Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-03-21

10" 40 you do, Mr.. Meeson?" she an
SWered. Let me introduce YOU to Ladv
holmhurst; Mr.. Meeson, Lady Holm
hurst. Eustace bowed, and put his hat
oo"n on the butter dish, for he was very
much overcome.
i hope that I have not come too
early, he said in great confusion, as he
perceived his mistake. Il thought that
! you would have done breakfast. -
Oh, not at all, Mr.. Meeson, +" said LADY
noi1nhurst Wont you have cup Of
tea' augusta, give Mr.. Meeson cup of
He took the tea, which he did not want
IN the least, and then there came an awk-
ward silence. Nobody seemed to know
now to begin the conversation,
How did you find the house, Mn. Nee
on! said Lady Holmhurst at last. Miss
onllthefs gave you no address, and there
are Two Lady Holmhursts-my mother
in-law and myself"
On looked it out, and then I walked
at the window" Q
indeed said Lady Holmhurst. "And
why did you not come in? Yon MIGHT
have helped to protect Miss Smithers from
i the reporters O--
| 81 don't know" he answered. con-
fusedly. Il did not like to; and besides
apollceman thought | was a suspicious
Character and told me to move on.
Dear me, Mr.. Meeson; you must have
oeen having good look at u.s."
Here Augusta interposed, fearing lest
her admirer-for, with an unerring in
stlnct, she now guessed how matters Stood
should say something foolish A young
man who Is capable of standing to stare
at house in Hanover square is, she
thought, evidently capable of anything.
was SO surprised to see you yester
day. she said. How did you know that
we were coming?"
~, EuStace told her that he had seen it in
Inc Globe Il am sure you cannot have
been SO surprised as l was" he went on:
Il had made sure that you were drowned.
went up to Birmingham to call on Won
after you had gone and found that you
had vanished and left no address. The
maid servant declared that you had sailed
In ship called the Conger Eel-which I
atterWard found out was the kangaroo.
And then she went down; and after long
time they published full list of the
passengers, and your name was not
among them, and thought that after all
you might have got off the ship or some
thing. Then, some days afterward, came
telegraph from Albany, in Australia.
giving the names of Lady Holmhurst and
the others who were saved, and specially
mentioning Miss Smithers, the novelist
and Lord Holmhurst as being among the
drowned, and that is how the dreadful
suspense came to an end. It was awful.
| can tell you"
! Both the young women looked at Eus-
faces face and saw that there was no mis-
taking the real nature of the trial through
winch he had passed. So real was it, that
1t never seemed TO occur to him that there
was anything unusual in his expressing
such intense interest in the affairs of a
young lady with whom he was outwardIv,
at any rate, on the terms of merest &C
quaintance.
! ut was very kind of you to think so
much about me" said Augusta, gently.
/ 81 had no idea that you would call again.
or | would have left word where l was
going"
! We'll, thank God you are safe and
sound, at any rate" answered Eustace;
and then, with sudden burst of anxiety:
''4ou are not going back to New Zealand
just yet, are your"
/ 81 don't know. I am rather sick of the
/ sea just now"
mo. indeed, she is not" said Lady
! Holmhurst; she is going to stop with
me and Dick. Miss Smithers saved Dicks
life, you know, when the nurse, poor
thing, had run away. And now, dear,
you had better tell Mr. Meeson about the
will"
1.-The will. What will?" asked Eustace.
! ''Llsten, and you will hear"
| And Eustace did listen with open eyes
and ears while Augusta, getting over her
! shyness as best she might, told the whole
story of his uncles death, and of the
way in which he had communicated his
testamentary wishes.
! and do you mean to tell me-" said
Eustace, astounded, that you allowed
him to have his confounded will tattooed
upon your shoulders"
! Yes" answered Augusta, ~ did; and
what is more, Mr.. Meeson, l think that
! you ought to be very much obliged to me;
for | dare say that | shall often be sorry
for it..
Il am very much obliged" answered
Eustace; Il had no right to expect such q
thing, and, in short, | do not know what
to say. should never have thought that
any woman was capable of such sacrifice
for-for comparative stranger"
Then came another awkward pause.
well, Mr.. Meeson," said Augusta, at
last rising brusquely from her chair, 1.-The
document belongs to you, and so l sup
pose that you had better see it. Not that
| think that it will be of much use to you,
however, as l see that probate had been
allowed to ISSUE whatever that may
mean, of Mr. Nelson's other will"
81 do not know that that will matter, :"
said Eustace, las heard friend of mine,
Mr.. Short, who is a barrister, talk about
some case the other day in which probate
was revoked on the production of subse
quent will"
s'Indeedl" answered Augusta, Il am
very glad to hear that. Then, perhaps,
after all l have been tattooed to some pur-
pose. Well, l suppose you had better see
it." and with gesture that was half shy
and half defiant she drew the lace shawl
from her shoulders, and turned her back
toward him so that he might see what was
inscribed across its whiteness.
Eustace stared at the broad line of let
tiers which with the signatures written
underneath might mean matter of two
millions of money to him, and then he
stared at the beautiful shoulders on which
the words were indelibly impressed.
THANK you, he said at last, and, taking
ND the lace shawl, he threw it over her
again.
eff you will excuse me for few min
utes, Mr. Meeson," interrupted Lady
Holmhurst at this point; Il have to go to
see about the dinner, and before Augusta
could interfere she had left the room.
Eustace closed the door behind her, and
turned, feeling instinctively that great
crisis in his fortune had come. There are
some men who rise to an emergency and
some who shrink from it, and the differ
ence is, that difference between him who
succeeds and him who fails in life, and In
all that makes life worth living.
Eustace belonged to the class that rises