Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-01
OR, LADY GlIMoRE'S TEMPTATION,
BY DORA RUssunE.,
JAIL RIGHTS Reserved
..nrrp vH.-NoT Lr zee TRYsT

- ANONYMOUSLY sent forth from
ss.- bis roof for his sake? He was
Sarsvsr. in state of happy ign "a &c
.,,bis fact until the next evening after
w,ncv bad left Wrothsley. Lady Gil
IN truth, exhausted with the rage
Nv, settlement she had gone through,
a.. mite unequal TO fRce her son, aud
20 the same excuse as Miss Butler had
-. the day before, for not appearing
.i,bsr At dinner after her stormy inter
20 with Nancy, nor yet on the follow
" d.. Butler also was too angry and
n care to speak to Gilmore, and he
-ss TINS left by the two ladies to amuse
si+1.sIf as best he could. Gilmore never
LII very long TO do this. He was no
- at reader, aud the time hung rather
go on his hands, lightened, however
~ nisasng excitement when be thought
s!oin and again of his late interviews
eth Nancy and dreamed Of those TO
come.
,bs household that the governess had
beeD turned out of it, and it was also
1retty shrewdly guessed why. One of
he head gardeners had not forgotten the
evening when Miss LOTUS had walked
nnder the spread g palms with the
vonnp lord, and they had been seen
;ogetber too in the park. The fact that
tbs butler had been sent to town with
Miss Lotus spoke volumes; and thus
GiImore's valet, when he was attending
+ him in the evening before he retired
N bed and helping him to dress the next
morning, did not dare to presume to
mention Miss LOTUS name TO him, not
kpowing how much his lord knew and did
not know.
Gilmore therefore was in complete
Ignorance OF his mothers conduct and
moor Nancy Punishment, and spent the
morning in reading a French novel,
smoking cigarettes and thinking of her.
''My little beauty, my little darling -
he said softly to himself again and again,
recalling the soft light in NGncy's dark
ewes and the smiles on her rosy lips. The
time, in truth, seemed endless to him
until be could go to keep their tryst; and
he watched the shadows darkening, and
the mist living over the park deepening
from grey to dusk with absolute i'm
patience.
At last the hour came, and Gilmore
made bis way to the corridor, where he
expected TO meet Nancy, but as we
know, no Nancy was Ihers. He went at
1880 and waited until 5:l5 by the green
5aizo door, and then could bear it no
longer He therefore walked down the
earridOr TO the schOolTOom door, and
having raped and been told to enter by
DOssy s voice from within, did go, and |
found the only occupants of the room
we're the two children and the school |
room maid.
"Gilmore!' cried both the little girls |
with delight, as they jumped and ran
towards him.
The maid now retired and Gilmore, |
finding himself alone with his young sis
ters, ct once asked where Miss LOTUS |
was.
"0h, don t you KNOW said Dossy, |
"about the awful row?''
What row." inquired Gilmore
sharply.
"Oh! mother made fearful row yes
terday evening" explained Dnssy.
'hiss LOTUS had been walking in the
corridor as she always does, you know,
and then she came in here to give US
tome tea, and we were just sitting down
when mother and Miss Butler walked in,
aud mother was in such a rage we were
quite frightened. "
'What did she say?n asked Gilmore
with darkenIng brow.
she called Miss Lotus bad names-a
ussraeeful creature, and a reprobate, 1
'ahk, and she said she should never stay
another night in the house-that she
WASH I ut to be in q house at all-and
lhe packed her OF there and then, and
'ne sent Graham away with her, and We
are so sorry
Sent her out of the hbuse?" re-
peated Gilmore angrily.
rather; but l don't know what she |
Hl1 done Gilmore, but mother snatched
q Jewel case off the mantel piece that
MSS Lotus had laid down there a few
minutes M before, and shouted out-for OIL
suu she bawl--something about in
oucing some one to meet her in dark
M, r,-rs'Ise'' and she said don t deny it
COS. my evidence! And she flung the
rass ou Inc hoor, and such lovely dia-
bas " came out. and-we are afraid she
1I WI ueen trying to steal them. -
an, onulore s face had grown q dusky red
.tts THIS narrative, and now some !
i|'uE very like curse burst from his /
-. ana what did Miss Lotus say?'' he /
calmly. - i'ss " spe~N
no,S ~ she looked very proud, and told !
rs o'ast sue was speaking to her and
S So heF disgracefully, and she said, S
~ Iu lor Lord Gilmore, and ask him the t
ha ' lli scout this Il think that was what |
81. sa,u, and didn t they 20 on ut her 1
ma ,.'t ua'' mother and Miss Butler, too;
barl --o1uer said she should never have a l.
ON u seeing you again, and enticing il
vi,,a i an sure she said that-and they b
n sa5 ner about her mother, ana said t
, sTa OF horrid things - n
sl--e ought TO BE- ashamed of them L
90 said Gilmore passiouately.
ID, lIuought so too, - answered. Dossv n
~, u'snity; land l asked what she had h
nd III sne had stolen the diamonds,
le IN ~ laa caught her-but they told Ii
,, N lola my tonEue.'
l5ss, Hat folly! Stolen the diamonds ii
.ks nv. WY, could not induce her to 81
,Yo Un ~, I'm so gladi" cried Dossy. it
tboHs5ha. ve them to her, then, Gilmore?
81, as much. - ar
Ism I've them to her. and I bought
al M NJ t uer' and suppose Miss Butler
issI col oottom of all this, and it is out IL
ilte5 ne ana spite that they have in h,
lall ,a 'uls poor girl. But nv mother h,
aue5 p pJnt II, bitterly repent it, - con- ne
ne doonnore, beginning to walk up a
sns - Inc schooiroom virh bastv IN