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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1888-2-3, Page 74. 0 Fiaa. 3, 1638. ai la SSELS P • 7 '...,AVA:11.1414121t4===111/galan=021 ateawieesarammarowherameseractricturetwatantesezzasaisememe=semtte. relerrocie. HvAsmdenexancerNamomeruseglaselekANWAemensmar4rM01MMIZCUXX07,7,140103:011musaIDDIUmr PUT ASUNDER; 05, Lady Castioinaille's Divorce 1 By 111111111A. lat. CLAY, AuT1101; HA )01nonted Life," "The Earl's AroetPe mew,. 4, A struggle for a aline' etc., etc., ele. read t ) him and loaned hint all tier let- ters fr�naleath. I thla, him to follow me to la ath, and he should see her, planned meetings -which were surprises to her ; and I tried in vain to rouse in her love for him. She was his friend— only that—just as cool and calm to him as a woman of snow." Oh, Gertrude, my darling i my in. jnrod darling 1" wailed Lord 0010- maine. " Gertrudefuriouely mental tbe hour when ho passed beyond calm, respect - fel friendship into a plea for love. She resolved never to see him again. Ho wrote her—the only time. Ia her dis- tress she burned the letter, fearing your jealous rage. It was to me she told your threat of separation, your order to go to Eastdale. It was I who painted to her tho disgrace of separation. I told her you would rob her of her child. tanned to fly with her to France. I old her we could hide in the South of Prance until you came to her terms. I had hired the carriage, brought it to the 'Nuns' Gate.' I put the glove, picture end handkerchief of Colonel Lennox in ber room, I took her to the carriage. I had arranged to leave it on a slight ex- cuse, have Colonel Lennox silently take my place, and go with her to Dover—to Calais—before he revealed himself. I knew a flight with him would never mem innoceet, and you walld divotoe her. I hoped you would turn to me. I cannot tell bow it was—I had led, ruled Gertaude all' almig—at the mo. meat I left her in the carriage the took her future in her own halide. 'Ile car- riage (lathed off furiously, ',She was in it alone. Colonel Lennox and I were left alone in the road, We went at once to London. That eight journey with bim has since proved my destruction. I was seen, recogniased." " But Gertrude—where is my Ger- trude ? " Look for ha in Francs. She went by that eight's boat to Calais. She bad planned to go at once to Patio. No doubt the did. Sbe would avoid betels or houses where there were English- speaking people. I had told her we would go into Burgundy to the Cote d'Or. I suppose she changed her plan, for fear I woad tell you to seek for her there. But she must have stopped in Paris to make her plans, change her money, select her route. IT you want to find her, go to Colitis, from there to Paris ; search the French hotels. All your agents have made fools of the searcla; any woman of sense would have found her long ago. If yon fund. her— tell her—to forgive me." There fell a silence. Isabel moved hor hand toward Lord Castlemaine. " Speak to me—sayyou forgive mo 1" Ile gazed at her stonily. "Speak! I am dying 1 " Still that tvidemyed, horrified gaze from Lord Oastlemaine. " Speak," whispered Dr. Randal in hie ear. "We are all sinners. Shehas but a very little time to live," 'Rudolph, say, Isabel, 1 forgive yen '1 " Lord Castleman° gave an inarticu- late cry. Perhaps it was a prayer. " Isabel, I forgive you," he faltered, "Mise Hyde, look higher for forgive. nese ; you havo only a few inmates to live," said Dr. Randal. She feebly moved her hands. Doctor Randal clasped them on her breast. She closed her eyes; there was a quivei of he lips ; perhaps it was the sigh of e prayer, perhaps ouly the wan breath. for the gray shadow rested co! you het face, and she was gone. • She once dreamed that the Ladies Castlemaine took up her wished and broken form, and sang fot her that strange horrible requiem, "Take up now this cursed woman, and bury her." Are dreams sent to wan us from our crimes 2 CHAPTER LXV. MN EittADOWS AND THE LIMIT, Sweet fell the summer sun on Car- cassonne. In tho garden of the little cottage where Lady Castlemaine had found a refuge. 'ere Gertrude, Justine, and the aul . They were in an arbour covered with jessamine and hohey. suckle, which, in full bloom, loaded the air with fragrance. In the centre of the arbour was a little table, on which were two books and a worlaboeket. Gertrude half reclined in a large invalid chair; near her sat Justine, sewing, and on n rug at their feet was the little child, busy with some toys. In the garden bids chirped among the almond, poince granate, and Cheouut ttees, and butter. ties swung above the beds of flowers. Gertrude's golden hair was loosely knotted at the back of her tieck ; she .wore no jewelry but her weading-ring : her dams Of soft black nuns' vatting fell 'in thick folds, only relieved by tho frills of 'white lace at her throat and artiste. Her skin, always pearly fair, had now a transparency ominous to on instructed eye. There web ° little hollows in the beautiful oval of het 'cheeks hor blue eyes had a pathetic !longing, and the little pousive droop, 0000 11 floating expression of the delay mouth, was now an abiding inaprese ol her days of sarow. From the thee whou Jacetino heti ntsi eome to hor as friend, mime, coropthion, r•t! had been the good girl's habit to toad to hot raistmes-friona, just before male ing, a chaptet from tho Gospels and a few pages ftom the " Imitatioe" 01 Thomas A. Kemple. Of late alio Md. !big had taken place in the inoruing also, end now it had just been finished, and the two books lay on the table. o i , 0410 WII .1 a Ithoivo Lady (Witte. mine in the (leas of her early triumph would have named a great change iu the expreesiou of ber face—the aottem ing of its indomitable ankle, and the disappearance of its trait of wilfulness, " Juliano," said Gertrude, " is it always duty to forgive 7" "Always," said J netino. " The word is, ' Forgive no as we forgive.' It dm not Bey, 'forgive when the offense is not great," or ' forgive wheu you feel like it,' Also, dear lady, the word ie, ' until seventy times seven.'" "Justine, I do not think I have for- given oven seven times. But will pot the greatness of injury balance the num- ber of injuries ?" "Does the Book meution the sin of the sin which we aro to forgive ?" "But it says if he repent and say 1 have sinned.' Suppose that is not seal to you—what then, Justine ?" Possibly, dear lady, we might qace- tion' whether the sinner has had °pea- tunity to say it. An 150 in his ratwtL ?" Gertrude flu:axed a little et the aetutti laquiry, "Justine, suppose you 15010 Married aud absolutely true and faithful to your. busband, and he accused you of light. nems and infidelity, and threatenea de vorce, walla you eve. forgive that 2" Dear lady, I should try to prove te 0101 that hed thinkbe was raistaken, It woul we hor- rible torture to those that feel it. It le better to suffer wrong than to do wrong. Suppose I did not give him time to re - 'Justine," cried Gertrude, " I feared be would take away Illy child. Think— to rob a snother of her child 1" "Ana therefore, dear lady, aid. you Fob %father of his child 1" ss, "01, Justine 1" "Ti my mind the rights of parents 11 are equal. But, thenthem is the shild's right. A child has a right to know its father, to know its honourable birth, to use any advantages ofbirth, fortune, friends, that . od has given . Should we rob a little child 2" • Gertrude was silent. Tears rolled down her cheeks. " Dear lady," said Justine, earnestly, "but for mo you are a stranger in a strange land. You are young, lovely, caned. I cannot fail to see that you are o person of high station. No doubt you had friends. What have they felt for you?" "They wore fashionable friends," said Gertrude, with scorn; "they could easily forget—and one, the most trusted, was false 1" "Aud brothers and sisters 7" , " I never had any, Justine." "And a mother ?" said Justine, gently. "See how you love your boy. You love bim more to -day than when first I laid him in your arms. That love will grow with his growth. Yearly he will grow dearer. So you grew in the hearts of your mother and. father." "My father is dead!" cried Gertrude. "Oh, my brave, true father 1 if you had lived, you could have protected your child 1 In you I could have found shelter 1" Justine had learned what she would know. Gottrude's mother lived. She went on : But the mother, dearlady? were her only child. Hew lonely is that heart 011 which your baby head found rest 1 How empty the arms which held yen! Where is the light for those eyes that saw you as the loveliest thing on earth 7 Poor lady—widowed and de- prived of he child 1" • The loug-repreased sorrow broke f Gertrude gave a low cry, and held out her hands as seeking aid. " Mother 1 Oh, mother 1 I want my mother 1" Justine sprang to her side, soothing her. "Dear lady, be calm, be happy. You can have all yon want. You Can send for your mother this very day. In a week—only think it—in seeing you again, and in holding your child on her 'moos, she will be compensated for all her trouble." 11 )3ut, Justine," said Gertrude, hush- iug her sobs, "suppose he takes away my child? No doubt he has a divorce — he will take away rey boy 1" "Huh, dearest lady I Surely you never married a monster! I will testify, the dootor will testify what a mother you aro. Your mother will help you. Tbe child will bo left in your care. Do not fear to do right, And this divorce — when wasit granted, how, why'7 In En land no do they divorce on suspicion?" " It was asked for when we met lit Paris. No doubt it was granted." " You do mot know certainly ?" "No, no; Iran away 1" "Bub, m friend, I think they could g t an norm on suEl 01 o11 otila' and against an absent ; and your mother and your lawyer—rioh people always have a lawyer—would surely &- fencl you and demand proofs of evil on your part; and as those 'Roofs are wanting, then—why, then, dem lady, I do not believe there has been any divorce at all, You have fled ftom a hadow, dy, as thechuldren do." " Oh, Jqsaile, do you think it?" " Certainly ; to me ibis quite paain," "Justine, I had done no wrong ; I assure you 1 was innocent." That is evideet to any ono who sees you for even one small half-hour. But your wrong, lady, was in running away. The bond of ittariage is sacred; the wife has no more tight to deserb her husband than she has to love another man. I must tasy, dear lady, that here you were nay wrong; and if I were le yeet place I should write a letter to my lawyet, 01017 mother. 1 should $11 all —all the trouble; I should tell the foots—the fears for the cbild—that made you fly, I should say I was sorry for the wreeg ; I sh011111 0017 to make friends With my husbana." " You don't knew his nature, atistino. I have herd him say he would take me von"o for wrong—that he was one who could 110501 totglae—that be could bo bad and mend il avrengetl." 11 People Often say more than they meen, clear lady. Dial he love you once 7" 011, Justine, how 11111011 150 loved ectoli otherl t think 00 two 11001)10 were ever 00 happy as we wore once." Gertrude sigaed and clamed box eyes. Teem trembled on the long lashea hneuaory was busy with thou beautiful days of hor early love, the days before her bridal, the lovely days in 'Venice, the lira Lumina 04 Neath. The doctor came in at the gate and along the walk, but Gertrude, absorbed in her meinetiee, did not hear his step. He was at her side. "Seo what have brought yo a 1" he said; and dropped into her lap a whole armful of waite, prefume-broatbing roam Oh, rememberecl fragrance 1 011, Reath 1 where her flowers had grown in such luxuriance 1 011, branch of white roses offered hor by Rudolph in that disastrous slimmer of anger and estrange- went—offered as a pledge 07 1)0000, and by her rejected 1 With a passionate cry, Gertrude caught up the snowy sweet flowers and pressed them to her faro and bosom, with tears and kisses. ^yr CHAPTER LXVI. alum MB WRITE 110509. 1a:centime, Mr. Grimheld, seizing the clue afforded by the dying confession of load Hyde, had prosecuted inquiries at Dover and Calais, and had arrived at Paris, where he was making a close can- vass of the distinctively French hotels. Dr. Randal had convinced Lord Castle- maine that he was in too excited a con- ditiou than to be other than a hindrance f personally baking part in the quest Lord Castlemaine, therefore, re- mained at Neath, in a state of intense mxiety. He was pacingthe terrace one august afternoon, when a carriage came ' laiously dashing along the avenue, and , Lady Craven, hardly waiting for the aid of the arrroom, sprang to tho ground, and aurried to meet her somin-law. " Goatee:mine! I have a letter from my child 1" " 011, thank God 1 thank God 1 Where is she? How is she ?" Crying thusl Lord Castlemaine led Lady Craven into the library, and at anon sent a page for Dr. Ronda]. " She is at Caroassonne,South France; she has a son, nineteen months old; she says the healthiest, loveliest, and bright- est of children. We must go to her at once 1" " At once! Oh, does she speak of me 7" " She writes me tbe -whole story of he trouble. Ott, just as I warned you, and just as that 'wicked girl told you herself —Isabel Hyde began and wrought out all this difficulty." " Poor girl 1 poor Gertrude ! How rash and wrong I was! Let me hear what she says of me? Does she hate me still ?" " Lord Castlomaine, she never hated you ; but she was wilful, hasty, and, no doubt, as Randal says, morbid, and not pito herself. She feared you would de- mand a separation, and take away her child. I will read you the last of her bettor: I must see you, mother. You must say you forgive me, and love my boy. Oh, come to me 1—I need you. How could I bo so l7715 frora you so long 1 It was for my obild I feared—you will not let them tato him away 1 I dare not speak of Rudolph—I do not know even that I havo a husband. Perhaps I am divorced ; but even then, he will not de- prive me of my little one for the short time that remains. For, mother—I see it, although they think I do not know - 1 am fading away; I am dying—I know 1 I I • Mud 11150 110 will belong, to his father. I named him Rudolph.'' ; Lord Castlemaine laid his head on the I library table, and broke into a strong passion of sobs and toms. It was all so pitiful 1 Lady Craven took his band, bowed her bead beside his, and together they mourned the victim of pride. Doctor Randal arrived, and road all the letter. " Come, come 1" he said; " take cour- age! Let me plan for you. To.night we go to Dover; early to.reorrow wo shall be in Franco. I will telegraph at once to Mr. Grimbeld to return. By day after tomorrow morning we will be with Lady Cootlemaine. 1 trust she la really iu far better health than the thinks, and will see many useful and happy years. I want you to consider what she says. She has had means to live in the great- est comfort. She has had by her an old and skilful physician, who has proved the best of friends. The !second day after leaving here she secured a friend, uurse, attendant, who seems to have been all that could be deeired—a true, noble, devoted woman, For all this, let us be thankful. Now, Lord Castle - mine, you must prepare for this jar. uey; and shall I not call all the ea- vauts together; tell them something of all this tuatara ; let them know my ideo, that Lady Castlemaine was a victim of transient manic, when she left, and where and bow cam has been; and tell thane about the little heir, and the speedy I return ? Then, when the ice is broken, 1 you 0110 00010 in and give your orders." , " I will telegraph back to Eastdale I for Fanny to wine here, to got her lady's rooms in just such order as sexed to please her, and to be ready to wait on , ha as before," said Lady Craven. I Li his commando to his 501541010, Lord Clastlemaine laid emphasis on putting axe household in exactly its former state ; all the house was to be opened, ennead, have fires in it. The former routine wee to bo taken up, a,na, as far 11.8 poseible, the old servante put place. " And do you," saidLord Castlemaine to his old gardener, "restore to their splendour all those white room! which 1 you have been trying to hide away from 1 mo tor two years. Let us havo a hoes full of white roses, tat I begin toy life , again." Two days later, Lady Craven, 'Lord CastIonmine, and Dr. Randal stoped in a traveling earriage by the fountain of a little village neat Carcessonne. A brisk, bleolhoyed, whito.httived eki gentleman beetled tip to them. Ibis gola.liettdoil cane ont.tteieltled the gold buttons a his blue coat, and his blue coat contrasted theartilly with his classes; the protestations of both fa - shining, white, and liberally displayed lowed, and the child was to be shown, linen. aud potted, aud /ilea° much of. 'Aar "1 The 17 ort of alaetlenlaine 2" said this tenderness for the child relieved theta His lordship stepped forward. both. genial personage. both."011, mother, 1 was cruel to hale from "1 havo been watching for you; I you I How good it is to see you! How counted the boure ; 1 °etiolated your could I keep away from you so long 1" iropotieuee. Yon 'will follow mo?" " You were nut yourself, my dearest. Ho led them iuto a charming little But if Iliad dreamed you were in each home, filled with books and uatural cur. a sweet, quiet place as ttis, with that ositios, delightful old doctor to wadi over you, "%arbor° is my wife ?" cried Lora and that augel of a gitl, Justbso, to care Conaomaine. for you, 1 sbould not have worried at " Where is my dauglitor 9" exclaimed all. Justine has been talking to us in Lady Graven, tho arbor. She is perfection. She will "My friends, patience! 1 take you to go to England with. you. Lord Castle - her ; but I must first speak with you. nutine anti I owe her everything." She is very feeble. After writing ber 4, math", totter the other day, came, not reaction has Rudolph been looking for 1110, and oaring for me, all this tinie?" for the better, but a loss of staingth, asked Gertrude, softly. great prostration. We must deal gently. „ Brea— Is er langlith 1)113151.lung hie heart for you, and tall. this gentleman h cion ?" ing all the biome on himself I" cried " Pardon me, yos—Doclor Henan', 'Lady Craven. " He feels that if he had only wou your confidence by alittle more But you torture me." ',Patience, my friend. Lot Doctor gentleness and calmness, all this would Randal go to her first. Lot him tell her not have happened. Don't fret, dear. that all is well ; that she is loved, for- We all know yen were not quite your. "Creel Heaven 1 Aro wo monsters. , , you went awayah' if given ; that 11 0 one Will take her child." Flell Nvimu to persecute her 7" cried Lord Castle. " Ohr, mother I was nine more myse 0311,1110. than mu think—a very proud, head.' lam sure not. Are you uot aivorma strong, obstinate self it was 1" sighed Gettrude. "Now, mother, take my from her ?" child and carry lira to his father, and " God help me, 110 1--a thousand times then, after about ten minutes, let Lord no 1 I only love her !" Castlemaine come to me." take Doctor Renal first. lie, as a W0,0 ly0Y0ping. The heir of,Castlemaine Lad Craveu went to the arbor. She " Now, my friends, I see my way. 1 physician, knows how and what to toll, tvasli2n nor arms. When he has cleared the way, then the h mother. The mother comforts and ex- 11 there 15 'your heir, and your image 1" " here Rudolp , my son l" slie said; 'aim, and soothes; then the 1105.and she put the beautiful,. laughing, long -desired boy in his fathers D.T11113. bami—" "Go 1 go 1" moaned Lord Oastleinaine. "1 am the last. 1 see it—I have lost tily relit to be first." "But you need, not stay here. Yoi. can all come to the garden of he cot. tage. It is but a little way. Justine, twitching, .will prepare her for Doctor Randal. You will wait in the arbor." • Gertrude was not spending the morn- ing in the arbor. She had grown strangely weak, and was lying on an invalnachair, converted to a couch, in her little parlour. Justine sat in the window, the child in her ar1/18. " Your English Doctor Randall—he as a tall man, with red hair and beard, and. a face of benevolence'7" said Jus- tine. "Yes, yes 1 How did you know 7" cried Gettrude. "Gently, dear lady. One know e what one sees. I think this is he coming up the walk with onr friend, the doctor." When Doctor Randal came into the room, Gertrude suddenly threw her left arm over hor face, holding her right hand t her old friend. Justine and Doctor De Val withdrew to the hall. "Dear Lady Castlemaine," whispered Dootor Randal, bending over her, " do not cover your face, or I shall think Meanwhile Doctor Randal wont to see Gertrude for a moment. When he came from the roora, Lord Castlemaine was at the threshold. Randal led Ilan in, and closed the door gently on 'the long. parted husband and wife. When Gertrude looked into Lord Castlemaine's eyes, and real there all his passionate love and lavertthelmitag sorrow, then ab lest, she ahnevethat the current of his love for her luidlesets far stronger, more ardea,metcancible, than hors for him. Hers. had heat:the love of a wilful thild; his of aalbeong.heatted tnan. She held out her hand. He flung himself on histkisees by her coed], and hid hie face millet ehoelder. "Gertrude 1 my love 1 tityvelie 1 come hack and lire ease more among your white roses 1" CHAPTER LXVII. MT ASUNDER. " Lady Castlemaine," said Doctor Randal, perhaps you do not wish to go to Neath; itmay havo painful memories that you do not wish to encounter. Would you rather go to Eastdale until your health is re-established ?" "Dootor," said Gertrude, "the pain- ful memories of the past are memories some of your old mania clings to you of 017 01511 follies, and they would be as still. I understood you; I explained to present at Rastdale as at Heath. I you. It was all my fault, not warning will go to Neath; that is my rightful your husband before. Your flight was home; and perhaps by going there 1 a passing mania, Now all has turned can do away with some painfulthaughts out well, and yon are coming baok with that cling to Rudolph's mind. Besides, your mother and sue, and we, will show doctor, Heath is tho inberitanoe of my the tenantry of Castlemaine the here- boy. I wish to see my son in the borne ditary earl. A. noble child this is," of his ancestors." added Randal:11f ting the boy and " I think myself that no place can be. ing him beside his mother. " You may better for you than Neath, Lady Castle - well be proud of him ; and your mother maine'it is a very healthful spoto" and your husband will be proud of him, Gertrude looked up with a smile. too," "Von are all trying to deceive me," " My husband.?" faltered Gertrude. she said ; " but I cannot declaim myself. " Certainly. He has been looking, You speak of • getting well,' and of re - with the greatest anxiety, for yon, for established health.' That can never nearly two years. Why, I set him right be. The springs of my life have failed las to the ease immediately; aud so did at their fountain. All that is left for Grieshold, and your mother, and every 010 15 to wait for a little while and one: He needed but it word. He was, I know 700 15111 all think gently of me, and is, devoted to you. Now, you will and pity rather than blame, whatever I get back your strength, and go home to have deserved." Neath Abbey. It is looking lovelier Doctor Randal was silent. Ile could, than ever. They aro all preparing for not deceive his patient; ho was not de - your coming. Your mother will go with ceiving himself. you, and stay as long as you invite her. At first Gertrude grew a little Grimhelcl will be there to see the heir." stronger. Her eagerness to please hot Doctor Randal was sitting beside her, mother and husband in going home his hand laid .gently over her wrist. He helped hor. She was able to make tho felt theiluttmeng pulses growing calmer journey, and the change was further as be talked. beneficial. " And Rudolph is not angry 7" she Neath once more received its mis' whispered. • tress. The abbey looked so unchanged; "AngryMydoarLadyOasthemainet it wo.s just as it had been when Ger. He is precione angry with himself, I Crude woe§ there a happy brido. All assure you—fit, to put hirosolf in a dun. that had then seemed desirable was goon, under a life sentence. But we her. Her husband's heart was trite to losow you will forgive him, for the bay's her ; she had a son, a child of abound - mice." ing health and beauty. And yet all "He has more to forgive mo—I have was changed, and aifferent from what boon gone two amara." she had hoped. "All's well that cads well!" cried Dr. There was a canker in the heart ei Ratulal, cheerfully. " I should say you the White Rose; that canker was Pride. might make it even between you, and " Rudolph," said Gertrude, a day oe arothe eubjeet I have here in my two after the return, "31 want you to do case a restorative—the very thing for you. 1 see this glass has barley -water. Allow mo to give you a potion before I bring 310115 mother. I want you to be very calm. We must havo you well in a week ; so you must help bynob getting excited." " Oh, but, Dootor Randall, I has% been so foolish—so wicked—so 1117150 Illation myself for two years." No ,great harm in that. Somepeople get these harmless manias in certain physicist states. Yours would have come to nothing only an ehemy Harrell tip yea excitement, and provoked Lord Castlemaine, quite ignorant of teal facts, gentlemen—my filnees will explain the to anger ana jealousy. Don't think any not inviting the county baba—and mote of that enemy; the has confessed then, at that dinoer, I W0.1111 7611 to pre - n; sent our child as yonr son mid heir, the Aforto het, It Wag Mism Hyde and something for me." Anything, everything you wisla my Gertrude," They were on the terrace; Gertrude, wrapped in soft shawls, reclining 70 her aiavand chair, Lord Castlemaine at her side. It was the twelfth of September; the fall was warm and clear—a ing summer. " The fifth of October will be your birthday, Rudolph, and I want you to give 0. great tenantry dinner at Neath, in the park, and have every one of your tenants at it, all heap* 1)1050711, also, the heads of the count/ tho she is °ma. Then I think you 'lima tutu" gar). of Castlamalaa' 31 have Is gtoat desire for that." "Then ib shall be done. 1 will giro orders to the steward, tho bubber, 1170. Imesekeeper to -night to begin avtaugca moots." "And then, Rudolph, when onr bay is five yeas old—on bis birthday 31 want him to have a &nuor fee tho tenantry, and bo ptesouted to thorn again," "Yes, love. But that is far ahead, toot throe rave. You at* avenge for Dootot Randall occupied too. athletes "Never in its time, Rudolph. I shall in bringing Lady Craven. Ile &mita{ hot then bo hero 1 shall be gone. Do to give Gorttucto time to realize ell he not R11(1°11111 ; 117 18 014 'f°r a had told her ma ha groat titans, little While I attea ' 80010 little worry er trouble abont Colonel Lennox. That is all explained '-11 0107110 to nothing, The Colonel wrote to your besband a most gentlemanly letter. Ile also saw Grimheld, and he explained that yea acquaintance was a the most dignified kind. Those things will happen sonnitintes, Don't 150207 0501 the past; ibis all game. In two more years it will be forgaton, even almost by you. Now I will bring your th " Whom Lily 014115515 cammin, there Iseta eastielactme kissed her liaarl In W48111%61;110 mooting, then bio mutual '• to rt 1 0,1001INITI,,, aaa: . a co 1-4 0