The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-07-21


rotest Hereward finds himself wondering
Vhether Cartwrightis is hard hit. Lady Gladys
jooks like person who could hit very hard
- she chose.
CHAPTER ".
Five or s:s days pass in this way, dali days
Senough on the whole, for Hereward He
ADes not 'sinterview" the Countess again
Hhe finds herself a great sufferer from the
3eyere weather, and never leaves her own
seuite of rooms except for dinner and the
meat dining-room is warmed by furnace fires
~ day long to get it up to the proper tenn
Derature for her reception. Hereward sees
lAdy Gladys daily-at breakfast generally,
bdt always at luncheon. She has never yet
addressed to him single word.
The thought does not trouble him. Her
pride is yet no mate for his And he looks
4 her just as he looks at the Gainsborough
portrait in the little dining room, with just as
much idea of the possibility OF fal5ns in love
with the one as the other.
q But there is to him strange charm IL
these dull days. He docs not wish for any
. change he does not wish them other than
they are. The mornings i'll the dim Old
library reading with Lord Hcriot, even
thongh the Viscount is dull OF comprc-
Aension, are pleasant to him ; 50 also are the
1fenings there, though he spends them for
the most part alone. Heavy sno,as!o11as
Eco the household indoors all this week !;
but he and Lord Heri5t a,nnse tthen,s.elyye,
nth tennis in q covered cou.!t, or loi:.se oyea
- game at billiards, Or smoke among the
horses and dogs in the stable and kennel,
Who are also terribly bored By t.leir enforced
idleness.
Lord Heriot likes his young grinder, :"
1nd even if he had not liked him, he is too
much of n gentleman himself to treat Linl
otherwise than as a gentleman. And Here
ward returns the liking after q fashion. He
.sees the faults in the Viscount's character
and they are many-but he magrifies his few
y good qualities SO as aims to condone the
faults
D Standish Cartwright comes over to Kings
court very frequently during these snowy
days. His presence in the house is obnox-
1cus to Hereward, as the presence Of any rn-
pleasant thing-a toad in the room, for in
etance-misht be. But he seldom encoun-
3srs him; for when he dimes, as he often
docs, at Kingscourt, it is not at five o'clock
the little dining-reom, but at eight, with
he Countess. Hereward does not pine to be
/
slappy out of them. They are intolarably
nll, far duiler than those he eats II COM
8 Qany with Fraulien and the little Doctor.
He will be formerly asked to dine with the
Countess some day, so Blount informed him /;
she invites the Doctor and the German lady
70 dine with her occasionally but Hereward
hopes she will forget to pay him this conapii-
ment He does not desire to watch the pro-
Eress Of Standish Cartwrights courtship.
Nevertheless he often wonders what progress
he has made.
Christmas is close at hand, when one
morning at breakfast little Evie, who has
stpped out of his nurses hands has made his
/ way down stairs, announces with mischievous
dimples that he knows secret.
"What is it? Do tell mel" Lord Heriot
pleads laughingly.
IT Is q secret-a nice one. Guess"
Miss Middleton is coming"
e'Yes. How did you know?" cried the
little fellow, chagrined
oh. yes! I love her!" Evie asserts
Anvely.
Lord Heriot laughs
''So do l, Evie but won't try to cut you
out We might be obliged to fight, you
know, in that case"
with swords or guns ?"
sWhichever you liked best When is
/ GD Middleton coming Gladys?"
sTo-morrow. I had letter from her this
morning."
.Im glad she is coming, Lord Heriot re-
EUarks, pullinahis brofhers long hair. 1--WE
Event something to amuse us in this horrible
Neakher, and Bab Middleton is safe to do
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