Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-24

! - 1t had caught on that bush there, -
| said the maid, pointing to trailing
| bramble; and Lady Blenkensop nodded,
and then silently put her arm through
Lady GIlmore's, and together they
walked out of the little wood behind the
men who bore the young lord.
Lady Gilmore S footsteps faltered, and
| sometimes nearly failed her, and it
| needed Lady Blenkensop's strong arm
| to support her trembling frame 1t was
| piteOus to see the expression of her face,
| the fixed look of anguish in her dark
| eyes, as they followed the bearers of her
| son. All his life he had been the idol
whom she had worshipped with an ex-
| ceedIng love, and to see him thus-struck
| down in his young prime-seemed al
most more than her reason could endure.
| No wonder, then. that her strained gaze
never moved; that her palIid lips spoke
no word.
Lady BlenkensOp proposed that they
should drive up to the castle in her car
riage, which was waiting on the road
way through the park, but Lady Gilmore
| made mute sign of dissent So they
silently walked on, and as they did so
| Lady Blenkensop was speoulating cur
iously how the cardinal ribbon bow had
found its way to the spot where Lord
Gilmore lay wounded.
Probably a woman IS at the bottom of
it, - she reflected, and her head gave
! little depreoiating shake. But she
said nothing to Lady Gilmore, and
showed both good sense and kindness,
when at length they reached the castle,
| to the half bewildered mother, who
seemed, indeed, to have lost the power
of thought.
sEyVe bod beet felopro0J, For +-,o o% Ebo
best surgeons in town, had we not?' she
suggested, and Lady Gilmore eagerly
caught at the idea, though before it had
never occurred to her through the mists
of her absorbing grief.
Lady Blenkensop therefore at once
wrote out two urgent kilograms and sent
the butler to the nearest postoffice with
them, and, having done this, proceeded
up the magnificent front staircase of the
castle in search of Lady Gilmore, who
had closely followed her son. AS she
did this, and was passing down one of
the long, broad corridors, two little girls
who were standing with frightened faces
at the door of a room, ran up to her as
she drew near.
"'What is the matter, Lady Blenken-
sop?' they both began, almost as if in
one voice. "'What is the matter with
Gilmore?'
"He has got hurt somehow, my
dears,' answered Lady Blenkensop,
kindly laying her hand on the shoulder
of the girl nearest to her; "but 1 hope
he will soon be better. -
"Mother will not speak to us, - she
answered, raising her pretty face with an
injured air; land no one will attend to
us; it is very annoying. -
FWhere is your governess?' asked
Lady BlenkensOp, her quick mind in
stautlY travelling in the direction of
Nancy Lotus, for these children were
the twin daughters of LADY Gilmore.
''She's gone,' they both answered
simultaneously for they had a curious
fashion of saying the same thing at the
same moment; "mother said she was
fool
''Ah, indeed?" smiled Lady Blenken-
sop.
''They had row, you know" ex-
planned the young ladies in the following
words: "They had row, you KNOW
said Miss Dossy; 90 Oh, yes, row, you
know, - echoed Miss Flossy a moment
later.
1t was the same in all their conversa-
tons, and their features, hair and COM
plexions were as like as their ideas.
herited, as their brother had done, the
good looks of the late Lord Gilmore, and
not the dark eyes and sallow skin of
their mother.
"And when did she go?'' asked Lady
Blenkensop, who was interested in the
departure of the governess.
"MOther packed her off yesterday
answered the twins; packed her off at an
hours notice, and it was a good rid |
dance. -
1t was funny to hear these children |
talk IN their old-fashioned way. They, |
in truth, lived with grown-up people, |
and Lady Gilmore was not a judicious |
mother. She gave way to her quick |
temper before them, and would scoId |
and pet them in one breath. She found |
fault also with their governess in their |
presence, and laughed when they caught |
up Gilmore IS phrases and words.
''Then you will want new govern
ess?' suggested Lady Blenkensop.
81 suppose so, but it's a nuisance,
said Dossy.
eyes. a nuisance, - echoed Flossy.
Lady Blenkensop said nothing more
about the governess, but she patted both
the fair heads with her large, strong,
white hand.
"Wen, shall go and see after your
mother and your brother now, my
dears, " she proposed.
land will you kindly come and tell US
how Gilmore is?'' replied the twins
together. "We are anxious, you know,
and everything seems at skies and sew
ems
eyes, shall come and tell you,"
said Lady Blenkensop, "but you are too
young to be with Gilmore while the doc
tor Is there, as he is at present, and 1
suppose all the servants are busy
"Yer we have a proper schoolroom
maid who does nothing but attend on
us, " answered Dossy, with some dig
nifty.
Nothing but attend on us, +" repeated
FlossY.
"Gilmore s accident has put the house.
hold in confusion, daresay; but 1 shall
not forget my promise, and will come
and tell you how he is going on. If
walk down here shall 1 come to his
cit is in the left win2,'' replied both
young ladies eagerly; elf you walk
straight down here you will come to
staircase, and if you go up that you will
come to Gilmore's suit of rooms; they
are the best we have