San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-17
LADY BELvoIR TAKES HER REVENGE.

Percy Thorold might have felt more
interest in the awful ret1ibution with
which his friend Lord Guise was men,
aced if he had believed in the proba-
oility Of its ever being carried into ef- |
sect, but he suspected that Guise would |
prove too hard nut for even Lady Bel |
voir to crack, and in any case he was
disposed to deprecate hasty action.
"Why," he asked his cousin ut break |
fast the next morning. should you rush |
off to London and open siege operations
in this breathless way? You'll only
brighten him. Besides, you must rel
member that he can't propose to you
without our permission, and we shall
undoubtedly inflict u six months sem.
tence upon him If he applies to us. !
That is the very least that we can do for
one who has shown so much kindly care
for our happiness.
WHO told you that 1 hadn't opened
siege operations already returned Lady
Belvoir, land who told you that | am
going up to London to see Lord Guises
Your esteemed president isn't the only
man in London; he isn't even the only
member of your society. If yours were,
not naturally selfish character, and IT,
you were not made doubly selfish just
now by the condition that you are in. !
you would have given thought to two,
absent friends who have been treated
quite as badly as you have. have
heard that Mr.. Moreton has come back
from New Zealand. and The Morning
Post tells me that the new member for
Slumberton has arrived in town"
"Oh-I seel Poor fellowsr'
II don't know why you should pity
them both. 1t is obvious that in a
Christian country can only marry one
of them, and to be married by me seems
to be the most terrible fate that your
imagination can picture"
"Oh, you'll marry neither of them;
but you won't let them depart in peace.
I'm afraid That's why am sorry for
them"
MY dear Percy, you have never un-
derstood me and you never will. On the
other hand understand you perfectly,
and understand that what is troubling
you at the present moment isn't the
thought of Mr.. Schneider's or Mr.. More
tons sorrows. but the prospect of having
to leave Westmoreland and Dorothy
Leslie. Well, now I'll show you how
benevolent am. must be off to-mor-
row, but if you like to stay where you
are there's no reason in the world why
you shouldn't Whether | am here or
not fires have to be kept going all over
this great cold house, and you might as
well warm yourself before them as not
until parliament meets Later ON FL
ask Dorothy to come up and stay with
me, and suppose / shall have to take
in the old woman too. if it's question
of buying trousseau. Well anything
to oblige."
1t need scarcely be said that Percy
gratefully accepted his offer. and per-,
haps, all things considered, he was not
very sorry that his cousin felt it incum-.
bent upon her to take her departure
There is always a certain feeling of awk-
wardness in sitting between the old love
and the new, even though the old love
may have abdicated as willingly as Lady
Belvoir had done. And so, during the
succeeding fortnight, Mr. Thorold en-
joyed himself very much, notwithstand-
ing the wintry weather, and Dorothy
was happy, and the soul Of Mrs. Leslie
was satisfied. One must indeed be hard
to please if one be not satisfied with
son-in-law whose means are ample.
whose character stands high, and whose.
political future is full of promise.
Meanwhile Lady Belvoir also was
enjoying herself though possibly in a,
somewhat less legitimate fashion On.
the .dav after that of her arrival in Carl
can.inrna On ThirdAnnge