Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-07

could go well with man who had been utterly and hopelessly false!''
 Again there was pause; and then the chaplain turned to Olive, and said, quietly, that they would go.
 "Good-by, Miss Winield," Adeline said, kindly. "We will meet here again some time. I am very glad to have seen you. Don't be sorry, please, for what has happened to-day"
 Poor Olive, with old memories and new feelings whirling in her brain, was glad to find herself outside the house. MT. Sidney wisely forebore to talk to her just then; but he did not part with her without speaking reas- surfing words. She went through the shop, and up to her little room like one in dream. Her recent grief seemed to be put far away in the background; Lucy's story was more real to-day than her own. Yet through all her confus- ing thoughts she was conscious of a kind of tender compassion for Seaward Aylstone, and a distinct remembrance of his distressed look. It was always hard, she unused, for a true person to be mixed up with falseness and deceit; and he was surely true.
 When the two cousins were left alone in the studio, Adeline's face underwent change. She softened little, and sat down quietly in low chair by the fire.
 Steward" she said, looking up at him as he stood leaning dcjectedly against the chimney piece, Eff you were to win that girl and cast her off I should hate you. hope you will mar ry her; hope you will prove that base ness does not run in our blood"
 "She must have carried away de- lightful impression of Claud and me-" he muttered, gloomily. ''I daresay she will be afraid ever to look at me again" .. you take pains," Adeline replied. And of course Mir. Sidney will help you. I like that man; he has made a study of humanity, and knows exactly how to deal with it. If it had not been for him I should not easily have got a di rect explanation to-day"
 Seaward shifted his position and sighed.
 "Claud must remember the morning when he brought Lucy Cromer here for me to make a study of her." he said.
 Nl duNlLlOIllCI lldSl oSIO 1C1 OIG ollOp- ping, and they contrived to meet. He set the jessamine spray in her hair; it was his favorite flower, and he liked her to wear it. You see, Adeline, he counted on granny's real affection for the girl he thought they might per suade her to forgive them if they were once married"
 "She might have forgiven them; it hor heard Lucy Cromer's name till to-day. Granny has kept the secret with won derful craft. Go on, Seaward, and tell me all that you know"
 Seaward did tell her all that he knew. And when he had finished, she drew long breath and rose from her seat.
 "I don't want to see Claud any more, 5 she said. quietly. If I remain with granny, it must be understood that he is not to come to the house. As to granny herself, I feel quite equal to the task of reducing her to submission. If you are not too much used up, Sea ward, you may come and hear me an nounce my intentions to her"
 But Scaward weakly owned that he would rather not be present at the SCCIC. IIC "dhICI CO oLuOIAC PlOC III peace, and calm his mind. So Adelinc went off alone.
 Mrs. Villiers was indeed reduced to submission that very evening. To do the old woman justice she had sent many an uneasy thought after Lucy Cromer And when Adeline described the afternoons experiences, and told of Lucy's death, the shock was too great fr>,. 1o oc+o,,;c1,al Hers by bursting into tears, and losing all her starch and bucl1ram, so that Adelinc was really touched and soft cned
 Never mind granny" her grand daughter said. 'You cannot restore Lucy to life; but you can carefully re- frain from meddling with other lives, iu the future"