Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-03

The New York papers were full of the most
glowing accounts of the little English girls
success as prlma donna, and, az Lord Dash
Ter was well supplied with them. he was kept
well posted IN regard to her doings. Lady
Dashier would not take one of them into her
hands, but her daughters read them regularly,
giving their mother full accounts of their con-
tents. The Dukes wife had become something
of an admirer of Thyras, but Beatrice owed
her q great grudge for enticing her brother
away from Edith. and would say nothing in her
favor. At first fhe separation seemed severe
and long one to Lord Dashier, as Thyra was to
to remain year, and he often became quite
disconsolate. and would then go and sit in the
glen, where he and Thyra first met, for hours
at time. But as the weeks passed ON. and tho
time was approaching when he would leave for
America, there seemed but one shadow cast
in his way, and that was his mothers disap-
proval of the whole proceeding. While he was
thinking this the only impediment to his hap
piness, he one day opened his New York daily
to read the startling announcement contained
i'll the following paragraph:
sit IS reported i'll musical circles that the
lovely young English prima donna, Miss Little
ton, who for the last six months has been
charming the music-loving people of our coun-
try, is about to be married to Count Janns of
Paris, who has recently crossed the Atlantic to
claim his bride"
at cannot be true ~ shrieked Lord Dashier,
dropping the paper and turning ghastly pale
my darling my idol would never abandon me
for that miserable fellow :" then, recollecting
she had said she would never consent to live
with his mother while such "a feeling existed
against her, he cried, "pernaps, after all, 1t
| may be true she may think it is an escape
from the lonely life she would live here at the
Hail. Oh my mother, how could you allow
your pride to forever undo me? If Thyra is
| lost to me, there IS nothing further for which
| care to live. But it shall not be; will set sail
tomorrow for America After thus cogitat-
ing, he rang for servant whom he ordered to
pack his trunk, telling him he was to leave for
America the following morning. Lady Dashier,
who was then out riding, soon returned, when
| she was made aware of her sons intentions.
| Going at once to his room, where he was busy
| arranging matters for his departure, she said :
:" Ny son, what am / to understand by this
| sudden move? 1t cannot be you are intending
| to leave us for such a journey on SO short
| notice as this ?" and she burst into tears. He
handed her the paper containing the paragraph
| that had so upset him. After reading it she
replied ''Now, supposing this to be true or
| otherwise, would it not IN either case be folly
| for you to post off there? Would it not be
| more sensible to write or send telegram to the
| inGividual herself, and thereby learn whether
| there is any truth in the report or not ~
perhaps you are right, mother I viii at
| once send o Dispatch Dashier said, after q
moments thought, and he Immediately has
| tened to the nearest telegraph Office for that
| purpose. Meanwhile Lady Dashier was in
| wardly exultng over the good news, which she
| hoped from the bottom Of her heart was true,
| although she at the same time felt the deepest
| sympathy for her sons distress of mind. "But
| once he is rid of her," thought she, "he will
| forget her, and again take to Edith. pro
| posed the telegram, not that l want him to
| hear q contradiction of the report, but its con-
| firnation for which it would be folly for him
| TO go all the way to America. 1 will do all in
| my power to comfort my poor child in case he
| hears he has lost her. but If she writes she is
| still true to him 1 must still oppose the mar
| rage for never can consent to the marriage
| OF my noble son with q low-born girl-never,
| never!'
| The dispatch safely reached its destination,
| having been sent to New York, but, as Thyra
had left that place for Boston, where she was to
remain for few days. she never received it.
Lord Dashier suffered untold agonies in
awaiting the reply, which did not Then,
| after few days, learning her address through
| the New York papers, he immediately wrote
her, receiving this reply:
"Your letter came too late, my dear Robert :;
| [ was already married, to whom you already
| know. How he deceived me He came to me
| with the story that you were already married to
Edith Sewers confirming the truth of the state
| ment, as [ supposed, by showing me printed
| journal. Since received your letter /, OF
| course, conclude it was a forgery of his-some-
| thing he had printed just to deceiveme. had
| not heard from you IN some time not having
| received your last two letters which think he
| intercepted at the New York postofice. This
| made me still more sure of the truth of the re-
| port. And then, when he asked me to marry
| him. thinking it made little difference who I
| married. since you were lost to me, I accepted
| his offer. And now 1 hate him, despicable
| wretch that he is Oh idol of my soul. can
| you forgive me for thus distressing you? I
| should not have thought the whole world could
have convinced me that you were nnfaithful to
me, yet that monster did it. Oh, my folly has
undone me, and my misery is too great to bear.
But why harass you with further laments?
''Your miserable, but stll-loving, THYRA'
After Lord Dashier read this letter, he went
to his room, bolted the door, and there re-
manned in the greatest anguish of mind, ad-
hitting no one into his presence through the
whole day, although his mother and others fire.
quently raped for admittance In the evening
his mother begged so hard to enter he unfast-
ened the door, and then she beheld his misery
and, after reading Thyra's letter, which he
handed her, she knew the cause of it. 1t can
not be said but that she inwardly exulted over
the news of Thyras marriage, but deplored the
effects Of it on the mind of her son. Indeed
she was gr1eved to the hearts core to find him
in such state, and she went beside him, wound
her arms tenderiy about his neck, and strove to
cheer him with the kndest of words.
"Mother, he said reproachfully "you might
have hindered all this had You only consented
to our marriage, Thyra might now be here, and
the happiness of both of US replete. As it is,
we are miserable as it possible for nogtals
to be-"
Then, waving his hand for her to go, he con-
tnued, "please leave nee alone now, mother, I
do NOS wish to make you so wretched"
"No, let me stay, nay dear" she said kissing
him; ''whatever trouble you may have, let me
share half of it."
~ think will fight it out more easily Alone
he said SO she left him and went to her own
room, where she wept till far into the night in
thinking over his unhappiness. Once in a while
she would brighten up at the thought that, per
haps, he would again take to Edith. yet it hard
ly seemed probable as he had long been so com
pletely Indifferent to her. It was long, bitter
night to both mother and son, but each tried to
appear as cheerful as possible when they met
at breakfast, and there were traces of great
mental suffering particularly on the face of
Lord Dashier. That day, and for DAYS to come.
he spent the greater part OF his time alone in
the glenwhere he fret met Thyra, seeming to be
come more and more melancholy, until his
mother feared his mind might become unbal-