Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04

NAYS scarcely spoken to him, but
had you not better lie down now, my
dear, | am so afraid OF you firing your
seIf?''
Gilmore, after little persuasion, con-
sented TO follow this maternal advice,
but the sweet face of Nancy LOTUS
haunted him too much, 20 allow him for
long time to sleep, and even when he
did sink into q restless slumber, he
dTeamt OF girl lying unconscious be-
meath suspended sword.
CHAPTER vuI.-TIE FIRST MEETING,
The next day Gilmore saw from one Of
the windows of his room Nancy Lotus
and her two young pupils returning from
their usual walk in the park, and he at
tracted his mothers attention to them,
who happened to be near him.
LOOK, mother, there are the chicksi
Who is that girl with them?" he said.
''Oh, that is young person that Lady
Blenkensop recommended as nursery
governess to them when you were 40
ILL.,, answered Lady Gilmore, with a
certain reserve in her tone which amused
Gilmore.
land how does she suitP' he asked.
every well, think; she seems
quiet, respectable sort of girl.
Gilmore asked no more questions, and
began talking IN his careless way of
something else. But he insisted on GO
ing out for short walk during the same
afternoon, and felt not little impatient
because his mother persisted in accom-
panying him. He had grown suddenly
weary indeed of her constant and devoted
attendance, and il bored him that she
a4ah III L. L Ez1A "a
would be ungrateful and heartless to show
this, and so went out with her choosing to
walk up and down the terrace extending
along the front of the house, and he
thus passed and re-passed several times
the wing where the school room was sit
uated. The children saw him from the
windows, and Miss Dossy, Immediately
followed by Miss Flossy, began wildly
waving their handkerchief at him,
which form of salute Gilmore returned,
and he thought he caught a passing
glimpse of another face besides, but it
was onlYlfor moment that Nancy looked
out, and Lady Gilmore, glsncing sharply
up at the school room windows, saw no
appearance of the governess.
t'Call them down, mother, - said Gill
more. And Lady Gilmore therefore sent
u
the servants, that she was to allow ''the
young ladies' to come on the terrace to
speak to their brother, aud very soon
the two children were rapturously. kiss
ing him.
He chatted to them good-naturedly
promised them all sorts of things when
he went to town, but he never named
the person he was really thinking of.
GECilnOra Won q
new governessP' said Dossy presently.
"Have you? Well, how do you like
her?' he answered.
''Oh, awfully. She's a lady, you
know. Lady Blenkensop brought her -
81 hope she keeps you in good order?'
"She never scolds, scarcely. You see
she has little sister of her own, and a
baby sister, and that makes such diff
ference. The last one was a horrid old
maid, wasn't she. mother?"
"She was a very unpleasant person,
at all events. - replied Lady Gilmore.
land this is really pleasant yorng
person, said Dossy, authoritatively.
"You think her pleasant, don't you,
mother, and pretty9''
al know very little about her." an
swered Lady Gilmore, Progressively.
"Come, my dears, you will tire your
brother If You talk any more. Go back
now to your lessons.
Thus the children were dismissed, and
in little while Gilmore grew weary and
returned also to the house; but he had
got tired of having his mother always by
his side, and gave her such q decided
hint the next time he went out, that he
would rather go without her, that Lady
Gilmore abruptly retired from his rooms,
and when alone in her own burst into a
passionate fit of tears.
"Ah, he has no heart, no HEARTH she
cried in bitterness. 81 who would give
my life for him-who have given more
than lifeI'
But she subdued all signs of this emo
ton before she saw him again. She
knew too well the pleasure-loving tenn
permanent he had inherited from his
father would resent any outburst which
made him uncomfortable. The late Lord
Gilmore had hated the sight of tears,
and the sound of reproach, as his
Dorothy had learnt by bitter experience,
for If she ever INDUCED in any displays
of temper or disappointed affection. he
invariably absented himself from her
presence and remained away long enough
to bring her to her knees.
mus Wlel Sle saw gilmore again Slo
smiled on him, and hid as best she could
the wound that he had given to her
warm and hayward heart. But he un-
derstood her nature better than she
thought, and was quite aware that she
had been grieved and angry, but was
also aware that her continued presence
worried him, and Gilmore never cared
to be worried long.
But she made no attempt to 60 out
with him again unless he asked her. He
was gathering strength daily now, and
walked and sometimes drove about the
place. but week passed and he saw no
more of the pretty face that had struck
his somewhat f1ckle fancy. Then, one
day his mother took the children out
with her in the carriage, as she intended
paying q visit to their grandaunt, Miss
Clifford; an old lady, the sister of the
first lord and who, as she was very rich,
expected her relations to be at
tentive TO her.
She lived in the house where her
brother, Sir Thomas Clifford, the great
brewer, had lived before he built
Wrothsley. This place was named Gate
ford Manor house, and stood almost in
sight of the famous breweries, which
had made the fortunes of the family.
But this lady was not like her nephew,
the second lord, for she was not ashamed
of the breweries and was full of Jokes