Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-22

was realized: her marvellous beauty AM
gface created a perfect Juror. More thar
ever then he regretted her unfortunat
marriage, but for that there was no ranl
she might not have attained. The onl,
thing that reconciled him In the least to /
/. was the fact OF the child's existence.
Then opened then to Ismay Waldron {
most brilliant life; nothing hat she ever
dreamed Of equaled this magnificent reali
ty. There was one drawback. She had
one dispute with Lord C~arlswood; he wa
very DESTROYS that she should relinquish
the name of Waldron, and that she would
not consent TO do. She looked at him with
flashing eyes, her beautiful face crimson
with anger.
II have broken my husbands heart"
she said; II have deserted him; | have
spoiled all his life; but I will not give up
his name. l was proud enough the day ]
bore IL first; / will not give it up"
He saw that IL was useless to urge the
point, SO he ceased discussing it. Ismay
had more spirit and determination than he
had given her credit for.
She was known as Mrs. Waldron,"
Lord C%arlswood's beautiful g~randdaugh-
ter. People at first used to ask where
was her husband-who was he,-and the
/ nSWCA ALO WY hAoSA w
meath her, and Is separated from him"
After a time they ceased to ask. and the
beautiful Mrs. Waldron became one Of the
queens Of the fashionable world. How
admired she was Men spoke o; her with
wonder-of her marvellous loveliness and
grace, her bright smile, her quick, ready
| wit, her radiant face.
Ismay Waldron enjoyed her Life. She
| nora haraaff ~ hAurt md onrl IN fhQ
spirit Of gayety; no party, no ball, no sotres
was complete without her; she was indie
~fatigable in the pursuit Of pleasure. Lord
Carlswood smiled as he watched her.
II was not mistaken In my estimate OF
her character, y, he thought. "She has for
gotten her husband"
He became warmly attached to her,
chiefly because her great beauty and pop
ularity flattered his pride. He loved her,
too, because she so closely resembled her
mother, the Katrine he remembered as q
child, and had loved SO dearly. He took
great pride and interest In the little Leo
| his heir who was to be, the Lord Carls-
wood Of the future.
There were times when Ismay Waldron,
looking around her, said to herself: 81 did
| well: il the time and the choice were to
| com again | should do the same. 1t would
have been cruel to waste sue a life as
mine in a wood keepers cottage; it would
have been cruel TO deprive my beautiful
| Leo of this grand heritage"
So year after year passed, and with time
her beauty developed INTO magnificent
womanhood; she grew more fashionable,
more popular. The beautiful Mrs. Wal
dron wa perhaps more universally adj
| mired than Gny other lady in London. The
world loved her as she loved it.
There were times when she hardly real
lied that she, the admired and flattered
beauty, the queen OF the season, the most
popular woman in London. was the wife
Of Paul Waldron. In the midst Of her
grandeur she looked back with q sick,
faint shudder on the past-that past where
in she had been the disconnected wife Of q
poor a
She had reached the climax. Life had
nothing more to give her. Wealth, luxury,
magniticence, pleasure ~unbounded, ad-
miration-all were hers. The world she
had once looked upon with such longing
eyes lay at her feet. She delighted in her
own beauty, she took the greatest pride in
adjoining it, she was never weary of con-
templating it.
II VI liC pACuCtA dIo
amused her; 1t did no more. She was vain
aud worldly, she loved riches and grandeur
better perhaps than she loved her own
soul, but she was never, even la thought,
false TO Paul Waldron. She never forgot
that, though parted from h~im-though she
had deserted him-she was still his wife.
No one dared to speak to her Of love that
shs 6SU.1 .Ok lsSc<Ss. T& GsGss e Ga
best and noblsst in tho land would tain
have wooed her had she been free 10 be
wooed.
Lord Carlswood noticed that trait In her
character as he noticed everything.
"She is a true Carlswood," he said more
than once. "She is beautiful and pure, as
were all the women Of our race"
So the years passed away to Ismay Wal
dron, one of the most admired and cele-
brated women of her day.
CHAPTER XIV.
There was one season in London when
people were all talking OF a new man.
who had made his entry INTO public life.
He was a Mr.. Dale, Of Ravensdale, who
had been recently returned as NJ. p. fox
Taverton. At first Tories, and then Lib
erals, had tried TO ignore him, but he was
becoming q power among the people. He
could be ignored no longer. He lad made
one OF the most brilliant speeches ever do
lixered In the House Of Commons.
IF he would but become one of usi'' said
the great Tory leader, with a sigh.
IF we could but get him over on ouI
SIDE" said the Liberal chief.
But Mr.. Dale had taken a line OF his
own, and ne adhered to it, He was the
poor mans friend-some of his speeches
were one long burning TRADE against the
rich and their treatment Of the poor. He
was prejudiced and bigoted, but his Won
derful eloquence, his passionate words,
carried with them a certain force OF con-
victton. He was rich himself-master of
a fine estate-but he was no a~ristocrat.
He thanked Heaven that he had sought to
buy no mans soul with gold. Shrewd
men, who read his speeches, said there
must be q secret attached to hts life; he
could not hate the aristocracy so much
unless he had suffered through one Of
them.
But no one even family guessed that he
hated the ~aristocracy because an aristo-
crat had tempted his fair young wife to
leave him.
He had become one OF the leading men
Of the day-a power and u voice In the
land. Lord Carlswood. who was a great
admirer Of talent, admired AIM, although