Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-15

upon her dean mother
Il know the kind Of woman" said
Stukely; mot by any means an uncom-
mon type"
"CIare was only L. and had not yet been
introduced into society, wore schoolgirl
frocks, practiced Beethoven, and read
Schiller with good old gOyerness, while
her mother went to parties. They spent
the London sea+Dn in West End lodging,
and lived for the rest Of the year at Tor
quay, where Mrs. MOiyneauX, Clare's
mother. had house Of her own. The
widows means We're limited and just
sufiiced for this kind of life; and | dare
say she looked forward with dread to the
expense of launching pretty daughter,
still mere perhaps to the idea of being out
shone and aged by the daughters appear
ance. Anyhow, she kept Clare very close;
and when Stuart Mackenzie proposed for
his cousin, Mrs. MOlyneaux received him
with open arms, and forced on the mar
riage with all the strength of a mothers
influence Clare. who was first reluctant,
was gradually persuaded to think herself
very fond of her cousin. He and she had
been playfeilOws in her childhood, and she
had liked him very well then. 1t was fiat
tering to think that one of the handsomest
young men in London was over head and
ears in love with her. The idea of imme
diate escape from the governess, the Ger
man poets, and the dullneSs of London
lodgings was pleasanter still. The prospect
of a voyage to India was sheer enchant-
ment The girl gave way. The marriage
was hurried on, rs the Afghanistans were
under sailing orders within six weeks.
Glare spent her honeymoon in Italy, and
sailed with her husband from Trieste in
great troopship fortnight after her wed
ding day, and six months before her 18th
birthday.
Poor child"
"The life in India was gay and bright
enough at the first There had been ru-
mors of war, but nothing came OF these
rumors. India was supremely quiet in
that long lull which followed the suppress
sion Of the mutiny. Gradually, slowly, the
sickening truth dawned upon my poor
Glare. She had married prOfiigate, q
spendthrift, and a gamester. She shrinks
with horror from all memories of that
hateful life: yet there have been times
when il has seemed a relief 10 her TO talk
to me about those days, when the over
burdened mind has thrown of some part
of its load and at such times have en-
couraged her condolences Her husband
was one of the most popular men in India,
| from a social standpoint. during those first
| few years. He was brilliant, fascinating,
| clever, open-handed; but he was thor
| oughly bad man all the same, and his wife
| was the chief sufferer by his vices. Then
came z change. Incorporate habits told
their usual tale. He grew nervous,
| excitable, short-tempered, most Of all
when he had been unlucky at play; and
play was his nightly amusement. He be
came very unpopular with his brother
| officers, and the feeling of the mess at last
came 10 point which rendered an eX-
change inevitable. Mackenzie exchanged
| from the famous AfChanistans into a line
regiment quartered in the south of Ire
land"
"A dreary change, should think" said
| Stukely, whose happiest years had been
spent under an Indian sun, to whom the
ways Of Indian life were the familiar
ways, and those of Britain strange.
"A change that wrecked him forever.
| In India there were some restraining in
| fluenceS caste, society, the knowledge
| that the eyes Of great men We're upon him;
! but in that shabby little Irish town
there were none. He sunk in dull
| apathy-abandOned every ambition Of an
| honorable man-sulked with his wife
was foolishly indulgent one day, brutally
harsh the next, to their only child, n boy
of I, and the wife's solitary consolation.
He had spent nearly all his money. He
had thrown away all his chances Of ad-
yancement He knew this; and the very
| knowledge that he was ruined man
made him reckless. He drank TO drown
, care-drank till his brain grew soddened
| and dull-drank until delirium tremens be-
came a chronic malady. Oh, the horror
| of those days, as Clare describes them.
| The ever recurring evil, which she
/ dreaded in every hour Of her life. She