The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-23

don't believe any woman before ever
wrote such letter to another whom she
had done her best TO wrong"
1t Is straightforward and honest" Con-
stance said, and thousand times better
Philip, than if it had been hypocritIcal and
douole-faced. Your mother has done us
both an immense service. and we ought to
feel verg grateful to her,
"how on ear h do you make that outp'
well, if it had not been for her. you
would never have come ont at all Ishould
nave succeeded at last. though with good
deal more difficulty, and at a much higher
price 10 getting the certific tie from MOrson.
lhen should have appeared as the heiress,
and you would have at once recognized my
rlgats. know quite we'll you would have
refused any proposal for the division of the
estate. you would never have come to care
ior me, and If you had, you would never
have said 80. Altogether, Philip, your
mothers interference has turned out most
happily for both of us.n
We'll, | suppose it has," Philip admitted.
"But-n
I'VE want have any butts, Philip. am
perfectly happy Tonight. and l do not want
to have a single unpleasant thought of any
one. have not shadow of malice against
your mother, and like her all the better
for that letter.
As Annette had gone quietly out of the
room directly she saw that tie converse
ton was turning upon Philips mother,
Phllp was able to answer Constance in a
manner satisfactory to both parties.
When she returned, half an hour later,
Philip said:
II want your support, Madame Duport. |
have been trying to persuade Constance
that the best plan in every way will be us
to be married at once. 1t will get rid of all
sorts of difficulties, aad then you see if we
are wrecked again on our way back shall
be the better able to take charge of her,"
II am sure, Annette" Constance urged.
that 1t will be by far the incest way for
me to go back with you TO st. Malo, and for
him to cover there to fetch me- Besides
we do not want to be staying here, and ii
will be impossible to be married in such a
hurry as that"
But Constance did not, as she expected
find an ally in Annette.
81 think, my dear, that it will he very
much better for you to be married at once.
have been thinking so as | was sitting up.
stairs. | see no reason whatever against it.
You can get anything You want here just
as well--indeed a great deal better-thar
you could at St. Malo. You do not want 6
great trousseau, you can get all that after
ward. II you did not get married here
| should say that it would certainly be best
that Mr.. Clitheroe-"
Philip" the young man put in.
THAT Philip should not 20 back to Eng
land in the same ship with you. People
would talk on board. and it would be soor
seen how matters stood between you, and i
| would be pleasauter in all ways that vol
should go man and wife. 1 should say
the same thing if you were my own daugh
| ter"
"But the steamer will sail, Philip SAYS
in ten days time, Annette" Constance
urged.
very WELL my dear, that will give u
| plenty Of time to make all the arrange
| ments, ocean of time"
And 30 Constance had no further excus,
for resistance, and was indeed at hear
| grateful to Annette for having sideC
| against her, and when the steamer saileC
| ten days afterward the names of Mr.. am
Mrs. Clitheroe and Madame Duport wer,
amorg the list of first-class passengers.
Hllda Leicester was spending the morn
ing with Miss Peyton, in South Audley
street.
II do wonder why we have not heart
from Constance again" the old lady said.
81 don't think there could possibly b,
time, aunt. You know when she wrot,
from Melbourne she said she was Just start
Aus, 1Ol Ia ibOuHcs anu uudD IL Suc EutC6Buet
there she should come back by the mex
steamer. Her letter from Batavia, giving
us full account of that horrible time il
the boat, said that she was none the wors
for it. SO there is nothing to worry about al
all"
II should not be surprised btu Miss
Peyton said, positively, ''if the next letter
tells us that silly girl is going TO marry this
man with the horrid name-this Mr.. Sam
Brown. There is no doubt, suppose, thai
il was owing to him that the boat and thost
who were left alive in her got to Batavia
and you saw how she spoke of his bravery
and the care he had taken of her auc
Madame Duport. And in her last letter she
mentioned, in a casual sort of way, thai
this Mr.. Brown had come on TO Melbourne
with them, and that his destination was also
Brisbane. Il was the casual way that wa,
suspicious, Hilda. The moment read that
sentence | said this unfortunate girl ha.
fallen in love with this man. This is what
comes Of trapesing about the world. haC
made up my mind all along that the only
possible satisfactory ending to all this bust
ness would be that she should marry her
cousin, which would have made matter;
comfortable all around, and now she takes
up with man with suca name as Sam
Brown, and one knows at once what sort OF
man any one with name as that must
be. "
II am sure, aunt" Hilda said, indig-
nantly, "that Constance would not fall i'll
love with any one but gentleman"
mot under ordinary circumstances
Hilda, am quite ready Co admit that, Dut
you see these ere not ordinary circum-
stances. A girl is thrown for three weeks
with q man in boat he is kind and atten-
tive, he defends her and shoots down people
he is q hero in her eyes. She says to herself
what if he does drop his his and if mis- gram
mar is little shakey; what are such trile:
as these in comparison to true heart. Why
the mans very defects tell in his favor with
a girl like Constance" and Miss Peyton
rubbed her nose violently.
The door opened and the servant entered
| with an orange-colored envelope.
81 hate kilograms, my dear" Miss Peytor
said, taking it. "In nine cases OUT of ter
| they bring you no pleasant neTs-in fact
| in ninety-nine cases out of hundred
| Either somebody is i'll, or at the last moment
cannot come to dinner, and there is vacant
chair that it is too late to fill upor the friend:
whom you are starting that afternoon t.
STAY with have got measles In the family, OF
( the dressmaker has fallen down stairs and
caunot send home the gown you had de
pended upon. kilograms are mistake al
! together, my dear"
"Well, aunt, you may as well see wheheI
| this is an exception"
Miss Peyton opened the envelope.
"Just what expected, my dear, the very
thing / expected. Constance has married
| this Sam Brown"
Hilda uttered an exclamation Of dismay,
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