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In anticipation of the great favor promised her by the Carmelite nuns, Augustina had been listening feebly from time to time to her brother's reading from the biography of the greatest of Carmelite saints and founders. "Laura!" said Mrs. Fountain faintly. Helbeck's expression changed. He bent over his sister, and said in a low decided voice, "Will you give me the relic, dear?
Why does one feel a culprit all through? Absurdity! Is one to be mewed up all one's life, to throw over all fun and frolic at Mr. Helbeck's bidding Mr. Helbeck, who now scarcely sets foot in Bannisdale, who seems to have turned his back upon his own house, since that precise moment when his sister and her stepdaughter came to inhabit it?
Fountain's stepdaughter?" said Helbeck's companion, as Laura and her cart disappeared round a corner of the winding road on which the two men were walking. Helbeck made a sign of assent. "You may very possibly have known her father?" He named the Cambridge college of which Stephen Fountain had been a Fellow.
The grief for him, of which she never let a word pass her lips, was perhaps the strongest among the forces that were destroying her. She knew well that she had torn the heart that loved her that she had set free a hundred dark and morbid forces in Helbeck's life.
I do not know how long I may have to stay in your house and with her. I would not willingly cause you pain. I would gladly understand, at least, more than I do I should like to learn to be instructed. Would would Father Leadham, do you think, take the trouble to correspond with me to point me out the books, for instance, that I might read?" Helbeck's black eyes fastened themselves upon her.
Helbeck's engagement troubled his Catholic friends. I chose to take it morbidly to heart I ventured that that most presumptuous attack upon him." He laughed, with an affected note that made her think him odious. "But you were soon avenged. You little know, Miss Fountain, what an influence your presence at Bannisdale had upon me.
"How am I ever going to bear it all these months?" she asked herself. But the causes which had brought Laura Fountain to Bannisdale were very simple. It had all come about in the most natural inevitable way. When Laura was eight years old nearly thirteen years before this date her father, then a widower with one child, had fallen in with and married Alan Helbeck's sister.
We are not to alarm her, or interfere with her daily habits. There is valvular disease as I think you know and it has advanced. Neither he nor anyone can forecast." The girl's head fell. She recognised that the contest was over. She could not go; she could not leave Augustina; and the inference was clear. There had not been a word of menace, but she understood. Mr. Helbeck's will must prevail.
Helbeck's engagement had sent a thrill of pain through a large section of the Catholic world; and the Jesuit had already divined a hostile force in the small and brilliant creature whose eyes had scanned him so coldly as she sat beside the Squire. He fell into a reverie, and took one or two turns up and down the room.
Where could she feel secure? In Helbeck's heart? But in the inmost shrine of that heart she felt the brooding of a majestic and exacting power that knew her not. Her jealousy her fear grew day by day. And as to the rest, her imagination was full of the most feverish and fantastic shapes. Since her talk with Polly the world had seemed to her a mere host of buzzing enemies.
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