The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06

Author Of "Strdnge'y We'd Tbs Thornhurst
Mystery" The Modest Marriage Ear
Was,"" Cecirs Secret" "a Mer-
eicss Foe etc., etc.
CHAPTER XI.-CoNrINUED.
ellis wedding tour.' Mr.. Killuth
repeated the words. He was aroused
to more than his usual energy, more
than his usual interest, in a
matter which did not pertain to his own
individual comfort. Something of a
.sybarite he had always been, and sell
fishness had grown upon him with adj
vancing years: without knowing
why, feel as if you were throwing
away your life, Launt, as your father
threw his away before yOu. l don't
know why l am so prejudiced against
that girl. unless it is through that I'M
accountable resemblance she bears to
La June. Stranger than strange, in
Rose Sangerfords' daughter"
stranger still, she resembles her
nloth-Mrs. Oliphant. Those two did
not look alike, did they?"
mot at all-not in the slightest de-
gree"
Then your Imagination is at fault, :"
said Launt, lightly. "Come down to
:Shoreden; they have taken place
there for the hot months. Remember
that you only saw Dana with sea-dis-
tempered eyes. Come down and take
fairer opinion of my choice. 1t will
do the old madame's heart good to
know that you approve of her.
I'm CO." promised Killuth, to re-
pent the promise as soon rs the magnet
izing effectof the young mans presence
wore away.
Launt himself was all impatience to
be off. To be absent from the object of
his alteration was trial to this ardent
ssuitor, and on the afternoon of the third
day after this he took the train for the
seaside village where the ELEPHANTS were
choosing to pass the summer in retire
ment. Entering the depot he found
himself Unexpectedly face to face with
Gordon Marquis.
'.Leaving?'' he asked, as the two
shook hands.
"Going TO the seaside, but not to your
haven" Mr.. Marquis answered. 81
couldn't quite stand that. You know
that the portrait stands over until 4
more favorable time?"
Mr.. Harrington knew very little about
it. He only knew that he had been
;sorely jealous of this blonde artist once
upon a time, and that the artist had
disappeared after his own accession to
favor.
''Do you travel my way?' he asked.
mo, i take the other line. Give my
regards to the cousin. The flashing
Alexia is hardly my style, but still
THE dahlia that grows
Beside the rose
Has borrowed sweetness of her.
Ii one denies
And the other vies-
What can do but love her?'
"The sentiment is better than the po-
-etry, fancy, but if it fits the case, what
does it matter?"
IF it does fit the case he is more of
a coXeomb than | think him." Launt
said to himself. With the happy dispo-
:sition that can be off with the old Eve and
on with the new at an hours notice he
had no sympathy whatever. Measur-
ing Gordon Marquis from the stand
point of his own feelings, he pitied him
most profoundly IF 1 had lost her
what would life be TO me?' he asked
himself, and somehow CHASTITY fancy
came floating through his mind. His
father had killed himself for the love of
woman, and had not Killuth told him a
hundred times he was like his father.
Could he live if he lost Dana, now?
Happily, the fear of losing her was a
thing of the past.
Lost in his own thoughts, touch on
his shoulder, his name spoken, made
him look up with start to behold
Harmon Guess.
Bound, as am, to Shoreden, Mr.
Farrington?- The family are there, /
understand. As / 90 on business, for a
day only, 1 wouldn't like to miss Mr..
'Oliphant."
''He is there answered Launt.
tsHave You entered upon that search
You were speaking of, Mr.. Quest?"
For an heir to the France inherit
'ance? Yes" ~
''With what SUGGEST"
''Small enough, but one don't ex-
pect immediate results after such a
lapse of time"
Perhaps can give You clue which
will aid YOU. His wife died, but little
more than year after he was executed.
in Cuba. OF the child, if there was one,
II huoW uOlulnS.
"Died. Are you sure of that?''
MIR. Harrington explained his source
of information.
''And l wonder what interest YOU
haye in that old affair, young gentle
MANI" unused Mr.. Quest What inter-
est you will have l can readily enough
guess, and it won't be palatable bit of
truth for your proud stomach when you
come to know it"
"I'll not forget that you gave me the
clue if it leads to what think it will, !"
he said, aloud. Perhaps you'll like to
know, as sort of return, that Mr.. Oil
phant is about to make his will. Di-
yides the bulk of all between his wife
and daughter, as is everyway fitting.
my regard is for Miss Oliphant her
self.not what her father may leave her, "
said Launt, coldly.
sIOh, of course, of course. But con-
sidering that she isn't Miss Oliphant,
and he isn't her father, thought you
might take some interest in the
fact. j know, of course, that l
am not telling secrets in saying this to
you. By the way, Mr.. Harrington; did
1t occur to you to ask who she is7'
sit occurs to me that you are exceed
ang the bounds of your position. SIR"
Il would be if / should indicate, by
any fight of fancy, that she could be the