Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-05

and CONSERVATION she found empty.
She violently rang the bell, which wa
answered by one of the footmen.
"Where is Lord Gilmore?'' she asked
impatiently.
~ cannot say, my lady, - answers
the footman, who knew perfectly well
but who thought the storm might as wei
fall on other shoulders than his own
'Send his valet to me, commands
my lady.
The footman bowed aud retired, wei
knowing that the valet was at this mo-
ment travelling with his lord to London
put that of course was no business of his
He returned in q few minutes.
Foster, my lords valet, is not il
the castle, my lady, he said; ''he ha
gone to town with my lord in the
'clock tram -
ITO towni" repeated Lady Gilmore
and her face grew pallid, and she stag
gered forward and grasped the back of 6
chair. ''Who told you this?' she asked
the next moment
-"The butler, my lady, " answered the
footman.
''Tell him instantly to come here, -
cried Lady Gilmore; and Graham went,
feeling that he had boon thrust into q
most unfair and difficult position.
'What does this mean?'' asked Lady
Gilmore the moment he appeared. Gam
] to understand that Lord Gilmore is
gone without seeing me; without telling
me of his intentions?''
Ny lord left q note for you, my
lady, - answered Graham, quietly.
A note? Then why was it not de-
liTered to me at once?
my lord gave me particular orders
not to do SO my lady; he said-give this
to Lady Gilmore at dinner time, but not
Defore-this is the note, my lady.
Lady Gilmore snatched it impulsively
from the mans hand, and as she read
the hard words it contained she gave q
hoarse cry of anguish and passion.
Who has told him all this? Who has
told him about that girl?'' she asked the
next moment, turning like fury on the
butler. "Did you, Graham? 1t must
have been you'll
cit certainly was not, my lady, an
swered the butler, firmly.
'Who told him then?'
''That l cannot say; certainly not me;
but this evening my lord sent for me and
he knew then that 1 had taken Miss
Lotus last night to town. for he told me
So"
"'Did he ask for her address?''
''No, my lady, he made no inqui-
rles, said the butler, unblushlngly.
He simply told me he was going to
town, and that 1 was to give you the
note at dinner time -
''She has written to him, - thought
Lady Gilmore, desDairingly; "and Kate
Butler has done all this. -
The poor woman in her anger and fear
next acted very uniustly. She ran to |
Miss Buffers room, carrying GiImore's |
note in her hand, and, to the great in |
dignation of that young lady, began to |
abuse her without stint.
''Look what you have made me doI'
she cried. "Gilmore is gone-he has
gone after that girl, and he says we have
been spying on his actions, and so we
haYei"
His conduct was very disgraceful -
said Miss Butler, turning suddenly red.
':You have only made it worse; you
watched him and got me to watch him,
and this is theIeudi''
Miss Butler shrugged her shoulders.
'fThe end would probably have been
the same in any case. - she said; "the
girl, suppose, has written to him, and
you have not cared, under the circum-
stances, conclude, to have kept her in
the house?''
You have only done harm?'' ragged
Lady Gilmore, "and you have sent my
ION away from me!''
But it is needless to write any more of
Ter unseemly words.s The quarrel ran SO |
high that Miss Butler wrote to her mother
he same evening to tell her that she |
would return home the next day. GAs
or Gilmore, - Miss Butler added, ''his
conduct is such that it would be impossi-
lie for any respectable girl to marry :
i'm; l shall tell you more when 1 see :
on, " and so on. :
Thus ended Lady Gilmore's scheme :
bout the marriage of her son; and when | ;
he grand-aunt at Gatefor manor house
card of her failure. and the story about =
he governess-for she always contrived y
know everything that hap
ened at Wrothsley-she said, spitefulIy, q
lat she was not surprised. h
"My lady always puts her foot into y
she said; 'and as for Gill "
lore, he's his father over again, every =,
ch - p
CHAPTER xvI.-THE LAST BLOW.
Mrs. Barclay was very bitter indeed m
'out Nancy e return, and when during
e next day Mrs. LOTUS was forced to "
Init that the cause of it was ssome n.
lily about young L ord Gilmore talking
her, +" Aunt Fannie at once declar ed
at Nancy's conduct had been dis "
aceful IN
''She always was girl who tried to be
tract attention, - she said virtuousIy.
and you see this is the end of it. What
e you going to do about it, Lucy, for it
quite impossible that you can afford to OF
ep her at home, and who will take her
governess now, when both Lady Gill sw
IRE and Lady Blenkensop win of course gi,
We turned against her?''
Mrs. LOTUS however did not take quite
III dismal view of Nanoy's short tn
nings. AZ,
Il will write to Lady Blenkensop and ro -,
plain, she said; ''Lady Gilmore is -
own to be very quick tempered
man, and hope it will all come right; er,
sr all It was not such very dreadful
ng for young man to like to talk to a oh,
tty girl. -
Lunt Fannie shook her head. Z
Ladies' IN their position WON'T stand s,-
t kind of thing. she said; "I con-
sr that Nancy has thrown away her 70,
chance in life, and she will never
70 another
ii this was, of course, very trying to on1
: = an', III z zuuI aliie CONSIDERED yor