Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
+ "You think, says Madam, fixing her
with her large, bright gaze grown brighter

= t"You think" says Madam, fixing her
with her. large, bright gaze, grown brighter
since her unhappy vigil.
"And even IL so--dear Madam, wruld &c
not be better than" Lady Glande o
pauses, g. little freh ened AMI con 'ussc,
ye5 scre that there has suddenly come into
Madan's despniring face an expression that
is nearer hope than anything shs has seen
there 81 CO yesterday. he is still stray
Cling with desire to shy little more to
the same e {, when the niece sity for II Is
removed by the abrupt entrance of some
one.
All eyes are turned 10 tho door, and
little bi eats ess hush falls upon those who
foi m on audience, 10 what lggests itself
rs being very likely to create q scene OF
rather tragic order. There is clear
prom % of it, indeed, in the very way
Katherine enters the room. For one thing.
she Is remarkably pale. and it must he some
powerful emotion, ind o l., sotne hing worse
thnn mere anxiety, to CT ate emotioa Of so
high au order in tiat wel-regulated mind ;
and besides this, for once the cain, super
cilious mouth is a little from un Ter cont oil.
II hard y takes her moment to move
from tie door 70 where Ma lam Is stand
ing, quite still INV, and as miserable a
door that had brought no news had been
one disEp pontmont the more. For little
while the two women regard each other
critically, un -ertainly, then Madam by an
Fort breaks tie silence that has become
ALMOST painful.
"Yol have heard some news" she says,
with dry lips "of Denisy'
''Of leu 81 No; don't expect any. A"
Then, with a cold, uplifting of her brows,
and a colder smile, "Do your
what elss is there to expect" says
Madam t:elnul0usly, her eyes iii ating
"A great deal, it seems to me; but you
must wait for post or two. AS for me,
have been tn nking-the night has been
long-an1 have quite thought it nll out. "
Her voice is so clear as to be positively
grating. There Is, in my opinion, no
longer room for onjecture. AS toll you,
the post-bag is the one thing to look for
ward to. felt it to he my duty to come
down and wara you Of the truth Don't
look for Denis, losk for the post" A low,
Contsmptuous laugh escapes her. Madam,
drawing Jack step or two, looks with
such heai tie unhappness around her, that
Lady GLndorS at once steps into the
breach.
You are pleased to be enigmatical, "
sho says, turning rather bellicoso eyes on
Mss Cazalet, between whom and herself
indeed little love is lost. "But if you
could explain yourself, and put what you
have SO evidently come to say into lau-
guage aiapteI to our intellects, 1t would
lie, think, a kindness to-Madam- AS
you see, sharply ''she is suffering; com ),
let her know at once what you think the
post will tell her."
''Of her sons marriage TO the httlo adj
ventures'," returned Katherine, with a
venomous flash from her blue eyes; ~
wa med you," turning to Madam with a
touch Of rage that all her cleverness can
not conccal-"I told you what the end
would be il 20 persisted in keeping that
willy wretch here; l showed you what
she would do with him Wien III,
time was ripe but you wo Id not listen.
You e mitted her to deceive you, as she
has &c eived him, but" facing round
upon the room and speaking with slow, de-