The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-29


ssBlake, sir, is Der name" continued Perci-
val with an unr,lAied calm; sit is very
decent one, though she doesn't spell it with
two little is. She is delicate-minded honor
able gentlewoman, and mean to marry her"
"What, without my consent2"
mo, Sir Godfrey. / hope with your
consent. You have only to see her, and
venture to think you will confess that Miss
=, the young lady in blue, whom you were
SO good as to recommend to me, can not hold
a candle to her"
should understand the Importance, the neces-
sity, the indispensability-" The baronet
supplied in expression and gesture what was
wanting to him in words.
81 do, sir, Sir Godfrey. Science has late
ly corroborated your opinion upon that
point To persons about to marry it rec
ommends the microscope. Mary's blood
shall be subjected to investigation
What nonsense you talk As if it could
possibly be blood like ours! Beware how you
trife-or rather, how you venture beyond
trifiing-with persons of this class. A blot
on the 'scutcheon, remember, is inerad-
icable."
"If Fendall were to break his word,
Sir Godfrey, would not that be blot on the
'scutcheon?"
1t was cruel in Percival to place his kins-
man on the horns of such dilemma. But
there is no fetish so utterly illogical
and, to say the truth, so selfish and egotisti-
cal-as that of blood.
1.-THE promise was extracted from You by
passion" answered the old man, "and is,
therefore invalid" Then as if aware of the
monstrosity of this position, he went hurried
ly on-as after one has skinned thin over ice
Ito paint the horrors of unequal marriage
at 7 ~. TO- r,,>l
as his uncle wished him he might have stood
for the county; man whose ancestry is
only second to our own, but who chose to
throw himself away on female nobody.
Respectable, dare say, she NAV be-her
father lives in Baker street and is of the
name of Jones. What was the result of it
all? Why, young Lascelles was compelled
to walk the hospitals"
If ne had been compelled to walk the plank
it is impossible that Sir Geoffery could have
spoken of the fact with more sincere COM
passion for the young mans unhappy fate.
81 know Lascelles," said Percival. cheer
fully; he lives close to the Blakes."
"very likely" put IN Sir Godfrey, dryly.
"And has already acquired good practice,
continued the young man. ale told me he
is much happier than when subjected to his
uncle's whims and caprices."
! This was a home thrust. Sir Godfrey
seized the bell-rope to summon the foot-man
| to show his llinsman to the door; but by the
time that mental entered, his masters passion
| had cooled down. He only said. MAKE up
| the fire. The fact was, that the notion OF
| that extra generation which Percival had
spoken of had seized on what the old bar
onet called ''his mind" and placed the young
man in position OF positive superiority.
Look here, Percival," he said. "Just tc
| please YOU I'll see this young woman, and Il
I'm dissatisfied with her you must promise
me to break off your engagement"
at is impossible that You should be dissat
isfied with her, said Percival, calamity, but
evasively.
The old gentleman had got an idea-rath
err an unusual event with the Fendalls-and
hence it was the more to be regretted that il
was unworthy of them. If he found th
Mary Blake SO ''honorable and delicate-mind
ed'' as Percival had described, he might
work upon her feelings by representing tina
she was running the young mans prospects
if. on the other hand, she was mercenary, h
might buy her off.
Accordingly, in due course, Sir Geof'reN
came up to London. and an interview wa
arranged between himself and Mary, afte
which Percival received the following let
ter:
Ny DEAR CoUsIN:-Love has not blinde,
you, for / grant that the young person
very good-looling, but it has dulled you
sense of hearing. Miss B. drops her hs-on
/ can swear to; it was in ''hespital." This j
not her fault, of course, but her misfortune
1t is in the blood If YOU marry hcr-bein.
what she is, and can't help being-you shall
never have one acre of the ffendell land no
one shilling of the f fendell money Your
faithfully g. f.
The old baronet would not have dared I
write this, but that he had, as he hattere
himself, won over poor Mary to his side. II
had painted to her the splendid prospect tina
awaited Percival, but which her marriag
with him would dissipate forever, and ha
appealed to her love love itself to discar
her lover,
He did not affect what he had hoped, bu
yet succeeded only too well. The though
that she would be the cause of her Percival
future being destroyed, prayed on her min
and produced a dangerous illness. Percivs
+ was heart-broken and had only inst spir
enough left to direct an envelope to 81
Godfrey, inclosing piece of his mind.
was an ugly fragment, and thus concluded
, IF through your Internal egotism m
Mary dies, will take out letters-patent an
change the idiotic name of fiiendell to Blu
lock-Smithy."
, Sir Geoffrey was reduced to despair b
: tnls Irigntiul menace
, In the meantime poor Mary grew weaks
and weaker, and had hemorrhage from I'll
lungs, or more probably the heart. tt
! blood of the Blales though an inferior iuic
was necessary to her existence, and she W,
rapidly sinking. DIR Lascelles who w.
. called in in consultation, said, There
only one thing that can save this youn
/ lady's life. We must try TRANSMISSION
|. The other doctor-who was of the oil
school-shook his head as only doctors CA
o DIR. Lascelles understood at once, from ii
great significance of the gesture, that he ha
Q never so much as heard of the operation
81 felt sure you would agree with me-"
, said with the sweet smile that had won
way to professional success-for his practi,
ay chiefly among the ladies. "You rememb
1 Piayfairs directions, without doubt?" an
Q he told him what they were. "One of us tv
must sustain this ebbing life"
| 81 think II had beftar bo xo,, raynorl.