Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24

they sat side by side in the railway carriage
on this journey to Miriam's future home?
, On Sir James face there was absolute con-
tent. and what on Miriam's? She looked
very sweet and fair wrapped in the rich furs
that had been purchased by Sir James
lavish hand She looked, too, in her hus-
bands face gratefully, almost fondlv. The
weeks they had spent together had certainly
drawn her heart nearer to him. 1t was
impossible, indeed, for loving, sympa-
thetlc nature like Miriam's to remain quite
cold to anyone so completely kind and
afectionate as Sir James. She had not been
| used to much tenderness and consideration
at home. Mrs. Clyde had always been the
most important parsonage at the command
ants house at ewbrough-on-the-Sea- But
now Miriam found herself not only sur
rounded bv new Injuries, but by the
since-est Election and love. He was always
giving her some pleasant surprise; always
thinking how he could please her. She had
not forgotten her first love for the unhappy
man, whose mad jealousy had so nearly
| shipwrecked her young life. But she un-
doubtedly had some feeling very like affec-
| tion for Sir James. And he seemed so
perfectly happy. He had no misgivings
nor fears regarding their future life.
'1 am glad can make him so happy, |"
Miriam often thought in these early mar
ried days, and if dark shadow sometimes
stole over her face she always tried to
| smile the cloud away in the presence of Sir
James
He was naturally anxious that she should
make favorable impression on his mother,
and Miriam also felt little nervous re-
garding the dowager Lady MacKennon.
"She's old-iashioned, you know, dar-
ling" he told her, land bit prejudiced,
but you'll soon fall into her ways"
"And, of course, she will never think
anyone good enough for you," smiled
| Miriam.
"Yes, she will think you are too good, I"
| answered Sir James, with tender light in
his grey eyes, as they rested on the sweet
face of his young wife.
This brief conversation took place during
their journey to Scotland, and was like
many of their conversations, very simple
and kindly. They were excellent compan-
ions, and Sir James always looked on the
bright side of everything. He was SO
| genial that it became infectious, and
Miriam sometimes found herself smiling
quite brightly at his harmless Jokes.
His place, Kintore, was in the Western
Highlands, substantial gray old house
| standing by the blue waters of one of the
most beautiful of the inland locha Sir
James possessed large estate here, but the
principal part OF his income did not arise
from the heathery hills and glens of his
ancestral property. His mother had been
the rich and only daughter of Glasgow ship
builder and when his maternal grandfather
died, some years after the death of his own
father, it was found that the late Mr.
Munro, the Glasgow shipbuilder had be-
queathed, perhaps in the pride of his heart,
large fortune to my grandson, Sir James
MacKennon, Bart.
To his daughter, Lady MacKennon, he
also left considerable sum, but the bulk of
his money went to Sir James. LADY Mac
Kennon, however, was a rich woman before
she received her fathers legacy. Her
mother, the late Mrs Munro, had been an
heiress, and at her. death she had left every
thing she had possessed to her daughter. 1t
was after this event that the father of Sir
James had married her, and the people
fallen fortunes of his house with
money that had been made in trade
Miss Munro Oady MacKennon) was not
handsome, had never been handsome and
was inclined to look upon fair skins and
| bright eyes only as snares of the evil one.
She had been proud of. and deeply attached
to her well-born husband; but she had car
ried many of her narrow prejudices and
| ideas with her to her new state. There
fore, we can understand that Sir James,
| knowing we'll the nature of this stiff,
| somewhat selfrighteous old dame, was
anxious about what she would think of his
| young wife. And it will be as well to tell
what she did think.
1t was dark, and had been dark several
hours when the young couple arrived at the
mansion house of Kintore. A handsome
| carriage had been waiting for them at the