The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-23

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carnei his shrewd eyes instantly detected
| that something was wrong.
He told her that she must not be car
! ried into the drawing-room again to-day
| but Nora insisted upon going. To lie there
racked with her doubts and fears would
be impossible, she told herself. But she
! got little comfort for her trouble, for dur
ing the afternoon the Rev. Andrew Mac
donald was announced, and the good man,
after a little preparatory conversation,
commenced on the subject just then fore
most in his thoughts
A young woman with a goodfortune al
WAYS has many lovers, Tor money is a
universal want, and to get it without
working for it is highly agreeable to many
men. And it is astonishing, also, how
many men believe in their own chances
TO win fortune by marriage. Here was
rosy, stout, middle-aged person, good
looking enough in his way, but without
much manner OF mind, vet who had act
ually thought of beautiful and attract
i've girl like Leonora Stewart as his wife.
He, too, had been jealous OF the hand
some stranger at Dunbaan, and had heard
with great satisfaction the story that Alick
had spread about Biddulph.
Il hear, be said, not looking directly
at Nora, that our new neighbor, Mr.. Bid
dulph, is really married man."
Nora was conscious that her ordinarily
pale complexion colored violently.
"And have you heard this?' she said,
trying to speak indifferently.
81 am told that it is an absolute fact
and hear the lady has been here" an
swered Mr.. Macdonald.
~ never listen to the gossip of serv-
ants" said Nora "and Mr. Biddulph is
quite able to manage his own affairs
without our interference. By-the-by, Mr..
Macdonald, about the poor woman who
lost her husband at Airdlinn-I should
like to pay for her eldest boy going to the
village school,"
Mr.. Macdonald, having been thus re-
called to parochial affairs, shortly after
ward took his leave, feeling vaguely that
he had not advanced himself in Miss Leo
nora Stewards estimation. But he left
her with a fresh pang in her heart. There
must be something in this, she began to
think, and the thought was full of bitter
pain.
She did not improve as the doctor ex-
pected during the next few days, and her
general health, for the first time since her
accident, suddenly gave way. DR.. Alex
ander had been good as his word, and had
told her that Mr.. Biddulph was i'll also
But Morals sensitive ear caught a change
in the kindly doctors tone as he men
toned his patient at Dunbaan. The truth
was, the doctor had heard also that Bid
dulph was married man, and guessed
pretty closely why young Malcolm Fraser
had attacked him. The doctor personally
liked Biddulph, and the story made him
very sad.
And during the next few days Bid
dulph, who was still ashamed to show his
face, received two letters One was from
the fiery jealous young Highlander who
had disfgured him, and the other from
the woman who had caused, as he bitterly
told himself, all the troubles of his life.
Malcolm Fraser wrote thus:
SR-Afte- what has passed between us, ]
demand as my right, that You appoint time
when we can have hostile meeting in France,
as the absurd laws OF this couHtfyfoFbid man
MALCOLM FRASER
To this Biddulph replied:
SIR-I decline 10 stain my hands with your
young blood, or allow you to commit murder.
You interfered where you had no right TO in-
terfere, and you must take the consequences.
JAMES BIDDULPH.
But it was the other letter, the letter
from the woman that filled Biddulph's
heart with the bitterest rage.
"DEAR JAMES tshe wrotel-"You see always
address you in proper and wifelike manner,
in spite of your little shortcomings as hus-
band But TO return TO the point / got your
letter, and when you receive this shall be on
my way TO Scotland. as / want TO see who has
been playing me false. IL is quite true that
think more Of money, at least from you, than
anything else, and am not going 10 risk Il for
the honor OF being called by your name. We
must make fresh bargain. I shall put up at
my old quarters nt the village OF Balla. Send n
line to me there 10 tell me when il will be con.
venicnt 20 you 10 sec me at Dunbaan.
Yours ever,
NATALIE"
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