His Heart's Queen

able to be rash and unreasonable. He thought if they could but get rid of

e young man, an

to-night, but I will confer wi

dignified, assent to this bro

n, after a polite bow to Mrs. Mencke, which she did not deign to notice, he walked with a fi

. Mencke could not help admiring the latter's self-possessed exit, whil

ed after him, she turn

--" she began, when that

which should cause you to feel scandalized. We may as well understand each other first as last, and you may as well make up your mind to the inevitable, for, if I live,

head and flashing eyes, walked deliberately fr

remarked Wilhelm Mencke, who had returned to the drawing-ro

Marry that low-born carpenter who has to la

w she has the grit of a dozen common women in that

t will be Roman against Roman, with the advantage on my side. She

s badly off, if not worse, than this young carpenter. He had been a laborer in the employ of Miss Belle Huntington's father, and she had not felt

e will says we are to be the guardians of the property 'until she is twenty-one or marries.' It would make it rather awkward for me if she sh

ill?" demanded Mrs. Me

fairs it would cripple me to have to fork it over on sho

der it to that fellow," his wife returned, decisively. "I will send V

never do, though, to send her to one here; suppose we get her off to Montreal, where there will be no one to inter

ll stay there until she promises

r, Belle," said her husband, with a sarcastic laugh.

ecret that must never be breathed aloud; but all things are fair in love

r young sister, as she stood at that moment just outside the drawing-room door,

on reaching the top of the stairs, she remembered that she had left upon the

tly down again to get it, and happened to pass the drawing-room

ould never consent to go to one, and had attended the public schools of the city, until she graduated

ore, though Violet had not always been so happy as young girls usually are. There was much about her home-life that was not congenial, but she was naturally gentle and affectionate, and, where principle was not at

library, where she secured her book and letter; then fleeing by a door opposite the one she had entered, and up a back st

o Wallace, telling him that she should certainly grieve herself to death if she

hree the next afternoon, and begged him to meet her in the

red why Belle and Wilhelm were so cruel to her, and what the secret was to which Belle had referred; she

g before any of the household were astir, after which she crept back to bed an

ter by the morning post, and

tion-room at the institute where Violet took German le

prang toward her lover, and laid two small hot hands in h

uivering lips. "I will not go to Montreal, an

sist upon your going into a convent, if you do

t they will tell me that they are going to take me to a convent unless I will submit to them-they are too wise for that; they will plan to go on a journey, say t

anything so underhanded and dishono

ve and war,' and when she gets aroused, as she was last night, she stops at no

clasp, "are you sure that you love me-that you will never regret the promise that you made me last night? You are

fingers closed ove

ll me that you regret, and that I am to lo

should lose you, I should lose all that makes life desirable; but I wish you to count

heart, and-I shall die if we are separated," Violet concluded, wi

great joy; he knew then that s

ing, he placed his lips close to her e

r fair face, and a burning blush mounted to her brow and lost its

ken, when he concluded, and then she

and dropped her face upon the ha

ed her to a seat, and sitting down beside her, the

st as her sister retur

Violet?" Mrs. Mencke

essons," the girl re

she longed for love and sympathy

t it?" Mrs. Mencke continued, as

lesson more,

you," her sister rejoined, as she

hat began to glitter ominously. Her spirit was l

ood. Will has business that calls him to Canada, and he thinks he would like company on the journey; so we have decided to combine business and pleasure, a

eting her sister's eye with a st

ot wish

d. She did not lik

ded to shut up the house during our absence,

l not go with you to Montrea

eal?" quickly demanded Mrs. Me

ntinued, "and tell that I know just what you have planned to

the startled woman,

st night. I came down to get something that I had left in the library, and as I was passing through the hall I heard yo

moment; then her temper getting the better of her, sh

pt to interrupt her; but finally the woman grew ashame

Violet then inquired, in a

raction by the way you have carried on o

I am no longer a child to be taken hither and thither against my will. If you and Wil

d meet that vulgar carpenter on the sly,

llie has long been wishing me

you will go with us, whether you want to or not, and you will also go into a convent, where you will remai

int and stood pale and

there is some redress for such abuse of authority as you are attempting to exercise, and if you persist in this course-much as I shall dislike the notoriety of such a proceeding-I shall appeal to the courts to set you aside and appoint some one in your place. You said last night that it would be 'Ro

king, leaving Mrs. Mencke looking both startled and confounded by the res

hat point of law?" she muttered, angrily. "Som

thought; but finally her face clea

nswered it almo

as possible, as I have forgotten something and must go immediate

r way, not back to the city, but to ca