The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-29
THE RUNAWAYS.

Lord Glencore was the match OF tue season.
Just OF age, Of an old family, with vast pos.
sessions and a heavy rent roll, swellcd bya
long minority, the instant the hawk-like
eye Of Lady Jane fell on the young peer a
thrill of JOY assured her that there stood
the husband Providence had provided for
! Adela.
Little mattered Il TO Lady Jane that Lord
Glencore was silent, awkward, most pain
fully shy, given TO blush TO the very roots
OF his hair ii a woman but addressed the
most commonplace remark to him. Adela
had been too carefully trained TO pin her
faith 10 externals. Besides, MS regarded
marriage, Lady Jane always arranged these
little affairs for her daughters. She had
brought out three before the advent Of the
lovely Adela, and not one OF them, she in.
wardly boosted had ever had reason 10
flinia syllable of reproach at their mother.
you think IL is al right, mother 10
your" Adela ventured 10 say, growing Il
little uneasy when the end OF the season
drew near, and Lord Glenmore had never
addressed single remark 10 her which
could by any possibility be construed into
love.
Perfectly right, dear. The society PIT
pers have coupled your names together;
an approaching marriage has more than
once been limited at, and, as a matter Of
course, now, wherever people ask us he
s asked"
81 know; still other people are not the
same rs he"
quite the same. understand the
position perfectly well, my love. Men OF
his kind would remain silent until dooms-
day unless suggestion was made TO
them"
"well, but"
"Dcar child, you may leave II 10 me.
Don't you think so2' And an expression
Of mild rcproach was shot from the mater.
nal eye. "Do you fancy that. il ! saw the
slightest shadow Of uncertainty, 1 should
accept Sir Joscelyn's invitation for Good
wood, knowing that Glencorc won't be
there?"
won't ho7 Why, where Is he goine?"
"Nowherc. I ascertained that, You may
be sure. He is Obliged TO remain in town.
There II not be a soul left for him TO
speak TO- Some business with his lawyers,
he gid-and said ii in pointed way,
too
'Siammering and getting fiery red"
said the W0uld-be iance disdainfully.
Lady Jane shook her head. "Ncyer
mind the manner IL In the meaning We are
concerned in. lie joins us Immediately
after at Thorndean. There you viii see
that everything will be satisfactorily ar.
ranged. Lady Somerton has such hap.
py way Of letting young people DC thrown
together, and from the first have seemed
10 be very much guided by her"
Adela embraced her mother with grace
full elIusion.
GLOW clever You arcl" she said, admir-.
ingly; "you have managed beautifully,
for did want 10 enjoy Goodwood free.
When ! am a countess, mamma, Il shall
be very nice for you"
n.
Certainly Goodwood week had left Lon.
don wonderfully empty. You did not
meet a soul you knew.
Lord Glenoore repeated this fact 10 him
sclf more cheerily W he walked along Pic
cadilly with heart and step as light as n
birds.
II seems an impossible circumstance that
stalwart young giant, standing over six
feet in his stockings, his own master, able
20 do what he liked and 20 where he chose,
should be In abject thralldom IN a plain,
little middle-aged woman who was bent on
compelling him 10 marry her daughter.
"And feel o. II should be madc 10 do
Il, too" poor Glencore had said OF late,
driven into his last corner by the congraiu.
iations Of all Lady James friends, 10 say
nothing Of those horrid paragraphs In those
horrid papers, some Of which had gone 10
far as 20 mention an early date being fixed
''ior the early marriage Of lovely do.
!, tbulantc OF this season and n young earl
recently Of age, whose ancestors came over
With the Conqueror." Glencore had Il In
bis heart 10 envy the shopmen, the cab.
drivers, the crussingswccpcm-- envy
any one no, singled on, by Lady Jane Mag
nus 10 be her son-in'law.
n he could In, pluck mp courage iosay
he did not mean anything never had
meant anything. never meant 10 mean
anything that he was quite happy ~ he
was-that lac neycrintonded 10 marry any
one-what would he not giyel But In inco
Of that terrible Lady Jane and her lovely
statucsquo daughter he felt paralyzcd and
filed with nm abject conviction that be
would have 10 snccumb. II he had only
some one 20 conAde In, some one whose
advice lac felt was given for his good but
the poor young fellow stood, ~ the potscs
sos III vast properties often do, absolutely
ficndless and alone. Ills kindly, simple
nature was dcspiscd by those around him.
Without parents or any near relatives, he
had been brought up by strangers, who
had surrounded him by such unnecessary
cares and ridiculous precautions, that now,
when he was man, with full liberty
given, he was no moro able 10 make good
use Of Il than a grown.up baby would be.
full Of a wild scheme which had lately
come 30 him, that he would run oil q
some far distant country, he was mapping
out the details ~ he walked along, NO oc
cupied that lie forgot how far he had come,
until with n sudden start he pulled him
cell up. lie was passing the Albert hall
close 10 that pleasant row OF houses In one
Of which lived Lady Jane.
The knowledge tina, he could wall
boldly by and ding a look Of defiance nj
the papered windows and closed shutters
M no had done the day before, sent
thrill Of Satisfaction through the younl
man. lie drcw himself up and turned
his head 10 -, when, oh agopyl er
sctly ~ he was opposite 20 u the doo'
opened and a voice called out "Glen
oorci"
FREDDY II II your Lord Glenccr
managed TO say. seeing he was addresses