San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-03

to go away for week or two and try
thorough change.
But he seemed wrapped in stone. TIC
all her inquiries her entreaties he would
only answer that he was pretty we'll
that there was nothing to reveal-that he
would stay where he was.
In the caste to which these two belong
there are barriers of pride which even
motherhood dare not break through.
But oh. beneath this reserve what tear.
ing storms We're raging i'll John DalyelTs
breast! His only refuge was in solitude,
and even then what torture. He was
wretChed with his mother, more wretch
ed still with Marian, and worst of all
when with Miss Templemore His new
born passion pursued and dcfied him like
those Ncmescs sent by the Olympians as
scourges to haplesS mortaIS of which he
had read in the classics.
For John needed no Fred Warrender
to tell him his duty now. He had long
since formed to himself the only code of
honor as applied to an engagement which
will bear the test of logic. Whatever
latitude may be extended to the feebler
StA uIlNltI like COIulLlOllS, john llplu, anu
rightly too, that man who wins from a
woman her confession of lOve-hcr con-
sent to be his own forever-iS virtually
married to her from that instant, SO far
as his own liberty is concerned, and that
in such a case as the present he must be-
have as though he were already mar
ried man-that is, put the new tempta-
tipp nN-pN- from hin, rrI,GL II
stamp it out, even though the effort
should kill him.
And yct-and yet-Oh, heaven, why
why had he not met her before? After
a week of such suffering then as he had
never known or dreamt of, John Dalyell
came to the only sensible determination
the desperate circumstance allowed of.
He informed Lady Charlotte that he
would take her advice and go away
"And where will you go?" she inquired
gleefully.
Here was poser for her son. What
should he say?he had never thought about
his destination. AS he hesitated for re-
ply she said:
Il have the very thing, John. Our
good friend Mr.. Price is off to Scotland
for some salmon fishing. Go with him.
He will be charmed. He always is
charmed at everything"
but he does not start till the day after
tomorrow" objected her son, casting
down his eyes.
But it is 80 good to havea companion,
and surely day can make no difference"
And SO it was settled, and that one day
did make all the difference.
When John on the morrow arrived at
the manor for their almost daily ride a
trOis, he found Miss Templemore alone
in the drawing room. She wore her habit
and advanced to receive him in her usual
frank, bright manner.
at is 50 tiresOme," she said Marian
Is ClOsetrd with the Baroness de Stair,
her gOdmother, you know. The good,
pOmpOus old woman has lunched with
us, but wants as usual an hours private
talk with her half niece or whole cousin
or whatever it is. These visits are peri
Odical, and Marian hasn't the heart to
thwart the old lady, who is now no doubt
holding forth by the yard upon the dis
position of her property. But she says
! mean Marian, of COurse-that we are
not to wait for her and she will catch US
up if she can"
All this was said very rapidly, even
with shade of trepidation.
"Oh, sur"ly,' said Dalyell, eve had
better wait"
''NO, she says she will be very angry if
we do. I'm to make the most Of so finea
day and of my time, for I'm sorry to tell
you have to go away on Friday"
leave the manOr" exclaimed John
with a touch of tragedy in his tone which
rather astonished Miss Kate.
Eyes, mamma wants me-
No WONDER thought he.
"And | must leave Marian and-and
you, and the horses. Oh, I'm awful!y
sorry, | can tell you, though I'm diving
to see darling mamma, of course, for |
love her better than anything"
John reflected that he too loved his
mother, but "Detter than anything" No.
Come, let LIS start, she went on, catch
ing up her whip and gayly beating her lit
tie boot with it as she went along by
the bye, am to ride Revelation for the
first time"
'Not r'ally!' cried her cavalier, more
tragic still than when told she was going.
Now Revelation was a young mare of
Dalyell's, brought recently as present
to his tiancee and supposed to be under
going long and careful education at the
hands Of breaker