The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-06-10

| You are late, sir she said, In quiet
reproof.
/ For which accept my apology" he
| replied. airily, not at all in the regret
I ful respect that family lawyer usual
/ y displays 70 a distinguished client.
The lady noticed this, and her hot
! blood dyed her cheek.
/ ''It seems to me-" she said. that
/ your manner has changed of late. You
/ forget, sir, what you owe TO me Had
/ it not been for me, remember you
| would now be, rs you were for years,
the servant, not the head Of the firm
! you represent
| ''Quite true, my lady, but / think
/ have given = quid pro quo for your pat
| ronage, aud delightful as IL would be to
/ my vanity to suppose that you were
/ simply instigated in your kind services
/ to reward merit. : cannot but think
/ that you have called upon me to re-
| deem my obligations. It was perhaps
| for your own interests as well as mine
/ that yOu used your influence to pro
/ mote my fortunes. Your structures are
/ a little ungTatefuf, when you consider
/ what am now asking in your behalf. 20
''In my behalf You made a hard
enough bargain to protect yourself and
saive your wounded honor. I say Your
manner has been unbearable since
since-since we have been"
'AccOmPlicesi Exactly, my lady.
You cannot play with the Ere without
! the danger Of burning your fingers"
''WeI, a truce to this leyity. / sent
for you to discuss a most important mat
ter Lord Scarborough suspects that
there is something wrong; and, if ne
discovers the plot l am engaged in,
shall die with shame. Yet, heaven
knows II IS not for my own aggrandize-
msnt. but for him and the children
that I allowed you to allure me into this
mad project"
81 know that his Iordship has not the
enterprising spirit which you enjoy,
/ and might feel that there was some
slight stain on his escutcheOn if he only
knew the extent of your ladyship's di-
| pIomacy; but as for saying that in
| duced you to exploit the scheme, / in
dignantly-"
"Pshaw! You would deny anything.
say that you first brought me news Of
my brothers illness, and pointed out
hOE7 easy it would be to promulgate the
statement of his death before he had
defrauded his family Of their inherit
ance- Did / not advance you a thousand
pounds to send this man, Archer, ont to
hide him away till death, which you
told me was certain and immediate,
should relieve US of the danger?''
''YOu did, my lady, and I think that
you will acknowledge that the thousand
pounds was well invested"
YES, that l acknowledge; but you
have deceived me concerning Harry
Grahame's illness; and, if he RECEIVERS
and returns to England, we are dis
graced and ruined"
You forget that Sir Harry Grahame is
dead, my lady"
''Deadr'
"Wel, If not in the spirit, in the body
AS dead TO all the world as though he
lay in his ancestral tomb"
But there IS sach a thing as a resur-
rectiOn, Mr.. Colburni how are you GO
ing to keep the lid of this aPocryPhal
tomb over him, if he regains his health?'
by the simplest process IN the world,
by main force"
But he is not man to submit to
force. He who could break through
the barriers Of an Indian temple would
laugh to scOrn your petty bondage"
You are unnecessarily alarming
| yourself, my lady. The Sir Harry of
| to-day is not the Sir Harry of twenty
years ago. This illness, which believe
you piously limited at in our last inter
view as an especial dispensation of
Providence to prevent him from perpe-
trating a base injustice, has left him a
wreck, and, even If he should recover
his animal strength, he will be help
less imbecile to the end Of his days"
at is terrible, " the woman said, for
! the moment conscience-striclyen.
But not more terrible than IL he had
returned to England" the lawyer spe-
ciOusly pleaded, where he would be
immured in a private madhouse. There
he enjoys, thanks to your Iadyship'
liberality, home on the banks of a no
bic river, ia one of the loveliest cOun-
tries in the world"
And the climate?"
''Wel, not very salubrious to Euro
peaus, / am afraid, but in his condition
life has no pleasures, no hopes, no
/ ties"
And he has every comfort, Mt. Col
burn?''
lie is treated with infinite kindness"
''Ahl well, perhaps it is all for the
best. Now, if we can only aIIay Lord
Scarborough's suspicious, all may go
| well yet. You have relieved me of con
siderable anxiety"
Lord Scarborough is not "a very wise
man." the solicitor said, didacticaIly,
and I do not think it will be difficult
to throw dust in his eyes. The only
thing that remains is to be true to each