The Morning herald., 1877-01-27
CORD AND CRRRsR.
CHAPTER XIV.
BEATR1cE's JOURNAL.

hn gave long scream of laughter.
ou old fool I" he cried 80. that
you'er up to, is it I? Sir John-ha, ha
You'll never be made Sir John BY
Is, Pm afraid. f.'
b, don't you be too sure. Pm not pu,
I'll try again." he continued, altel
Sc. "Next year I'll do it. Why,
marry lord, and then won't, I be 9
father-in-law! What do you say te
1hen did YOU get these notions In your
ID head |" asked John. ~
ph, I've had them It's not 90 much
yself Johnnie-but ftr you. For il
lord you'll be a lord too" sM.
ord Potts. Hs, ha, ha |"
10" said my father, with some appear.
ofvexation, mot that +; we'll take oul
(he way all the lords do, from the es
I'll be Lord Brandon, and when
ou'll get the title" 81 - i
ind that's your little game. Well
Fe played sucn good little games in
life that I've got nothing to ssy, ex-
-'Go itp" ~ 162
he's the one that'll give me a lift"
ell, she ought to be able to do some
this time l concluded that l had done
uty and prepared to retire. l did moi
to overhear any of their conversation.
walked out of the room I still heard
remarks: .I
lest if she don't look as if she thought
IT the Queen" said John.
the diamonds, Johnnie
. it amt, it's the girl herself, / don't
Ehe way she has Of looking at me and
tgh me-"
Fhy, that's the way with that kind.
Fhat the lords like" & 2
don't like it. then, and I tell you she's
, be took downp N
US was the last I heard. Yet one thing
evldent To me from their conversation.
Pather had some wild plan of efecling
lrance into society through lne. He
Eht that after he was once recognized
|lght get sufficient influence to gain a
fnd found a family. l also might
y a lord. He thus dreamed Of being
brandon, aud one Of the great mobiles
pldst my sadnes I almost smiled at
saln dream; but yet Johns words af-
me me strongly-"You've played such
llltle games in your life" Well I
W WIN whom they were played. One
:1'n Despard, the other with Brandon.
~ tnen was the reason why he had
or ME from China. The knowledge
purpose made my life neither bright
I darker. l still lived on as before.
Ilng these months Mrs. Compton's
= devotion to me never ceased. Ire~
lsa her, and forbore to excite that pain.
af to which she was subject Once or
|. l forgot myself and began speaking
ABOUT her strange position here:
F'opped me with her look Of alarm.
(kre you not afraid to be kind to me ?"
J looked at me piteously.
Gu are the only one that il kind to
~ continued. o, "How have" you the
can not help it." she murmured, "you
p dear to me-"
/ sighed and was silent. The mystery
T. ner remained unchanged; her gentle
= %;I ner tender love, and ever-present
What was there in her past that 90
'snced ! her life? Had she too been
= up with the crime on the Yishue /?
!. impossible. Yet surely something
''A as that must have been required to
10 black a cloud over her life. Yet
'xwhat - could that have been2 In
VI myself associate her secret with
l'sgedy r. Of Despard. She was in his
Y long. His wife died. She must
oeen with her at the time.
y y, Possibilities that have suggested
'"eiVes ,a., 70 my mind will one day drive
Isa, ios H., Alas, how my heart yearns over
ma ,onely man in the drifting ship! And
'.s nelcl1uI God! who am / that / should
'a'n,ze al1 with hila? My name is infamy
poke % to her once in a general wn~