San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-28

The longest day of the year has nineteen
hours at st. Petersburg, seventeen hours
at Hamburg, sixteen and one-quarter
hours at London, fifteen hours at New
York and three and one-half months at
Spitzbergen.
THAT is speech which no gentleman
ought to make" said Lord Guise, land
hope you won't make it again. Sybil
Belvoir has fiirted good deal, first and
last, as we are all aware; but you haven't
the slightest excuse for saying anything
worse of her, and / wonder that you
don't feel how cowardly such insinua-
items are. Women, Of course, are given
to whispering away one another's char
acters; but really do think that q man
ought to be above that kind Of thing"
Moreton, much abashed, stammered
out sort of apology, which Lord Cruise
interrupted by saying CURLY: "Well,
don't let it happen again, that's all"
After which he changed the subject.
This was all very well, and it is only
right that one should take up the cud-
gels on behalf of ones absent friends,
but the unfortunate thing was that Lord
Guise was not quite as certain as he pro-
fessed to be that Moreton had no excuse
for speaking as he had done. He tried
very hard to think that Sybil wasneither
better nor worse than other pretty wom-
en- upon whom admiration is forced, but
he was not entirely successful. He could
not forget circumstances which were
within his own knowledge, nor did he
much like that cool confession of hers
that she had ensnared Moreton for the
mere purpose of showing what she could
do when she liked. If that was her
motive in one case why should it not De
in another? Then he began to say to
himself that after all he had no right to
throw stones.
1t isn't so very difficult to understand
the feelings of woman who has loved
in vain, and VINO is pestered all day and
every day by the attentions of lovers who
are simply wearisome to her. Such
woman might find a not unnatural con-
ISOLATION in avenging herself upon the
whole of the opposite sex. And suppos-
ing that, after the lapse of years, she
should find that that Fright person" of
whom she had spoken had really loved
her all along, though perhaps he himself
had scarcely been aware of it? Would
she not then become again what she had
once been, and might not the sponge be
passed over events which neither he nor
she could wish to recall to memory?
1t was in meditations Of this nature
that Lord Guise INDUCED during several
consecutive days, and everybody must
see how perilous they were. He himself
saw it, and had recourse to the old rem
edy of fight. He was seen no more in
London during the early part of that
session, when Mr.. Schneider took his
seat as member for Slumberton and
Percy Thorold gathered fresh laurels as
debater; and if anybody missed him it
did not. at all events, appear to be Lady
Belvoir, who was in the best of good spirits
at that time. Mrs. and Miss Leslie were
duly invited to Carlton House terrace,
and the trousseau was purchased with
the aid of their hostess taste and expert
ence, and the conduct of the latter lady
continued to be in all respects exem-
plary.
Then, shortly after Easter, wedding
took place down in Westmoreland which
was attended by many personages of
high degree, but at which Lord Guise
was unable to be present by reason of
certain pressing engagements elsewhere.
the nature of which he did not specify.
Percy, in talking this over with his
bride, confided to her very strange idea
which had come into his head.
There's something queer about
Guise," said he; "he doesn't write like
himself, and Moreton told me that he
had spoken about Sybil in a way-how-
ever, l may be quite wrong. Only l
can't help thinking that he is little bit
smitten, and that he is afraid to trust
himself near her."
But busy statesmen, who can allow
themselves but brief honeymoon, can
not be expected to trouble their minds
much about the eccentricities of friends
who are out of sight: and it was with loud
CALCULATIONS of amazenent that Mr..
Thorold perused letter whish he found
waiting for him at Venice some weeks
after his marriage.
"Just read thatI" he said, tossing the
sheet over to his wifs ut really is be-
yond everything"
And this was what Dorothy read:
"MY DEAR TRoRoLD-As year has
now elapsed since the constitution of
our Bachelors Mutual Aid and Protec-
lion society," and as the society has died
q natural death. none of US having sig
nifiad the intention of renewing his