart in a year, though they were touched when
they saw that she resembled Cinthia in her type--dark eyes and golden
hair. It showed them plainly how deep had been his love.
Cinthia was well again almost in a minute, in her new joy, and anxious
to witness the second marriage ceremony between Arthur’s parents; so
presently the same group of the morning gathered in the room, and the
grave minister who had just closed the eyes of Rachel Dane, after
teaching her soul to find rest in God, joined the hands of Everard Dawn
and his Paulina for the journey of life, while he solemnly invoked
God’s blessing on them all.
Everard Dawn could not die now. Life had grown too sweet again. Events
proved that the physician’s fear of internal injuries was unfounded. He
began to convalesce slowly but surely under his wife’s love and care,
looking forward to happy years together in the golden future.
Rachel Dane was buried at Charlottesville, and as she had no known
relatives anywhere, Mrs. Flint was the chief mourner at the funeral,
and she took care to have a neat stone raised above the grave.
In a few days the party at the hotel separated, Everard Dawn’s wife and
son remaining with him to aid in the tedious convalescence, and Madame
Ray returning to Florida with her daughter, taking the ailing Mrs.
Flint as their guest.
“I am real down sorry to lose you as a niece, Cinthy,” sighed the old
lady, who was greatly softened now by the hurrying events.
“Do not grieve over that, dear aunt, for I will restore the kinship
in the spring, and in the meantime you have gained me as a nephew!”
laughed Arthur, who was handsome as a picture in his new happiness.
“That is true; and I am real down proud of my new nephew, and his
mother, too!” cried the old lady.
Arthur’s mother had taken the first opportunity to make her peace with
Cinthia.
“Dearest, I was cruel to you once, but I am a changed woman now, and I
love you dearly since I know that you never belonged to that woman I
hated so. Can you forgive me--if not for my own sake, because you will
be Arthur’s wife!”
Cinthia, understanding everything now, gladly accorded forgiveness and
sympathy that soon ripened into love.
In the spring, when Mr. Dawn was well and strong again, his son was
married to Cinthia at her mother’s home--Lodge Delight. It was a grand
wedding, and Cinthia the fairest bride ever seen. They remained with
Madame Ray until Love’s Retreat was rebuilt, then made their home with
his parents, while Mrs. Flint remained ever afterward with Cinthia’s
mother, who would not permit her return to Virginia.
“We are two lonely old widows. Let us be company for each other,” she
said, with pensive cheerfulness.
One thing that transpired touched Cinthia very much, and showed her the
tenderness of Arthur’s love.
Madame Ray said to Mr. Dawn, while he still lay on his bed of
suffering:
“That fortune Cinthia has been enjoying as your daughter, Mr. Dawn,
must be restored to you now, as she never had any legal right to it.”
Mr. Dawn looked embarrassed for a moment, then frankly explained:
“On the day that Arthur found out that Cinthia was supposedly his
sister, he insisted on making over to her use enough of his private
fortune to insure her the luxuries of life in lieu of happiness.”
“And it will now form part of her marriage settlement,” added Arthur.
Tears sprung to Cinthia’s eyes as she murmured:
“Oh, how noble and generous you have been all these years while I
thought you so weak and cowardly, and tried in vain to hate you! But
all the while----”
Arthur drew her to his heart, and finished the sentence for her, very
low and tenderly:
--“All the while--I loved you better than you knew.”
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Punctuation has been made consistent.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in
the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have
been corrected.
The following changes were made:
p. 31: his changed to her (over her niece’s)
p. 48: illegible word assumed to be called (she called, hoarsely:)
p. 53: illegible word assumed to be Arthur (dear Arthur, I)
p. 62: illegible word assumed to be the (find the nearest)
p. 87: illegible word assumed to be jilts (me--jilts me)
p. 91: Miss Cinthia changed to Mrs. Flint (Then Mrs. Flint and)
p. 100: illegible word assumed to be love (rock of love.)
p. 136: illegible word assumed to be on (live on till)
p. 150: illegible word assumed to be cried (hour!” cried Cinthia,)
p. 180: your changed to her (for her father)
p. 185: illegible word assumed to be rested (they rested again)