The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-09-23

with the entire affair The girl was fer
rib5y in earnest and her auditor 6is-
ceFued it. But Mrs. IEennaird attempted
no coercion She literally sank at her
daughters feet ahd imPIorcd her to
yield. Then, with a Retrospective glib
ness that sometimes narrowly missed cl-
Oqucnce, she disecuEsed of her own past
the privati0n, the injustice and the pa
thos of it. Kathleen hearlzeneds and
the spell began to work. Before her
mother had done with her she gave her
consent, but in a mood Of conscience
stricken reluctance.
OF course two or three servants had
to be trusted, and one Of these was
Lord Egbert's valet, a gentleman OF
conservative tene5s ana willy diploma
cies. in the autumn dawn of the fol-
lowing morning Kathleen and her
mother descended from their apartments
to find Lord Egbert waiting them Out
side a vehicle also waited, and the three
We're about to enter It when Lady Den
dudlon appeared accompanied by her
husband, the marquis, who had ar
rived or the previous evening.
It is no czageeration to state that the
CuFaged marchiOness now covered her
offending guest with the most furious
invective. Mrs. Kennaird and kathleen
were actually hustled from the hail
with as little ceremony as If they had
been two suspicious tramps, and the
ygrathful revolt of Lord Egbert was
treated very much as il it had been the
clamor of a rebelliOuB baby. The de
signed elopemeut did not end merely in
detection, but in pitiless exposure as
well. The marchiOuess, having once
got rid of two women whom she re
gartIed as viDcrs warmed at her hearth
stone, proceeded to bruit what she de
nounced as their willy treachery, from
one end of the kingdom to the other
She was an excellent hatcr, was this
noble lady, as already has been chrOn-
lcled- She did not spare the I[eunalrdss
nor did her husband, whom she nOtsr1-
Ously ruled Their acrid statements
engendered a scandal from which sPranE
the most hurtful Odium- Mrs. Ken
naird's matrimonial plot" was soon on
numberless lips The society journals
had their fling at her, and she was re
ferred to as the 'inveigler' and again
as the American pusher." To rally
round her q few genial adherents meant
one thing, to fight the powerful acri-
nouy OF the Dendudlohs meant another.
She soon woke to the fact that her Lon
don position was ruined, and that her
attempt to connect her child with the
naughty house of PoindeXter had
wrought for her dreadful cOntuunely
and ridiculc. There is no doubt that
she had been cruelty treated, consider
ing all the circumstances; but there is
no doubt, too, that in a measure she had
brought upon herself the punishment
which had overtalzen her with such rude
and public Iash-strolzcs.
In midwinter of the following year
she returned to this country, settling in
that 'sdetestable little Eifty-third street
fat to which we have already heard
her allude. She mentioned to her New
York friends the affair at DendudlOu
hall with mingled sorrow and indiRns-
ton. She had always been a woman
who would enbeIlish and manipulate
facts with prettiest adToitness5 and her
version" of the whole ill-starred event
was both self-cEculpating and pic
I t1resuue. II won her many sympa-
thizers, too, and these clad Kathleen
and herself with delicate mantles of
( Inartyfdoui.
81 shall never return to that horrid
/ country again" she would say, with her
1 grandest yet most aggrieved manner.
/ MY poor, dear husband lost his life
| there. in the first place, and now, in the
! second place, it has made me the object
/ of a shocking SANDER"
! To certain more intimate friends she
] would occasionally murmur: 81 don't
I want it to be repeated, but that Louisa
/ POindeSter THE marchiOness, you
. knONs) Is tLle very most jealous OF NfoLA4'
| eul Dendudlon (the marquis, you un-
derstaud, though for years I alway
| called him Charley had, OF course
/ been sent OF to Scotland on my account
solely. His sudden arrival at the hal
was great schoeIz to Louisa, and-well
to cut an unpleasant story short, she
/ lost her head. But mind, now dom
repent this; I tell It in the strictest con
fdeRce,n
The confidence was frequently VIC
lated, however, and with due effect o.
prestige for her who had imported it
since some of the New Workers who's,
cars these neat innuendoes ticlEled faileC
to resist a kind Of reverence, not to say
awe, Tor amy compatriot ever friendly
enough with an English marquis ana
his wife to cali one Charlie and tn
other Louisa"
Kathleen, for her part, would keel
silent regarding the whole subject. I
was a silence that some persons taile'
lenient1y to construe. But the girl ha,
said to herself that she would not lie
and so silence, as she wisely held, was
discreeter course.