Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-05

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gngement of more importance else-
where"
aThat will do, Hazel, go and dress.
Leave this reprobate to the tender
nnercies of the family prime minister,
your Cousin Pit"
AOh. very we'll. Don't forget the ser
mon" replied Hazel, laughing merrly
rs she ran out of the room.
Now, sir, please explain this m!ys-
terv," said Lord Travers, dropping
into A chair and looking at his friend
with a faint smile on his lips.
explain? Why have come here
expressly to make you explain"
Explain what?''
Captain Green coolly opened his
pocket-book and took out slip OF pa
Der which he handed to Lord Trayers,
saying:
Il wish you to inform me what that
means"
Lord Travers started, looked sur
prised, and finally read aloud the iol-
lowing:
"Another important engagement In hign
life announced that of Lord Arthur 1raN-
ers to Lady Maud Weatherby"
ayes. sir, that is Il cutting from the
Morning POST most respectable pa.
per and very reliable authority"
Evidently" replied Lord Iravers'
laughing immoderatcly. :,
Il do not see anything to laugh at,
said Pittacus, impatiently.
"Don't you? then suppose you look
in the glass"
"Come, come, sir; this is a most seri-
Gus matter"
CLEARLY ii most solemn affair, almost
as awful as the paragraph which read
about you few weeks ago.
"About me? Good gracious, what
was it ?" ,.,
"NIy dear boy, it read something like
This I've understand that after long
and serious consideration, Captain L.
Green. OF her majesty's service, has de-
cidcd to become a bachelor What do
You think of that?"
II think the man who wrote such a
notice OF me lied"
THAT is Just what think OF the man
who wrote this" retorted Lord Tray
ers. tearing the newspaper cutting INTO
small pieces and throwing them out
of the window.
"Pshaw .Travers, there is no analogy
in the two cases. How can L become
bachelor when | am one 2"
"EIow can | marry since L am mar
ried ~ demanded Lord Travers.
do YOU dare-to say that IN conse-
ouence OF your villainy my sex IS to
suffer? No, sir, it is your manhood
at stake, not mine"
care you mad ?" asked Lord Travers,
overwhelmed by surprise at his eccen-
tric friends strange remarks.
"Yes, Travers, am mad; who would
not be under the circumstances :?
"Why, sir, you commit a crime, and
when am about to implore you not
to commit another you actually I'M
! peach my sex"
''By Jove, Green, you are insane.
81 wish / could say as much for you
Insanity is the only excuse tor such
exasperating, outrageous, sc0undrelly
conduct as yours" grOwled Plttacus.
"Good heavens, Green, are you really
serous?"
81 should think so; l am as serious
as an avalanche, an earthquake and
! Volcano boiled down into one.
/ INV dear boy, what frIghtful row
you are making about nothing.
+Nothingi" cried Pittaeus, rs M
dark ewes flashed with suppressed IN
dirnation. as ii nothing to deceive
an honest girl into believing that sh'
is A married woman when she is not
Is it nothing to marry one woman an'
swear you love and honor her whei
YOU love. if YOU don't honor, another
Is it nothing to betray where you ar
trusted most? Is 1t nothing To be !
SIN 10Th, calculating villain, and to 81
here and look as serene as an angel
"My dear boy, of whom are you talk
ing?"
Pittacus started from his seat an
looked at his friend with panied OK
preston upon his honest lace as h
said, with a gasp:
Don't speak like that. Oh, Traver
it is wicked, it is sinful, it is pure, ml
, lignant cruelty! Have [ not alway
! been loyal friend?'
"Of course you have"
"And could you not have truste
! me ," asked Pittlcus. sadly.
NV dear boy, 1 never mistruste
" you" H.
= with me in Il bcastly manner. 1o
a have made me an unconscious accoh
! plice in piece OF business l desp!se
There you go again. l vow 1t
I enOugh to irritate a saint. Can t yo
tell me plainly what in the world yo
q mean p
= turned suddenly and looked Lon
y Travcrs full in the face.
"Do YOU mean to say, on your hone
that YOU don't understand q
Il mean to say that your gabble Il
the last half hour has been Patagonia
y, gibberish to mel"
: aCan it be possible that you doi
J, understand YOUR own position Y ask
:, Pittacus, in grave astonishment
~ "What position, sir
drawers. YOU are either the most a
~ 10 complishcd hypocrite or the blgg,
IN ~ fool in the world; take your choice.
~ Enough of this?' cried Lord Tr3
90 ers. passionalely "Come to the poi
\, at once. What do you mean p
J., II did not come here to QUAR-
, with you, my friend, but to ask you
explain"
~ In the name Of Heaven, what ha
to explain p
"Bv Jove! there is some mista
u somewhere. | don't know how to
Gin TO tell YOU. 1t is such an aw
= business. 1t seems that Squire Rodn
mba m has been looking into your affairs il
~ he swears that you have deceived da
no Kirke.' :, :,
10 "Deceived Hazel How?" ask
% Lord Travers, as IA hot flush mant
his face.
ol "He declares that your marriage
~ her was a pretense, a lie, farce.
- and you, my friend, believed h'n
-, asked Lord Travers, reprOachfully.
,n' ~, oHow could | help it2-the VIII
- - thing is so circumstantial. WI
Dolly told me of the rumor !
ol dumbfounded. saw Squire RodF
1'i the week | returned to London ir
: Ireland. lie had just arrived fr
~. America. We stopped at the sa
amro m hotel and met accidentally. He asl
,,e I me for your address, which l &
'to ' him. You remember you saw
Nv Nv that very same day at your club no
@ oro on St. james street, just before
~ left town for Lord Clydc's. The W
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