The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-22
CHAPTER XIV.
sYBIL's FAREWELL.


Hexham came out to him. with pale cheeks
and Redeemed eyelids; he thought that there
was difference in her manner to him-a
difference which he was too detected to re-
sant She seemed colder, more distant than
usual: and yet she spoke gently. 1t struck
him that this lonely night with jess had
nraiudiced her against him and that she
Was trying to hide her increasing aversion
10 bis presence. He longed to ask if jess
had spoken Of him-what she had said to
hiring the grave look into Dianas eyes and
the compression to her lips; but he dared
not inquire. He felt almost as if he were O
criminal, with Diana for his judge; and yet
he told himself repeatedly that he had not
been to blame. If she believed his poor
uife's yagaries to be his fault she
showed the injustice of her sex, and that
was ALL
"You can do no good here,n she said to
him. gravely and coldly; "your wife is
seriously ill, and you cannot visit her at
present.. 1 will let you know when she is
! able to see you."
~ must stay near her," George an
, swered, looking away from his cousins seri-
GUS face.
LhuN I16AudlL hCoAeoSSA ava - AAOh1Ohbi
then took her resolution.
"Yes, WEXFORD is too far. You must
stay at the Court, and then you will be al
ways at hand.n
but shall be troubling you-you do not
want me-"
1--WE are cousins, George; if kinsfolk can
nelp each other, who camp she said,
It'll kindling light in her grave eyes.
u"l am willing to do all that Is in my power
l for her welfare and for yours. Stay at the
uCourt, and when she is well enough to be
moved she shall stay there, too, until you
udecide on your future mode OF action"
"You think she will get well thenP said
3 UGeorge, quickly.
81 cannot say. We must hope for the
Ibest."
He did not find her words very reassur-
ling, but she returned to the house as she
blade him, aud abandoned himself to very
I melancholy reflections. He could not settle
to any occupations not even to smoking a
ucigar or reading newspaper; he wandered
uup and down the library or IN and out of the
conservatory, as if his anxiety would not
bet him rest. He breakfasted with Tom,
and wondered vaguely what had become of
uSybil but did not ask any question about
her. His whole mind was engrossed with
with the thought of jess.
Tom, glancing at him from time to time
, with hostile intent, was gradually puzzled
uby his evident distress and anxiety. The
stuation was so utterly uuimaginablst to
him-as it would be to any man of frank
land loyal nature-that he felt it impossible
10 Judge the actions of those persons who
had brought it about. At the same time he
Twas disposed, like all other young persons,
10 condemn conduct which he could not
understand, and to despise motives Of which
he knew nothing. He had lately developed
Ia fine contempt for George EaStwoods
ucharacter-of which, of course, he really
Twas quite ignorant; and it did not fit in
with his ideas of the man to find him look
ling melancholy and careworn. he began
1.-THE meal by behaving somewhat brus-
Iquely; but before it was over he had insen-
Isbly softened his tone. George. absorbed
lin painful thought, did not observe the
Ichange, just as he had not noticed anything
Iamiss at an earlier stage.
After breakfast they separated. George
went back to the library, where he felt
himself most at home, and Tom was stand
ling in the hall whistling to his dog, when
Ia side-door opened to admit Lady Hex
Iham.
/ Tom came forward at once TO meet her.
de had not seen her since the previous
might
How is she?' he asked, thinking at once
No worse.n
you've been up all night, suppose.
Aunt Diana. You look awfully tagged"
II am a little tired, but / shall rest by
and by. Tom. want you to do something
for me-"
Anything, Aunt Diana"
VI want you to take Sybil away. Take
Ter to her grandmother's. l will write a
note to Mrs. Lorimer."
Tom opened his eyes.
This is sudden, isn't it,"
Rather sudden, but unavoidable. l mean
remain at the Orphanage until Mrs
EASTWOOD eau be removed; and my cousin
George is to stay here. l cannot leave Sybil
noae; she had better go to her grand
Pnother's for few days"
ut sounds odd to hear of Mrs. East
wood does it not2" said Tom, a very faint
nile curving his lips. you haveno doubt,
n!-you know all about it"
Yes, yes, know everything" said
Diana, with some impotence. ASK me no
POSITIONS, dear Tom. There has been great
orrow, great folly. and perhaps great
wrong doings; but less wrong-doings than
I'VE have thought. At any rate, this poor
vile of Georges has come back at last,
and she is to be under my care for the fu-
furen
Toms face expressed rather shocked
fmazement.
This is the woman who-who was in
rison, is it notg" he said, in lowered
foica
Diana smiled strangely.
Poor soul yes" she answered. Then
me turned away with forbidding gesture.
Don't judge by appearances, Tom. Per-
APPS you may know more by and by--per-
aps not. Don't speak Of the matter to
oyoll; that is ALL"
When will she be readyP'
Il am going to her now; I suppose she is
W. ~, IN her own room. There is a train at
All right; I'll order the carriage"
and Tom went down to the stables, while
foom.
The girl was breakfasting upstairs. She
ad returned at very late hour from the
alce, and had previously been advised by
Inady Hexham not to rise until she was
aued. Diana expected to find her utterly
ignorant of the incidents of the night; but
soon as she entered the room and glanced
II SYPHILIS face, she saw that knowledge OF
Pome kind was written there. The girl was
ale; she sat biting her lip and turning
1nxlous eyes toward the door, and when she
Eaw Lady Hexham enter she sprang up and
an toward her with flushing cheeks and
EF'ended hands.