Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-22
BAFFLED CONSPIRATORS
CONTINUED.
By W. E. NORRIS.


But assure you | don't believe all |
hear protested Schneider eagerly, and
he thought he might venture to add lat
any rate. shan't believe what | hear
about you in future, Lady Belvoir."
'Oh, you don't expect to hear much
good then" she returned. laughing
you haven't heard any from Lord
Guise, at all events: I'm quite sure OF
that"
As an honest and ingenious man
Schneider felt quite unable to say that
he had; but he remarked with engaging
gracefulness that he should always be
deeply indebted to Lord Guise for the
introduction with which he had been
honored that evening, and he joyfully
accepted Lady Be1voir's invitation to
call upon her any Sunday afternoon
when he had nothing better to do.
This simple tale is only in part con
cerned with the subjugation of Schnei-
der, which, from that moment, was a
foregone conclusion. and of which the
details were perhaps more amusing to
Lady Belvoir than they would be to the
general reader OF course he called
upon her. and of course he dined with
her when she asked him. and equally of
course he became her abject slave. She
had succeeded with much more recall
citrant victims than he. and what the
secret of her success was the present
narrator would never divulge if he
knew it, because the PRONUNCIATION of
such secrets cannot tend to the public
advantage. To Dorothy Leslie. who
thought Mr.. Schneider vulgar, familiar
and generally objectionable, Lady Bel
voir would vouchsafe to say neither how
nor why she had added his scalp to her
previous trophies.
"You are a great deal too particular,
she declared IF one only made ones
self agreeable to nice men one would
live in desert. Poor little Schneider is
no worse than his peighbors.
81 should have thought that he was a
great deal worse than some of them"
Dorothy would reply, and indeed she
could never be induced to show ordinary
courtesy to this unfortunate gentleman,
who, for his part. did his best to concili
ate her.
81 can't make that girl out, Schnei
der complained one day to Eustace
Moreton. whom he occasionally met in
Carlton House terrace. "She comes
down upon me like sack of Goals ev
cry time that | open my lips, and if
meet her out anywhere she won't see
me Who is she to give herself such
airs, | wonder?"
Mr.. Moreton didn't know, and might
add that he didn't care. He agreed, how
ever, that she had very disagreeable
manner "She seems to make point of
being rude to Lady Belvoir's friends, he
observed.
Miss Leslie it is true was apt to lose
patience with those whom Lady Belvoir
treated as friends, as well as with Lady
Belvoir herself for so treating them, and
this impatience of hers was a source of
much amusement to the more expert
enced woman.
"You pay me a poor compliment by
calling them fortune hunters" the lat
ter would say. 81 believe them ON the
contrary to be sincere and disinterested
lovers-and ought to know"
Whatever they may have been she
took an immensely of pains to keep them
in state of servitude and good humor,
and considering how numerous they
were it was no small proof of her ability
that she managed to prevent their visits
from clashing AS for Schneider, not
withstanding his natural modesty, the
conviction forced itself upon him that a
beautiful, wealthy and nobly born lady
was in fair way to become enamored
of him No wonder the poor little man
lost his head, and during the greater
part of his waking hours hardly knew
whether he was standing upon it or
upon his heels