San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-21

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hers. Even here she was not wanted, it
seemed.
A minutes search, however, brought
the yellow envelope to light, concealed in
fold of the draperies and clutching it
tightly in her hand, Clara stood still for q
moment to take last look at the dead
child, which, bedded among that pro-
fusion of blossom, looked almost like
another white flower. ,5
1t was a sweet little face she gazed
upon, and Clara had dearly loved her
little pupil; yet now, in the revulsion OF
wounded feeling which burned within
her, she gazed at it coldly, almost hardly,
and there were no tears in her eyes. Her
jaundiced glance seemed to detect on
those baby lips some shade of the same
unapproachable hauteur she had seen ON
the fathers face; the cold, white forehead
looked as icily proud as those of the can
vas ancestors in the ball room.
The incident with the money had given
Clara something Of a fright, as she re-
Elected how terrible would have been her
position had the money been really lost or
stolen. What could she have done on
finding herself destitute, so many hun
bred miles away from her home? She
felt sure that she would rather have died
tIttn W apply again W Tic COil, uduBuJy,
courteous master of the house. How to
avoid a recurrence of this danger was her
principal thought, as she regained her room
and counted over the crisp bank notes. She
laid aside a portion of the money, just
what would suffice for paying her expenses
to k, where she would reach the rail
way, and all her worst troubles would be
over; but the bulk of her little fortune
she wished to secure beyond all danger of
loss or theft. OF course she would not
put it in her trunk; boxes sometimes went
aStray, or were occasionally tempered
with in Russia; then she passed all her
articles of clothing in successive review
as suitable receptacles for the notes.
She had heard of people carrying about
their money in the stocking, but this
must be extremely uncomfortable,
Clara thought; also sewing it into
stays, as bad heroines are often
i made to do in novels, was scarcely a
pleasant idea then her eyes fell on the
travelling clothes which lay ready on the
bed-a gray merino cloak lined and
trimmed with gray Astrackan fur, and
with muff and cap to match. Might she
not sew her money into the muff? or.
better still, into the cap itself? for "a
mutf might be dropped or lost, whereas
could not well manage to lose my cap
unless | lost my head as WELL" she re-
aected.
Clara felt it to be almost stroke of
genius, as she unpicked the gray silk lin
ing and introduced the precious notes into
the opening. She need not take them out
till she reached K, where she was to
rest one night, and i" the meantime they
were as safe as safe.
This fur Suit the only handsome nrt in1n
of dress she possessed, had been present
from Countess Froloff only some days pre-
viOusly. You do not know our Russian
winters, my dear" she had said to the
girl kindly. "You will require something
warm to wrap yourself up with in our
sledging parties" This had been last
week, and she had then felt like a daugh-
ter of the house almost, while now she
was poor Outcast, sent forth alone into
the wide world.
Two days after his departure from ST.
Petersburg, Hugo Weyprecht found him
self pacing the road at the entrance of a
small country town, as he waited for the
arrival of the diligence.
He had been dropped here by some
other conveyance earlier in the day, for
pages and zigzagerings from off the main
track, much bargaining and wrangling
with cunning Jewish contractors or OBJ
fuse country pumpkins Now he was
about to take the regular diligence as far
as k, where his business was to ter
inmate.
He was finding the time of waiting very
long, for there was absolutely nothing in
this filthy little town to attract even the
passing notice of o stranger The frost
had somewhat relaxed, but the air was
chill and the atmosphere dense with the
presage of an approaching snow storm,
which, in the shape of thick white mist,
brooded over the place, obscuring the
| view and giving to the nearest and COM
monest objects far off unreal appear
| ance. Like the breath of some colossal
monster it was floating everywhere in
tieecy flakes, intangible and transparent,
yet dtstorting each object within its range:
| giving to the stunted willows on either
side of the road the guise of crooked spec
tiers, and to the hooded crows flying home
ward to roost the semblance Of huge
black grifffns.
1--WE shall have snow before long"
muttered the young man to himself. off
| only the roads are not blocked. uD! 1t
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