Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-17

"Grace knows his real name now" said
Glare
The deuce she doesm cried the colonel
"lts more than do, for | believe the fel
low has half dozen aliases However,
Grace knew the man as Camillac and as
Camillac he writes to her, renouncing all
claim upon her, acknowledging that he
was altogether unworthy of her girlish
confidence, and that he obtained her prom
Use under false pretenses The letter was
written on board the Orizaba, bound for
New Zealand, where have dispatched our
young friend under the care of a doctor
who is going to settle in the colony and
who will look after Mr. Camillac and set
him on his legs when he gets there. II
there is any capacity for reform in the man
he will have a fair chance of redemption" ."
God grant that he may take advantage
of it, exclaimed Glare. "Oh, Colonel
Stukely, how can | ever be grateful enough
to you for this good work.
"Yous' said the colonel, looking puzzled.
"Ah, you do not understand yet. You
have not been told all The service done
for Grace is a tenfold boon TO me. The
man you have tried to rescue is my son,
Valentine Stuart Mackenzie. If you have
indeed saved him"
IF he had been my own son could not
have done anything better for him"
And you have taken all this trouble,
you have spent great deal of money
began Lady Darnei, but the colonel inter
rupted her.
Don't talk about the money. The whole
business has cost very little more than
hundred so far. And that reminds me
that have some money of yours in my
L
which Lady Darnel's son took in his mad
fit. The other half fell into the clutches
of Jaker and his brood, who robbed him
while he was under the influence of de
lirium tremens. Don't he unhappy, Lady
| Darnel, the fit was over before we put him
on board the Orizaba, and my friend the
! doctor will look after him throughout the
voyage The OriZaba is a sailing vessl.
The passage will last long enough for a
| perfect cure, if my friend Feron is as firm
as believe he will be. l put the case in
his hands as an interesting experiment
! Here is young man organically sound,
| good hooking. well made, well born, well
| bred. given over TO the demon drink |
| give him into your custody, out of reach
of temptation, for the steward and captain
| will work with you for his welfare. You
| can have him all TO yourself for the next
| two months. If there is any virtue in
! your science you ought to be able TO cure
| him. And Feron declared that he would
| cure him.
Clare gave the colonel her hand
You have brought me comfort and
hope" she said fervently. you are a
ble-hearted man, Colonel Stukely,
worthy to be my husbands friend
You can give me no higher praise than
that"
Grace had opened the packet and looked
over her letters. Yes, they were all there,
the poor little school girl notes, written in
the most Britannia French, with much re-
course to grammar and dictionary; the
letters written later from Darnel, in a
freer style, and a little more Gaelic, but
abounding in wrong genders and impossi-
BILE lenses. She glanced through the col
lection, blushing as she looked, and then
knelt down on the hearthrug and threw
them behind the burning logs. What a
merry blaze they made While the flames
went roaring up the wide old chimney, she
turned to her godfather, half in tears and
half in mirthfulness.
You have done something more for me
than teach me my catechism and the ten
commandments in the vulgar tongue" she
said You have rescued me from a great
difficulty"
Perhaps if i had been In the way to
teach you the ten commandments, laying
particular stress upon the fifth. you might
never have got into that difficulty, my
poor Oracle"
mo; if had honored my father as |
ought to have done, should never have
engaged myself to a French art student
without his knowledge" said Oracle, and
then, with touch of pretty Righteousness,
she added: But then he ought never to
have sent me to school. That was the
beginning Of the evil"
THAT was Aunt Dora's doing" said Sir
Allan. THE school was her advice"
Il hate people who are always giving ad-
vice." exclaimed Grace. "A thing that
costs nothing, and which nobody wants.
How happy they were, sitting round the
cozy hearth in the spacious old room which
Wren had planned for just such family
uses. Four people sitting round the fire
in the average modern bed-chember would
he a crowd; but here there was room
enough for twenty. They sat round the
fire talking for the next hour, and almost
forgot that Sir Allan was still an invalid,
till the family doctor came in and re-
proved them severely all round, including \
the patient
Il said you were to sit up for an hour or
so, and you have been up at least four
hours, he eXpostuiated.
The other three hours went under the
head of or So" replied Sir Allan. 1T was
vague expression on your part which l |
took to have a liberal meaning. Don't be
frightened, Danvers, l never felt better in
my life, and l am going TO eat one of these |
partridges which you have been pressing |
upon me as persistently as Louis XIV |
upon his confession. am going to eat a |
partridge and drink a tumbler of Held |
seek to my supper, as old-fashiOned peo- |
pie say"
Upon my soul, believe you have been |
taking Heidseck already" said the doctor, |
for you are as merry as a grig-and you |
have been all in the dolefuls till to-day"
"The tide has turned, Doctor" said Sir
Allen. "You shall see how fast a man Of |
As can get well when he is surrounded by
those he loves"
Before the end of November Sir Allen
was well enough to start for the south.
The day before he left Darnel park he had
a decisive interview with his half-sister,
during which he made it clear to Dora
Darnel that her place was no longer
under the same roof that sheltered her
brothers wife
Il do not understand in what manner
have offended Lady Darnel," said Dora,
with an air Of ill-used innocence II have
absolutely shaved in my desire that every
thing in this house should be as near per-
fection as possible If Lady Darnel had
any experience of large establishment
she would be better able to appreciate the
trouble have taken in her behalf"
Lady Darnel is not unappreciative,
ha has a olp irat fpr |