The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-11


time she had burnt the letter at one
Of the wax-cdndles on the tOilet-tablt
and even powdered the ashes over the
/ table with the ivory back of brush.
/ Then she was again looking at her
self in the glass.
"NO my lady, don'tin cried tht
maid, in an agOniZed voice.
The Lady Annie turned.
II beg your pardon, my LAZY, you
face in the glass frightened me"
t 500 To bed-g0 Ia bed. / shall moi
want you any more. BY the way
don't let the idea of what said about
Lord SplaightOn float in your. baby
head. He will not marry very mucil
/ below his own station. He Is engag'
/ ed To a person by the name of Smythe,
a bankers daughter. Why, you have
turned pale, child -
"Your Iadyship frightened me So"
"Be good enough TO remember that
your must only address mes as my lady,
[ not your ladyship.' Goodnight"
Two evenings after this event, the
wallfioweF dOwagers could do nothing
I but talk of the supposed engagement
between Lord SplaightOn and Miss
I Smythe. Satirical things were said Oi
/ Lady Annie Beacham, who had pre-
viously during the season. apparant-
/ ly refused to recognize her rival.
I Sir Arthur Pennal was near Lady
Annie's side side during the greater
/ part of the evening.
They were seated in the twilight
| darkness of a prOfusely perfumed con-
servatOry, and totally hidden from
view, when she said, '';Sir Arthur will
you get me some ice"
He left, and returned with plate OF
/ the refreshment demanded.
"And now find my fan, while i am
eating this cream"
For some two minutes she was alone.
| When Sir Arthur returned with the
/ fan, the ice was untouched.
''Sir Arthur" she said, lord
| SplaightOn has gone to find Miss
Smythe some ice. / wish you would
vex him by taking this to her; she is
sitting under the palms over there. 1t
will be delightful to see the veXatiOn
upon his face"
Certainly, Lady Anniem
Three minutes afterwards the alarm
ing news spread through the rooms
/ that Miss Smythe had been seized
with sudden indispOsitiOn, and had
been carried to her carriage.
"She has been taking ice," said one
dowager to another. 'I very much
wonder that ice is not put down. l
believe firmly, that it is the cause of
more deaths in season than any
thing else"
That same night the face in the
glass again alarmed the lady's-maid,
but she conquered her terror. Only
once was she near betraying herself,
and this was when my lady said,
"Few of us commit murder, but we
all think it."
Next day, Miss Smythe was report
ed to be worse.
Sir Arthur Pennall called upon Lady
Annie, and at once she noticed that
what it always had been. He was
now insOlently familiar.
''This business of Miss Smythe's
will be bad job for SplaightOn, for l
know he was calculating upon her
money for his Derby book"
"But she is only poorly"
"Oh no; depend upon it, that ice
will do for her."
"Sir Arthur Pennall n
He laughed.
"And you are the dOctorI Lady Anne
plainly, will you accept me for hus-
band?n
"Sir Arthur Pennall, you are forget
ting yourself"
"NO; | am thinking of myself and
you"
''Think of yourself, but leave me to
my own thinking"
"Wehad bettergo in double harness"
Here Lady Anna rang the bella
signal to Sir Auther to rise.
'1 shall be at liberty to say that af
ter getting the ice, you sent me away
for your fan, and that afterward you
sent me to her with the ice. You are
known to have lived in Italy, and you
are known to have been favorable to
SplaightOn. Good morning."
IA moment. You really believe /
tampered with that ice?"
"It's often done, rs well with men
and women as horses"
"And unless accept you, you will
spread this mOnstrous charge? ?"
"pm afraid So"
"IShdH sag yyOu 1OerC an accomplish" >"
He started.
"GOOd morning, Sir Arthur Pennall
think over what you are about to do"
She left the room.
That night she was once again before
the glass, once again the face was
looking at itself, and the maid was
furtively watching it.
Two words changed Lady Annie's
life.
Steadily questioning her own face,
she said these two wOrIls,-
'LOrd SplaightOn ~
"Oh no-nO, Lady Anniew cried
the maid. "YOur face is terrible! You
contemplate some harm to Lord
SplaightOn. forbid you to do this Z"
" You forbid ~
~ am his 1CJcp
For some moments there was a ter
rible silence. Then Lady Annie spoke.
"YOu are his wife. Yours is face
which cannot hide a falsehOOd. But,
being Lady SplaightOn, why are you
herew
az was much below him in birth
he married me, apart from loving me,
because of the belief he holds that old
families will die out if not reinvigOr-
ated by new blood, and, to test my
honest love of simplicity, he required
me to play the part of lady's maid for
a whole year. Hence his Aunt's in
PRODUCTION of myself TO you"
Suddenly Lady Annie uttered a cry,
and the evil look she had bestowed
upon the maid died out. L
'He could not have married herW
Three minutes after that the house
hold was astOnished by the Lady An
ME leaving the house in hurried
manner in a cab, for she would not
wait for the horses to be put in her
carriage.
Next day, the fashionable world
learnt, concerning the bankers daugh-
ter, Miss Smythe, that she was out of
danger, that on the previous night the
Lady Annie Beacham had forced her
way to Miss Smythe's bedside, and
constituted herself her nurse, upon the
sensible plea that she had been in
structed in nursing by Florence Night
ingale herself ... ...,.t........
What had happened How far was
the Lady Annie Beaeham innocent
or guilty?
All the world ever learnt was this:
that she left England, that she devO-
ted her life TO charitable work, that
she is most especially plying toward
all sinners of the worst sort; and that
once, being visited at Florence by
Lady SpIaighton, she said, al see you
are happy; | am as much at peace as
1 ever csA- be. will only add that
good often comes out of contemplated
evil; for my life would not have been
so hopeful as am sureit is, had temp
tatiOn not come upon my path. lean
and will say no more"
Drunkenness In the 0Iden Time.
A law to oprevent ntdrmkenness by pro-
hibiting the public promiscHous sale