Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-04

be, but have respected your disguise
under the impression that some great
need, or some great sorrow-"
'Orsomething discreditable, perhaps.
Go on, prayV" aHn
''Some great need or some great sor-
row might have driven you to assume
It. But when got my friends letter
this morning, the names. the circum-
stances, many things which l had for
gotten. came rushing to nv memory.
i felt almost overwhelmed, but could
not doubt that my conclusion was right.
Far from your being in want or sorrow,
You are. by your own confession, rich,
indepcndent-you have plenty of friends
THAT Is not true. No one ever heard
me say that had plenty of friends. II
! had had friends whom could have
trusted"
She stopped abruptly. angry with
herself for descending 10 the semblance
of an explanation.
Nothing can do away with the fact
that you have used this deceit origin
ally. not from any high or holy motives.
but simply to amuse yourself-to pass
the time.
/ ''FOr lark. rs schOol-bOys say. Yes.
Il wa exactly for that reason that did
IL. and because all my friends said l
must not. Well?"
''Such things are not done with i'm
punity. You may not have counted the
cost, but IL has yet to be paid-to the
uttermost farthing."
'What cost, wonder?'
'While you have been amusing YOUR
solf, others have been engaged in any
tang but amusement. You have al
lowed two men whom you have seen al
most daily % fall I'm love with you.
under your very eyes. and you have not
attempted TO undcccive them"
Margaret trcmbled suddenly. She
had no time To re.oice-nO time to
wonder; for nc went on. in hard, bust
ness-like tone.
"lou have given me lesson which
I shall never forget Its effects will 60
with me TO my grave. A woman who
goes about with a lie in her right hand
loses all glamour for me. No doubt il
i n matter Of great Indifference TO YOU;
when you are tired Of FOulhaven. YOU
will go away and amuse yourself else
where. As 10 poor Jack Mallabarr-
well. an obscure surgeon like myself
and his feelings can not trouble YOU
but let me call your attention TO the
fact that, from u worldly point Of view,
there might be worse matches than one
with John Mallaharr. Some day you
will have TO answer him when he puts
n question To you. He is n careless fell
low in many ways, but he is far, far too
good for n selfish woman to make sport
Of. and he has been hard hit by you
Margaret laughed in her bitterness
and said i'm her haste:
"He may be hard hit, for aught I
care, and you. too. Since 1 came to
Blackford Grange. my mission has been
to make poor Rupert Lascelles' life less
Of n burden tO-him, and hope i have
succeeded. As for you and Mr.. MALTA
barr. neither Of YOU can saw that ever
uttered 4 word. or looked a look, or
raised a finger, with the object of at
tracing the affections Of either of YOU.
My conscience is clear. And rs we are
here at the Grange gates. 1 will wish
you good evening. No, not step
further, unless you wish to insult me. /
prefer TO 90 alone"
With the slightest possible bend of
the head, she entered the garden, and
left him standing outside i'm the dripping
rain, his elbow propped against his
horses shoulder, TO recover from the
drenching he had received as best he
might.