Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-01-15

for this morning want to forget every
thing disagreeable, and should take 1t
as a favor if You would do the same
Since we shall have to spend the next
hour or two together our wisest plan
will be to make the best of one another;
don't yoa think so!"
And indeed it was not difficult to make
the best of her. because from that mo-
ment she began to make the very best OF
herself. This was no longer Lady Bel
voir, the professional beauty, the hard
hearted. cynical woman of the world; it
was the Sybil of bygone years-pretty,
wiIlful, high spirited, but capable, as one
who had known her well had formerly
thought, of warm affections and gener-
GUS impulses. 1t was of those bygone
years alone that she chose to talk. She
asked her companion whether he remem-
bered taking her out hunting -"Ion
didn't object to my hunting then, did
your she observed in parenthesis-and
how she had rushed her horse at fence,
and had been within an ace of getting
nasty fall, and how she had almost cried
when he scolded her for her bad riding.
Then there were other incidents which
she recalled to his memory and which he
had supposed that she had long ago for
| gotten. In those far away days he had
been wont TO give her good advice, eau
tioning her against the selfish and cor
rupt society which she was about to
enter, and imploring her to distrust the
IL pfa,s o,rH
previous history must be unknown to
her. Well. she certainly haG not profit
ed by these counsels. Her development
| had been singularly, almost inexplicably,
| rapid; the bloom of her youth and inno-
| cence had been rubbed off at the very
first touch. Thinking rather sadly Of
this, AMI of what she was, and what he
had once hoped that she might be, Lord
6uise could not help saying:
Il never understood why you married
Belvoir. 1t was always a mystery to
me"
| "Was it," she returned, with quick
| movement of her head toward him. Il
| am glad of that. / thought you were
| quite convinced that married him for
his position
Il couldn't conceive of any other rea-
son."
II suppose not All, we'll. it is an old
story now, and nobody cares what my
| reason may have been, and since then l
have been engaged to Percy Thorold and
| have thrown him over, and / have been
more than half inclined to engage myself
| TO a dozen other men. What does it
matter? There is one right person, and
only one, for everybody. Failing that
| person Tom is as good as Dick, and
Dick as Harry. Don't you think so:'
This and other speeches of a like nat
ure produced strange and disturbing
effect upon Lord Guise. 1t was little
enough that he thought about fox hunt
ing that day, and although the hounds
| found at the first covert, and he wit
messed the beginning of what promised
to be a glorious run. he quite forgot to
wish himself on horseback. During the
homeward drive he scarcely spoke at all,
nor did he put in an appearance at
! luncheon. While the ladies We're doing
| justice to that meal he was walking up
and down his bedroom, and saying to
| himself in agitated accents:
Good heavens, no! this will never do.
/ may be entirely mistaken, and even if
l We're not-just think of it! Once upon
| a time Sybil was as good girl as ever
| lived bat of late years-oh, it S notorious,
you know. Facts are facts, and there's
no getting over them. | can only 40 one
thing, and I'll do it before I'm an hour
older!''
The mistress of that house was an OBJ
servant old woman, who knew how to
put this and that together. 1t was there
fore with genuine reluctance and regret
that she made communication to Lady
Belvoir later in the afternoon.
Lord Guise has been telegraphed for,
and has gone away in great hurry
she said. 1T seems that he was actually
out of the house before we had finished
luncheon. He didn't like to disturb US,
he says in the note that he left for me.
l am SO sorry
But Lady Belvoir did not appear to be
sorry at all. She was in great spirits that
evening; she laid aside the air of demure
propriety which had characterized her
since her arrival she took leading part
in certain high jinks, which it is needless
TO particularize, and toward the small
hours of the morning she wrote to cor
respondent Of hers in Westmoreland a
letter, in which the following passages
occurred:
Il told you I would do it, and now it
is as good as done. Lord Guise fed pre-
cipitately from me today, lest a worse
thing should befall him. Perhaps you
think / shall give chase? My dear girl.
it is not who shall pursue him, but he
who will come crawling back to me.
heard from Percy the other day. He
was at San Francisco, and was as miser-
able as you could wish him to be. In a
few weeks he will be back in England,
and then, my dear, you will be good
enough to put your pride in your pocket
and forgive him. In fact you will have
to do SO: because if you don't I shall
make no scruple about telling him what
/ know to be the case.
There isn't such superabundance of
happiness i'll this world that one can af-
ford to throw away ones chance for the
sake of Furnishing a goose. As for
Guise, who deserves no mercy. he shall
get none. Imean to lay that man pros,
trate at my feet, and when he is there ]
shall simply dance on his head. Nobody
can call me a rancorous person; but In
this case 1 am not avenging private
wrongs; am acting as the champion of
my sex. And my sex may feel sure that
/ will DO the thing tborous .lly."
ETo BE Continued
In Demand.
| From tha Columbia HarsId