Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-31
victims, there was still the restless yearning

victims, there was still the restless yearning
for fresh conquests.
"Come," she said, 'chance has thrown us
| together-we promised to be frank with
one another-what would you sa Y if 1 were
to offer to help you?"
Chow can you?" he, asked, raising his
| eyes for moment with o grateful look,
and then dropping them again. "But it Is
verv kind of you even to think of il"
'It is privilege to redress a wrong, -
she said, 'and cannot bear to think of
your great gifts being thrown away now.
am rich. :"
mo doubt; but could not accept the
m oney of stranger"
"Are we such strangers?" she asked,
lowering her eyes and speaking in q sweet,
seductive voice; ''or peed we always re-
main SO, if we are at present? Cannot we
be friends? 1t seems to me already as II
had known you long before this evening"
He looked up again, his face glowing with
gratitude in which love was beginning to
mingle How gloriously handsome she
was! how graceful! how distinguished! The
faces of his wife and chubby child faded
from his memory; he could only see this
! face with its overhowing fascination.
81 feel as if I could worship you," he
murmured.
"Oh, no. she answered, smiling; 'tno
need for worship. There must be perfect
equality in friendship"
Equality with her!-this god-like woman,
SO high in the great places of the world!
The prospect was dazzling for poor School
Board teacher,
"What shall I do to prove my gratitude?"
he asked.
"Come on with me to Bristol"
He was staggered all at once, for the in
vitation forced him to think upon his home
He lived at Bath; his wife was waiting for
him there-waiting to welcome him on his
return from his holiday. If he went ON to
Bristol what would it mean? 1t would
mean that he had deserted his home-left
his wife and child forever He recoiled
before the thought
"Well?" asked the lady, smiling on her
victim as she saw he hesitated.
The train had already began to Slow
"Well?" she asked again, little i'm
patiently.
Still he sat there silent, strange express
sion on his face. The train was already
running into the Bath station. On the plat
form was a young woman neatly dressed,
holding in her arms child. As the train
slowly rolled along, she peered with eager
curiosity into every carriage that passed be-
fore her
''There he is!-calI out to him, dear!-
say Papa"
And the little fellow, proud of his PROV
ess in the realms of spsech, echoed in his
shrill treble the word Papa
The young man leaped from the carriage
into the arms of his WIFE
"How are you, Noel7" she asked,
anxiously "Why, how excited you look.
Has anythinp happened?"
Nothing much my love, thank God. L
have had bad dream, that is all"
"And how did you come to be travelling
frst-class? And who is that grand lady at
the carriage window who is looking after
you 30 curiously?"
81 do not know who she is" he an
sWered.
'I can tell you, sir" said the guard, who
was close beside him. 'fShe is the Countess
of D. who was the actress, you know,
and married Lord D and was then di-
vorced from him. You remember that case,
sir2''
Noel shuddered. He did indeed remem-
ber that horrible case.
''You are cold, my love" said his wife.
'No, dearest. But let us be off You
don't know how long to be at home
again. Roy 7sEEsE IN tho Leeds Mercury