Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-29
"You know Lord D'Oyley?"said Hllds,
with little surprise,

Lonsdale, CURLY.
''He Is so delightfully."- wicked"
laughed Hild.. who took in the whole sit
uation and eIi Dyed it exceedingly; you
Were watching them, l saw"
i Lonsdsle made no reply to this unpleas-
ant speech.
"Don't they seem handsome coupler"
asked the merciless Hilds, who neither !
forgot nor forgave Londals's indifference
TO herself, particularly amid the many op
portunitiss afforded in the Pagode to
SueZ.
"Only one is very much older than the
other" said he, coldly.
sab. but Melanie Talbot is en- odd girl
she always rslher affected elderlies.
But Mrs. Chillington says she will make
him most suitable and chsrming Wife"
"Wife, Has he proposed-are they
engaged"
"Don't you know? Oh, Montague, OF
course not, YOU have been so long in
Burmah, and have not heard what her
own circle says; but you will soon know
all about it. Her allowance is to be cut
down to less tn.n half + she msrries
again, I hear. The seifishness OF the up
per ten, even in dying, is really disgust
ing, Montague; is il not? If s. bsroDet is
one Of that upper circle, which l don't
think Mrs. Chillington admits, now that
they have O higher rank in view"
And in this more than vague way she
continued, with her sweetest smiles, to
ssstick pins and needles" into her unhsp-
py listener.
az would rather see Melsnie desd than
the vile of such a man." was the lstter's
thought.
"Hilda-Mrs. Musgrave," said he, with
an irritation he cared not TO conceal now,
"are you aware of all thst your words in
fer TO me?"
Under his angry eye her smile taded
,, out.
"I only know" she replied, talteringly,
"that Lady BrsybroOke's name is mixed
, up freely with that of Lord D'OYley,
under the influence, guidance, what you
win, Of her aunt, Mrs. Chillingten."
II can easily believe that"
81 know he has come down to the
weakness OF ) O'Clock teas st Piccad.lly,
. and he seems to be aDle to command her
society at will"
Hilda WAS piqued, indignant now, at
being taken to task.
,, "And 1 ever thought her perfect, "mut-
= tered Lcnsdale to himself; yet Hilda
!, heard, or guessed, the remark.
-. "Ah, this comes OF raising so much
upon fdeality," she said. "In love we
e picture the object as perfection, yet have
= often in the end only the prosalc reality
) disappointment and deception. Is it
J not so?" she added, while half perceptl-
i bly, pressing his arm with softly gloVed
4 hand.
4 Once again Melanie and D'Oyley pass-
: ed MIN in the same place unnoticed-ln
e the same gay promenade-and it seemed
: horrible, unnatural.
One fact seemed unpleasaDtly plain
: Sae haa married Sir Brisco, and seemed
ready enough, if all he heard was true, tC
= marry egain; and ell this seemed, for the
g .ine bHing, TO bear but one Interpretation
81 TO him-that she was dOubly fslse.
s.. He might have followed, intercepted
g ami spoken with her, ending perhaps thai
a tetc = .teta promenade; but L0n-dsle':
d pride Was alike aroused and crushed, /
e we may use paradox. He felt choking
He resolved 10 quit the fete and return tt
j, mis- rooms; and ne did so, ignorsnt tina
e the Viscount had casually mentioned nj
% name to Melanie as that OF 8 brother OF
~ ticer, whom he had last met in Calcutta
and mad Just seen now.
"Seen?" thought the girl; $50 we haV
il actually been 10 the same plsce-almos
re together-yet never met, On, Amy, is
We not horrid?" she exclaimed to her friend
I'D sswhy Yves l not told sooner"
Id ,nHe was too well engaged under tn
~ willows with Hilda Tremayne-Musgrav
nd l mean" eaid Mrs. Chillington, malic1
~ ously # not cosrsely, and she left nothin
az unseid or unlimited to make it appear tins
the laggard Lonsdsle and the coquettls
Hilda were engaged in one OF those petI
re sfsires du cHur, for which the latter ha
O become so celebrated, as one OF the mos
at dangerous Of married ttirts, as sne ma
he also bloomed into the dubious honor
lof being fashionable beauty; snd Ions
tici dale could not know that Melanie, att
quitting the Botanic Fete, had $50 sor
no home to Piccsdilly, disappointed, al:
D" eusted, and grieVed to the soul.
Ter HWas it for ell this sort OF thing,
Ar thought Lorsdsle, "thst every hour vi
lie, Sway from her, and thousands OF miles
he ocesn rolled between US, seemed to
IL eating my heart out, and she was my III
~ thought in the morning, and the last
ut night? That had nerve given me to Ell
oW dure and. face ell fsced and endure
not among those id Dacoits and ssva!
the Burmese? That l wss spared to outll'
be- the deadly fever of the RaDgoon river, al
ost vet come home, from the land where
I'd; many better fellows have left their bone
sys Surely not-surely not!'
hat But his melo-dramatic thoughts s.
Id half-uttered speeches failed to SCOT
ter him. His heart was burning with gre
bitterness and anger. II this mood,
solving at once to start for the Contine
to spend the time, till he could,
Brindisi and SueZ, return to the reg
nay ment, ne wrote that night to the Adlutal
re General for the usual leave to tray
but abroad, that ne might put the "sil'
lale streek'' between himself and his unfoI
ong seen troubles.
had And as he and that blase dragon,
he Bike, had little supper Of DEVIL
den plovers' eggs and slightly iced champagl
ing the latter. who saw he was cut up aDe
iich something, said. quoting some boz
ntiy though he read little, certainly:
"Don't be down on your luck aoou
oft, bill or girl, if possible. would adv
Tess you avoid misanthropy. Amuse yours
9Th, with your fellow creatures, make frieE
last Of them, make use OF them, make al
ting can out of them, but don't always imp
she bad motives to them. Our motives
In like ourselves, mixture. That is
advice to you, old fellow"