Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-10


less, motnerless, portionless, alone, ant
more than all, supposing you to be dead
1 dear Montague, what could you expec
her to do? 1t was 8 delusion and sec
rlftce!" wrote little Amy; "she is undel
some of the bad influences still, and youI
aostention from seeing her is cruel-mort
cruel than ever was her Uncle Grimshaw,
who, hope-ss papa says-is now think
ing Of the needles eye through which he
must creep. You have committed g sad
mistake in not seeing Msl&nle and ending
ell this painful turmoil az once; though |
did see you cross Piccadilly some DAYS
ago, and thought you meant 10 call "
("So that visit has been concealed !"
muttered Lonsdale-'the same old game
is being pl6yed"D. SIT is horrible t.
| think that after all the past, and when
you are so dear to each other, you should
be residing but few doors apsrt, vet
never meet. Some mischief is being
done, and nobody does so much of that
IS everybody. You are quite like the
people in a three.volume novel! Size
would cut me forever and dSy If she
knew Of this letter. Do not fear your
fate too much but put il to the issue of
6 visit, dear Montague, or delay may be
fatal. am engaged to shop tomorrow,
al p, m, with Mrs. Chillirgtop; and
will contrive that Melanie shall be alone.
Call then, or 1 shall never, never forgive
YOu.
"P. 81 will keep the old lady in
Regent-slreet IS long SIS 1 can"
HIS heart WAS full of telderest gratitude
to little Amy for her kindly and amisble
| intentions.
What should he do bat go at the hour
she indicated, when he loved Melauie SO
deeply, when both had b3en SO consistent
IL tried, yet faithful to the dream of love
SO long? But what did Amy mean by the
phrase thst delay might be fatal?
A Well-padded and carefully sttired
personage, who sat opposite, deep in the
columns OF society paper; who had q
rich, brown fringe Of hair round his
ratler bad head, and who had his mous- !
iachios equally well dyed, but carefully
Waxed to their spiky tips, might have |
thrown some light upon that, as he had in |
his pocket an important reply from Mrs |
Chilington.
CHAPTER L1yI-"AND so TIE TALE Is |
TOLD"
Curiously enough they Quilted the club
together, snd at the same time, thar after
noon. Lord D'Oy ey, for he it Wss,
turned through the; ate to the left, to
visit first, a shop in Bond street, Lonsd.le
through thSt which ed to the light, west
WARD down PiccadiIly- and vast deal
was Involved by the small difference in
time these two movements made.
On ibis occasion, LJnsdale did not 90
through the empty pretense Of asking for
Mrs. Chillington, out for EiGy 6raybrooke
st once, and the tail Turkey, who was
ioungipg insoucialllY against pillar OF
the doorway, leisurely informed him, in
the idlom of his county, that
LADY BibW0ok Wos at tome, but J
alissus Chillington wos out, tax ng Of a
lairing"
Preceding shim in orthodox fashion,
with his card upon sslver, he ushered
Lonsdale into the stately drawingroom,
he windows OF which overlooked the
Green Park, aud wherein MeIsnie was
seated St the pisno.
She was singing to herself, for she was
dome, ia her soft contreltO voice, without
strain or effort, SO she never attempted
uEsuited TO her soft and birdlike r
,olesi for music was not Melanie's strong
'oint, thus she never thought OF attain
ng artificial perfection; and row, full of :
Ter own thoughts, sne seemed neither to q
zee the visitors card nor hear his name Il
nnounced, but played on in dreamy alb L
traction something that WAS very low n
nd sad. c.
Then, as the valet withdrew, she sud Il
emily paused and interlaced her slender p
layers at the back of her head; and as p
ne did so her sleeves fell back and dis IT
aYed, TO the dimpled elbows, her snow W
7hite arms, so tspered and lovely in o.
eir grace and contour. ci
One great beauty she had pre- eminently
EVEN HildE always admitted it-her fig "
re, which Was simply perfect; and W
lough by no means vain, Melsnie was ii
eDsible enough to hava ell her costumes IS
lsde plain, tightly fitting and becoming til
} her. th
For second or two Loasdale lowered Mt
ecr her unseen, and felt with truth that OF
e seem at times to possess kind OF Of
scond sell, and that "rhere is sense of IF
aTeality mixed up with our lives, even te
their greatest moments, which lands Us Iii
good stead at a crisis and carries us be
slm in all outward seeming, and some Il
mes even inwsrdly SO, through trials of
I'd difficulties that seem tmpOssible upon a.
sper" pa
0n every lire of his handsome face ia
lsre was usually written self control; La
1t now it were yearniug expression, tai
I'd half stifed exclamation escaped ca
m. @elanie turned, and had not her tn
ind been full of him she must have ut VIZ
red q cry. w
Observation-Disclosures! of
Her voice was breathless one; st q
ance she knew him, despite the effects Iiv
recent differing and severe illness, but sit
1Cd :Cr moment qaite still, .voicetess, [
!m6. while food of pain snd jog, Of 8
smOties bitter and sweet, seemed to if
'eep over her head. gu
"MelaDie-2t last, mY d6rliDg-at Dig
ST." His arms caught her as she ioi
1syed shout to fall, and drawing her on
e. upon his breast, he covered 1t with of
sses. st
When she lifted it, it was colourless as to
e OF the marble bus close by, for great it '
lotions rendered her pale. Sac did not fan
nt-fsr from it-5ut for 3 moment she enG
smed 10 see nothing Cf the stately, Ing
uble drawing room, with its .silken tina
ngings and ford decorations, and all wa
saled dsTk, blurred, confused, and she ter
ght have reeled had not Lonsdale's in
as been round her; and as he kissed mis-
: hands be did not Gail to SEE thst his fns
sagemeut ring was etill on the thirdfin- I "
: of the left, half hiding the wedding spa
0p Of Sir Brlsco. Iii
Ny ownS" cried LoSsdale, as ell the my
sszy that noop recslled came to MEM con
:. "My own, Whist G bitter bondage bus
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