Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-06

so tnat ne might return to England. He
failed. and owing to the state of India
Mt that time his request cast some dis
eredit,upon him among his feIIow-of-
heers. He wrote TO n e. and did all in
my power to discover the runaway and
I TO ind a satisfactory explanation OF her
conduct My inqu ries tended to con-
4 irm all that her own note sug gested
ar ms mother plainly stated. In re-
ply 10 my report. he wrote briefly. bid
ding me make no further inqu RES, as
he would make nons-from that hour
ne would think OF her as one dead. He
wrote 10 me at long intervals alter
/ ward. but be never referred to tn Is sub
/ ject"
"But what xvas the r,aanino of n
all?'' - - = - :. : -,
That he only learned after the death
/ OF his brother. The whole thing had
been managed with an adro cunning
worthy ORA woman. The mother had
invented AMI carried out the scheme
VIII eh had destroyed her sons happi-
ness and killed his wife Yet to the
end of her days she maintained that she
had acted with the best intent ons. and
have no doubt she was thoroughly
/ cOnvin ed that she had done So
But how could she do all this and
remain unsuspectet?" calculated Maui
rice
+ ''Ah. that is the beautiful part of the
story; and briefly. this is how it was
done. he found out young Mrs. Cuth-
bert, and saw her alone. You would
expect her to scold aud TO reproach the
poor thing. Nothing of the kind She
spoke to her so tenderly that at the first
interview she entirely won Lucy's con-
hdence. At the second interview she
took the interest OF an a ectionate
matron in the future Of the chile which
was soon To be born. At both inter-
views she contrived TO impress Lucy
with n sense of the great loss poor
Frank had sustained ON her account
loss OF friends, fortune and future pros
poets. AT the third in;erv ew she per-
suaded the girl that tine only real proof
she could give of he: love for him was
10 leave him, and to leave him in such
way that lie should never wish 20 see
her AGAIN ..........
nf.Aud was she so weak as 10 consent
had she no faith in him.
''ohe was very fend of him, and she
was getting under the influence OF kind
lady who had had much experience in
the world, and whose good intentions
could not be doubled. Lucy was a fool.
but am sure she did not understand
the Interpretation which might be put
upon that note, written ut the dictation
] OF frank mother. She only meant
I that she had deceived him in buoying
HIM up with hopes of their speedy re-
union at the very time when she had re-
solved for his sake never to see him
again. The note was written; she dis
appeared, and the two things were in
terpreted in the ordinary way. But she
carried the joke further than the mother
( intended; for she did not even allow
her to know where she had gone to.
! She took lodgings in the house of a
2 tailor somewhere in the suburbs of Lon
don. and died there about a year ter
Franks departure for India. The
tailor aud his. wife were good natured
people, and adopted the fir endless
child. who was brought up under the
name which her mother had assumed
that was Lucy Smith. AT Hollyford
the mother was triumphant or time
Let me draw breath in admiration of
hat woman's geniusr'
The expression OH Mr.. Calthorpe' 8
face as he drew breath was certa NV
not one of admiration. He proceeded:
Z " As years passed. however, and
! Frank obstinately remained away from
England and refused 10 receive the
slightest assistance from Hollyiord or
even to correspond. the mother became
troubled in spirit The reports of his
heroic deeds and rapid promotions only
CALLED her the more, and at length she
'coniided her secret TO her s;ep-son. He
was shocked, and instantly set about
trying TO put matters right He placed
the whole affair in the hands of u COM
reteht lawyer. with instructions that he
was TO spare no expense i'm the effort to
+ discover the fate OF Mrs. Frank Cuth-
bort. The search was tedious one.
out ultimately successful. IS YOU know,
although heydd not liYe,to Seeit. oOnly
Il few weeks after Colonel Cuthbert' S
return TO England the lawyer was en-
abled to placa in his hands the COM
plete proofs which enabled him to
/ identify his daughter in Lucy Smith.
He took her abroad. provided her with
the best masters money could obtain:
she proved an apt pupi. having already
\ edu ated herself to q much higher
standard than most women reach. and
! at length he brought her here, properly
finished and polished, TO present her to
has friends as the heiresS of Hollyford
/ j. That is the whole story; now,
what do YOU think of Miss uthbert?'
Maurice was much agitated as he an
swered impetuouSly:
"Think3-that she. believing that
knew this rst4rys 5hd prtended not to
recognize her that she WAS justified in
\ the meanest thous hts she entertained.
| aud in her. scOrfi Of ,Isboth. -
I CHAPTER, NIL. On a9'ng-l
r.t. ALAsT WORD. -., isl ...- 81.
: How miserably nonsensical al his
} fantasies appeared TO him now in the light
of the facts related to him by his father:
( The truth should have been plain to him
:, from the first; any one of the meanest
I capacity would at least have suspe led
IL She was moro than .iustiGed ia re,
I gardmg him as an impostpr, and+-sihoe
/ she could do so-qui!e right to amuse
herself by leading such a contemplate
creature on merely 10 see how far he
would GO 'iO'- d" IT,. ri
Yet the positions and the characters
of theiw0- girls were rim his eyes so very
different, that even when Mabel Cuth-
bert Seemedto be most like Lucy he had
/ not realized the truth And. then the
( revelation followed SO CLOSELY upon his
first gluipses of what he had regarded
rs an impossibiiih-. that he had no time
10 consider the niaster. ~ 80
VAS he trying TO find excuses for
, himseifP gHe became impatient OF his
own stupidity. Who could believe that
he, knowing Lucy as he had done, and
loving her With adore which absen e
intensified and idealixed q oonld have