The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-26

81 have not, answered. ut may be
very ignorant Of me, but until now |
had not SO much as heard that he had
ever been alive. Was he minister or
an ex-minister, or anything of that
kindT'
ssOh, no." replied Granville smiling;
che was only the husband Of Lady Sut-
ton. thought you might possibly have
heard of him, or at any rate Of her, from
your interesting patient; but perhaps he
has not been well enough to read the
newspapers lately. Otherwise he might
have been somewhat moved by the news
that the lady to whom be was engaged
not SO long agois once more free"
| dare say turned pale. 1t really did
not signify whether / concealed my emo
tion or betrayed it, for Granville evil
IDENTIFY read me like an open book. In
answer to my would be Indifferent in
quiries, he told me all that he knew
about Jack Long6eld and Lady Sutton
1t was sad story, he said; though of
course quite an everyday one. The
young people had been neighbors; they
had fallen in love with each other, and
there had been sort of engagement
which had not been sanctioned by their
respective families. Then old Sir Ed
ward Sutton had presented himself, and
the consequences had been what they are
in nine out Of ten such cases. The poor
girl, Granville said, had hardly been to
blame in the matter. What could she
do with her father and mother against
her. and her lover so hopelessly impe-
cunions?
WELL" I said. 'sfilial obedience will
meet with its reward now. suppose.
She has been delivered from her hus-
band, and it only remains for her to
live happily upon his money with her
lover, who won't be impecunious any
longer"
Granville shrugged his shoulders. st
suppose So" he answered; s'but lovers
are not always constant Probably you
know better than / do whether hers is. !"
That was just what did not know,
but if had known / should have kept
my knowledge to myself. don't think
that in any case / should have been
bound TO take Granville further into my
confidence, and every one will allow that
/ was not so bound after the unnistaka-
BILE manner in which he had shown me
that the rupture of our engagement was
a matter of absolute unconcern to him.
! did not love him, and was relieved to
discover that he did not love me; yet
imagine that no woman living would
feel such a discovery to be otherwise
than unhattering.
Under all the circumstances / was not
sorry to hear that his duty to his party
and his country would compel him to be
in the house of commons that night, nor
did contradict him when he consider
ately added that his enforced departure
would probably spare me some embar-
rassment. Before he went away he was
SO kind as to say that l should always
retain his friendship and his best wishes.
So we parted upon amicable terms, and
gathered that If l was glad to be rid
of him, he was at least equally glad to
be rid of me. The truth is that we had
never had anything in the world in com
mon
Mr.. Longfeld, presume, heard of my
fiance's flying visit from Mrs. Robertson.
That good soul had become greatly at
tached to the young man. She had seen
Us together, and no doubt she was anx-
ions to prevent any possible misconcop-
ton on his part did not tell her that
l had thrown Granville over, nor did
think it necessary to impart that infor-
nation to my guest, who, in the course
of the evening, found an opportunity of
saying:
''Mr. Maitland was here today, am
told. am sorry didn't see him. /
should have liked to see him. :"
81 don't think you would, . answered.
''He isn't much to look at. and as con-
versationist he cannot be called brill
liant. He had no news to give me, except
that a certain Sir Edward Sutton is dead.
He seemed to think that would interest
me; but, as I have never had the pleas
ure of meeting Sir Edward Sutton, it
didn't"
Well, of course I was watching him
narrowly while spoke, and of course |
iiOsiSSd hOW tuO COAOL INSLcQ l4tU LIS
pale cheeks. He told me. in rather
unsteady voice, that he had known Lady
Sutton all his life, and / believe he went
so far as to add that he was sorry to hear
of her bereavement. He changed the
subject with suspicious haste, but that
he had not put it away from his mind
was proved by the irrelevant replies
which he returned to each successive OBJ
servation that laboriously made until
it was time for him to go to bed. When
! wished him good night he made me a
little formal speech in which was
thanked for my great kindness and hos
pitality, and assured me that he could not
remain much longer as burden upon
my hands. He hoped that in few days
he would be strong enough to travel up
to London, where he had some business
to transact. did /, he inquired, happen
to know whether Sir Edward Sutton had
died in London? Because, if so, he
would call upon the disconsolate widow.
/ was not able to enlighten him upon
that point, but the next morning l ascer-
tanned, by searching through back copies
of The Times, that the late baronet had
expired about fortnight before at his
residence in Berkeley square, and / lost
no time in acquainting him with the cir
cumstance. Perhaps half expected that
this would lead him to speak more frank
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