The St. Cloud journal., 1871-04-13


= hsye!sd5 go7s 81, L>os~lz Lila. I'D
~ "Aud?sneBs her address 7" av.,:...H |
"4eeasy sw ,G5'': 10 ,z,o7 ov laG ,ssg.
III ''Ths deuee.' you do! How, glad 1
am / mentioned the subject to you'll
I've reproached myself, every time I've
thought daE1Mlg Of Mrs. Archer, for. . moatb
ast:'''';s4s O. ;e.s ,ss-.sa .>o,;ts,. ti.:
. "lodesa, osi9ald, aud pis tor. What RED:
son ?X.,s sxsa e. "14., ,,4o>... -. ~
:2s "Wellss I'll ten you AL about it Car:
den- I've two I'D runts: living down
at southmere, and when I paid them a
visit, on 6rst coming home ! was in
troduoed to a very pretty woman of the
oame Of Lennox; have you ever heard
of her P" 4. - - i
= "Yous allude to, Mrs. Archers- sister,
do youHoots?" s'...:. " !. .:>aTs
"Yes; half'sister, or something of
that sort: When I say she's very pretty
I mean she ha; been very rrettys;s but
she has no eud Of chic about her; and
in fact, knows what's o'clock as well as
most people 7; and Pm afraid for time
she rather made d fool Of me.", -: -.
"Take, care ,vhats:y!ou say, Oswald"
said ceoAery Garden, quietly, s.remem.
Der, Il Is Mrs: Archer : sister Of whom
! YOU sneak;'.T . ':>s.: 10 - i: -..., .-'3..
! an al tight, id fellow y. /. repeat,
that Mis-: Leuno1 made a fool Of me,
!as, sundry unpaid bills for jewelry, and
snilst, rubbish,, , can a, testify; and that T
i'm aot The tfst naD, 81 many, Who has
I lived = t,3| repent: The day be saw her
fsne il ven known at Soathmere as the
sea ITSELF" - = '' 4
r. "But what connection has this with
1'your self-reproach- concerning Mrs.
'lE:Ar6ter p? asked Nj Garden, who vas =.
4:sviasdtly y1i6 1ai66zious: to dfaw1 him away way
sromn ths subject Id hand. u Il ii
I" "foa'lt hear ii s. goa 6da' fine, if you'll
opy b. pStieut,' About 'six weeks age,
t,Mn. Lennox wrote ne a. note from
southmste, Is Jay that iehee.. had laid a
fbet't 'that she Gould make heri ihiii;t sister Eu-:
1 'geoYs' 'cco4e up 70 town on 7 any day aud
at ally hour the' chose, and asked, if;
for her satisfaction, I would be at the
4: Waterloo Station tie following after
y moon to see it Mrs. Archer did not ar
]:rive 1by The four.o'clock train. The let
|ter:was written So p ipleyfully, ond SO
1'mdch is if it were only'a jest between
the two sisters, that saw no harm in
doing as I was asked, particularly as 1
had always liked Mrs. Archer, and
thought that it-woald be pleasant TO- sue
ter again.' Sol went, to- the station,
and, sure enough, she came, looking AZ
lpretty sas ever, but'awfully nervous and
miserable, and said abe expected some
body to meet her, but, Is no ono sp
+ |-peased, I puther:id . cab, and she? va,
driven off in 1.-THE direction of the
Strand, though I couldn't make hc1
; say2Hhere she was going to.vOt course
it seemed; 1ather queer to me, and l said
), as much to- her sister; bat I never i'm
fagiued there was any trick X in it, till q
4 month ago, when Mrs. Lennox told me
( as great joke, that she had discovered
I that Mrs. Archer correspouded with
!. soma onesunder the initials r. Q : and
felt certain it was a man I: and that te
} find out the truth she had sent he,
a1etter to- Ash GROVE (where she wat
staying then, You Know TO- say that p
O. was dying, and, if she wished te
|, see him again, she must come up t<
London by that very train, aud mes
senger should meet her at the station
"How' cruel how cowardly and
: cruel !" exclaimed Geofery Garden. "
j y"Brutal! w.sn't1t? But, by Jove
women ecan be to one another: when the,
> choose. Welt that. wasn't the end o
! it, for on ny Observation-Disclosures luck
7 what should Mrs. Lenuox do bu
, write The whole sffair to her -mothe,
and when Mrs. Archer: was taxe'
q; With IT.; refused to explain, and let
y Ash Grove, and none If her relative
. hatesseen her since. l feel mad when
: ever I think of fie!'':33 -,..*:5:...
>s"And has Mrs. Lennox feh no re
q morse for her own conduct 7" said NJ,
, Garden. r. -"
u s. "Remorse you don't know the "
i mau, ,'or you wouldn't ask that quel
=. tion. She has no more heart than
Il stoAe sshe does not understand wh,
q the word means. But I was not goip
q tofbs made aseat's:paw of in that mar
q her, and 30 / told her; and We had
p quarrel on ths'seore Of 1T, which hi
:, never bes6 made up sinee-and neve
= will be. aI;sbalf pay tho bills I ran q
= for her as soon as I can scrapa the MOI
: e5'together; and then|sI don't care if
le forget her name: How I ever coul
9 have been such fool, i" can't thinl
r And to have got that poor little Mr.
= Archer into serape, too; so kind q
2 she' always. was to me in Calcutta
! iWhat affair VAS it of mine, if sho ha
q = loyer -ors half . dozen lovers, for th
= msttereo thatl A pretty woman mus
have, some pleasure; I suppose; 20
u can't expeet- -!"'lsssz-v5;v G54 -u.,.-
= :=e h0sysld II thuodsred 'Geodrey Ca
NJ dem, from the other side of the table
81 "remember whom yoss.re talking 0
81 lsify0u <pleas&. r eMfS. Arehc, IL a ftien