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"The Blood is The life."
Science has never gone beyond tht
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than the volume or two of mediocre
verse underneath. He made little
enough of his genuine triumphs, his
real, abilities, but he would talk with
bated breath of a few stanzas which
often rhymed as false as they rang.
Once Tom cleaned the cups when Dain
tree was out, and he flew into some
thing very like a rage when he came
In and saw them. He was the most
unaccountable of men.
"Still he is the kindest," was Tom's
reflection on the top of that conclusion,
and the same night he not only made
another of his poor attempts at thank
ing Daintree for all that fie was doing
and had done; he at last put the ques
tion which seemed to mark a stride
in his slow and uphill return from
brute to inan. And yet even now it
was no very sincere curiosity, but
rather an uncomfortable feeling that
he ought to seem curious, which
prompted him to say:
"I can't understand your kindness to
me. Why did you begin it? Why do
you go on? I wonder what made you
take an interest in me at the start!"
Wonder was the word, for wonder
he did, but keenly inquisitive he was
not, and the stride was shorter than
it had looked.
"I believed in your Innocence," re
plied Daintree with deliberation; "that
was all."
"I can't think why. You were the
only one. Yet you knew nothing about
me. it seems." And still his tone was
that of purely impersonal speculation.
Daintree took the cheroot from be
tween his teeth.
"I knewr something about Blaydes,
said he.
"Ah!"
"Not much; very little, in fact, but
that little was pretty bad. I knew
what an infernal blackguard he was,
and I felt sur ; there must be -more
ruined men than one upon his track.
You remember that point in the de
fense?"
Tom jumped up. "Don't remind me
of it!" he cried. "The very barrister
disbelieved in me! And it doesn't in
terest me now; it only hurts. Don't
speak of it, if you please."
"Oh, very well," said Daintree,
"only that point was suggested by
me."
"You?" exclaimed Tom in an altered
voice. "Ah, but what don't I owe to
you? More than I can ever realize or
believe; everything everything and
yet I refuse to speak of it to you of
all men! You see how ungrateful I
am; you see what they've made of me
among them. Oh, sir, forgive me, have
patience writh me, and I may be grate
ful yet! Give me time, and I shall
thank you as I cannot now."
"You shall not," rejoined Daintree
firmly. "You were quite right, and
we'll speak of all this no more. Good
heavens!" he cried out. "How do you
know my motives were so pure? What
if it was a mere whim and not alto
gether my own? At all events, I take
no credit for it, and never you thank
me again, do you hear? You'll offend
me if you do. You will indeed!"
He spoke earnestly, nervously and
vvithout a trace of affectation or ego
tism. Nor did Tom remember a single
foible as he looked in the handsome,
dark, inscrutable face and tools his
benefactor by both hands.
"God bless you!" he whispered. "Do
you know what I "used to call you in
my heart when I had one? My Noble
Unknown! Well, you are nobler even
than I thought. Do you know what
you are doing? You're giving me my
heart 'back little by little! I shall be
grateful yet!"
He went to the door, but would stand
there gazing at his friend. So long he
stood,' with burning eyes that seemed
to ache for tears, but at length he was
gone, and Daintree sat alone with a
cold cheroot between his fingers.
CHAPTER XXV.
v NCE in livery, Tom sat no more
II il at hls master's table. He had,
yil however, to insist on waiting:
at it instead and t& make him
self the servant he had been hitherto
in name only. Daintree would have
let the old arrangement continue, bat
the new one was a boots to Tom. It
gave him fi ?edom and independence
and occupat. m, and so helped him
wonderfully upon the upward road.
One evening when a ship had com.
Sn and Daintree had driven into Syd
ney for his letters he returned in such
extraordinary spirits that he could
hardly touch his dinner; he must gloat
over a crinkling sheet of paper, while
the soup grew cold in the very spoon,
and Tom could only suppose that his
master's family had come round at
i'ast. As a rule, he .talked incessantly
to Tom while the latter waited, but
this evening his letter absorbed Ms
whole attention. At last, however, he
looked up, and his saturnine counte
nance was redeemed and transfigured
by a perfectly startling radiance and
joy.
"Thomas," he said, "you must marry
a wife!"
The cheery tone was as new in him
as the delighted look. Tom was so
astonished he' had to think what the
words meant before shaking his head.
"Why riot, my good fellow?" cried
Daintree.
"Why should you want me to?" re
torted Tom.
"Because I am about to marry one
myself."
Had he said he was about to bury
one Tom could not have been more
startled and amazed. Somehow he had
never conceived of Daintree as a mar
ried man. That solitary spirit, cen
tered and immersed in self and con
sciously wallowing in its own solitude
and gloom, had forbidden such a
thought the more easily since Tom had
himself abandoned every aspiration of
the kind. A twinge of jealousy suc
ceeded his first surprise, but in another
moment his heart dilated with unself
ish pleasure, and his , congratulations
were no less sincere than jyogif erous.
"If you knew her," said Daintree,
"you would congratulate me even
more." And he proceeded to praise his
choice as he could have praised noth
ing that was not in some sense his,
and yet his passion was convincing.
His voice shook with it as his face
shone. ' ' .
"A Sydney lady?" Tom ventured to
Inquire.
"Good heavens, no! If she only were
as near as that! She is on her way
out to marry me. This letter was writ
ten a month before she sailed."
"From England?"
"Yes."
" "iou will see her in another month."
"Perhaps before. You neve know
how long or howr short the voyage will
be. Mine was 136 days, and that was
long. I kept a chart Of it stop; I'm
going to fetch it! Clear away. I've
had dinner enough."
He rushed from the table, to return
presently with a mariner's chart of the
world, upon which he had neatly mark
ed out the daily courses of his recent
voyage. It was a chain of many links
from England to the Cape and a chain
of longer links from the Cape to Aus
tralia. '
"Now, then!" cried Daintree. arrang
ing the chart under the lamp and seat
ing himself delightedly at the table.
"Now we'll see where they're got to.
Hello! Where's my letter?"
It was on the floor, and Tom picked
it up, averting his eyes so that he
should see nothing while Daintree re
ferred to the contents.
"Ha! Here we have it," and the let
ter was thrust into his pocket. "They
were to sail on the 23d of June. How
many days ago is that? This is Sep
tember the 12th. Seven thirty -one
thirty-one and twelve. How much is
that?"
"Eighty-one." said Tom.
"Only eighty-one! Then you're right,"
sighed Daintree, "and they won't be
here for another month. I was fifty
five days more."
"They may make a quicker voyage."
"They may, but I never have. The
one before was a hundred and forty
days. Thej were -Hbotu above the av
erage, but not so very much."
"Then all the more time to prepare
in," said Tom, entering thoroughly into
the situation. "We must get the place
to rights, you know, sir."
"That's true. It will help to pass the
time."
"Then we might pin up this chart."
"What, and follow the course?"
"Suppose they came no quicker than
you did and put a drawing pin an the
place every day."
Daintree was delighted. He shook
Tom's hand, and up went the 1 chart
and in went the drawing pin.
"You see," he said, "they've not got
to the Cape yet. They're only just be
ginning to tarn the corner and run
their easting: down."
"That's assuming they came- no
quicker than you," said his consoler.
"Well, we will assume it. Still, wfren
they're a hundred days out we'll have
a flag ready, and you shall begin go
ing; eAery morning to the point to see
whether there's a ball at the south
yard arm, and after that will be the
longest time of all." v
Meanwhile there was much to do,
and; Tom did most of it with enormous
zest. He had never thought to be so
happy again. His enthusiasm was the
one- return that he could make to Dain
tree, and he permitted it no bounds: It
was Tom who stuck the drawing pin
through a cork ship of cunning build,
full rigged, with needles for masts and
paper sails. When Daintree saw it.
they christened her th Rosamund,
after her real namesake, with a fitting
libation, and from that day forth, the
cork vessel plowed the white ocean of
the chart and was a good half inch
nearer Sydney every morning when
the master of the house entered! the
breakfast room.
"You sympathetic fellow!" he would
say to Tom, and sympathy bred; sym
pathy as it always will. "Yovr must
marry yourself, Thomas," he would
add, "and you and your wife must live
with me and mine, and we'll go into
partnership together up the country
somewhere and all four live happy
ever after."
To all of which the servant would
shake his head, but continue to enter
into the master's happiness with un
abated sympathy and enthusiasm.
Nor was this a conscious merit in
Tom; it made him think no better of
himself. He knew how much was in
spired by gratitude and how much
more by the selfish relief of sinking
his own woes in the hopes and fears
and raptures of his friend. He was
not even aware of "the essential fine
ness of a nature capable of this kind
of comfort, v Eternal dissatisfaction
with his own feelings kept his opinion
of himself at zero still. And if the
hew bond between Tom and his Dene
factor had done no more than provide
them with common ground on which
they might meet and be at one in all
sincerity, even so it would have done
much for Tom's peace of mind.
When Daintree spoke of his beloved
his dark face shone, the darker eyes
softened, and the rich voice quivered
with no common passion. It was pos
sible to agree and to applaud without
hypocrisy, which was not possible
when the puny poet stood in the strong
sian's shoes. Of his poetry enough has
fceen said, but about his passion there
was no mistake. The one was gen
uine; the other was not. It was a
man's passion, a selfish passion, but
the sheer masterful strength of it was
patent to Tom from the first. Some
times it made him fear for the girl
and despair of himself. Gratitude
apart, it wa3 as though his spoiled and
petty spirit was incapable of an hon
est, whole hearted, ungrudging ad
miration and regard.
In all their talks the only name' Tom
heard was Clarinda. It was character
istic of his state that he never Inquir
ed the other. His sympathy and his
Interest jrvere .confined to nijL friend:
real curiosity he had none. He asked
no questions, but a crooked answer
was ready for him if he had.
"You must let me tell her all I owe
vto you," Tom said once. "It will be a
pleasure to her and a relief to me."
"Perhaps you owe as much to her
self." It had slipped but, but Tom was not
at all excited.
"You mean that she believed in me,
too?" he asked with a mild sort of in
credulity, and he saw from the other's
face that she had not. "Upon my
soul," he thought, "I begin to disbe
lieve in myself, especially since I've
done as bad out here and perhaps not
heard the last of it yet!"
Daintree wondered why he shudder
ed in the sun. It was because his one
true and fierce emotion was the base
fear of further tortures. He despised
himself for that most of all.
Meanwhile, the cork ship with the pa
per sails was creeping slowly, but
surely, across the great white south
Atlantic of the chart, and the wall on
which it hung had been repapered, and
the whole bungalowr smelt of paint. It
was a fair sized house of twro stories,
with a veranda encircling the one and
a balcony the other. '"Very pretty it
looked in its new- coat of paint for the
summer, a white Coat with yellow trim
mings, which stood out delightfully on
the blue water's edge. The garden
lawn merged Into a narrow strand that
slid straight under the wavelets them
selves. As summer set in the trees
behind the house broke out in every
gay and gorgeous color; it was the
plumage of the parrots that now came
and perched in flocks among the
branches.
Tom gave up his room, as two ladies
and a maid were expected. It was re
papered for the maid, a room was
found for Tom in the pretty little sta
bles amid the trees, where he helped
Fawcett with the horses and the cur
ricle, which was in Sydney on some
errand every day. Generally the mas
ter went alone. Once he took Tom
with him. It wras on the occasion of
his cashing a check to meet the run
ning expenses of these elaborate prep;
arations.
They were on their way home at
dusk when Daintree pulled up on the
outskirts of the town and hailed a dis
consolate, soldierly figure with one arm
in a sling.
"Why, Harry Hcried Daintree. '"That's
never you?"
"I wish it wasn't, sir."
"You've left the force?"
"These six months. It was my arm.
Look there, sir!"
An emaciated hand came through
the sling. The thumb and forefinger
were uninjured, but half the middle
finger and both the other two were like
dead, distorted branches on a living
tree. j
"What did it?"
"A bullet; caught me on the funny
bone and paralyzed half my hand. My )
right hand too. It's set me on the shelf
at thirty-three.", j
"An accident. Harry?"
Tom held his breath.
"Quite," said Harry bitterly. "It was
meant for my heart. You would hear
of the "bushrangers at Dr. Sullivan's
last summer that's; when it was and
the one that did it was the only one
to get away." 1
Tom's clothes were sticking to him,
freezing him. "Drive on!" he whis
pered. "For God's: sake, sirr'drive on!"
Daintree expressed sympathy with,
the man and whipped up his horses.
"Not so fast!" eried Tom. "You of
fered me wages. Advance me 5 of
what you got from the bank!"
His face was white with horror, his
tone so piteous' and' so- eager that Dain
tree pulled up, took 5 sovereigns from
a bag and dropped them one by one
Into the trembling hand. Tom sprang
out and ran back to the disabled man.
"From' my master V he gasped and
thrust the money into his left hand
and darted back without daring to look
in his face: The astonished trooper
had not time to say a word.
"God bless you for that money!" fal
tered Tom fn terrible agitation as they
drove on. "I gave it to him from you.
I want no wages. Give them all to
him!"
The other remained silent.
"You don't ask why!"
"I think I know."
"It was I who smashed his arm and
spoiled his life!"
"I suspected it."
"When?"
"On the road down. when. you kept
looking behind and thinking they were
after you."
"Ah, no!" cried Tom, almost beside
himself with grief and shame. "That
was for something else. See what a
villain I have been! You should hae
left me one. I could have stood it If
you'd left me what I was! Oh, what
am I to do I in luxury and that man
shattered arid ruined by my hand? I
can't bear it! I must confess! And I
an innocent man in the beginning! Oh,
that was bad enough, to be condemned
for what you never did, but it's as bad
t know you're guilty and to go scot
free!"
The other said nothing, but listened
attentively as Tom now unbosomed
himself of the whole truth of his ad
venture with the bushrangers, where
upon Daintree justified his offense
with such warmth of conviction that
Tom was a little soothed. But his lav
ish friend went further. He under
took that the disabled man should
want for nothing, but first they must
find out what his circumstances really
were. ' '
(To be Continued.)
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