The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-01-12


that repentcd my sia.
81 suppose you only acted in accordance
with the doctrines i'll which you had been
brought up he said, more gently
"But that is no excuse, she replied.
~ was poor then Your father would
4 not have allowed you to marry me il you
had been willing. Lily told me that he
threatened TO cut you off with shilling
if you did.
ssAll true enough, but that was not
what deferred me. / was as worldly as
my father; ] wanted to buy rank with his
republican wealth, just as / told you.
Well, did it--let that so. / have said
all I wished now; it has been in my mind
I for months, years. ! wanted you to
know that however deeply wronged you
in the old time, you have been bitterly
| avenged
81 didn't want vengeance, Adele
"And yet you cannot forgive mep'
''Yes, l do--freely; there is my handl
/ There shall never be another harsh thought
in my mind toward you, he said, with
the impulsiyeness which no amount of
living could rid him Of
You have done me more good than you
can imagine, shercturned smiling sadly.
] s'Now we begin on new terms. We must
meet, and there need be no feeling on
either side to make us constrained and
give people chance to pity or blame us. "
Il don't care for peopleP'
Nor / much-not enough, l fear. But
I do care for Dora, and want you both
to be happy. | am sure that the forgive
ness you have promised me will help you.
I won't keep you any longer-you might
miss the train. Go away to Dora. 1t was
not kind of Lily to make her keep the
truth from me; but l would rather let
them know in my own way that | have
discovered it, -
81 shall only say that | saw yorl.r
And give Dora lry loye-I mean It'll
Good-by. Clifford You'll be happy-very
happy. / am sure of that, and thank
heaven for it. At least did not utterly
ruin your future.'
She went away out of the room through
the twilight shadows which had begun
to darken it, and Clifford Stuyvesant
stood and watched her, and knew TINT
the future could never give any happiness
like that of his early dream
But he had known this from the first
he told himself over and over, as he hur-
ried along the path which led through the
fields to the station. Dora was gentle
and tender, and kind He loved her after
what he might have believed q good
fashion, If he had never known better
at least a more fervid one. He had
watched her grow up; child as she was,
she had been his only confldante in the
first days of his wretchedness when Adele
Laurence went forth in her search for title
and position
During those years he had become rich;
partly by the result of voyage to South
America, partly through some of the won
derful means by which Wall street has
made so many men rich during the past
few years. And this last winter, coming
back to town after few months absence,
he had found Dora so much more charm
ing than ever that he proposed and was
accepted, and told himself that the future
would do well euough-well enough; as
much as any man need expect who had
nearly reached so.
The remainder of the summer passed
with Nine. de scissors in d monotonous
round, which it would be neither useful
nor pleasant to chronicle, though l think
she did not altogether waste the days from
the very fact that she tried not to rebel
against the loneliness and desolation of
her life. She acknowledged always that
she had brought it upon herself by sacri-
ficing love to ambition, believing the
worlds doctrine that all youthful affec-
ton must speedily lose its glory, that
wealth and pomp are the only lasting
basis ON which to build up the sort of hap
piness the mind needs as it forsakes its
early romance.
Mrs. Laurence and Dora both wrote to
her pleasant, chatty letters, and she an
swered them: but there was no question
concerning Clifford Stuyvesant on either
side. Early in the autumn the two ladies
returned, expecting to be followed by
gay party in the course of the following
week.
"a little excitement will do you good,
countess" her fathers widow said.
~ shall not try the experiment just
now,n Adele replied. 81 am going to
make short journey during this lovely
autumn weather
"An by yourself"' asked Lily, in
amaZement.
'I'll take my maid and my man. I'm
sure they will do for grif1ins or sheep
dogs"
''Oh there's no harm in it, only l
thought You would be glad TO see people
after these solitary weeks. Where shall
you go?'
'Up into the Catskills want to see
the mountains once more in their October
dress -
sit is of no use to tease you," Lily
answered; 'but, all the same, am very
sorry to have you 60
She was heartily glad for some reason,
and Adele saw it; so she contented her
self by replying with q smiles but it was
so very significant chat Lily colored under
the soupcon of rouge she had lately taken
to wearing. Fortunately, Dorm came in
at the instant, and Mrs. Laurence took