The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-07

cricket field. However, | know of cid that
10 IS no use arguing with you"
Robert was duly introduced to Gen.
Bangles. The latter. after a short cnat,
went away with him To the club. Here he
spent the greater part of the next two DAYS,
and with an adroiIness which would have
excited Miss Peytln's admiration had she
heard HIM he several times turned the sub
Ject OF conversation to AlgernOn
Corbyn's accident, and learned Incl
dentally good deal about that gentle
mans character aud habits. On the third
evening after his arrival in Bath, he was
chatting with Gen. Bangles and Maj.
RothSay, resident ct Bath, in a quiet
corner of the smoking room, when the lat
ter startled him Dy saying
~ on were talking about Corbyn this
afternoon, Bangles. DO you know | was an
intimate friend of his at one times | was
at the same college with him at Oxford,
and we were on the same staircase. His
rooms were over mine. which was perhaps
lucSy for him. He was one of those quiet
old fellows who don't do anything in par
ticular, who neither read nor row. nor play
cricket nor drink, so that he never used TO
have noisy parties over my head, while |
was rather rackety IN those days, and he
would have Jared badly if his rooms had
been under niue Instead OF above. As it
was, he used to grumOle a good deal We
thing happened year or two afterward.
This Is quite between ourselves, you knOw,
for he lived in the highest odor OF respecta-
bility down here. | was knocking about on
the continent. just before got my commits
sion, which got later than usual, for my
father had set nis mind on my going into his
office, and settling down into a lawyer. |
kickei against this, aud it was not until he
saw that the case was quite hopeless that he
gave in.
"Wel, was at Cremona, an out OF the
way place where few h glish tourists go;
| and no wonder, for, except that some fellow
| or other made fiddles there, / don's know
what attraction there was in the place,
However, l got there somehow; aud the
next morning, while standing on the stops
OF the hotel, who should come out but Cor
byA, with an uncommonly go0d-looking
young woman. He flushed up suddenly
when he saw me, aud looked completely
taken aback / saw that he was hesitadng
whe ,her TO recognizs me or not; but | sup
| pose he saw no way out of IL, so he shoe X
hands, and intr jduced the lady as Mrs.
Corbyn. | dinei with them afterward.
She was pleasant, lady-like woman, and
not at all fast, either In appearance or man
| ner
"After she had gone out of the room he
said to me:
"'By the way, Rothsay, you need not
mention to any one you met me here with
my wife; my marriage not generally known
yet you see. a private sort of affair.
'Ot course, | said that would hold my
my tongue on the subject; but co Did see he
was a good deal relieved when mention cd
afterward that | was expecting every day
to hear that l was gazetted into cavalry
regiment, and | had applied for the
| Fifteenth Hlssars, who were on the point
of starting for India | never met him
again until | came down hers seven or
eight IN jnths ago to live. He had forgotten
me till | spoke 70 him one day here.
81 could see that at first the recognition
was deucedly unpleasant one to him b Ow
ever, we neither of us alluded to the sub
ject of our last meeting. | afterward
Learned, of course, that he was single man
and had never been married. They had
been ira Yelling together some months before
| met them. | learned that by running
against fellow in the corridor Of the hotel
who had been our scout at college. | had a
cnat with him for minute or two, ami he
told me he had been travelling as a sort OF
valet and courier with Corbyn ever since he
left England He did not seem to want to
talk, so of course | did not ask any Ques-
tions, it was Corbyn's affair, not mine, and
| certainly thought at the time they were
married. though Oy his confusion and his
asking me 10 say nothing ABOUT it, Iguessed
there was something irregular in the bust
ness. But of courss when | came here and
heard that he had never been married,
sa W how matters stood.
Rum. isn't it, how the last sort OF men
you would be likely to suspec5-and should
certainly never have suspected Corbyn-go
in for this sort of thing, when they think it
safe to do so. OF course | should never
think of telling this t. any one down here.
He died in the odor of sanctity, and though
I Fhut, ha