The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-03

| himself immensely among the sponge
and the plum-cakes, II told her the
Esthetic was likely to call this after
noon and advised her strongly to make
her escape while she could"
she evidently took your advice"
says Nicholas.
"Wcll, | went rather infinitely into 1t,
you know. ! explained TO her how Lady
Lilias was probably going to discuss the
new curfew-bell in all its bearings; and
! limited gloomily at the 'Domesday
Book That fetched her. She YAM
oosed on the spot"
Nothing makes me so hungry as La
dy Lilias,' says Doatie, comfortably.
She is very trying, isn't she, Nicholas?
What dazzling skin she has!-the very
whitest | ever saw"
"Well, that is in her favor, ! really
think, " says Violet, in her most unpre-
JUDGED manner ''lf she were to leave
off her rocco toilets, and take to Elise
or Worth like other people, and give up
posing, and try to behave like rational
being, she might almost be called hand
some.
"Well, really, you know, yes. ] think
there IS something special about her,
says Jack, feeling himself in duty bound
to say something.
80 there is; something specially aw-
full, responds Molly, penslyely. "She
frghtens me to death. She has an eye
like a gimlet' When call to mind the
day my father inveigled me into the IL
brary and sort of told me couldn't do
better than go in for Lilias, my knees
give way beneath me and smite each
other with fear. | shudder to think
what part in her medieval programme
would have been allotted to me.
At this moment Geoifrey-who has
been absent-saunters into the room,
and, after careless glance around,
says, lightly, as if missing something
"Where is Monap'
"Well, we thought you would know"
says Lady Rodney, speaking for the
first time.
Eyes. Where is she?n says Doatie;
"that is just what we all want to know.
She won't get any tea if she doesn't
come presently, because Molly is bent
on finishing it. Molly with plaintive
protest don't be greedy.
I'VE thought she was with you, says
Captain Rodney, idly.
'She is out, says Lady Rodney, in a
compressed tone.
us she? 1t is too late for her to be
out, returns Godfrey, thinking of the
chill evening air.
Quite too late, acquiesces his moth
er, meaningly. 1t is, to say the least
of it. very strange. very unSeemly. out
at this hour, and alone, if, indeed, she Is
alOne,'
Her tone is so unpleasant and so sig
nidcant that silence falls upon the room.
Geoiircy says nothing. Perhaps he
alone among them fails to understand
the meaning OF her words He seems
lost in thought. So lost. that the others,
watching him. wonder secretly what the
end of his meditations will bring forth;
yet, one and all, they mistake him; no
doubt of Mona ever has. or ever will, |
think, cross his mind,
Lady Rodney regards him curiously,
trying TO read his downcaSt face. Has
the foolish boy at last been brought to
see flaw in his idol of clayf
Nicholas is looking angry. Jack,
sinking into chair near Violet says
in q whisper, that ut is beaStly shame
his mother cannot let Mona alone. She
seems, by Jove. bent on turning Geof-
frey against her.
1T is cruel. says Violet, with sup
pressed but ardent ire.
Tiff you loved fellow. would any
thing turn you against him. asks he
suddenly, looking her full in the face.
And she answers
Nothing. Not all the talking in the
wide world, with brilliant blush, but
with steady, earnest eyes.
molly, 'mistrustful of Geotfrey's 81.
lence, goes up to him, and laying his
hands upon his shoulders, says, quietly
Mrs. Godfrey is incapable of max.
ing amy mistGhy. How silent you are
old fellow
En- says Geoffrey, rousing himself
and smiling genially d" \ mistake? Oh
10. She never makes mistakes. / was
thinking Of something else, But she
really ought to be in now, YOU know
she will catch her death of cold -
The utter want of suspicion in his
tone drives Lady Rodney to open action
To do her justice, dislike to Mona has
50 warped her judgment that she almost
believes in the evil she seeks to dissem
mate about her
"You are wilfully blind, she says
flushing hotly, and smoothing with
nervous fingers an imaginary wrinkle
from her gown "Of course explained
matters as well as | could TO Mitchell
but it was very awkward and very UNI
pleasant, and servants are never de.
ceived."
81 hardly think I follow you" says
Geoifrey, in frozen tone. In regard tc
what would you want your servants de.
ceiyed?n
"Of course it is quite the correct
thing your taking it in this way goes
on his mother, refusing to be warned
and speaking with irritation, the on
ly course left open; but it is rather alb
surd with me. We have all noticed your
wife's extraordinary ciylity to tina
shocking young man. Such bad taste
on her part, considering how he stand!
with regard to us, and the unfortunate
circumstances connected with him. Blu
no good ever comes of unequal mar
riages.o
Now, once for all, MOTHER be
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