Connecticut western news., 1882-03-15

"Well, Marion ?" he replied, as he stopped to give her his arm and support her to her room.
 "l have always respected you," she went on, in an almost inaudible whis- per, "and I love you [" she added. drawing down his face to hers that he might not see her happy blushes.
 What 8 happy life theirs was, even before their frst-born boy came with the flowers of Mavl Walter vowed that she was not only the prettiest woman, but the best housekeeper in New York, and she was surprised herself at the way in which their money lasted-she could not understand how, after the weekly expenses were paid and the weekly dollar had been deposited in the savings bank, her husband could find means to obtain the little delicacies snd kniok-knacks he was perpetually offer ing at her shrine. That he saved his car-fare by walking, and at times took lunch with friend she knew-or he told her-but when she went out she never could make such bargains as he seemed to hit upon. On the morning after their reconciliation she had taken her needle and picked the obnoxious coronets out of her husbands handker- chiefs, not without some blushes and a little soreness at heart, but as time wore on regrets and ambitions vanished con- pletely, and she could even propose calling their dwelling "Melfort Hall. :"
 August had come round again, when Marion no iced that her husband often seemed thoughtful and abstracted, but when she taxed him with his silence and unsociableness, he insisted with an effort that nothing was wrong. II shall be late tonight, dear" he said, as he left her one morning-"very late, perhaps, and I may have to leave town tomorrow for 8 few days" She thought little of it when Il o'clock struck, and then midnight, but when she awakened with 8 start to find 1t nearly day and her husband not re- turned, she owned herself alarmed. Then came messenger from the store. "Mr. Delamayn was needed at once nothing had been seen of him for two days: was he Ill ?" A thousand suspi cions tortured her mind could any thing be wrong? It was nearly noon before he came, looking haggard ano occupied.
 "Ma1ion," he said, "we must leave town tomorrow. Something has hap pened. Are you strong enough to beal it?"
 "Leave town tomorrow! What cal have happened?" she gasped, sinking down on the sofa. 'Is taere any yttiiIias
 wrong? Cn, Walter, they sent iron the store to know why you had no
 been there. It cannot be that
 "Cannot be that what? Why are yol crying so, darling? Sitting up ha
 made you nervous. You must rest to
 day, for tomorrow we sail on the Both nia at o'clock"
 "I do not understand you. Wh. should we fly? l know you have don nothing wrong. Stay, and all will b explained, all will come out we'll" It was his turn to stare. ''My dear, he said, "l have done nothing wrong but my father is ill and has forgive me for thwarting his ambitions in th
 matter of family alliance, and I hay been telegraphed for," and he hande her dispatch. It read:
 ''LoNDoN, Aug. 24 . "Hon Walter Delanaay,a, care Britis Comsut, Nea0 York:
 B "Lord Melfort Is seriously ill. H b desires your immediate return" :, It seemed all dream to her, a dreal l. from wh ich she could not awake for Il e next ten days-a dream of doing years shopping in one afternoon, wi, s such pocketbook full of bills as st }. had never seen even in the MilIbul c First National Bank; of sailing over u si Atlantic, the most admired and hoEort d guest in the great Cunarder of driviI d at night down English country roat n and through great stone gate ov n which the impossible lion stood guar a ing the three ''heraldic thingummies a and after winding for long mlle und 'e stately trees, halting at last before e house that looked more like the pala g of her childish visions the dream en n ing as her husband almost carried h IT up the steps and whispered to her: er "You are home at last, in Melfc ], Hall. Don't give way, for the honor
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 er It was not dream, and when M X, Dennison reached New York on 1 ie way back from South America prepar le to find an easy place for lns obnoxio o son-in-law in California and take l as daughter home, he found in the pape 4. brought on board by the pilot.boat 'o personal item to the effect that all Lo Sr don society was crazy over "the beau 'h and accomplishments of the Hon. M AS Walter Delamayn (nee Dennison), Lo n' Melfort's daughter-in-law, whose g 70 pearance at the recent Royal Drawir o1 Room created 8 sensation without par 1i Tel iu fashionable annals"
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 Set Back Ten Years.