The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-11
CHAPTER XVI.

WV then We rack the Naiue, tnsh We Inu
The virtue that possession "ouAI Ho' SA0" N
Whites it was ours.
q. Ragjnald Deaison wendell his way
,,,o Ksnsington after his abortive attempt
;. ;rduce Winifred to set aside the compact
ID at York. in q state of mind bordering
on frenzy.
Tba magnetic influence of her dazzling
besntv had created within him tumuit OF
PASSIONATE longings which her refusal to
entertain his proposal for reconciliation
only served to increase, and which rendered
tba consciousness of defeat uusupportable.
Bis selfloye and his pride were wounded.
II msddened him TO meet with an obstacle
that Interfered with his wishes, and he was
fnll of bitterness that he had humbled him
self in vaia, and that cajolery and threat
ening had alike proved powerless to N owe
Winifred from her determination. Nature
sllv. the fever in his mind was not alleyed
bv the knowledge that Claude Maclean was
his wifs's lover, and that Winifred returned
his affection He cursed his folly for VEN
turiag to intrude on them at moment so
uapropitous for the success of his plans.
de DellGFtu EuGs1 lS uAAkhb Jaw LAAS
ter if he had Withdrawn without
making his presence known. In
acting as he did. he believed that the game
was in his own hands, and that his sudden
appearance would cover the lovers with
confusion, and place Winifred entirely at
his mercy. Fool, fool" he muttered to
himself as he strobe along. "What else
could expect after coming upon her sud
denly in that ways I ought to have re-
tired and left her in ignorance of my dis
covery."
But Sir Reginald was unwilling to own
himself vanquished. He mad one hope left
the hope that led him TO beat a retreat
lest his plan, too, SHOULD be overthrown by
continuing the contest he thought that
the Countess of PolehamPton might succeed
where he had failed.
''Women understand women best" he
argued, land Selma is a woman in a thou
sandn ----s-..-----s-------
He resolved to place himself in his sis
ter's hands without delay, and to act BY her
advice He knew that she would be an
noyed to discover that her scheme for mar
rying him to the Lady Isabel had come to
grief, and that it would cost him something
~ U5Ec hIOWu LIS lIlAEI1dR6. Dub no YVES
confident that the countess would see that
the only way to prevent the baronetcy be.
Coming extinct was to bring about the re-
Cancellation that he desired, and though he
feared her wrath when she came to know
the deception he had practiced upon her, he
vas prepared to encounter even a worse
hardship rather than forfeit his claim to the
wife whom he had once despised, but whose
beauty now enthralled him.
Sir Reginald felt that the details of the
story he mad to tell were too shameful to be
told to the Countess of Poloaampton, and
ne contrived in unburthening himself of
bis secret to soften the facts, and made
them look less ugly than they would have
appeared if they had been presented in
taelr naked reality. Even then the results
were less satisfactory than he hoped for.
1ae countess, on finding that her favorits
scheme OF bringing about an alliance be-
tween the Brutons and Denisons was scat
Tered to the winds by the that revelation
ner brother had already wife living, was
more angry than Sir Reginald had ex-
peoied. she felt that she had been shame
luily deceived, and could not be made to
understand that Sir Reginald was not prac-
uCl4g some grim joke upon her.
40 net understand your story" she
sad 1reezlngly, when at last the earnest
ness CT Sir Reginald's manner overcame
uer moredulity. gu say that YOU have a
mIle hVing,and that she refuses to live with
you, Out you DO not explain why she re.
auses Or, at least, you give such lame
9 aoGGunt OF the matter that l cannot help
AeeLng that you are deceiving me-"
swear to you that what have told Won
Is GIetruth," Sir Reginald exclaimed. 1--WE
t I1u grown tired of each other and we
best thing" '--'
put the countess shook her head and
basn lea an earnest, penetrating glance on
h. ' oroUner, beneath which he quailed and
co l. DO not believe you" she said, with un-
e ev-lp.o iu mi sternness. How can you
U v-tgc !. u alter tie trick you have played
s SGu mei You have led me all along to
Soueye that you were unmarried whilst,
so r9o.tn, you had wife hidden away
iFbaeo.ln eTe, 1t is shameful What will
h Le esa Uof1in say when the truth comes to
afra ~ilo"hE AS for the Brutons, | shall be
t tr,au 70 look them in the face. | must
III o " everything or / shall refuse to med
sai5 ma nave told you all that there is to teIl.n
81 Il reginald, gioomily.
NJ lou say that the lady whom lrn6yU "a
c-I'' west Is Lady Denison. I know her
maj, =. very little; she is quite a recent ac-
&tonrrI.Hcei Out l do not think she is O
nc Iauy who would require much coax
ars rs, ae.urh TO her wifely duty, unless they
fYon r r.s''4S OF which | am not informed
q wbo.tu-s1 please yourself she continued.
sDr not 81 you give me all your confidence
yjj M. o DtI unless l am trusted entirely, l
tettla vo ovlF IN the matter, and you must
fa9n '0ur olHerences the best way you
i S ri. hteglnald saw in the resolute face of
hgain..s mat 1t would be vain to appeal
telr - ms decree. 1t was horrible, he
flsirT pc compelled to reveal all his
pose; out MS determination to regain
{njsaro ~ OF bis wife bore him through the
k NE Shame Of his confession.
3elsJ - painful ordeal that he was COM
6tasr,oo11 pass through His own voluntary
the dssi- would have left good deal in
but g. "nere be lain would have left il.
kew :. ea9luntesS, when once she obtained
bapi ~ ~ Ihe differences that had driven hus-
luestio-t!' wife asunder contrived by adroit
b Hgb+ 70 drag all the shameful truth
trefSbc, never had an unhappy victim
kuaeriD,~t t On a rack experienced more acute
hs n- -s than Sir Reginald endured during
se oSiess' aud, when it was over, he felt
brsbIa i!Il! maj standing at the bar of fnex-
Yet tiyNs1ice TO receive sentence of doom.
aenIr q countess herself suffered more
hersalf Ian Ger worthless brother. She felt
degraded by Sir Reginald's infamous