Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-07
CHAPTER I.-CoNTINuEp.

CHAPTER L-CoSTINuED.
MY dearest son, she said, 81 am quite
ready to believe that your mistress is evey-
thing that You believe her 10 be, as good,
and as sweet and as beautiful I pray that
you may have good a wife as you desmve
and that Is saying a great deal Will you
please give Norah my love, and tell her ! Am
looking forward with the greatest eagernsss
to seeing her and getting TO know hsri As
regards your plan and manner Of living, I
quite approve Of your ambition 10 become q
successful physician Il is fortunate that
you are the son Of q successful singer, my
dear boy. You viii find no difficulty In
making the attempt As for my money, ID
was made for you, and is all your own, II
you want it all There Is, however, q great
surprise for me In your letter, apart from
the news of your engagement. which ought
not to be a surprise to q mother. kt Is the
surname and the Christian name Of your
fancee Is she one OF the Clopsiila Crunansi
In that case her Christian name is easily &C
counted for There should be also q Calista
In the family, and her fathers Christian
name should be Hyacinth They should also
be poor, which l suppose is the case with
them, because You tell me ber father Is q
general practitioner In Camden Town Tell
me, when you write next, about their family.
which concerns you in q very strange man
psr But of this / will tell you when we
meet Ihope to see you-and Norah-next
month But do not forget 10 answer this
question-ls her fathers Christian name
Hyacinthi Your afecfionate
'sMorHER"
"Well, his name Is certainly Hyscinth:
snd there is a Calista IN the fau5 And
they are the Consilia CronanS I wonder
what the mater meansi After all she viii
tell me in her own time"
He laid his head back, and closed his eyes
He had been up half the night with bad
case, and he fall asleep instantaneously, and
slept tiIl they brought him his early dinner.
There certainly was something very queer
with the other young man. and he was going
70 Calista in order 70 tell her 90 He had
been accustomed for q great many years 70
make Calista that kind Of half f-confidant who
shares all the woes, hears nothing of thsh-
cause, and is forgot n wher things run
smoothly Persons like Calists always have
plenty of friends, who make use of their
sympathies when trouble has to be faced
''Calista," he said, dropping into . chair,
Il wish was deadn ~
DO you, Dicki You said the same thing
about two months ago, when saw you last
yet / heard afterwards that you were cheer
full .a
II wish was dead now, them
What has happenedi What Is the mat
terri
II didn't say anything had happened,
said i wish l was dead'p
..Is that all yo9 have come to tall msr
Mot quite I've come to tell you On,
Calista; Pm the most miserable, un,ucky
beggar IN the worldp Eae
What is it Dicki Have you done any
thing foolishp
Twelve. BE stopped, bscsuss he
caught Calistas clear eyes gazing stssdily in
his and it seemed as II he changed his pur-
pose. Al didn't know no said, in confu-
sion, ''that it would really happen until this
morning Now find it must"
What viii happenF
'sYou viii remember my words when Il
comes off-will you'll came to warn you
We'll Dick, if anything is to happen, and
] am not to know what il is, l sse no use in
warning me-
"a warn yu because want you to under
stand that 1t is all her own fault"
"Whose own faultP
AosC eAOhLA Az Dc DSt 2tOI u II
talking about her, amt II Very well, then.
Let her understand thst if Is her own fault"
What has Norah dcneP
Shes deceived me That's what she's
done I've offered myself dozen times and
she has refused me. Told me there was no
body else that she cared for; said she didn't
want to get married; said that last week;
and then hear she's engaged"
s.Varr wall Won ax,a mo- <rrsx,-~ - s.lr.
revenge upon her, reyou, Dickt Thaswou
be mean, indeed
Mot revenge. It isn't revenge And yet
it's all her own fault whetever happens
You are very mysterious this morning,
Dick, and very gloomy. Well, IL you have
nothing more TO say, bad you not better be
getting beck honei II ID twelve O'Clock al
ready
You can tell her Il anything hsppens,n
he repeated that you knew all along it ives
coming, and that it is all her own fault"
60, Dick Yoc are worse than gloomy
this morning You are wicked win listen
to You no longer"
He turned and flung himself from ths
room / use the word which would have
pleased him most, because he desired to ling
himsslf The people who fling thsnsslrs
lips as well As their locks, and knit . brow
as easily rs a stocking, and fash flames from
their eyes as wei as from q hcifer match
But good fnging requires q narrow stage.
or, at least, close proximity to the door. Al
the Adelphi before the villain filings, 1t may
be observed that he carefully edges up close
to the door. Now, the ward was q long
room. and Dicks fling became, before he
reached the doorhandle, an ignobie stride,
which was rendered only partially efficient
by his banging the door after him % that
all the babies jumped