Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-03
[Now FIRST PUBL1sHzDI
rs LABOUR Won
AN EvENTFUL STORY.
" JAMES GRANT,
r
n OF THE ROMANCE OF WAR;" "THE
BLACK WATCH" "FAIRER THAN A
FAIRY" ETC, ETC.
he Right of Translation is Reserved

vas esrly in the second month of the
on season. The afternoon was
lful; but, as usual in London, there
mo breeze TO replace the heat of the
thless midday; vet the Park and the
were crowded. All the world OF
on, wealth and idleness was there,
G, driving, sauntering about or &C.
ing the long lines Of seats near Hyde
corner.
- the lofty door of Mrs. ChiIlington's
residence in Piccadilly a handsome and
WeH-appointed open carriage WAS stand
ing, as Lonsdsle drew near on the OPP
oosite side of the way, by the pavement
list borders the northern side OF the
zen Park. He perceived in an instant
{ its occupants were Melanie, her
nd Amy Musgrsve, and Lord D'Oyley,
Gently bent for the Row; and the car
:, he also saw, WAS not that of Mrs.
9ngton, with Its pretentious coats
pr.al, but WAS Melanie's, for on the
rs was widows lozenge, small and
ST, charged with the Braybrooke
!, and the liVeries were yellow and
he two seemed in excellent spirlIs,
be carriage boWled away west, to-
Apsley house.
81 Amy should seem joyous and full
Vaeity with "tOWn," and all the hap
IS and change it brought her, was
raj. A lively girl, she was always
= for anything; so why not for "bit
'rk" with this "old fossil, who was
or Melsnie-or was it on Mrs.
lingtoI?" Amy Jared little if it
so.
,elsnie's smiles and good spirits
"A upo1 Lonsdsle; but she had hap
ag in one great measure now. In
o. Of old Bethis Barlow, at the
house, Reggie was well cared for,
to her own sacrifice and Dicks
as,tions after Sandhurst would soon
bewned with success. They were all
nsndent Of Uncle Grimshaw, whose
1es Of the fesh-pots of Ravensbourne
] had faded away, and he could only
iwl and glare at his frugal meals, while
increased his allowance of cheap port
brandy and water.
The Viscount was row partially bald;
his hair, whether a triumph of art or
ture, was still q rich dark brown,
lie his burly moustachios were of the
me hue, but carefully waxed out at the
Is. He WAS well-preserved, we'll
dded and splendidly made up by his
lor, and was intensely vain of having
: name coupled with that of MeIanie,
o YVES totally ignorant of his real char
sr. That those two country girls
luld be in such "shady" society as that
his lordship, Lonsdsle never doubted
be the result Of Mrs. Chillington's in
Uence or plans, and their ignorance of
infamous world of London; and the
ugh gossip Of Captain B Ike and others
the club came painfully to his memory
he crossed the street and handed two
rds to tall, powdered valet-a tall,
Iwdered, overfed and insouciant lout-
no was louDging against q pillar and
oking down contemporary on the
ogld at large.
"Mrs. Cnillington was-he believed
3 'ome; but Lady Brayhrooke was
outs" so the visitor was ushered in.
In the elegant double drawing-room of
;e Plcsdilly MsRsion-a species of apart
TENT TO which Lonsdsle, for long past,
ed been d strasger-he glanced about
i'm for some traces Of Melsniers pres
nee, nor were they wanting.
There was q water-color sketch OF 8
Gene on the Thsmes-how well he knew
ie features Of that locality The will
IWs and the elms dropping over the
mining water wherein the great white
lies hoated-the place where they had
o often met and last parted, with all its
associations. On the piano lay scattered
everal pieces Of music, some by Chopin,
nd among others, "The Waltz of the
ing's Dragon Guards" all inscribed
J Lady Braybroke, with "the kindest
Ishes OF Lord D'Oyley;" so "this kind
I thing" had been DING on for some
ne past.
Half-cut novels and serials lay about;
leY were not much in the peers line;
ut cabinet photo of the latter, in
avily-frogged coat, with all his medals
orders displayed, occupied place of
nour on side table, on pretty little
ded easel, which, however, might have
en- Mrs. Chillington's arrangement. Yet
onsdale eyed it darkly, as IL it had been
Dscolt by the Rsngoon river.
Near il, in q Dresden China vase,
,as . bouquet of small red roses.
onsdale remembered that Just such
rose as one of them was
! DiOyley's button-hole IS he drove
:, and though it might have been
. gift of Mrs. ChiIlington, "tritles
chit as airn haunted the levers mind,
ID were rather in the ascendant Just
zen.
1t CHANGED that little before this time,
support Of the ministry or some par
sular members thereof, ION the retire.
mt Of that incapable body huge batch
"creations" had, IS usual taKen place;
4 among the latter now figured Sir
sntagenet de Pugwash, Knit, ofStoken-
)ss-for "his eminent services to the
Ite;" in boiling up soap in unusual
antilles, we presume.
The blushing honours of the old soap
Ter of Batterses had filed Mrs. Chill
ton with s general contempt for all
lrers of knighthood that was not hered-
IPoohl" she had said; "what are baro-
q noW?n
'hus she aimed at higher game for Me-
lie.
18th Lonsdale's cards in her hand, she
fingered for q moment at the rich [
an portiere which hung before the
r drawing-room door, and while IN
by him, 5 very cloudy and hostile
t'ession indeed lowered on her GER
" fine old face.
e half crushed the cards in her angry
hand, as she felt herself positively
ed by fate.
was too bad to think that after all,
deeming him safely dead and buried,
lten-she cared little which-by the
mese, he should return thus, looking
veil and handsome as ever, to mar,
laps, her second ambitious plans and