Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02

selves. [ am trying to make what repair
alton is possible. I shall leave you I'M
restricted use of three-fourths of nv in
come. I desire you to make your life az
gay and pleasant as you possibly can.
l have no fear for the honor of our name
in your hands, and trust that and all
else to you without doubt. If you
would try and learn to make some ex-
cuse for my position I shall be grateful.
Perhaps when you are not in constant
fear of meeting me this lesson may not
be so hard.'
''And I could not soy a word in reply,
I just lay sobbing like child among
the cushions. Then he lifted my hand
and kissed it, and I knew he was gone. u
''And now, Kate, that you have be.
come the most brilliant woman in En-.
gland, what do you intend to do?''
''Who knows? I have such q contrary
streak in my nature. I always do the
thing l do not want to do"
Certainly it seemed like it, for, in
spite of her confession, when Lord Tai
bot sent the next morning to request an
interview, Kate regretted that she had
q prior engagement, but hoped to meet
Lord Talbot at the Duchess OF Clifford's
that night. .
Ny lord bit his lips angrily. but
nevertheless he had been SO struck with
his wife's brilliant beauty that he de-
termined to keep the engagement.
She did not meet him with sobs this
time The center of an admirine
throng, she spoke to him with ease and
nonchalance that would have indicated
to q stranger the most usual and
commonplace of acquaintanceship. He
tried to draw her into confidential mood,
but she said, smilingly, 'sMy lord, the
world supposes us to have already con-
graduated each other; we need not un-
deceive it."
He was dreadfully piqued, and the
pique kept the cause of it continually in
his mind. Indeed, unless he left Lon
don, he could hardly avoid constant
meetings which were constant aggrava-
tions. MY lady went everywhere. Her
beauty, her wealth, her splendid toilets,
her foe manners, were the universal
theme. He had to endure extravagant
comments on them. Friends told HIM
that Lady Talbot had never been so
brilliant and SO bewitching as since his
return. ae was congratulated on his
influence over her.
In the meantime she kept strictly at
the distance he himself had arranged
four years ago. It was evident that il
he approached any nearer his beautiful
but long neglected wife, he must hum
BILE himself to do 60. Why should he
not? In Lord Talbot's mind the rea-
sons against it had dwindled down to
one. It was his valet. This man had
known all his masters matrimonial
troubles, and in his own way had sym
pathized with them. He was bitterly
averse to Lord Talbot's making any
concessions to my lady. One night,
however, he received profound shock.
Simmons, " said Lord Talbot, very
decidedly, 'go and ask Lady Talbot II
she will do me the honor to receive q
visit from me-
My lady would be delighted. She
was in an exquisite costume, and condo.
scended to exhibit for his pleasure all
her most bewildering moods. It was
with great reluctance he left her after q
two hours VISIT. The next night he
stayed still longer. My lady had no
other engagement, and he quite forgot
the one he had made to be present at
the Marquis Of Stairs. wine party.
The following week my lady received
every morning . basket of wonderful
flowers, and little note with them con-
tanning . hope that she was in good
health. IS. sss5ss s.
One morning she was compelled to say
that she was not very we'll, and Lord
Talbot WAS 90 concerned that he sent
Simmons to ask II he might be permit