The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-09-23


CHAPTER uL-CoNrrNUED.
Till her daughter was ten years old
she continued to live in London. Those
We're ten pathetic years Of struggle,
whose real chronicle viii never be
written. Lord Rothsay and Auburndale
did not seek in marriage the hand over
which, when unattainable, they had so
gallantiy bowed. Other offers were
made, but meme Of them just pleased
their recipient. She uttered no public
plants, however, and hobnobbed with
duchesses as blandly as If her In
come were many generous thousands Of
pounds and not few piHching hun
dreds. Her position was distinctive,
but not euviable. At first she acquired
the title of ''the pushing American"
but after awhile her popularity and
the thorough suitableness of her pres
ence crushed this impudent nickname,
q People with a positive appetite for
select associations rarely fail in secur-
ing them, except 1t lee TINT their natural
equipments are at fault. Hers were so
far from such drawback that they OBJ
tanned for her warm welcomes every
where. And yet she secretly shfvered
with disgust at the bonds OF her pow
erty and the tessening lures Of her per
SON One day she resolved to return to
New York and see for herself If life
there might not be lived with smaller
domestic strain and fret. She re
manned in her native town until Zath-
leen was nearly old enough to be
brought out" In New York, as In
London, she held herself with the
highest, missing no entertainment that
was modish and openly referring to her
straitened affairs Us il they had been
those OF an cxiIed queen. She was
privately q good deal more laughed at
here than in England, and with great
inward bitterness she realized that the
shattered Van Lerius fortunes were az
object either OF forgetfulness or disre-
spect. Daily existence, too, was here
much more difficult, A house Of her
own. however limited Of space, was not
70 be dreamed Of She could only
aspire to apartments" and these,
necessarily somewhat shabby, were in
New York . brevet OF inferio-ity. The
plutocrats, moreover, were rushing to
5hC front. Even hcr rcsolute aversion
to being pushed against the wall SUI
fercd transient collapse. She might
have given mp the fight altogether but
for the increasing beauty and fascina-
ton Of kathleen. She had by this
time urrendered MI hope of q lofty
marriage, but why, she now reelected,
could she not revive these blighted
yeornings IN The future tFiumphs OF her
beautiful child? There, across the
water, was her London status. They
had not forgotten hery they were very
good over there about not forgetting
You when they had once accepted YOU.
Why not present kathleen at the next
drawing rOOm2 The commonest Amerf
cans were thrusting themselves nova
days into Buckingham palace. Surely
the niece OF Sir Franklin Kennaird Cyvhc
had now not only concluded to remain
alive, by the way, but had become the
father OF two more lusty little boys
would present a decisive claim of en-
trance. After that the sorcery OF
kathleen's beauty and those qualities
of intellect which careful education
had fostered would doubtless reap duS
results. Thus meditatinE, Mrs, Ken
naird packed her trunks and once agar
sailed for foreign shores.
kathleen's success in London wa
prompt and complete. Her connection
with Warwiclzshire baronet did no
specially serve her. Old acquaintance
hoclzed about her mother, and these
with their influence, crowned tn,
maternal desires. But though she sooI
became celebrity and had scores o
admirers, kathleen was still looked OF
as a girl who would be a dowerlcs
bride This is nearly always fatal {,
the making of a great marriage in Eng
land, and Mrs. Nennaird knew 1t. TIVE
years passed, and although the girl hai
no lack of devoted male attendants
that dreamed CT suitor with the shininl
name and pT4necly rent roll had not ye
tSnelt at her feet. Mrs. Eennaird grey
restless, even petulant-
You rePele your best opportunities,
she said to her child; Look tn
statue, Il you please, men like it. Blu
IN certain cases don't forget that you
marble is feminine flesh
D.. Kathleen colOred a little at this. Sh
detested her mothers yvofzJly spirit
she had ideas of her own as regarGie
life and how best to live it; she Ia
thought with depth and breadth fo
one OF her age and sex; she had rea
some OF the gisCst modern books, man
OF which are wiser, by the way, yvhe
truly deserving to be called so, tina
the whole libraries OF more antiquate
views and teachings. And yet hs
mothers personal spell was one vhic
constantly cast over her q kind of IL
visible net from whose dlament
thorough escape seemed vain
She had mind Of both finer an
stronger fiber than that OF her mothe
AID nature in all ways profounde
And yet there were times when Il
mere sound Of her mothers voice Gauss
her covert trsEnOrs and thrills. It WI
Like a mesmeric force, and It often toe
the form OF a fear. Reasoning COOL
nDout it, the girl would tell herself Ehi
she understood perfectly its cause IA.
mothers personality was an fDtzni
ones it had spiritually ensheathsd he
so 70 speak, through al her young,
years Now when she had broke
loose from its Hgatures, its letters, Z
discovery came to her that habit ccu
not 50 easily be Gisreputed- And y
there were times when even this e
Planstien did not suffice for Kaahlee
and when there sesmed subIet 81
mystic reasons why it should not b
now and then she would laugh Eer
0nsiE At her cTyn fancies. and decla
70 aer own heart that q very ainp
solution af the problem was 70 Be eeaz