The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
LADY ,KoDNEY,s PLAY.


"I wish You wouldn't Dorothy"
wouldn't what
"You know very WELL"
Indeed do not.p
"Well, If ] must be more explicit, 1
wish you would not act with that-that
Ponsonby. The way he stares at you,
and fixes you with his eyes, is
enough to make man forget his man
ners.
MY dear. Cyril youcan't be serious.
/ haye newer heard you so unreasonable
before" a Z
'sUnreasonablei Mydear girh Con-
sidering we are toshe married so soon,
and all that, i really Thought you
would not objec. to little advice from
me-" ,t sisr ~ Ft
"Of course not. If like il, shall
always follow it. You know that"
-"But surely, Dorothy, it can't be a
pleasure to go through sreheafsals with
"wen, You see, i am boand TO act
now. This is the 10th, and the the
atricals come off on the 19th-only three
days; and how could Lady Rodney
provide a substitute in that time?. And
besides, should like to. 10
''Oh, would you?@ That, of course,
settles the question %
"Why, Cyril, (" exclaimed Miss Bohun,
81 do believe you are jealousl"
81 am. 1t does not make a man
particularly cheerful to know that the
woman he loves Is to be, the object of
another mans alteration for even an
n0 %But, my dear Cyril il is only {
farce"
"But, my dear Dorothy, I see no
raaacn Univ n MIGHT NOT 70 in
tragedy" -
Miss Bohun laughs.
even that" she says, "would be
better than nothing. This place has
grown so dull since the Stewards left,
and those men at Coote Hail." as
"Look here, Dorothy, throw it up,
says Mr.. Disney, leaning over his chair,
and bending his head until his face is
very near to hers, :" for my sake"
"Well, if You can bring me some
fever, I'll take it; but don't see where
you'll get it, as there's nothing of the
sort in the parish, and I'm convinced
that nothing less could save me from
this thing"
"Then you are quite determined not
to give it up?" says Disney, coldly draw
ing himself to his full height
never was determined in my life"
says Miss Bohun, with some just indig-
nation II am remarkable for never
saying mo to anybody. You, yourself,
have frequently told me had the sweet
est nature in the world, and it is quite
too late to alter Lady Rodney's arrange
ments now"
mo doubt you are right, as You al
ways are. I'm sorry can't be present
on the 10th, but tits impossible, as I
shall have business that will detain me
Oh r,rrff t.ot
3. Very pressing business ?oF s 81
Yes, very pressing business"
"Ah r. says Miss Bohun.
- a.
When Disney has been absent two
days, his thoughts undergo decided
change.
To have left Dorothy in the manner
he had, seems to him now to have been
not only an unmanly, but q most I'M
worthy action.
There is only one way out of it. He
viii write to her, and humbly apologize
for his conduct.
The night passes YEARLY enough, and
the morning brings him no relief. He
is still indescribably miserable, and
sinks into the belief that there is no
balm In Gilead for his. uneasy spirit.
The next day he grows even more des-
perate, and finally decides that to-mor-
row, come what may, he will-mata-
her feet, and implore forgiveness.
How slowly the train seems to move,
and how intolerable seems the delay at
each station to Disney, as the next
morning he travels on his way to Brom-
,pley. One half-hour more, and he is
. fulfilling the guards demands for the
LOT
and awakes to the fact that he has actu-
( ally arrived ut his destination.
Hastily procuring his luggage, ..and en-
gaging the first car convenient, he I'M
mediately proceeds to the hall Arriving
there, he, dismisses the mana and giving
his mgBage % the inestimable Williams,
he enters the house.
How good it seems to him being back
again, and how small by this time have
2 Dorothy's own sins grown in his ewes
After al, how could sheshelp it? He is
sure she hated having to do it And how
could she refuse lady Rodney, after
promising to play her part? And, be-
sides, how many women act in private
theatrica1s, and why ;Fhouldn't Dorothy.
who is evidently fitted by nature for that
sort of sport? And when one comes to
think OF ENTHUSIASTICALLY there are few
things 500 innocent as little tableaux,
and little drawing-room pieces, and that I
In fact, when they are married, he
doesn't ssee. why they. shouldn't have
private theatricals once q month. That
green room at Kingsmore is just the
piace for a stage footifghts and DROP
= scenes, and 50 on.
80 He is getting positively enthusiastic
over the theatricals, which subject has
carried him rs far as the drawing-room.
when it suddenly occurs to him that
Miss Bohun is not there, as the man has
led him 70 s1Ppose -
which she SO much affects. He pauses.
He thinks he will give her pleasant
surprise, and, cautiously moving aside
the curtain, that he may not too rudely
break IN upon the reverie that.is donbt-
less filed with him, he gazes upon the
little perfumed paradise beyond.
At first the light dazzIes his eyes. He
draws his breath quickly, and then
what is it he sees? In the distance
stands Dorothy--her features eloquent,
her eyes alight, her lips half parted, as
q smile fond and tender hovers around
them
At her feet kneel Ponsonby. his hands
tightly clasped his whole attitude be-
Raying devotion the most intense.