The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02

evening-which she did wearing a charm
ing white gown and such a bright smile
that not even her mother guessed at the
existence Of the aching heart it covered
she had already arranged their plans.
eve must get out of this earlier than
we intended, Stevie," she told him. 1--WE
must get home as soon as possible-and
think you had better be i'll as soon as you
possibly can and go up TO town to consult
a DOCTOR You know we must give some
reason for our leaving England-we can
not give up our fiat and go off just at this
time with no more apparent cause than q
mere freak. But if you find the English
climate tries your lungs, we can quite cas-
lily manage it"
''But must we give up our flat?" he ex.
claimed.
''Oh! Stephen, yes-I should never know
another moments peace-I should never
care to live there again." she cried. Nov
listen; this is what I should do. You go
to town tomorrow to consult Il doctor
write to me tomorrow to say that you are
to see him the next day. Write the next
day and say that you are most imperative.
lv advised not to stay another winter in
England and in fact that the sooner you
get out of England the better. Then sug
gest a steam yacht"
"a steam yachtr' he cried.
eyes. Why not? We must live some
where" she answered, mildly "If we
have yacht of our own we can take every
thing we most value in Victoria Street
with us. Quite half the things could be
used for fitting her up"
"But you. Juey-how will you like itP
he cried.
"Oh! am a very good sailor" she an
swered.
"But l wanted to turn to work of some
kind" he exclaimed. Il mean to make
fortune"
$50 you can. We can more easily store
yacht than get u house taken care off,
she answered. Besides, you must have
some time to find out what you can do,
or find to do. Depend upon it. the yacht
is the best scheme we have nit on yet.
''Then it shall be yacht" he answered.
So at dinner-time Julia went down say
ing brightly that her head was better. al
most we'll in fact, although, as Miss Theo
dOsia told her kindly, anyone could see
she had not been well by the dark rings
under her eyes. And then she said that
she was little anxious about Stephens
health, "she was afraid everything was not
well with him here" laying her hand
lightly on that part of herself which might
be taken to indicate the heart or the lungs
as the observer thought proper.
"But don't talk about it tonight" she
said when Miss Theodosia and Mrs. Trat'
ford broke out into simultaneous express
sions of regret. cit may be nothing. II
you don't mind Miss TheodOsa, Stephen
will go up to town tomorrow and have q
good opinion"
Thus prompted the two older ladies cast
careful chances at Stephen when he came
downstairs, and as traces of the storm
through which he and Julia had just pass
ed were still plainly to be seen on his face;
Mrs. Trafford and Miss TheOdOsia were
not far wrong in saying that he really was
looking i'll, poor fellow, so i'll that they
wondered how it was possible they had
never noticed it before.
On the whole it was very pleasant
evening. Colonel Adeane came in good
time, looking handsomer i'll evening
clothes than he had done in the morning,
and he took Mrs. Trafford in to dinner
and sat between her and Miss TheOdosia,
who forebore to talk to him very much
about poor dead and gone Lavinia, on
thirty years before. He was very pleasant
and particularly intelligent man to talk
to, and he and Mrs. Trafford discovered
many mutual friends that they became
great friends before the meal came to an
end. Aud Miss Theodosia suddenly took
it into her dear old head that they were
flirting desperately, on which her enjoy
ment of the scene became so exquisite
that she nearly smiled herself into tears.
However, before the meal was over,
Julia began to look very wan and white.
"Do have q glass of port, juicy" said
Stephen, coaxingly, when dessert was put
on.
And Julia had glass of port, and then
the ladies went off into the drawing-room
and left the two men to make friends with
out them.
"You look so poorly, Julia, DEAR" said
Mrs Trafford, when they reached the
drawing-roOm.
"Idon't feel very well tonight, mother"
Julia answered. The strain of keeping uI
appearances had proved almost too much
for her, and now her mothers tone almost
broke her down again.
mo, my dear, you cannot possibly feel
very we'll when you are anxious and ner-
vous about your husband" cried Miss
Theodosia tenderly. "Lie down on that
sofa till they come in and have little
rest. am sure, my dear, if nobody knew
it, you would much more easily pass fol
an invalid than Stephen, though certainly
he looks anything but we'll tonight, poor
fellow"
[ think that have always described
Julia Howard as very plucky young wo
man, and truly that night she had need
of all her pluck and all her resolution tc
bear up against the tender interest with
which these two talked matters oversize
felt so ashamed, so degraded. by the
knowledge which had so suddenly and
unexpectedly come to her that day; she
felt so false to be sitting there as if moth
ing out of the common had taken place
with the mother who believed everything
to be fair and straight with her and the
old lady who had been bereft of her beau
tiful jewels, if not actually by Stephen
yet assuredly by the gang with which hi
had been associated. Oh! can tell yor
1t was bitter pill that Julia Howard
CuoIIoxuod Vuhon ho cot down and da1ih