Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-23

too far gone in honest tribulation to hee,
them. $40 smash person" SAYS she. 81
isn't right, Jerry dear, and besides, will
uncomfortable regret, sit isn't to be done.
"No. He's careful beggar, says tn
young man, her regret doubled in hi
tone.
land besides-anvthing public! To hav,
an one's friends hanging on the dali,
papers To have ones name banded iron
house TO house. and discussed at every din
ner. in every club-no gentlewoman would
consent 10 it." says Lady Carysfort. "Rhod'
least of all. You know how fastidious sht
is-how sensitive"
"Iet strongr'
oyerv! know what you mean about
her. Strong to a certain point-strong be
yond most women" says kenrlck 20
how could she have borne lite so long with
him! At IL she married him and now sht
is 90! A lifetime! A nartyrdom!
swell! A short life, my desr boy,
saws Lady Carysfort. who is now 90, ano
Itiil interesting, according to her own view
nfit "And-be is so dlssipated, that
sometimes hone she may find freedom aftel
awhile"
ST wish 1 could think so, but I don't
The more disreputable you are the longer
Won live Bad husbands are like annui.
fsnts-they never die! Wishes are tonics.
The more YOU wish for fellows death the
more he ,hrives. Rhoda will not find her
self a widow until life, indeed, has ceased
to be worth living. Why can't you take
my view of it, and get her to employ peo-
pie 10 look up his present manner OF living
with a view to divorce
~ tell Won she would never consent to it
You know now love her, don't you? And
vet I cannot help sympathizing with her in
her objection to sue for a separation OF that
sort. To separate a wife from her husband,
il is not richt-not scriptural. And, be-
rides. ANYTHING public is SO vulgar. dear
Gerald: and it is never a kindness to pro-
mote divorce, the world is always SO
cruelty against the woman
SHOW did she ever bring herself to
marry him?"
MY dear boy, we can wonder at that,
Society cannot. CASTOR Werner is one of
the handsomest men Society knows, and
Society adores beauty, especially beauty
sucb as his. He could have married al
most ANYBODY, with his family, his wealth,
and his lace, when he proposed to Rhoda" ."
'HIs wealth?"
"Weu." with sigh, CHS supposed
wealth. How he made away with the i'm
mense fortune his father left him-posi-
tivelv not debt upon the property-in SO
short time has always been puzzle to
me"
'Not to me" returns her nephew grimly.
"Now, now, Jerry, L protest.! Lady
Carysfort leans back in her chair and raises
two exquisitely moulded hands In the air.
Though so, the last touches of an extreme
beauty are with her still, and her lovely
face is delicate as a bit of porcelain-the
coloring of il as fresh as a girls-the blue
OF the ewes still blue-a rare thing after 40,
when blue tints are apt to fade so wofully-
and the pale soft pink of the cheeks still
clear and pretty. There is more in the face,
too, than mere beauty; there is kindness
and sympathy, and something that even
at her age must be called guilelessness.
Grande Dame, as she has always been, and
essentially of society, she has all along her
walk through it kept herself 'unspotted."
If never a clever woman. Lady Crays-
fort has at all events been good one, and
most staunch friend into the bargain.
'sNot word of that" says she, 'one cam
not go into it. One hears sad tales, no
doubt, but least said soonest mended, my
dear boy"
THE more that's said the better chance
of getting things mended, 1 say" he retorts
kotlv. "Those old fetishes ought to be put
behind the fire. What rubbish it all is
Pull everything into the open light OF day,
and let us stand or fall as we can"
"There would be good deal of falling"
tavs Lady Carysfort with melancholy
Ihake of her head. ''But don't let us talk
about it, Jerry. 1t is full of dreadful pos
abilities What was it we were saying
about this wretched Sir Gaston?"
r''That he was such beauty" says Ken
rick grimlv.
"Ah, yesi the cause of her marriage
Those Verners planned it. They knew of
her fortune, and they were old friends of
uurs. Jerry, and when 1 was going to Italy
lucgested that she should stay with them
until NV return. You know nv darling
sirl was then an orphan, but your poor
Uncle Sydney diving in Florence as he
ihen was, so distracted me that I could
scarcely think of anything but how to get
70 him as quickly as possible. And Rhoda
Ieemed so lonely at being left behind. I
wish now with all nv soul had taken her,
but / so dreaded the effect of death on so
young a mind, especially as she had been so
terribly affected by the death of her father
onlv six months before. 1 have sometimes
thought, Jerry "a little tremulously), that
YOU aud ali the family have blamed me for
leaving her, but"
"Now, Auntie, what nonsense! You
know there isn't speck of blame in you
anywhere" |
"Wel, that's very lovely of you, dear |
But really, at times-at night sometimes
feel quite guilty. Yet l meant only for |
the best. But L should have distrusted |
those Eerners, most ungodly crew al |
WAYS" |
You think they planned it?''
Il don't know" doubtfully. 81 hope |
NOT. But they certainly must have known |
then that CASTOR had run through the |
better part OF his money, and that Rhoda |
was of all heiresses the most unsophisti- |
Gated. She thought of nothing, poor child. |
And he is so good-looking, and there was
no one to warn her.
II should have thought Rhoda would |
have mad too much mind to be influenced |
BY mere beauty"
tShould you?"
.'Yes. Other girls might, but Rhoda
seems above and beyond that
'Does she? Do you know. Jerry" says
Lady Carysfort, though.iully Il have
come to the conclusion that all girls are
just slIke?"
"Ehat?''
Just aliker regretiully. "when a
man is handsome himself, and tells her he
thinks her handsome"
81 cannot agree with you there. know
plenty OF girls who are quite different from
from everybody else," says Gerald, rather
indignant 81 know gill
CHAPTER IL
Oh. if thou valuest peaceful days,
Pursue the ringlets sunny maze,
And dwell not on those lips too long.