Dodge City times., 1890-04-17
Iris sat listening and matching.

Iris sat listening and matching.
came; salaries were reduced: the adven.
turer wearied of the society OF actors and
actresses. His next change OF life pre-
eented him in North Britain rs Journal.
list, employed on a Scotch newspaper. An
unfortunate love affair was the means Of
depriving him Of this new occupation. He
was recognized, soon afterwards, serving
~ assistant steward In one of the passen-
ger steamers voyagine between Liverpool
and New York. Arrived in this last CITY,
he obtained notoriety. of no very respecta
bic kind, as medium" claiming powers
Of supernatural communication with the
world OF spirits. When the imposture
was ultimately discovered, he had gained
money by his unworthy appeal to the
meanly prosaic superstition OF modern
times. A long interval had then elapsed.
and nothiaG had been heard of him, when
astarving man was discovered by a trav
eler, lost on Western prairie The i'll
fated Irish lord had associated himself
with an Indian tribe-had committed
some offence against their lnws-and had
been deliberately deserted and left to die.
On bis recovery he wrote to his elder
brother (who had inherited the title and
estaees on the death of the old Ear) to say
that he was ashamed of the life that he
had led, and eager to make amendment
by accepting any honest employment that
could be offered to him. The traveller
who had saved his life. and whose opinion
was to be trusted, declared that the letter
represented a sincerely penitent state of
mind. There were good qualities in ths
vagabOnd, which only wanted a little
merciful encouragement to assert them
selves. The reply that he received from
England came from the LAWYERS employed
by the new Earl. They had arranged
with their agents in New York to pay to
the younger brother legacy Of thous.
and pounds, which. represented all that
had been left to him by his fathers will.
II he wrote again, his letters would not
be answered; his brother had done with
him. Treated in this inhuman manner.
the Wild lord became once more worthy OF
his name. He tried new life as betting
man at races and trotting matches For
tune favored him at the outset, and he
considerably increased his legacy. With
the Customary infatuation of men who
gain money by risking the loss of it, be
presumed on his good luck. One pecuni-
ary disaster followed another, and left
him literally penniless. He was found
again, in England, exhibiting an open
boat. In which h he and his companion had
made one Of those foolhardy voyages
across the Atlantic, which have now hap
PLY ceased to interest the public. To
friend who demonstrated with him, he
answered that he had reckoned on being
lost at sea, and on SO committing suicide
worthy of the desperate life that he had
led. The last accounts of him, after this,
were too vague and too contradictory to
ported that he had returned to the United
States. Not long afterwards, unaccount-
able paragraphs appeared in newspapers;
declaring, at one and the same time, that
ho was living among bad company in
Paris, and that he was hiding disreputa-
bly, in an ill-famed quarter of the city Of
Dublin. called 1.-The Liberties" In any
Irish-American desperadoes had entangled
the wild lord in the network Of political
conspiracy.
Tho maid noticed change in the mis-
treos which surprised her, when she had
reached the end of the newspaper story.
not trace remained. Few people, Rhoda,
remember what they read as well IS you
do" She said 1t hndly and sadly-and
she said no more.
There was q reason for this.
Now at one time, and now at another,
Iris had heard of Lord Harry's faults and
fAilinRs in fragments of family history.
presented in an uninterrul ed succession
of events, had now forced Itself on her at
tention for the first time. 1t naturally
shocked her. She felt, as she had never
fslt before. how entir ~ right her father
had been IN insisting on her resistance to
an attachment which was unworthy Of
her. So far, but no farther. her conscience
yielded to its own conviction Of what was
fust. But the one unassailable vital force
In this world is the force of love. It may
submit to the hard necessities OF life; it
nay acknowledge the imperative claims
Of duty; it may be silent under reproach,
and submissive to privation-but, suffer
-A~< 10 >efa afS11s
subject 20 no arunc1al Influences, owning
no supremacy but the law Of it's own be-
ing. Iris was above the reach of self-re-
pr0ach, when her memory recalled the
daring action which had saved Lord Harry
q tho milestone. Her better sense &C
OVUe tho other man-but her heart, he(
pervorse heart, remained true to its first
choice in spite of her. She made an i'm
patient excuse. and went out alone, to
recover her cOmposure in the farmhouse
GH0en.
Tho hours of the evening passed slowly.
TAsre was . pack Of cards in the house;
He women tried to amuse themselves, and
fhiled. Anxiety about Arthur prsyed on
thelu(rita OF Miss Henley aud Mrs. Lew
con. Even tho maid, who had only seen
him during his last visit to London, sald
- wished tomorrow had come and gone.
His sweet temper, his handsome face, his
overywhere. Mrs. Lewson had left her
eomfortaL.e English ..eiiie To De mis- house.
8o6por. when he tried his rash experiment
e farming In Ireland And. more won
|1akfnl still, even wearisome Sir Giles be-
oeme m agreeable person in his nephew's
oqmpany.
7fr1s sst the example~of retiring at an
4rly hour to her room.
There was something terrible in the pas
koeal silence of the place. 1t associated it.
Iek mysteriously with her fears for Ar
hurs IL suggested armed treachery on tip
= fehing its murderous stand in hiding;
Aistling passage Of bullets through
Vfhe piercing cry Of a man mortaily
and that man, perhaps? Iris
I'm her own horrid thought. A
WI faintness overcame her; she
" window. As she put her head
sreathe the cool night air. man
HORSEBACK rode up g the house Was
fery that he wore Waa Just visible.
fBefore he could dismount to knock Mt
door, tall man walked up to him out
The darkness.
9{s that Niles!" the tall man asked.
~ keooR knew the voice. Iris was
Aoa better acquainted with it. She, too,
foGssd Lord HAIRY ss&
lhere was the Irish lord-at the very
s = when Iris was most patiently resigned
= to oee him more. never to think OF
r her husband again-remindin her
: ~ Arst days of their love. and OF their
~ confession of fl Fear OF herself
: kR behind the curtain: while interest
7Ined Harry detained her at the window
11 VSu ct Rathcos" he asked-men-
q ~ tho name of the house In which
EXAR Wuo one Of the gue0tA.
- ny lord. Ar. Nountjoy leaves us
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