The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-15
CHATTER TX.

Lucy was right. Mr., Richmond did not
come next day, About eleven o'clock a
shore boat came alongside, and note was
handed in to Mr., Mostyn, whose name, too,
had ceased to be secret 81 am sorry to
fail in my engagement, but as a friend
with whom am travelling has summoned
me to rejoin him at once at Quimperle,
am afraid | shall not return TO st. Malo.-
thank you again for your kindness and
courtesy, and remain, yours faithfully,
HUGH RICHMOND"
And not one word about me" cried Let
tice, who really need not have expected TO
be specially remembered. Lucy said
nothing. She had known he would not
come. She went and sat on deck, and did
not speak unless spoken to, for some
hours. OF what was she thinkingi She
kept her thoughts to herself. Mrs. Mos
tyn did not. She would proclaim discov-
cries and ask questions. "He was think
ing of Calderwater, suppose, when he
said there was one place he would have
liked to havei'
Il know dear. knew then"
"How could you know theni Did you
see his name marked on his handker-
chiefl'
Il saw his drawings. No one paints as
he Does
Sand did you see how he hung his head
when Aunt Esther spoke with such vex-
alton about your losing your brooch, and
said So much about family relies. sup.
pose that he was thinking Of bis family
jewels"
"4ush Lettice-please do. cannot
bear it,"
lucy, don't sit dolefully there. Get to
your painting"
Il can't. don't want to paint"
what do you wantr
"Not to have TO talk
After that Lettice left her in peace.
Next day theywere to 60 toDinan ;at the
last moment Lucy said she would not ac-
company them. She had kept her intend
ed desertion secret. lest Aunt Esther or
Lettice should insist on staying at home
with her. Her greatest wish was to be
left alone. She wanted to think. They
asked her questions and worried her
She wished for solitude.
"You will be so dull if we leave you,"
said Lettice, philip, we ought not TO
leave her"
"Perhaps she wants to be left" replied
he and Lucy looked up gratefully as he
said it.
Il do" she answered. Take me with
you, and | should be cross and tired ;
stay with me and you will distress me;
leave me alone, and You will, when you
come back, find me all right, and much
the better for days rest
81 wish she had not seen that young
Richmond" said Lettice, IL was sure she
would be very much out 10y meeting him,
You see she insists on believing that she
has taken all his property from him, l
am sure he is as well dressed as you are,
Philip. She need not pity him"
"she will be better if we leave herr
said Aunt Esther; "she always did like
her own company best when anything was
amiss.'
They went and Lucy staid on the deck
and though shewas in a very strange and
perplexcd frame of mind, she was con
scious Of the soothing influence Of quiet,
and derived certain dimly-ielt enjoy
ment from the sight of the sleepy light on
the water. She was also much pleased
with n few words from the captain, which
meant rough sympathy Of some kind
He did not know what was amiss with her
he told the mate--"he reckoned the MISS
temper might be little out Of order, or il
might be some love trouble az was dis.
turbing her" The mate thought she was
only "enioying i'll health that day In
any case the captain said cheering word
to her, and she felt the better for it. al
never does 90 strike ones colors, miss
when any other way can he found for IL
There's more good days a-coming.' lie
said this as he was stepping intothe dingy
TO 20 on shore, and to his great surprise
Lucy said, "Ohl If boat is going Oh
shore / will go in it, and walk about O
little"
She went, and strolled through dull 81
Seryan, and wondered where Mr., Rich
mond had stayed, and thought she would
like TO see the outside Of the house-ant
then she passed one Of the most tumble
down and iickety wind-mills in the world
, and presently found herself in the mid ali
railway which joins The two towns. Ono,
in ST. Malo, she went EDWARDS, and walked
, about the walls, and finally arrived at ,
: point whore she was just above tn,
causeway which led to the Grand Bey.
"And 80 that is the way he went tina
{ day we first met him." thought she. "Poo
fellow, he had to toll painfully over th,
rough stones, and through these dull
! dusty towns, while we glided smooth,
, over the water IN u boat which ought Il
: have been HIS II Is disgraceful that al
| these means of comfort should be in Tn
possession of such stupid, commonplace
! self indulgcnt people as we arc, willis, h
1 who would do some good with them IL h
. had them has to work under such Difficult
! tiesl We IRE u thoroughly ignorant sc