San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-23


"My daughter" she said, "this can make
no difference"
usual social happenings, VISITS from tine
BYRD girls" as they were still called.
with their husbands and little ones;
marriage, a christening, letters from
Jim and Susie, and measles among the
little Garnetts. In August Pocahontas
and her mother went for month TO
Piedmont, Virginia, to try the medicinal
waters for the latters rheumatism, and
after their return home Berkeley took a
holiday and ran up to the Adirondacks
to see Blanche.
Poor Mrs Smith did not rally as her
family had hoped, and the physicians
as is customary when case battles their
skill - all recommended further and
more complete change. They must take
her abroad and try what the excitement
of foreign travel would do toward pre-
venting her from sinking into confirmed
invalidism. General Smith, who had
abandoned every care and interest for
the purpose of devoting himself to his
wife, embraced the proposal with eager
ness, and insisted on the experiment be-
ing tried as speedily as possible.
Blanche could not help some MUIR
mers, both inwardly and to Berkeley, at
the long separation in store for them,
and the lover, although himself little
rueful, heartened her up with bright
prophecies for their future. An i'm
mediate marriage for them was out of
the question, for since Warmers death
Mrs. Smith chung to her younger daugh-
ter with absolute dependence. The last
of September was decided on for sailing,
as that would allow General Smith time
to enter Percival at school, and to COM
plete other necessary arrangements be-
fore the family departure. The manage
ment of Shirley would remain in Berke-
ley's hands, and the house would con-
tinue closed until the return of the trav-
elers.
To Nesbit Thorne the summer had APP
peared interminable, and every golden
hour had been shod with lead. He had
passed the season partly in the Adiron-
dacks with his relatives and partly in
New York; but he was always oppressed
with the same miserable unrest, the
same weary longing. 1t would appear
at times impossible for him to hold to
his resolution of waiting until after the
remarriage of his ci-devant wife before
again seeking Pocahontas. He yearned
to be with her, to hold her hands and
gaze into her eyes, so intensely at times
that it required the utmost exertion of
his will to prevent himself from board
ing the first southwark bound train. He
was forced continually to remind him
self that if he should yield to the i'm
pulse he should be guilty of egregious
folly-having waited so long, he could
surely wait few weeks longer. Ethers
marriage would dissipate every shadow
of tie between them, and with that
fact fully established Pocahontas must
hear him.
In Difference to Cumberland prejudice
Mrs. Thorne's marriage had been de-
ferred until September-to that lady's
great annoyance. She saw no reason
for delay, nor any necessity for humor-
ing the Cumberland old fogyism, and in
delicate, ambiguous terms she conveyed
this opinion to her lover, and discovered,
to her surprise and indignation, that he
disagreed with her. Some concession
was due to the feelings of his family,
and he did not wish to be hurried; on
this ground he intrenched himself and
defed the world to move him. When
Cecil made point he held to it with the
obstinacy characteristic of mediocrity.
and Ethel, not being exactly in posi-
ton to dictate, and requiring moreover
some portion of the Cumberland coun-
tenance, was forced to acquiesce.
Some weeks before the day appointed
for her marriage Ethel removed herself
and her belongings to the house of a
poor and plastic aunt, who was in the
habit of allowing herself to be run into
any mold her niece should require. Ac-
cording to their agreement, Ethel gave
her whilom husband due notice of her
plans. and Thorne at once removed the