San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-08

1t so happened that while the abomin-
able conspiracy just described was being
Matched in St. James street two ladies,
seated comfortably before the fire in a
Iuxuriously furnished drawing room in
Carlton house terrace, were discussing
the chief conspirator after a fashion
which it may safely be assumed that
that self satisfied nobleman would not
have liked if he could have heard it.
Lord Guise," Lady Belvoir was say
ing, is one of those unfortunate men
who fatter themselves that they thor
oughly understand women. | have
noticed that people of that kind invari-
ably end by coming to signal grief. Some
times they marry their cooks. sometimes
they do even worse; but they always
marry. Lord Guise has holy horror of
me. and loses no opportunity of telling
me so. If il were at all worth the trouble
| really think would marry him myself,
Just to show him how very easily the
thing can be done"
Lady Belvoir was under the impress
sion that she could marry anybody; and
it is not for very humble member of the
opposite sex to assert that she was mis-
taken That she had not married Percy
Thorold was doubtless due to the cir
cunstance that, after full considera-
ton. she had not chosen to do so: that
she had married that utterly diSreputa-
BILE and almost unciviliZed parsonage,
the late Lord Belvoir. was proof that
her powers of fascination were of no
mean order. The power of beauty at
all events she possessed to its fullest ex-
tent. Tail. superbly modelled and gifted
with a pair OF large, liquid brown eyes,
which were of "A nature (as eyes so often
are) to mislead physiognomists, she had
shone without a rival during her first
season. and now, at the age of fOur-smd-
twenty. was very generally spoken of as
the handsomest woman in London.
Fer mouth was perhaps trifie hard
at times, though rather in expression
than in form, and it might have been
predicted that in another ten years her
nose would be too decidedly aQuiline
and the line of her jaw too strongly de-
fined However. as she herself would
have said. it really cannot matter much
what a woman's nose and jaw may look
like after she has passed her thirtieth
year. She was believed to be extremely
wealthy, but as u matter of fact her
jOinture did not reach the figure common
ly ascribed to it and she lived extrava-
gantly. Of suitOrs' she had no lack. nor
was she likely to lack them for long
time to come.
But of course it wouldn't be worth
while" her companion said quickly. Il
don't understand why you ever think it
worth while to make conquests of men
whom you don't care for. The process
must be very disagreeable for you.
should think. and everybody knows that
you can do it if you like.
"Oh, the process isn't so disagraeable,
answered Lady Belvoir laughing: land
as for Lord Guise he doesn't know that
could do it if liked That's just the
point"
Are you really going to take the
trouble of convincing him them" Miss
Leslie asked with a somewhat disguised
look.
Dorothy Leslie was girl Of IS, who
had been brought up to London by her
mother to be presented at one of the
first drawing rooms of the year, and to
make her debut in society, in so far as
society might prove willing to open its
doors to people who had not a great
many influential acquaintance. Wheth-
er Lady Belvoir ought or ought not to be
included in that category Mrs. Leslie
was not quite sure, nor had she felt alto
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