In the plenitude of her cousinly compassion for the lonely husband,
Mrs. Baxter coaxed her spouse into escorting her to Mr. Fordham's,
on Thursday evening. The wind had settled into an easterly gale,
after yesterday's genial warmth; the day had been unpleasant, and
the clouds were still dripping at irregular intervals, as if wrung
by impatient hands.
"But it is an act of common humanity to visit the poor fellow in his
solitude, my dear, while his desolation is fresh upon him!" she
sighed, sympathetically.
"Mr. Fordham was in the library," said Phoebe, with an air of
bewilderment at the lady's query, and to the library the consoler
accordingly tripped, with footfall of down, and countenance robed in
decorous and becoming pensiveness.
Her light tap was unanswered, but uncertain of this, she took the
benefit of the doubt, and entering bouncingly, as was her habit, she
surprised Jessie, sitting upon her husband's knee, one hand buried
in his hair, the other clutching his beard, in a fashion at once
undignified and saucy. Both were laughing so heartily that their
neglect of the warning knock was explained.
When the confusion of mutual explanations was over, Mrs. Baxter
learned, to her amazement, that the journey to Dundee was postponed
until after the College Commencement.
"I _wouldn't_ go when I found that Roy wanted to get rid of me!"
said the transformed wife. "When I put him into the confessional, he
owned who was his fellow-conspirator in the scheme for my
banishment. For shame, Cousin Jane! I have long suspected you of a
weakness for the handsome Professor, but you sit convicted of a
deliberate attempt to remove him from the guardianship of his legal
protector, that your designs upon his affections might be more
vigorously prosecuted. And no sooner do you suppose that the coast
is clear, than you present yourself, arrayed in your best dress and
choicest smiles, and with actually a rose-bud in your brooch! to
make sure of your game. I shall never trust in human friendship
again!"
"You are ungenerous to triumph over me so openly--and in the poor,
dear doctor's hearing!" returned her cousin, holding her fan before
her face, with a theatrical show of detected guilt.
"I ought to have some compensation for the excruciating anguish the
discovery cost me," retorted Jessie. "Tongue cannot describe the
tremendous struggle I went through before I could bring myself to
undertake the investigation of your perfidy and his susceptibility.
I know just how Esther felt when she screwed her courage to the
sticking-point, and made up her mind and her toilette to face
Ahasuerus and a possible gallows."
Roy was pretending to listen to the doctor's elaborate disquisition
upon an important political question, but he stole a sidelong glance
at the sparkling face, across the hearth, and smiled, in gladness of
content.
She was his blithe, lovesome witch again. The baleful enchantment
that had ensnared her fancy and distracted her thoughts from
dwelling upon him and his love--(he refused to believe that he had
ever lost her heart)--was destroyed, and, by him, remembered no more
as a thing of dread. More to spare him pain than to shield Orrin,
Jessie had not entered into the particulars of her estrangement, or
revealed who was the prime agent in bringing it about. Wyllys' name
was not mentioned by either.
"I had a bad, wild dream--" she thus explained her defection. "A
dream that made me doubt you--Heaven--myself--everything! that
robbed me of love and hope, with faith. I was susceptible, giddy,
undisciplined; and I was grievously tempted by an evil spirit.
Maybe"--humbly--"I am no better or wiser now; but I am ready and
thankful to give myself up to your guidance. I ought to be a good
woman in future; for I have been dealt with very tenderly by my
Heavenly Father--and by you, my best earthly friend!"
Roy had no fear. His second wooing was, he felt, crowned with
richer, more enduring success than the first had been. He cared not
to ask, or to conjecture by what art his image had been clouded
over, since he saw it now clearly mirrored in a heart tried by
refining fires.
The christening feast was not held until December, at which date
Master Kirke Lanneau Fordham was four months old.
Eunice had taken her school and cottage for a year, and the
interesting _fete_ could not be appointed until she could make her
arrangements to be with her sister. Work for the good of others, and
wholesome meditation, had brought to her, as they must to all
healthy, GOD-fearing souls, healing and peace during the months she
had spent in her new domicile. With the June vacation had come
Jessie and her husband; and when the little claimant upon their love
and care arrived, the lonely woman, who had put thoughts of her own
wifehood and maternity from her forever, when she turned the key
upon the souvenirs of her one love-dream, opened her heart and took
in, with the babe, comfort and hope that were, to her, fresh and
beautiful life. What Roy's arguments and Jessie's entreaties could
not accomplish, the innocent young eyes and clinging baby-fingers
effected within a month after her nephew's birth. If Kirke went to
Hamilton, she would follow, she promised, and early December saw her
domesticated in the Fordham household.
"I wish Orrin Wyllys and his wife were not coming, this evening!"
said Jessie, confidentially, to her sister, as they were arraying
the boy for the grand occasion.
Eunice looked in no wise surprised at the impetuous exclamation,
albeit it was the first avowal of dislike of Roy's relative she had
ever heard from Jessie's lips.
"It would not have been expedient to omit them from your list of
invitations, my dear!" she returned, with her slow, bright smile.
"For Roy's sake, you must disguise your antipathy."
"Antipathy isn't too strong a word, Euna! You cannot understand what
reason I have to distrust that man! to despise both himself and his
wife! And the _debut_ of Papa's boy ought to be all brightness to
Mamma!" suspending the process of the toilette to strangle him with
caresses.
"He cannot hurt you now, love. Even poisonous breath soon passes
from finely-tempered steel."
The look and tone silenced the other. Eunice's insight of the
tempter's true character was deeper than she had imagined. Even she
never dreamed how, and at what cost, the knowledge was gained.
Miss Kirke was an attractive feature of the assembly that night.
Many thought her handsomer than her more lively sister. There was
not one present who would not have ridiculed the idea of a
comparison between her classic beauty and Mrs. Wyllys' shrewish
physiognomy. Once, the two ladies talked together for five minutes,
near the centre of the front parlor, the light from the chandelier
streaming on both. Eunice was dressed with her usual just taste, in
a lustreless mourning silk, a tiny illusion ruff enhancing the
fairness of neck and face, her abundant hair arranged simply without
ornament. She possessed the rare accomplishment of standing still
without stiffness, and no nervous play of fingers or features marred
the exquisite repose of her bearing, as she listened to or replied
to her companion.
Hester was in the full glory of brocade, diamonds, and point lace,
with French flowers twisted in her pale tresses, and trailing
bramble-wise down her back. She fidgeted incessantly; her skin was
muddy with biliousness and discontent; she perked her faint eyebrows
into a frown, every other minute; her laugh was forced, and the
viscid tones had a twang of pain or ill-humor. She was getting very
tired of keeping up the appearance of conjugal felicity with so
little assistance from her lord; growing bitterly conscious of the
motives that had impelled him to the uncongenial marriage, and
disposed to eye jealously every woman to whom he paid the most
trifling attention.
"I suppose you are baby-mad, like the rest?" she said, pulling
viciously at the golden chain of her bouquet-holder. "I am in a
deplorable minority here, to-night. Christening-parties are always a
bore to me. I am _so_ sincere, you know, so apt to say what I think,
that I can never go into raptures over the little monkeys, as
everybody else does. I presume, now, that it is considered rather a
nice child--if there is such a thing--isn't it?"
"We think him a noble little fellow; but we do not require the rest
of the world to agree with us," replied Eunice, with unruffled
politeness.
"I _detest_ children! just perfectly abominate babies! I wouldn't
have one for a kingdom. And Orrin loves his own ease too much to
want them. He is an _awful_ hypocrite, Miss Kirke. You were very
wise not to get married. He can't abide children"--raising her
voice--"although he _is_ making a fool of himself over that bundle
of lace, lawn, and flannel yonder."
Eunice, inwardly provoked at the irreverent and inelegant
description of the royal cherub, could yet respond, with apparent
composure.
"He does it from a sense of duty, or a desire to please, probably."
She followed the direction of the wife's scornful eyes.
The folding doors were open, and through the archway, they had a
view of the mother, tempting her boy with a flower she had taken
from a bouquet, near by, laughing at his open mouth, starting eyes,
and fluttering arms, as he tried to seize it. Orrin had approached
her while his wife was speaking to Eunice; accosted her before she
was aware of his vicinity. His remark, delivered with his most
insinuating smile, and in his inimitable manner, was evidently a
compliment to the beauty of the child; but she met it with lightness
bordering upon contempt. Dropping the flower, she lifted the babe
from his temporary throne on the stuffed back of an easy chair, and
walked away.
Mrs. Wyllys tittered shrilly, and clapped her hands.
"A decided rebuff!" she sneered, more loudly than good breeding
would have counselled. "It is strange, Miss Kirke, that your
lady-killer is so slow to learn the mortifying fact that he ceases
to be irresistible when he has been guilty of the mistake of
matrimony."
Orrin, nervously sensitive to her tones, heard and saw her, while he
affected to do neither; saw, likewise, by whom she was standing, and
that she showed beside her neighbor as a tawdry, artificial rose,
faded and tumbled, does when near a stately, living lily.
Seeing and admitting all this, he heaved an inaudible sigh that did
not touch his eyes or chasten his careless smile. His inward moan
was not--"Me miserable!" or "Fool that I was!" or anything else
poetical or tragic; but--"If I could have afforded it!"
"The fair Euna will wear better than _mia cara sposa_!" he owned,
candidly. "But money outlasts beauty, and is more necessary to a
man's happiness. Love is only a luxury; an indulgence too costly
for the enjoyment of most wedded pairs. Beryl eyes and a Greek
profile would not have paid my debts, nor the future claims of
carriage makers, and horse-jockeys, and yacht-builders, No! I have
done all that man could, in the like circumstances. Better bread
buttered on both sides by Hester, than a dry slice with Eunice."
He owed Miss Kirke no grudge; found placid satisfaction in reviewing
their intercourse, akin to that he experienced in the contemplation
of a fine, mezzo-tinto engraving or a moonlit landscape. But Jessie
irritated and piqued him. If her gay insensibility were bravado, he
would yet make her drop the mask. His wife was right in affirming
that the passion for conquest was not extinct after a year of
married bliss.
"She did worship me in those days!" he ruminated. "Worshipped me
madly and entirely, as men are seldom loved, as few women are
capable of loving. Does she take me for an idiot in supposing that I
credit the thoroughness of her cure!"
Lounging in a desultory way through the rooms, bowing to this, and
exchanging a pleasant word with that one of the friends collected to
do honor to the infant scion of the house, he contrived to waylay
Jessie in the hall. She had transferred the baby to the nurse's
care, and was returning to her guests. A fierce impulse possessed
him as he marked her happy face, flushed by excitement into
loveliness that had never been hers in her girlhood. She was passing
him with a slight and nonchalant bow, when he arrested her.
"Can I speak with you for a moment?"
"Now?" she said, dubiously, looking toward the parlors crowded with
company.
"_Now!_ I can wait no longer! Is any one in the library?"
Before she could reply, he had pushed the door back, and led her in.
The room was not needed for the use of the guests, and was unlighted
except by the low fire in the grate.
"I will light the gas!" said Jessie, trying to withdraw her hand
from his clutch.
He tightened the grasp. It is said that every man is a savage at
some time of his life. The brutish devil was rampant now in the
polished citizen of the world, the indolent epicure. If he were ever
to regain his lost influence, it must be by a _coup d'etat_--by
threats, rather than flattery. He would show her what she risked in
attempting to dupe and foil him. A desperate expedient, but the case
was not a hopeful one.
"What affectation of prudery is this?" he asked, roughly. "Time was
when you were less scrupulous about granting me interviews in the
firelight. Do you imagine, silly child, that your overacted farce of
wifely devotion blinds me as it does the fools you have called
together to-night to witness this pretty display of domestic
felicity? Or"--his tone changing suddenly--"that any amount of
coldness and cruelty can extinguish my love for you? the love you
once confessed--in my arms--was reciprocated by yourself, then the
betrothed of him, who now believes you to be his loyal consort? You
have found it an easy task to deceive him, because it is not in him
to worship you as I do. You may struggle to escape from me, but you
know I am speaking the truth, and leaving half of it untold. Don't
drive me to distraction, Jessie! or I shall divulge that which your
husband, with all his phlegmatic philosophy, may resent. Resent,
possibly, upon me--certainly upon you--in treatment you will find it
hard to bear. I have warned you before, that generous forgiveness of
an offence to his dignity and self-love is a height of virtue
unknown to Roy Fordham. I warn you that you are dealing with a
desperate, because a miserable man!"
"This is a specimen of the superior manliness, the lofty magnanimity
you vaunt as your characteristics--is it?"
She had wrested her hand from him. The faint, red glare revealed the
outlines of a figure drawn up to its full height, and instinct with
anger and defiance. The clear accents were stinging hailstones.
"I am not afraid of you, if I do shrink from your touch. I am glad
you have given me this opportunity to say what you ought to know.
You played upon my inexperience and loneliness, when I was
committed--a too trustful child--to your care by my betrothed and my
father. You tampered with my active imagination and my credulity,
until you wrought in my mind false and florid views of life; and
when your train was ready to be fired, insinuated suspicions--which
you knew were groundless!--of Roy Fordham's honor, and his fidelity
to me."
"I suggested no suspicions!" he interrupted.
"You nourished the germs planted by Hester Sanford's slander. And
when I did not know where, or upon what I stood; when my brain was
teeming with unhealthy fancies, and my heart sick with fever and
thirst, you offered me what you called love--dragged from me the
admission that it was returned."
"Since perfect frankness is the order of the day, allow me to
observe that the 'dragging' was not a difficult process!"
interjected Wyllys, offensively.
"I am willing to allow your amendment--if you will consent to have
me repeat this story in detail to all who are assembled in the other
room," she returned, undaunted. "I should enjoy the task, because it
would pave the way for an avowal I should exult in proclaiming to
the universe. It is that I value the least hair of my husband's head
more than I ever did you--body, soul, and what you denominate as
your heart; that I had rather serve him as a bond-slave, and never
receive a word or glance of affection, if I might live near and for
him--than to reign an Empress at your side; that I never comprehend
the height, depth and fulness of his condescension and love at any
other time as when I reflect that these are bestowed upon a woman
who was once misled into the conviction that you were a true man,
and that she cared for you. I stand ready to say all this--and more.
I am no weak girl, now, to be terrified by bugbears. There is a
perfectness, even of human love, that casteth out fear. You forget
this when you threaten me with my husband's displeasure."
She laughed, and all the corners of the quiet room caught up the
mirthful echoes.
"Why, if Roy stood where you do, I could tell him all you have said,
without a blush or tremor. That I have never done this, you owe to
my reluctance to betray to the baseness of one in whose veins runs
the same blood as in his. I would spare him the pain and shame of
seeing you for what you are. But I wish he knew everything!"
"I think he does!"
While she was speaking, a shape had loomed into motion from a recess
formed by two bookcases at the further end of the library, and was
now at her side. As her husband's voice greeted her astonished ears,
she felt his supporting arm about her.
"Hush, my darling!" he said, at her stifled scream. "I came in for a
book just before you entered. After hearing Mr. Wyllys' preliminary
remark I thought it best to let you vindicate yourself without my
help. Not that I needed to hear your justification, but I meant that
he should. We will go back to our friends, now. Shall I tell Mrs.
Wyllys that you are waiting to take her home?" to Orrin.
"If you please," was the equally formal reply.
A week later, Selina Bradley brought Mrs. Baxter a piece of
startling news.
"It is certainly true!" she insisted, as the other looked her
incredulity. "The house and furniture are offered for sale. It is
very doubtful when they will return. They may reside abroad for
years--take up their permanent abode in Paris. Mr. Wyllys affects to
treat the plan as one they have been considering this great while,
but there are queer stories afloat. Hester is indiscreet, you know.
They had a violent scene in the hearing of the servants on their
return from the Fordhams' christening party. The most unlikely, but
a popular, rumor is that Hester was furiously jealous of her
husband's attentions to Jessie, or her sister, that night. She
threatened to leave him, and go home to her father, unless he would
take his oath never to speak to either of them again."
"You may well say 'unlikely!'" Mrs. Baxter said, eyeing the doctor
apprehensively, as he sat up to his eyebrows in a book at a distant
window. "They are going to Paris, you say?"
The doctor had lowered his volume, let go his cravat, and pushed up
his spectacles.
"So Hester says, and is in ecstasies (apparently) at the prospect.
As for Mr. Wyllys, he professes to think American society a very
wishy-washy affair compared with Parisian circles."
"Humph!" snorted the doctor. "They could not choose more wisely and
consistently. Paris is the world's repertory of gilded shams!"
He tied a double knot in his handkerchief.
THE END.
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Transcriber's note:
Page 32 griped changed to gripped "Roy gripped his hand hard."
Page 86 duetts changed to duets "duets, sonatas and etudes"
Page 97 Wyllis changed to Wyllys "Mr. Wyllys for ten minutes"
Page 151 ecstacy changed to ecstasy "in an ecstasy of admiration"
Page 300 whilome changed to whilom "attached to the whilom"