Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

circumstance she must turn her educa-
ton to account, and spare some of her
salary to help her mother. I shall see
about getting her a situation at once.''
"Wasn't Godfrey Erne rather sweet
On her in India?''
"Godfrey Erne is in no position to be
sweet, as you call it, on anyone; GER
tainlY not on a penniless girl - answered
Lady Blenkensop sharply; for Godfrey
Erne was her nephew. n she did not
like to hear his name coupled with
Nanoy's.
"Well, I'm sorry for the poor little
lassie - said the general, as ne onoe
more raised his newspaper, for he was q
kind man, and remembered the pretty
girl so well who had been the belle of
many an Indian ballroom.
Lady Blenkensop was a kind woman,
too, but her kindness was of that active
and somewhat a~ggravating nature which
displays itself in the management of
other peoples affairs. The moment
breakfast was over, therefore, she re-
tired to a little sitting room OF her own,
and at once drew out her visiting list
and began seriously to consider, as she
counted the names, which family would
be the most likely to require a goVerness
suited TO the age and capabilities of
Nancy Lotus.
1.-The children must be young - men
tally decided her ladyship in her ener-
getic way; ''Nancy is not old enough to
manage big girls-Lady Gilmore's twins
are seven ar eight, 1 believe-I wonder
if she would do for them."
And the idea of Lady Gilmore's twins
found favor in Lady Blenkensop's mind.
"She is very rich, and can afford to
give Nancy a good salary - went On her
reflections. s'It would be a splendid
thing for the girl if I can manage it.
Well, 1 Will try
And Lady Blenkensop did try. She
drove the same day twelve miles, in a
cold, bleak mist, to Wrothsley Castle,
which was one of the show places of the
county, and one of the many residences
of the widowed Lady Gilmore.
Lady BIenkensop knew this lady, and
had visited her occasionally since the
general had held his present command in
the neighborhood, and she knew, too,
that Lady Gilmore was considered a
somewhat eccentric and odd-tempered
woman.
Her marriage was said also to have
been an unhappy lie. The late lord, a
gay and handsome man, had married in
his youth the daughter Of a proud, Door
northern Catholic family, who had
brought him neither money nor beauty,
and yet who esteemed her blue blood to
be far beyond the new title and the
great wealth of Lord Gilmore.
She despised, in fact, the origin of that
great wealth, and never quite forgot that
her husband father had been q brewer,
whose riches had grown and grown year
by year, until a asst fortune was accu-
mulated. He had been created a baro-
net first, and then, when he was quite
an old man, q peer, and scarcely lived O
year to bear his new honors.
Then his young, good looking son came
into possession of the great estates, the
gorgeous mansions, the huge watts, tbs
mighty d~ray-horses, and the ~corouet,
that the Old man had left behind. He
soon got rid of the vats and the dray-
horses, and the famous beer his father
had DTewed was not used in the new
Lord Gilmore's household, nor was it a
word ever to be heard on his lips. He
married into the oldest and proudest
family he vas acquainted with,
for Miss Dorotho Vaux could not
find in her heart to refuse the hand
some wooer, though she soorned his new
name. She loved him, was jealous of
hin and sometimes reminded him with her
sharp tongue that cher people, came
OF long descent, and that trade had new
er once stained their escutcheon. And
these taunts did not tend to increase the
young lord 8 affection for his wife, n
he sometimes swore at his highly-born
Dorothy, and used very strong language
indeed when the shadow of one of the
black-ro bed priests of her church was to
be seen crossing his threshold.
But Lady Gilmore chung to her old
faith, and there vas a bitter quarrel be-
tween the husband and wife when an
heir was born, in what tenets he should
be reared. Lord Gilmore, however, got
his own way, and the boy was chrlstened
by the vicar of the parish; but the
mother shed many secret tears over the
cradle, and prayed silently words she
dare not speak aloud.
The child was sicklY and aiIing from its
birth, and died shortly after a second
son was born, and again the mother
struggled for what she believed the new
babe g salvation. But Lord Gilmore was
firm; no child of his should be brought
a Roman Catholic, he told her, and
lady Gilmore was compelled to submit to !
this dictate. Again the vicar of the
parish was summoned, and Lord Gilmore
named his second son Hugh, and wished
many a time, both openly and in private,
this stalwart boy had been born the
heir.
He was unjust and mean enough even
to taunt his wife with her first born 8
bodily delicaoy, and when the child died
no pretence of regret. He indeed
grew a little more domestic IN his habits
than formerly, and was never weary of
with and admiring the little
whom he justly considered had
inherited his own good looks, nj
well-formed limbs.
And as this boy was born, so he grew
up; a beautiful child, a handsome lad,
he was the pride and darling of both his
parents, and no other child tina was
born to them was ever regarded as he
He remained the only son, though
Lady Gilmore had four daughters, two of
whom died in infancy; but when young
Hugh was about seventeen the last OF
Lady Gilmore IS children-the twin girls
that Lady Blenkensop vas now so anx-
to provide q g%overness for-were
born, and three years later their father
died, and thus at twenty Hugh Clifford.
the heir, became Lord Gilmore.
It was a trying position for so young a