San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-16

WIFI YOU now nave OH6Qu6Q your
Have | ever said was offended"
she asked, raising her eyes slowly to his.
mo; because that would have been
superfuous But perhaps, after all, it
isn't offense; perhaps it's aversion. If
so, should like to be told what have
done to incur it, We used to get on
pretty well together once upon a time"
Lady Belvoir sighed ever so slightly.
81 think, she remarked, ''that that was
before you took to saying unkind and
spiteful things about me behind my
back.
What things?" asked Lord Guise,
reddening little. "Of course one does
sometimes say things-everybody does
about ones best friends which one would
be sorry for them to hear, but it is the
talebearers who are unkind and spiteful
have called you a flirt, admit"
And you don't consider that spite
full thing to say?'
Come now, Sybil, you surely won't
deny that you are f1irt."
81 do deny it. Is it my fault if l can't
make myself in the least pleasant or
friendly to any man without his at once
jumping to ridiculous conclusions? But
it is useless to attempt excuses, and in
deed it isn't worth while. | used to
think that you We're different from the
others, but | have discovered my mis-
take. Pray go on slandering me to your
hearts content. haven't complained,
and don't mean to complain"
Though this was said very proudly it
was not said without perceptible fall
tering in the speakers voice which
caused Lord Guise to feel both sorry and
ashamed. He answered quite humbly
that he had no wish to SANDER anybody
least of all one for whom he had al
| ways had the sincerest regard. Would
she mind telling him of any particular
instance in which he had slandered her?
'Oh, you wouldn't allow that it was
SANDER" she returned. Besides, really
don't care; you are welcome to say what
you please. Only perhaps it is a little
too much to expect that should beover-
joyed when meet you Have you seen
| anything of Mr.. Schneider lately?'
Lord Guise knitted his brows and
scanned her face sharply. but her low
cred eyelids told no tales.
Schneider he repeated; Eyes, saw
him few weeks ago. He has been in
high favor with the bigwigs since he re-
duced the Radical majority in Scotland,
and now they are going to put him in
for Slumberton, you know"
II know nothing about him or his
plans; he has seen fit to cut me dead.
How delightful it is to be cut dead by
MIR. Schneider! And how pleasant it is
to think that he has been warned against
me by a friend who has always had the
sincerest regard for me! l wonder why
Mr.. Moreton has fled to New Zealand,
and | wonder who persuaded Percy
Thorold to circumnavigate the globeT
Not l, at all events" answered Lord
Guise; Il am innocent of having advised
that circular tour. Or, at least, if did
tell him-and now that l come to think
of it believe | did-that it would be
a good way of spending the recess, it
wasn't in order to get him out of your
way that did so. In fact happen to
know
>,'Oh, so do Il" interrupted Lady Bel
voir. 81 am quite aware that / had
ceased to be danger. You had already
delivered him from me-
And you from him."
Yes, if you like. But your opinion
of me was as bad as ever, and dare say
you may have thought that no friend of
mine was likely to be much better than
myself Very we'll; opinion is free, and
you can keep yours. You can do your
best to deprive me of my friends, and
you can object to everything that l do,
and put the worst construction upon all
my actions, only you must really not ex-
pect me to look as if / liked it,
Again there was that unusual quayer
in her ladyship's voice, and again her
conscience stricken hearer felt touched
and penitent. What she had said was
80 very nearly the truth that he could
not set up much of defense for him
self; but he assured her that if he had
ever spoken unadvisedly or i'll naturally
of her he was very sorry for it, and that
he wouldn't do it again. AS for More
ton and Schneider
"Oh, what do | care about Moretons
and Schneiders?" she interrupted, half
laughingly, half impatiently. Then all
of q sudden she jumped up and crossed
the room to join group of young men
and maidens, leaving it to be inferred
that what had vexed her had not been
so much the loss Of her admirers as the |
loss of her old friends esteem.
! Her old friend Thought all this over