Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-25
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GU knew ner, then Z"
yes; met her last year at Monaco"
What was she called, do you remem-
ber?"
"Let me see; her Christian name was
Violet. She was one of the women who
are seldom called by a surname. The
Lady Violet was the name that was in
every bOdy's mouth, or Violet tout court.
Stay, 1 remember seeing her name once
in the hotel boOk-Lady Violet Montar-
gis, peculiar name, which struck me
for some reason or other at the time"
"Ah, she was rather an adept at coin
ing names. When knew her she was
Hon. Francis Dalrymple-a girl with
dark hair and light blue eyes; one of
those rare combinations which are down
right unnatural and which often betoken
some internal arrangement Of system,
whether moral, intellectual or physical.
A beautiful girl, certainly, but with that
steely look you see sometimes on the
surface of the Thames, blue steel mixed
with water lilies. Kelley HallsWelle
knows how to draw the effect, as you
can see IN this years GrOsvenor. It al
ways appears to me to convey a moral {:
the water lilies tempt you, and the
cold insidiOus water browns you there
fore beware of the lilies. If poor old
p Phillip Drummond had only taken that
moral to hearth
phillip Drummond, who was hep
'Have never told you? Well, will
give you my experience of Hon. Francis
Dalrymple, and then you shall give me
yours of the Lady Violet MOntargis It
was a country house in the North in Sep
TENDER Our numbers were tOlerably
large, but an Omnium gatherum lot, and
very jll-assorted. You know the sort of
household I mean, where there is no
presiding hostess, and everything is all
q tort ct O trdUsrS. There was, indeed, a
Mrs. Lionel TrOtman, who was the law
full wife of our host, Lionel TrOtman,
Esq, retired sugar boiler, or something
of the kind; but she had talent of self
placement to a degree that was positive
ly painful, Nobody knew where she
was at any moment of the day, and I as
sure you it was a work Ofherculean diff
Guilty to discover her whereabouts in her
own draWing-rOOm before saying good
night. The consequence was that we
did what was right in our own eyes, in
wicked and selfish couples, such as dis
integrated household will relapse into
when the presiding and prudential
hand is withdrawn. Of these couples the
most devoted and perhaps the most in
teresting, was Hon. Miss Frances and
Phillip DrummOnd."
"DrummOnd was a bTawny, muscular
hero, fine fellow, unhampered by ex-
CessiVe brain, a keen sportsman and a
good friend. She was-well, what I
daresay you discovered at Monaco. Only,
you must remember, at the time of
which 1 am speaking she had not devel-
Oped those predatory instincts which I
am told she afterward acquired so per
niciOusly for her friends. She seemed a
soft, lOvable woman, with lustrOus eyes
and speaking hands. As a matter of fact,
her hands spoke more than her tongue
it is the way with some incurably his
trionic women.
zone day was not out with the rest
of the shooting party, owing to press of
business letters, or a fit of laZiness-I
forget which. But L pOttered out in the
afternoon over the turnips a short way
from the house. was at the hall door
on my return, when two men brought
home a CHASTITY burden. 1t was poor
Philip DrummOnd, who had shot him
self in getting over a hedge or making
his way through some tangled covert. /
helped the men to bring his poor rigid
limbs into the house, wondering to my
self how could best break the news to
the undiscoverable Mrs. Trotman, or,
harder still, to the reserved and some
what naughty Miss Dalrymple. We had
not gone far into the house when she
met Us at the head of the stairs. There
was no explosion of grief such as I feared.
only a sudden tightening of the corners
of the mouth, and blanched look either
of superstitiOus dread or hardly realized
sorrow. She looked for an instant on
the corpse, asked the single question,
He shot himself Of course?' and then
swiftly withdrew.
''That evening, as i was going to bed,
I met her again in the corridor. i was
was waiting for YOU she said; and then
she began to beg me by all that / held