San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-21
How HISS PAIN MAHAGED IT.
By MARY KYLE DALLAS

herself to entertain her company in.
They asked him to tea ON Sunday after.
moons. Poor Edwina laughed much
more than usual. Miss Pam was digni.
fed but gracious. When at last Jacin.
tina went home to Texas to prepare for
her wedding, Edwina threw herself into
her aunt,s arms.
81 never let him see how l felt once,
did l, Aunt PAM" she asked.
"Never once" said Miss Pamela. i
was just as proud of you as l could be. u
"Of course you know don't care any
longer" said Edwina with sigh.
why, of course not" said Aunt Pam.
"You're not beset to marry; you know
you'll have all leave"
Don't talk of leaving" cried the
girl. "You are all have now" Then
she set to work to make wedding pres,
ent for Jacintha, and spared no pains to
have it bright and pretty, and not a tear
fell on the delicate silk.
The wedding day was only four weeks
off. To care for another woman's hus.
band was crime, and Edwina knew
that it was her duty to forget all she had
ever felt for Norman Driscoll, in ex.
actly three weeks and six days. Before
that time had passed she burned the dead
rose she had kept because he gave it to
her, tore the inscription from the volume
of Moore's poems he had sent her, and
gave it to one of the residents of the in.
valids' home who was fond of poetry.
Her last act was to fill a French bonbon
box, that he had once presented, with
chocolate cream drops and give it to a
neighbours child.
She would keep nothing sacred to
Norman's memory, and she went to
church with a clean conscience, and
said to herself that if Norman had been
her idol and she had been punished for
having one, she had proved that girl
could be very fierce iconoclast if she
had proper principles, and what Aunt
Pam called "a Christian bringin up" to
begin with.
She was glad when it was all
over. The young couple, having been
feted and Toasted in the brides Texan
home, and afterward made the tour of
Europe and spent six months in Paris,
came back to bingham and settled
down at the Driscoll house, where an
old housekeeper' had reigned since Nor.
mans mother died.
Mrs. Driscoll sent out cards for a re.
ception, and Miss Pam and her niece at.
tap6aG II in pau costumes Tbap tbay
saw no more of each other. There was
fashionable set in bingham, and at
Cohasset and at Nantasket in summer
time many well to do strangers. The
Driscolls had all the company they
wanted, and Edwina was glad not to be
forced to meet Jacintha, whom, as she
told her Aunt Pamela, she "despised."
Then Miss Palmer and her niece be-
gan to live the calm, old life again.
Young men called, for Edwina was a
favorite. One or two showed symptoms
of the tender passion, but Edwina Sc
verely declared that she preferred spin
ster life. There was some gossip about
the Driscolls before long. The fashion.
able people might make a sort of pet of
Jacintha, but the plain folk spoke de-
cidedly about "carryings on" She fiirted
openly. To a married woman this was
not permitted in bingham. People said
that Norman Driscoll was looking un.
happy.
Miss Pam blamed herself for feeling
pleased when she heard this, but she
could not help it. He never would have
looked unhappy if he had married Ed
wilma. She would not have gone gallop.
ing about the country with a person de.
scribed as foreigner, with mustaches,"
or have rowed out alone in the moon.
light with IAN actor from the hotel"
after she was married. q. However, a
time came when Jacintha remained at
home and Norman looked happy again,
and one morning the local paper report |
ed the fact that our esteemed citizen, Mr.. |
Norman Driscoll, was the proud parent
Of lovely daughter. Compliments were
also paid to "the beautiful Mrs. Driscoll." |
Handsome is that handsome does,
said Miss Pam.
By the next summer the baby was
consigned to the care of a housemaid,
and in bingham it was said that Mrs.
Driscoll was carrying on worse than
ever"
Aunt Pam had been hearing some par.
5iculars and was endeavoring to make
herself believe that she was sorry, when
idly along lonely path by the
water she came upon Norman Driscoll.
She tried to pass him, but he came for
ward and threw himself in her path.
"Stop," he said, 81 want to talk to you,
Miss Palmer"
He spoke rudely, and Miss Pam drew
herself up and regarded him indig.
lantly.
"You'u have to sneak differently il