The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-31
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Will make a break for you. She will call this
AFTERNOON and chat it over with you her
sell; but l thought might as we'll come and
tel you at once so as to give you time to
think it over before she comes.n
But am in no hurry to go back"
Madaine Duport said. Il should like to
remain with her until she is comfortably
placed"
Il am sure of that, madame" Robert
Harbut said; "but these matters take ii ne.
and we thought that Miss Corbyn, who is,
can see, most unwilling to keep you longer
from home. would be fidgetting and worry
ing over it,"
II Thick it will be the best plan, An
nette," Constance said, decidedly. "You
know we agreed last night that if | got any
Iresh clew and have to set about search
again, L should write to you az once and
you Will come over and chaperone me about:
not that l want a chaperone. When we go
III an omnibus or anywhere else we see girls
of my age going about alone everywhere,
and 1t Is ridiculous that / can't do as other
people do. OF course i'll France it is differ
emit, and people would think it extraol binary
Tor girl to be travelling about By herself
Still l shall be extremely glad to have you
with me, If | have to 60 about again,
think Mr.. Harbut'S idea is an excellent one.
GU know as we'll as do that Victor will
be lost without you, and | am su q you are
longing to be back, though you will not ad-
nit 1t. | shall get on capitally, and it will
give me something else to think about be-
sides my own private affairs; besides there
is Miss Leicester, who is most kind and good
to me, aud you know you don't care about
going out driving with herr
Annette had, in fact. excused herself I'M
der one pretext or another from accompan-
ing Constance Her eighteen years at ST.
Malo had completely elaborated any trace
OF the ladY's maid manner Annette had
acquired in service; but she felt uncomf r.
table and out of place at Chester square,
and thought that the girls would enjoy
themselves far more without her. Miss
Leices er was proving herself a valuable
friend to Constance; if she were away thew
might be drawn even closer together
She said, therefore. after a minutes
thought:
well, Constance, as you are going to set
out on your own way / do not thiuk it
makes much difference whet her you begin a
little earlier or little later. AS you know
very well, am quite ready to stay here as
long as | can be in any way useful to you,
and L shall be ready to come over at an
hours notice whenever you want me. Per-
haps Mr.. Harbut's plan is the best. 1t is
dull. for you are here with nothing to do or
to think about, and the change NAV be for
the best; SO shall say nothing more against
it."
And so it was settled: week later Con-
stance CorbYn took up her abode in a Home
for GoverneSse within quarter of a mile
of Chester square, and Madame Duport
returned to st. Malo.
Fond as Constance was of her she felt
that the change was for the best. 1t had
been dull in the little lodgings during the
lest three weeks, when they had been in
active. Everything had been SAID over
ar fhnt ba Oh,
the grand object they had in view, Annette
missed the busy lie to which she had been
accustomed, aud sat for hours at a time
knitting with scarcely a word passing be-
tween her and Constance.
Madame Duport wished now with all her
heart that she had more effectually opposed
the girls resolve to set out upon this search,
and blamed herself that she had not in
sisted more strongly upon its no 9elessness.
Now it seemed to her that the child s1e had
brought up and loved was passing away out
of her life alto ether, and that instead of
marrying and settling down in st. Malo,
as she had hoped she was going to do, she
would waste her youth in what she felt sure
would be a hopeless search. The only
thug she had to look forward to was that
in time q Instance would see this herself.
would become tired of the life she was now
CHOOSING and would return to ST. Mslo, and
accept the annuity that Mr.. Ferris had
offered in the name of his client
st is all very well to have ideas" she
said to herself. but it is 6etiSe to let them
ruin your life"
"I on will sure and come back, deare,
as soon as you are convinced that tae
search is hopeless won't you? You know
that your room will be always ready for
you, and how duh the hou-s viii be with
out you, and Vic,Or and | will be longing to
have you with us again"
II will be sure TO come back, Annette,
when am convinced that all chances are
over; where else should go to! | do not
want to be wanderer all my life; but you
must not expect me soon. feel convinced
that Someho or other. though / cannot see
how at present, my mothers memory will
be cleared
''And you will write often, Constance,
and be sure if you are uncomfortable in
your first place give it up and come home
for bit aud then begin again. 1t is moth
ing for you who are good voyager to run
across TO ST. Malo."
1t was Miss Leicester, or rather Miss
LeiceSter's maid, who had discovered the
Home for Governesses to which Constance
Corbyn went. Constance herself nad been
with Madame Duport to arrange for her
residence there The incipai, as she
called herself, though why, Constance did
not understand. was a motheriy sort OF
woman who at once took an interest IN the
girl who was younger, and of a different
type to the majority of her boarders, and
she welcomed her when she arrived with
real kindness.
1T is a good hour at which you have ar
rived, Miss Corbyn, for there are only two
of my inmates in. The morning Is the time
they principally go out TO answer advertise
ments and 90 their little shopping. | think
1t is more pleasant to meet strangers grad
ually than to come upon them all at once.
This is the drawing-room."
Constance followed her into a dingy
room where two ladies were sitting One
was "A dull heavy-eyed woman of five and
forty, whose life had been passed in wrest-
ling with troublesome children, and whose
face bore traces of the strife. The other
was pale young woman of three or four
aud twenty
"Miss Hawkins, Miss Jocelyn, this is a
new inmate, Miss Corbyn."
SO saying she left them together.
"YOu have not been out bsforep the elder
woman asked.
mo" Constance replied, Thought don't
know how you knew H. ~
Mis- Hawkins smiled family.
"By your face, she said. Women do not
look as you do after they have had even one
bout Of teacaina'