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Human Resource Management, 14e (Dessler)

Chapter 2 Equal Opportunity and the Law

1) Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that "no person shall be deprived of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law"?
A) First Amendment
B) Fifth Amendment
C) Tenth Amendment
D) Thirteenth Amendment
Answer: B
Explanation: B) The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ratified in 1791) states that "no
person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law." The
Thirteenth Amendment (1865) outlawed slavery, and courts have held that it bars racial
discrimination.
Difficulty: Moderate
Chapter: 2
Objective: 1
AACSB: Reflective thinking
Learning Outcome: Summarize the nature and effects of equal employment opportunity laws

2) The Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery, and courts have held
that it bars racial discrimination.
A) Fifth
B) Tenth
C) Thirteenth
D) Fourteenth
Answer: C
Explanation: C) The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) outlawed slavery, and courts have held that
it bars racial discrimination. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ratified in 1791)
states that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the
law."
Difficulty: Moderate
Chapter: 2
Objective: 1
AACSB: Reflective thinking
Learning Outcome: Summarize the nature and effects of equal employment opportunity laws
3) The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution addresses the subject of .
A) due process
B) slavery
C) private property
D) trial by jury
Answer: B
Explanation: B) The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery and
courts have held that it bars racial discrimination.
Difficulty: Moderate
Chapter: 2
Objective: 1
AACSB: Reflective thinking
Learning Outcome: Summarize the nature and effects of equal employment opportunity laws

4) The gives all persons the same right to make and enforce contracts and to benefit
from the laws of the land.
A) Fifth Amendment
B) Civil Rights Act of 1866
C) Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
D) Thirteenth Amendment
Answer: B
Explanation: B) The Civil Rights Act of 1866 gives all persons the same right to make and
enforce contracts and to benefit from U.S. laws. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
(ratified in 1791) states that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of the law." The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) outlawed slavery, and courts have
held that it bars racial discrimination. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act states that
employers cannot discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Difficulty: Moderate
Chapter: 2
Objective: 1
AACSB: Reflective thinking
Learning Outcome: Summarize the nature and effects of equal employment opportunity laws
5) Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act explicitly prohibits employers from discrimination
based on all of the following characteristics EXCEPT .
A) race
B) religion
C) color
D) sexual orientation
Answer: D
Explanation: D) Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act states that an employer cannot
discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Title VII bars
discrimination on the part of most employers both public and private with 15 or more
employees. Sexual orientation is not directly addressed under the law.
Difficulty: Easy
Chapter: 2
Objective: 1
AACSB: Reflective thinking
Learning Outcome: Summarize the nature and effects of equal employment opportunity laws

6) According to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which of the following employers
would be legally allowed to refuse employment to an individual based on race, religion, or
sex? A) a state agency with 65 employees
B) a medical office with 25 employees C)
a local restaurant with 10 employees D) a
department store with 100 employees
Answer: C
Explanation: C) Title VII bars discrimination on the part of most employers, including all public
or private employers of 15 or more persons. It also covers all private and public educational
institutions, the federal government, and state and local governments.
Difficulty: Moderate
Chapter: 2
Objective: 1
AACSB: Reflective thinking
Learning Outcome: Summarize the nature and effects of equal employment opportunity laws
7) Which legislation was responsible for the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission?
A) Equal Pay Act of 1963
B) Civil Rights Act of 1866
C) Executive Orders 11246 and 11375
D) Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights
Act Answer: D
Explanation: D) Title VII established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
to administer and enforce the Civil Rights law at work. The commission itself consists of five
members appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. Executive
Orders 11246 and 11375 established the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
Difficulty: Moderate
Chapter: 2
Objective: 1
AACSB: Reflective thinking
Learning Outcome: Summarize the nature and effects of equal employment opportunity laws

8) The EEOC was initially established to investigate complaints about .

A) job discrimination
B) unfair business practices
C) sexual harassment in schools
D) structural accommodations for
disabled people Answer: A
Explanation: A) Title VII established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
to administer and enforce the Civil Rights law at work. The EEOC receives and investigates job
discrimination complaints from aggrieved individuals.
Difficulty: Easy
Chapter: 2
Objective: 1
AACSB: Reflective thinking
Learning Outcome: Summarize the nature and effects of equal employment opportunity laws

9) How many members serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission? A) 3
B)5C)9 D)
10
Answer: B

Explanation: B) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) consists of

five members appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each
member serves a five-year term.
Difficulty: Easy
Chapter: 2
Objective: 1
AACSB: Reflective thinking
Learning Outcome: Summarize the nature and effects of equal employment opportunity laws
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 A HAUNTED LIFE

BY

JAMES GRANT
AUTHOR OF 'THE ROMANCE OF WAR'

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
NEW YORK: 9, LAFAYETTE PLACE

1883

JAMES GRANT'S NOVELS,

Price 2s. each, Fancy Boards.

The Romance of War

The Aide-de-Camp
The Scottish Cavalier
Bothwell
Jane Seton: or, the Queen's Advocate
Philip Rollo
The Black Watch
Mary of Lorraine
Oliver Ellis: or, the Fusileers
Lucy Arden: or, Hollywood Hall
Frank Hilton: or, the Queen's Own
The Yellow Frigate
Harry Ogilvie: or, the Black Dragoons
Arthur Blane
Laura Everingham: or, the Highlanders of Glenora
The Captain of the Guard
Letty Hyde's Lovers
Cavaliers of Fortune
Second to None
The Constable of France
The Phantom Regiment
The King's Own Borderers
The White Cockade
First Love and Last Love
Dick Rooney
The Girl he Married
Lady Wedderburn's Wish
Jack Manly
Only an Ensign
Adventures of Rob Roy
Under the Red Dragon
The Queen's Cadet
Shall I Win Her?
Fairer than a Fairy
One of the Six Hundred
Morley Ashton
Did She Love Him?
The Ross-shire Buffs
Six Years Ago
Vere of Ours
The Lord Hermitage
The Royal Regiment
Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders
The Cameronians
The Scots Brigade
Violet Jermyn
Jack Chaloner
 CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. THE MEET OF THE COACHING CLUB

II. TREVOR CHUTE'S REVERIE
III. HIS VISIT TO CLARE
IV. IDA
V. HOW WILL IT END?
VI. SIR CARNABY COLLINGWOOD
VII. A PROPOSAL
VIII. 'THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH FOR THE STARS'
IX. DOUBTS DISPELLED
X. FOR WHOM THE JEWELS WERE INTENDED
XI. A ROMANCE OF THE DRAWING-ROOM
XII. IN THE KONGENS NYTORV
XIII. BY THE EXPRESS FOR LUBECK
XIV. AN IMBROGLIO
XV. 'LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH'
XVI. 'JEALOUSY CRUEL AS THE GRAVE'
XVII. A QUARREL
XVIII. THE EMEUTE AT LUBECK
XIX. SIR CARNABY'S GRATITUDE
XX. CARNABY COURT
XXI. CHRISTMAS EVE

A HAUNTED LIFE.
 CHAPTER I.

THE MEET OF THE COACHING CLUB.

'Be patient, Trevor Chute; they are sure to be here to-day, old fellow,
for Ida told me so.'

'Ida?'

'Yes, Mrs. Beverley; does that surprise you?' asked the other, with a
singular smile—one that was rather sardonic.

'No, Jerry, I have long ceased to be surprised at anything. As I have

told you, my special mission in town is a visit to her; but—so you and
she are good friends still?'

'Yes, though she has been six months a widow, we are on the same
strange terms in which you left us last—friends pure and simple.'

'And nothing more?'

'As yet,' replied Jerry Vane, lowering his voice, with something of
despondency perceptible in his tone, and to a close observer it might
have been apparent that he, though by nature frank, jovial, and good-
humoured, had, by force of habit, or by circumstances, a somewhat
cynical mode of expression and gravity of manner.

The time was the noon of a bright and lovely day in May, when the
newly-opened London season is at its height; and it was the first meet of
the Coaching Club in Hyde Park, where the expectant crowd, filling all
the seats under the pleasant trees, or in occupation of handsome
carriages, snug barouches, dashing phaetons and victorias—in
everything save hackney cabs—covered all the wide plateau which
stretches from the Marble Arch to the somewhat prosaic powder
magazine beside the Serpentine, and waited with the characteristic
patience and good-humour of Londoners for the assembling of the
coaches, though some were seeking to while away the time with a
morning paper or the last periodical.
 The speakers, though young men, were old friends, who had known
each other since boyhood in the playing-fields of Rugby.

Jervoise, or, as he was familiarly called, Jerry Vane, was a curly-

pated, good-looking young fellow of the genuine Saxon type, with
expressive, but rather thoughtful eyes of bluish grey, long fair whiskers,
and somewhat the bearing of a 'man about town;' while the other,
perhaps in aspect the manlier of the two, Trevor Chute, in figure compact
and well set-up, was dark-haired, hazel-eyed, and had a smart
moustache, imparting much decision of expression to a handsome and
regular face, which had been scorched and embrowned by a tropical sun;
and where the white flap of the puggaree had failed to protect his neck
and ears, they had deepened to a blister hue.

He had but the day before come to town, on leave from his regiment
(which had just returned from India), on a special errand, to be detailed
in its place.

In front was the great bend of the blue Serpentine rippling and
sparkling in the sunshine, with its tiny fleet of toy-ships; beyond it was
the leafy background of trees, and the far stretch of emerald lawn,
chequered with clumps of rhododendron in full flower, and almost
covered with sight-seers, some of whom gave an occasional cheer as a
stately drag passed to the meeting-place, especially if its driver was
recognized as a personage of note or a public favourite.

'I don't know what you may have seen in India, Trevor,' said Jerry
Vane, 'but I am assured that the gayest meetings on the continent of
Europe can present nothing like this. I have been in the Prater at Vienna
on the brightest mornings of summer, and on gala days at the Bois de
Boulogne, and seen there all the élite of Paris wending its way in
equipages, on horse or on foot, but no scene in either place equals this of
to-day by the Serpentine!'

To this his friend, who had so recently returned from military exile, in
the East, warmly assented, adding:

'The day is as hot as my last Christmas was in the Punjaub.'

'Christmas in the Paunjaub, by Jove!' exclaimed Jerry Vane, with a

laugh. 'Eating ices and fanning oneself under a punkah, with the
thermometer at 90 in the shade, eh?'

Captain Chute laughed in turn at this idea; but as he stood at that time
by the inner railings in Hyde Park, waiting anxiously to see the fair
occupants of a certain drag, he could foresee, as little as his friend, where
they were to spend their coming Christmas, or on its eve to hear, through
the stillness thereof, the sweet evensong coming over a waste of snow
from an old chapel, amid a group of crystal-shrouded trees, where many
soft voices, with hers among them, told again of the angels' message,
given more than eighteen hundred years ago to the shepherds of Chaldea,
as they watched their fleecy flock by night.

'It seems but yesterday that I last stood here, Jerry,' said Trevor Chute,
thoughtfully, almost sadly; 'and how much has come and gone to us both
since then!'

'Yes; and here, as of old, Trevor, are the last new beauties who have
come out, and the overblown belles of seasons that are past, and, of
course, all those great folks whom everybody knows, and others of
whom no one knows anything, save that they have swell equipages, and
are "like magnificent red and purple orchids, which grow out of nothing,
yet do so much credit to their origin."'

'You grow cynical, Jerry.'

'Perhaps; but there was a time when I was not wont to be so. And you,
Trevor, are not without good reason for being so too. Why, man alive!
when in the Guards, how popular you were with all the mammas of
unmarried daughters; a seat in the carriage, a box at the opera, a balcony
at the boat-race, whenever you felt disposed. By Jove! there was no man
in town I envied more than you in those days.'

'And what has it all come to now, Jerry? I feel quite like a fogey,'
exclaimed Trevor Chute.

'Yet this was but four years ago.'

'Only four years, old fellow, and she is not married yet! But here come
the party, and on Desmond's drag; he has the "lead," it seems.'
 It was now the hour of one; the procession had started, and the eyes of
all the onlookers were eagerly engaged in critically examining the
various drags, so magnificently horsed and brilliantly appointed, as they
passed in succession, with all their silver harness shining in the sun.

About thirty drove from the well-known rendezvous of the Coaching

Club along the pretty drive which skirts the Serpentine and ends with the
bridge that divides the Park from Kensington Gardens; and though some
of the drivers adhered to the Club uniform—blue, with gilt buttons—
many appeared in the perfection of morning costume; and as team after
team went by, chestnut, white, or grey, with satin-like skins, murmurs of
applause, rising at times to a cheer, greeted the proprietors.

The costumes of the ladies who occupied the lofty seats were as
perfect as, in many instances, was their beauty; and no other capital in
Europe could have presented such a spectacle as Trevor Chute saw then,
when the summer sun was at its height in the heavens, gilding the trees
with brilliant light, and showing Hyde Park in all its glory.

The leading drag was the one which fascinated him, and all the other
twenty-nine went clattering past like same phantasmagoria, or a
spectacle one might seem to behold in a dream.

Several ladies were on the drag, including the owner's somewhat

passé sister, the Hon. Evelyn Desmond; but Chute saw only two—Clare
and Violet Collingwood—or one, rather, the elder, who riveted all his
attention.

Both girls were remarkable for their beauty even then, when every
second female face seemed fair to look upon; but the contrast was strong
in the opposite styles of their loveliness, for Clare was a brilliant
brunette, while Violet was even more brilliant as a blonde; and as the
drag swept past, Trevor Chute had only time to remark the perfect taste
of Clare's costume or habit, that her back hair was a marvel of curious
plaiting, and that she was laughingly and hastily thrusting into her silver-
mounted Marguerite pouch a note that Desmond had handed to her,
almost surreptitiously it seemed; and then, amid the crowd and haze, she
passed away from his sight, as completely as she had done four years
before, when, by the force of circumstances—a fate over which he had
no control—they had been rent asunder, when their engagement was
declared null, and they were informed that thenceforward their paths in
life must be far apart.

'Clare Collingwood is the same girl as ever, Trevor,' said Jerry Vane,
breaking a silence of some minutes. 'You saw with what imperial
indifference she was receiving the admiration of all who passed, and the
attention of those who were about her.'

'Is she much changed, Jerry, since—since I left England?' Trevor

asked.

'Oh, no,' replied the other, cynically; 'she and her sisters—Violet, at
least—have gone, and are still going, over the difficult ways of life
pleasantly, gracefully, and easily, as all in their "set" usually do. In her
fresh widow's weeds Ida Beverley could not be here to-day, of course.'

'I have an express and most melancholy mission to her on the

morrow,' said Captain Chute. 'But why is Collingwood père not with his
daughters on this occasion?'

'Though girls that any man might be proud of escorting in any

capacity, the old beau, with his dyed hair and curled whispers, is never
seen with them, nor has been since their mother's death. Though sixty, if
he is a day, he prefers to act the rôle of a young fellow on his preferment,
and doesn't like to have these young women—one of them a widow, too
—calling him "papa." He knows instinctively—nay, he has overheard—
that he is called "old Collingwood," and he doesn't like the title a bit,'
added Vane, laughing genuinely, for the first time that forenoon, as they
made their way towards the nearest gate of the Park, which the glittering
drags were all leaving by the Marble Arch, and setting forth, viâ Portman
Square, for luncheon at Muswell Hill or elsewhere.

'And has Clare had no offers since my time?' asked Trevor Chute,
almost timidly.

'Two; good ones, also.'

'And she refused them?'

'So Ida told me.'

 'Ida again; you and Mrs. Beverley seem very good friends.'

'Yes, though she used me shockingly in throwing me over for

Beverley.'

'And why did—Clare refuse?'

'Can't say, for the life of me; women are such enigmas; unless a
certain Trevor Chute, then broiling in the Punjaub, wherever that may be,
had something to do with it.'

'I can pardon much in you, Jerry Vane,' said Chute, gravely; 'for we
have been staunch friends ever since I was a species of big brother to you
at Rugby; but please not to make a jest of Clare and me. And what of
pretty Violet?'

'Oh, Violet is all right,' replied Vane, speaking very fast, and
reddening a little at his friend's reproach. 'She has those graceful, taking,
and pretty ways with her and about her that will be sure to do well for
her in the end; thus, sooner or later, Violet's fortune is certain to be made
in a matrimonial point of view.'

'I have heard of this fellow, Harvey Desmond, before,' said Chute,
musingly. 'I remember his name when I was in the Household Brigade.
He was lately, I think, gazetted a C.B.'

'Of course.'

'For what?'

'In consideration of his great services at Wormwood Scrubs and on

Wimbledon Common.'

To see Clare on his drag, even with his sister, the Hon. Evelyn, to play
propriety, stung Trevor Chute, and, as if divining his very thoughts, Jerry
Vane said, let us hope unintentionally:

'All the clubs have linked their names together for some time past.'

'Well,' replied Trevor, with something like a malediction, as he

proceeded in a vicious manner to manipulate a cigar, and bite off the end
of it. 'What the deuce does that matter to me?'
 His expression of face, however, belied the indifference he affected
for the moment, and feeling that he had caused pain by his remark, Jerry
Vane said, as they walked arm and arm along Piccadilly, by the side of
the Green Park:

'Neither of us have been very successful in our love affairs with the
Collingwoods; and with me even more than you, Trevor, it was a case of
"love's labours lost." Yet, when I think of all that Ida Collingwood was in
the past time to me, I cannot help feeling maudlin over it. We had, time
to me, I cannot help feeling maudlin over it. We had, as you know well,
been engaged a year when, unluckily, Beverley, of your corps, became a
friend of the family. I know not by what magic he swayed her mind, her
heart, and all her thoughts, but, from the first day she knew him, I felt
that I was thrown over and that she was lost to me for ever! And on that
day when she became Beverley's wife——'

In the bitterness of his heart Vane paused, for his voice became
tremulous.

'The friend equally of you and of poor Jack Beverley, whom I laid in
his grave, far, far away, I felt all the awkwardness of my position when
that bitter rivalry arose between him and you about Ida Collingwood,'
said Trevor Chute, and the usually lively Jerry, who seemed lost in
thoughts which the voice and presence of his friend had summoned from
the past, walked slowly forward in moody silence.

He was recalling, as he had too often done, the agony of the time
when he first began to learn—first became grimly conscious—that the
tender eyes of Ida sought to win glances from other eyes than his, and
ask smile for smile from other lips too! And when desperately against
hope he had hoped the game would change, and oblivion would follow
forgiveness—but the time never came.

Jerry could recall, too, the sickly attempts he had made to arouse her
pique and jealousy by flirting with Evelyn Desmond and other girls, but
all in vain, as the sequel proved.

She had become so absorbed in Beverley as to be oblivious of every

action of the discarded one, and almost careless of what he thought or
felt.
 But now, though Beverley was dead and had found his grave on a
distant and a deadly shore, it was scarcely in human flesh and blood for
Vane—even jolly Jerry Vane—to forgive, and still less to regret him as
Trevor Chute did, though he affected to do so, on which the soldier
shook his hand, saying:

'You are indeed a good-hearted fellow!'

But Vane felt that the praise was perhaps undeserved, and to change
the subject, said—

'She has been to a certain extent getting over Beverley's death.'

'Getting over it?'

'Of course.'

'How?'

'By becoming more composed and settled; no grief lasts for ever, you
know,' replied Vane, a little tartly; 'but now your return, your special visit
to her, and the mementoes you bear, will bring the whole thing to the
surface again, and—and—even after six months of widowhood—may
——'

'Will make matters more difficult for you?' interrupted Trevor Chute,
smiling.

'Precisely. I am a great ass, I know; but I cannot help loving Ida still.'

'You will accompany me to the Collingwoods' to-morrow, Jerry?'

urged the soldier, after a pause.

'No, old fellow, decidedly not. Ida's grief would only worry me and
make me feel de trop. What the deuce do you think I am made of,
Trevor, to attempt to console the woman I love when she is weeping for
another?'

'Dine with me at the club this evening, then—sharp eight—and we'll

talk it over.'
 'Thanks; and then we shall have a long "jaw" together about all that is
and all that might have been; so, till then, old man, good-bye.'

CHAPTER II.

TREVOR CHUTE'S REVERIE.

Protracted by various culinary devices, the late dinner had encroached

on the night, just as the final cigar in the smoking-room had done on the
early hours of morning; and after a long conversation, full of many
stirring and tender reminiscences and many mutual confidences, Jerry
Vane had driven away to his rooms, and Trevor Chute was left alone to
ponder over them all again, and consider the task—if task it really was—
that lay before him on the following morn.

And now to tell the reader more precisely the relation in which some
of the dramatis personæ stand to each other.

Four years before the time when our story opens, Trevor Chute, then
in the Foot Guards, had been engaged to Clare Collingwood. She was in
her second season, though not yet in the zenith of her beauty, which was
undeniably great, even in London; and his friend, Jervoise Vane, was at
the same time the accepted of her second sister Ida, who had just 'come
out' under the best auspices; yet the loves of all were fated to end
unhappily.

Monetary misfortune overtook the family of Trevor Chute; expected

settlements ended in smoke, and he had to begin what he called 'the
sliding scale,' by exchanging from the Guards into a Line regiment then
serving in India; and then the father of Clare—Sir Carnaby Collingwood
—issued the stern fiat which broke off their engagement for ever.

'Of course,' thought he, as he looked dreamily upward to the

concentric rings and wreaths of smoke, the produce of his mild
havannah, 'we shall meet as mere friends, old acquaintances, and that
sort of thing. Doubtless she has forgotten me, and all that I was to her
once. Here, amid the gaieties of three successive seasons since those
days, she must have found many greater attractions than poor Trevor
Chute—this fellow Desmond among them—while the poor devil in the
Line was broiling up country, with no solace save the memory—if solace
it was—of the days that were no more!'

Sir Carnaby Collingwood was by nature proud, cold, and selfish. He

had married for money, as his father had done before him; and though he
seemed to have a pleasure in revenging himself, as some one has phrased
it, by quenching the love and sunshine in the life of others, because of
the lack of both in his own, Trevor Chute felt that he could scarcely with
justice be upbraided for breaking off the marriage of a girl having such
expectations as Clare with an almost penniless subaltern officer.

Ida's engagement terminated as related in the preceding chapter. With

a cruelty that was somewhat deliberate, she fairly jilted Vane and married
Jack Beverley, undeniably a handsomer and more showy man, whose
settlements were unexceptionable, and came quite up to all that Sir
Carnaby could wish.

Yet Beverley did not gain much by the transaction. Ida fell into a
chronic state of health so delicate that decline was threatened; the family
physicians interposed, and nearly three years passed away without her
being able to join her husband in India, where he was then serving with
Trevor Chute's regiment, and where he met his death by a terrible
accident.

Jerry Vane felt deeply and bitterly the loss of the girl he had loved so
well; and he would rather that she had gone to India and passed out of
his circle, as he was constantly fated to hear of her, and not unfrequently
to meet her; for Jerry's heart did not break, and sooth to say, between
balls and dinners, croquet and Badminton parties, cricket matches, whist
and chess tournaments, rinking, and so forth, his time was pretty well
parcelled out, when in town or anywhere else.

Trevor Chute and Beverley had been warm friends when with the
regiment. Loving Clare still, and treasuring all the tender past, he felt
that her brother-in-law was a species of link between them, through
whom he could always hear of her welfare, while he half hoped that she
might wish to hear of his, and yet be led to take an interest in him.
 With all this mutual regard, Chute's dearest friend of the two was not
the dead man, but Jerry Vane; yet there had been a great community of
sentiment between them. This was born of the affection they fostered for
the two sisters, and sooth to say, Beverley, while in India, loved his
absent wife with a passion that bordered on something beyond either
enthusiasm or romance. It became eventually spiritualised and refined,
this love for the distant and the ailing, beyond what he could describe or
altogether conceive, though times there were when in moments of
confidence, over their cheroots and brandy pawnee, he would gravely
observe to Trevor Chute that so strong, and yet so tender, was the tie
between him and Ida, that, though so many thousand miles apart, they
were en rapport with each other, and thus that each thought, or talked,
and dreamt of the absent at the same moment.

Be all this as it may, a time was to come when Trevor was to recall
these strange confidences and apparently wild assertions with something
more than terror and anxiety, though now he only thought of the death-
bed of his friend in India, the details of all that befell him, and the
messages and mementoes which Jack Beverley had charged him to
deliver to Ida on his return to England.

They had been stationed together, on detachment, at the cantonment

of Landour, which is situated on one of the outer ridges of the Himalaya
range, immediately above the Valley of the Deyrah Dhoon, where they
shared the same bungalow.

The dulness of the remote station at which the two friends found
themselves became varied by the sudden advent of a tiger in an adjacent
jungle: a regular man-eater, a brute of unexampled strength and ferocity,
which had carried off more than one unfortunate native from the pettah
or village adjoining the cantonment; thus, as a point of honour, it
behoved Trevor Chute and Beverley, as European officers and English
sportsmen, to undertake its destruction. Indeed, it was to them, and to
their skill, prowess, and hardihood, the poor natives looked entirely for
security and revenge.

'I have sworn to kill that tiger, and send its skin as a trophy to Ida,'
said Beverley, when the subject was first mooted at tiffin one day. 'She
shall have it for the carriage in the Park, and to show to her friends!'
 About two in the morning, the comrades, accompanied by four native
servants, took their guns, and set forth on this perilous errand, and
leaving the secluded cantonment, proceeded some three or four miles in
the direction of the jungle in which the tiger was generally seen.

As he sat in reverie now, how well Trevor Chute could remember

every petty detail of that eventful day; for an eventful one it proved, in
more ways than one.

The aspect of Jack Beverley, his dark and handsome face, set off by
his white linen puggaree, his lips clearly cut, firm and proud, his eyes
keen as those of a falcon, filled with the fire of youth and courage, and
his splendid figure, with every muscle developed by the alternate use of
the saddle, the oar, and the bat, his chest broad, and his head nobly set on
his shoulders, and looking what he was, the model of an Englishman.

'Now, Chute, old fellow, you will let me have the first shot, for Ida's
sake, when this brute breaks cover,' said he, laughing, as he handed him a
case worked by her hands, adding, 'Have a cheroot—they are only
chinsurrahs, but I'll send a big box to your crib; they will be too dry for
me ere I get through them all, and we may find them serviceable this
evening.'

Poor Beverley could little foresee the evening that was before him!

Though late in the season, the day and the scenery were beautiful.
Leaving behind a noble thicket, where the fragrant and golden bells of
the baubul trees mingled with the branches of other enormous shrubs,
from the stems and branches of which the baboon ropes and other
verdant trailers hung in fantastic festoons, the friends began to step short,
look anxiously around them while advancing, a few paces apart, with
their rifles at half-cock; for now they were close upon that spot called the
jungle, and the morning sun shone brightly.

After six hours' examination of the jungle the friends saw nothing,
and the increasing heat of the morning made them descend thankfully
into a rugged nullah that intersected the thicket, to procure some of the
cool water that trickled and filtered under the broad leaves and gnarled
roots far down below.
 Just as Chute was stooping to drink, Beverley said, in a low but
excited voice:

'Look out, Trevor; by Jingo, there's the tiger!'

Chute did so, and his heart gave a kind of leap within him when, sure
enough, he saw the dreaded tiger, one of vast strength and bulk, passing
quietly along the bottom of the nullah, but with something stealthy in its
action, with tail and head depressed.

In silence Beverley put his rifle to his shoulder, just as the dreadful
animal began to climb the bank towards him, and at that moment a ray of
sunlight glittering on the barrel caused the tiger to pause and look up,
when about twenty yards off.

It saw him: the fierce round face seemed to become convulsed with
rage; the little ears fell back close; the carbuncular eyes filled with a
dreadful glare; from its red mouth a kind of steam was emitted, while its
teeth and whiskers seemed to bristle as it drew crouchingly back on its
haunches prior to making a tremendous spring.

Ready to take it in flank, Chute here cocked his rifle, when Beverley,
not without some misgivings, sighted it near the shoulder, and fired both
barrels in quick succession.

Then a triumphant shout escaped him, for on the smoke clearing away
he saw the tiger lying motionless on its side, with its back towards him.

'You should have reserved the fire of one barrel,' said Chute, 'for the
animal may not be dead, and it may charge us yet.'

'I have knocked the brute fairly over,' replied Beverley; 'don't fire,
Chute, please, as, for Ida's sake, I wish to have all the glory of the day.'

And without even reloading his rifle the heedless fellow rushed
towards the fallen animal, which was certainly lying quietly enough
among the jungle-grass that clothed the rough sides of the water-course.

The tiger suddenly rose with a frightful roar, that made the jungle re-
echo; and springing upon Beverley with teeth and claws, they rolled
together to the bottom of the nullah!
 Two of the native attendants fled, and two clambered up a tree. Left
thus alone, with a heart full of horror, anxiety, and trepidation, Trevor
Chute went plunging down the hollow into which his friend had
vanished, and from whence some indescribable, but yet terrible sounds,
seemed to ascend.

He could see nothing of Beverley; but suddenly the crashing of

branches, and the swaying of the tall feathery grass, announced the
whereabouts of the tiger, which became visible a few yards off,
apparently furious with rage and pain, and tearing everything within its
reach to pieces.

On Trevor firing, his ball had the effect of making it spring into the air
with a tremendous bound; but the contents of his second barrel took the
savage right in the heart, after which it rolled dead to the bottom of the
nullah.

On being assured that the tiger was surely killed, the cowardly natives
came slowly to the aid of Chute, who found his friend Beverley in a
shocking condition, with his face fearfully lacerated, and his breast so
torn and mutilated by the dreadful claws, that the very action of the heart
was visible.

He was breathing heavily, but quite speechless and insensible.

Though many minutiæ of that day's dreadful occurrence came vividly

back to Chute's memory, he could scarcely remember how he got his
friend conveyed back to the cantonment of Landour, and laid on a native
charpoy in their great and comfortless-looking bungalow, where the
doctor, after a brief examination, could afford not the slightest hope of
his recovery.

'It's only an affair of time now,' said he; 'muscles, nerves, and vessels
are all so torn and injured that no human system could survive the
shock.'

So, with kind-hearted Trevor Chute, the subsequent time was passed
in a species of nightmare, amid which some catastrophe seemed to have
happened, but the truth of which his mind failed to grasp or realize; and
mourning for his friend as he would for a brother, they got through the
hot and dreary hours of the Indian night, he scarcely knew how.
 About gunfire, and just when dawn was empurpling the snowy
summits of the vast hills that overshadow the Deyrah Dhoon, the doctor
came and said to him, with professional coolness:

'Poor Jack Beverley is going fast; I wish you would do your best to
amuse him.'

'Amuse him?' repeated Chute, indignantly.

'Yes; but no doubt you will find it difficult to do so, when you know
the poor fellow is dying.'

In the grey dawn his appearance was dreadful, yet he was quite cool
and collected, though weaker than a little child—he who but yesterday
had been in all the strength and glory of manhood when in its prime!

'The regiment is under orders for home,' said he, speaking painfully,
feebly, and at long intervals. 'Dear old friend, you will see her—Ida—
and give my darling all the mementoes of me that you deem proper to
take: my V.C. and all that sort of thing; among others, this gipsy ring; it
was her first gift to me; and see, the tiger's cruel teeth have broken it
quite in two! I have had a little sleep, and I dreamt of her (God bless her
for ever!)—dreamt of her plainly and distinctly as I see you now, old
fellow, for I know that we are en rapport—and we shall soon meet,
moreover.'

'En rapport again!' thought Chute; 'what can he—what does he

mean?'

'Promise me that you will do what I ask of you, and break to my

darling, as gently as possible, the mode in which I died.'

Trevor Chute promised all that his friend required of him, especially
that he should see Ida personally.

This was insisted on, and after that the victim sank rapidly.

As he lay dying, he seemed in fancy, as his feeble mutterings

indicated, to float through the air as his thoughts and aspirations fled
homeward—homeward by Aden, the Red Sea, and Cairo—homeward by
Malta and the white cliffs to the home of the Collingwoods; and he saw
Ida standing on the threshold to welcome him; and then, when her
fancied kiss fell on his lips, the soul of the poor fellow passed away.

The name of Ida was the last sound he uttered.

All was silent then, till as Trevor Chute closed his eyes he heard the
merry drums beating the reveille through the echoing cantonments.

CHAPTER III.

HIS VISIT TO CLARE.

Though not yet thirty years of age, Trevor Chute was no longer a
young man with a wild and unguessed idea of existence before him.
Thought and experience of life had tamed him down, and made him in
many respects more a man of the world than when last he stood upon the
threshold of Sir Carnaby Collingwood's stately mansion in Piccadilly,
and left it, as he thought, for ever behind him.

Yet even now a thrill came over him as he rang the visitors' bell.

It would have been wiser, perhaps, and, circumstanced as he was with

the family, the most proper mode, to have simply written to Sir Carnaby
or to Ada Beverley instead of calling; but he had promised his friend,
when dying at Landour, to see her personally; and it is not improbable
that in the kindness of his heart Jack Beverley, even in that awful hour,
was not without a hope that the visit might eventually lead to something
conducive to the future happiness of his friend, to whom the chance of
such a hope had certainly never occurred.

Trevor Chute had urged Jerry Vane to accompany him, hoping, by the
aid of his presence and companionship, to escape some of the
awkwardness pertaining to his visit; but the latter, though on terms of
passable intimacy with the family still, and more especially since the
widowhood of Ida, considering the peculiar mission of Chute to her,
begged to be excused on this occasion.
 And now, while a clamorous longing to see Clare once again—to hear
her voice, to feel the touch of her hand, though all for the last time in life
—rose in his heart, and while conning over the terms in which he was to
address her, and how, in their now altered relations, he was to comport
himself with her from whom he had been so cruelly separated by no fault
of either, he actually hoped that, if not from home, she might at least be
engaged with visitors.

Full of such conflicting thoughts, he rang the bell a second time. The
lofty door of the huge house was slowly unfolded by a tall powdered
lackey of six feet and some odd inches, the inevitable 'Jeames,' of the
plush and cauliflower head, who glanced suspiciously at a glazed sword-
case and small travelling-bag which Chute had taken from his cab.

'Is Sir Carnaby at home?'

'No, sir—gone to his club,' was the reply, languidly given.

'Mrs. Beverley, then?'

'She does not see anyone—to-day, at least.'

'Miss Collingwood?'

She was at home, and on receiving the card of Chute, the valet, who
knew that his name was not on the visitors' list, again looked
suspiciously at the bag and sword-case, and while marvelling 'what line
the "Captain" was in—barometers, French jewellery, or fancy soaps,'
passed the card to a 'gentleman' in plain clothes, and after some delay
and formality our friend was ushered upstairs.

Again he found himself in that familiar drawing-room—but alone.

It seemed as if not a day had elapsed since he had last stood there, and
that all the intervening time was a dream, and that he and Clare were as
they might have been.

From the windows the view was all unchanged; he could see the trees
of the Green Park, and the arch surmounted by the hideous statue of the
'Iron Duke,' and even the drowsy hum of the streets was the same as of
old.
 Chute had seen vast and airy halls in the City of Palaces by the
Hooghly; but, of late, much of his time had been spent under canvas, or
in shabby straw-roofed bungalows; and now the double drawing-room of
this splendid London house, though familiar enough to him, as we have
said, appealed to his sense of costliness, with its rich furniture, its lofty
mirrors, lace curtains, gilded cornices, statues, and jardinières, loading
the atmosphere with the perfume of heliotrope and tea-roses, and brought
home to him, by its details, the gulf that wealth on one hand, and
unmerited misfortune on the other, had opened between him and Clare
Collingwood.

A rustle of silk was heard, and suddenly she stood before him.

She was very, very pale, and while striving to conceal her emotion
under the cool exterior enforced by good breeding, it was evident that the
hand in which she held his card was trembling.

But she presented the other frankly to Trevor Chute, and hastily
begging him to be seated, bade him welcome to England, and skilfully
threw herself into a sofa with her back to the light.

'We saw in the papers that your regiment was coming home, and then
that it had landed at Portsmouth,' she remarked, after a brief pause, and
Chute's heart beat all the more lightly that she seemed still to have some
interest in his movements. 'Poor Ida,' she resumed, 'is confined to her
room; Violet is at home,—you remember Violet? but I am so sorry that
papa is out.'

'My visit was to him, or rather to Mrs. Beverley,' said Chute, with the
slightest tinge of bitterness in his tone; 'and believe me that I should not
have intruded at all on Sir Carnaby Collingwood but for the dying wish
of my poor friend your brother-in-law.'

'Intruded! Oh, how can you speak thus, Captain Chute—and to me?'
she asked in almost breathless voice, while her respiration became
quicker, and a little flush crossed her pale face for a second.

Then Chute began to feel more than ever the miserable awkwardness
of the situation, and of the task which had been set him; for when a man
and woman have ever been more to each other than mere friends, they
can never meet in the world simply as acquaintances again.
 For a minute he looked earnestly at Clare, and thought that never
before, even in the buried past that seemed so distant now—yet only four
years ago—had she seemed more lovely than now.

The blood of a long line of fair and highly bred ancestresses had given
to her features that, though perfectly regular and beautifully cut, were
full of expression and vivacity, though times there were when a certain
fixity or statue-like repose that pervaded them seemed to enhance their
beauty.

Her eyes and hair were wonderfully dark when contrasted with the
pale purity of her complexion, and the colour and form of her lips,
though full and pouting, were expressive of softness, of sweetness, and
even of passionate tenderness, but without giving the slightest suggestion
of aught that was sensuous; for if the heart of Clare Collingwood was
passionate and affectionate, its outlet was rather in her eyes than in the
form of her mouth.

And now, while gazing upon her and striving hard to utter the merest
commonplaces with an unfaltering tongue, Trevor Chute could but
ponder how often he had kissed those lips, those thick dark tresses, and
her charming hands, on which his eyes had to turn as on a picture now.

His eyes, however, were speaking eyes; they were full of tenderness
and truth, and showed, though proper pride and the delicacy of their
mutual position forbade the subject, how his tongue longed to take up the
dear old story he had told her in the past years, ere cold worldliness
parted them so roughly, and, as it seemed, for ever.

On the other hand, Clare Collingwood—perfectly high-bred, past

girlhood, a woman of the world, and fully accustomed to society, if she
received him now without any too apparent emotion, by the delicate
flush that flitted across her beautiful face, and the almost imperceptible
constraint in her graceful yet—shall we say it?—startled manner,
imparted the flattering conviction to her visitor that he was far from
indifferent to her still, and her eyes filled alternately with keen interest,
with alarm, affection, and sorrow, as she heard, for the first time, all the
details of Beverley's death in that distant hill cantonment, a place of
which she had not the slightest conception.

'Will Mrs. Beverley see me?' he concluded.

 'Though much of an invalid now, poor Ida undoubtedly will; but you
must not tell her all that you have told to me,' said Clare, in her
earnestness almost unconsciously laying her hand on his arm, which
thrilled beneath her touch. 'Dearest mamma is, of course you know, no
more. We lost her since—since you left England.'

'Yes, I heard of the sorrowful event when we were up country on the

march to Benares, and it seemed to—to bring my heart back to its
starting-place.'

'Since then I have been quite a matron to Violet, and even to Ida,
though married; thus I feel myself, when in society, equal to half a dozen
of chaperones.'

A little laugh followed this remark, and to Chute's ear it had, he

thought, a hollow sound, and Vane's report of 'what the clubs said'
concerning Desmond and the 'linked names,' and the recollection of the
note placed so hastily in the Marguerite pouch which she wore at that
very time, rankled in Chute's mind, and began to steel him somewhat
against her, in spite of himself, but only for a time, for the charm of her
presence was fast bewildering him.

Her heart, like his own, perhaps, was full to bursting—beating with
love and yearning, yet stifled under the exterior that good breeding and
the conventionality of 'society' inculcated.

'I hope you find the climate of England pleasant after—after India,'
she remarked, when there was a pause in the conversation.

'Oh, yes—of course—Miss Collingwood—my native air.'

'Our climate is so very variable.'

Captain Chute agreed with her cordially that it was so.

Though subjects not to be approached by either, each was doubtful

how the heart of the other stood in the matters of love and affection.

Trevor Chute had, all things considered, though their engagement had
been brought to a calamitous end, good reason, he thought, to be jealous
of Harvey Desmond; while Clare had equal reason to doubt whether, in
the years that were gone, and in his wanderings in that land of the sun
from whence he had just returned so bronzed and scorched, he might
have loved, and become, even now, engaged to another.

She was only certain of one fact: that he was yet unmarried.

These very ideas and mutual suspicions made their conversation

disjointed; hollow, and unprofitable; but now, luckily, an awkward pause
was interrupted by the entrance of a fair and handsome, dashing yet
delicate-looking girl, attired for a ride in the Row, with her whip and
gloves in one hand, her gathered skirt in the other.

Though neither bashful nor shy, her bright blue eyes glanced
inquiringly at their military-looking visitor, to whom she merely bowed,
and was, perhaps, about to withdraw, when Clare said:

'Don't you remember who this is, Captain Chute?'

Turning more fully towards the young girl, whose beauty and
charming grace in her riding-habit were undeniable, he said:

'I think I do; you are——'

'Violet; you can't have forgotten Violet, Trevor? Oh, how well I
remember you, though you are as brown as a berry now!' exclaimed
Violet Collingwood, as she threw aside her gloves and whip, and took
each of his hands in hers. 'I was thirteen when you saw me last; I am
seventeen, quite a woman, now.'

Kindly he pressed the fairy fingers of Violet, whose merry blue eyes
gazed with loving kindness into his, for the girl had suddenly struck a
chord of great tenderness in his heart by so frankly calling him 'Trevor,'
while another, who was wont to do so once, was now styling him
ceremoniously 'Captain Chute.'

Clare seemed sensible of the situation in which her somewhat girlish

sister placed them; for a moment her face looked haughty and
aristocratic, but the next its normal sweet expression of character, all that
is womanly, beautiful, and tender, stole into it, and she fairly laughed
when Violet twitched off her hat and veil, and, seating herself beside
Trevor Chute, declared that the Row should not be honoured with her
presence that day.

Though naturally playful, frank, and almost hoydenish—if such an

expression could be applied to a girl of Violet's appearance, and one so
highly bred, too—she gazed with something of wonder, curiosity, and
undeniable interest on the handsome face, the tender eyes, and well-knit
figure of this once lover of her elder sister, whose story, with all the
romance of a young girl's nature, she so genuinely pitied, whom she
remembered so well as being her particular friend when she was
permitted to come home for the holidays, who had petted and toyed with
her so often, as with a little sister, and of whom she had only heard a
little from time to time as being absent with Beverley in a distant, and to
her unknown, land; and now, girl-like, she began to blunder, to the
confusion and annoyance of her more stately sister.

'Trevor Chute here after all!' she exclaimed, with a merry burst of
laughter. 'Why! it seems all like a story in one of Mudie's novels!'

'What does?' asked Clare, with a little asperity of tone.

'Can you ask?' persisted Violet.

'His visit is a very melancholy one; and if Captain Chute will excuse
me, I shall go and prepare poor Ida for it,' said Clare, rising.

'What does it all mean?' asked Violet, again capturing the willing
hands of their visitor, as Clare hastily, and not without some confusion,
swept away through the outer drawing-room. 'Why doesn't she call you
Trevor, as I do? Captain Chute sounds so formal! I am sure I have often
heard her talk to Ida of you as "Trevor" when they thought I was asleep,
yet was very much awake indeed. So you are Clare's first love, are you?'

'I am glad to find that I am not quite forgotten,' replied Chute, smiling
in earnest now; 'you were quite a child when I—I——'

'Left this for India.'

'Yes.'

'Why did you go?'

 'To join my regiment.'

'Leaving Clare behind you? I must have a long, long talk with you
about this, and you shall be my escort in the Park the next time I ride
with Evelyn Desmond, for her brother is perpetually dangling after
Clare, eyeing her with his stupid china-blue eyes, and doing his dreary
best to be pleasing, like a great booby as he is.'

CHAPTER IV.

IDA.

Preceded by Clare, and accompanied by Violet, Trevor Chute entered

the apartment of Ida Beverley, a species of little drawing-room,
appropriated to her own use, and where, when not driving in the Park,
she spent most of the day, apart from everyone.

Ere they entered, Clare again touched his arm lightly, and whispered,

'Be careful in all you say.'

'Be assured that I shall.'

'Thanks, for poor Ida looks as though she would never smile again.'

Though warned by these words to expect some marked change in the

beautiful coquette who had been the sun of Beverley's life, and who had
taken nearly all the life out of the less luckless Jerry Vane, the visitor was
greatly shocked by the appearance of Ida, who rose from her easy-chair
to receive him with the saddest of smiles on one of the sweetest of faces
—Ida, who had the richest and brightest auburn hair in London, and the
'most divine complexion in the same big village by the Thames,' as
Beverley used to boast many a time and oft, when he and Trevor were
far, far away from home and her.

Her beauty had become strangely ethereal; her complexion purer,

even, and more waxen than ever; her eyes seemed larger, but clearer,