The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-16
CHAPTER XII.
A TELEGRAM.

| 1880 > -~@~ -
A TELEGRAM.
be next day about 10 o'clock. Col. Forth
\ sitting smoking in his little dining
rh at Headfort, with very grim express
sion his sour yisage.
had been at Sudley the day before,
a4he sight of his old friend there now
al rs depressed him, and made him wish
in bitterness Of his heart that his eldest
dalter had never been born into the
wd And this was perhaps but natural
wthe looked at the face of the stern, sad
mattting alone under the roof she had
dislbred.
q Kenyon had virtually closed his
doobn everyone except Forth, and the
twct, and passed hours together often
alm4n total silence.
"A that Jade has done it ALL" Col.
Fortwas thinking savagely, when he
hearts garden gate click, and. going to
the Wow, saw to his great surprise, his
daugt Ruth walking toward the house,
and thext moment the bell rang.
'Ril confound it, what has happened
nowgb nnuttered, and at once proceeded
to thetle hall, where he found Ruth and
her ma Watson just entering it.
"WA Ruth, where have you sprung
fromgb asked, holding cut his hand,
which took silently.
Somaag in her manner startled him,
and be lilly asked her TO go into the din
ing rooA and shut the door on the servants
outside.
''Noth, the matter, is thereT he
asked. bu have not heard anything
OFF
He did 1t mention Frances name, but
Ruth undtood his meaning.
''No," ssaid. sit is nothing about her.
Father, | He left Maj. Audley; will you
take me id
left Aey! Confound it, you don't
mean you had any row, surelyw
Ruth's afer was to take the thick veil
off that sh@ore, and then she pointed to
her swolleneek and blackened eye.
HE strut me," she said, in low but
determinedSice; latter that | could not
stay"
'SStruck b.. The, brute" cried the col
onel, furioI; land after you nursed him,
and took caof him as you didr Then
suddenly. ST looking at his young daugh-
ter, the exssion Of his face changed.
There is ndng underneath this, Ruth,
surely?" he ded, anxiously. "You have
given him nAusep
Ruth's facaddenly grew crimson.
81 have IL she said; ''do not be
afraid.
linen all hn say is, he ought to be
ashamed of hselfl But why did you ever
marry such fsllowa That's what never
could malzet."
Ruth gavao direct answer to this ques-
ton.
''Some da perhaps, you may know"
she said; IF the present may / stay on
with YOUR
a "Of cour you may; what folly to ask.
What will ~ take7 You've had break
fast, l supper
II will he some tea, and go upstairs and
lie down if may" answered Ruth, ''my
head achesadly."
Col. For rang for the tea, and ordered a
FIRE to be jim his daughters bedroom, and
otherwise howed some consideration for
her confoL He was really glad to have
her back tain, for time at least, and he
always b. secretly disliked Audley; his
manner Hen Frances disappeared irritated
lin excdingly, nor had he forgotten
2uth's wrds that he ibid not know all she
had gon@hrough.
The fute" he kept muttering to him
elf, stirling up and down the room in a
age, AFR Ruth had gone upstairs; ito
trike til girl on her face like that-in one
his cdfounded tempers / suppose. But
sas then ever such an unlucky man in the
iorid ash ana" went on his mental cogita-
ions, "tere both the girls have come to
Tief, and now that Ruth's returned on my
ands. there will be some more gossip and
candal, suppose"
In the meantime Ruth had gone back to
be shabby little chamber which she had
'ft at her ill-omened marriage. Oh, what
rush of thoughts swept over her as she
the last time she had slept
mere, and how sho had dreamed of Kenard
eaforth, and in that shadowy dual life of
ars-the strange visions of the night
I'd promised that her heart would never
Ange
And she had seen him yesterday She
It down and tried to realize what had hap
sned; her separation from Audley; Ken
IDS words. which she knew might mean so
nch.
But no, NO /; she must not think of them.
lie presently told herself. Her life was
Irk and difficult, but she must try to bear
flor the wrong Audley had done could not
rput away. She would stay with her
ther, and perhaps some lines she might
Kenard; sometimes they might talk
ain in the little garden as they had done
fore.
Poor Ruth! There was something very
IRISH about her still, even after all her
I'D and bitter experience. And presently,
ter hathing her face, she began arranging
n small room--for she was too restless to
sdown-placingth the furniture as it used to
;; and, as she did this, naturally the men,
y OF the beautiful sister who had
Tought all this i'll haunted her continually.
ne seemed tc see Frances again pleading to
e' Tor my sake" to marry Audley; to
ieir her words when she came to tell her
ny Col. Kenyon had asked her to be his
gIe. 1t all came back to her, and this was
M bitter end.
K X
Almost at this very time Seaforth was
nerIng IN town news which brought his
mad to sudden determination. When
W Murray had returned to Longridge road
before. after dining with Sea-
lefh at his club, he found Audley in u state
ptnlnd bordering on frenzy. After he
"a read Ruth's farewell words, he burst
l9P hit OF furious. rage, and then began
1rnking heavily, which did not tend to
oppose him; and when Murray entered
m room where he was, the excited man
~ him enough of the painful story to
lltely.
What do you thinks" shouted Audley;
wlte-the woman married without
Atnlng-was talking against me to that
cpnurel SeafOath And that scOundrel