The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-19
THE MORNING NEWS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9ssIxTEEN PAGES

willingly. A hired cab was waiting outside
somewhere for his worship and his worship's
good dame aud daughter, but the honor Of
being driven home in the Csrsland carriage
was TOO great to be overlooked.
What has become Of Paul," Sir Sydney
asked in a moment or two as be prepared to
hand the ladies to the still waiting carriage.
~ dare say be will be with some of our
young friends upstairs" said his wo rship.
'Mr. Meredith went out of the theater a
short time ago, Sir Sydney" one Of the
young gentlemen standing by remarked.
81 fancy he will have gone to the club, as
he and young Scott Bower we're together"
Yes; he will have gone there. Now,
ladies, are you quite rsadyl win you per-
NIT me, Mrs. FArringtonl"
The bsronet offered his arm IN his gal
lantesr manner to the mayoress, and walked
TO the carriage-the mayor paid like
courtesy to Lady CarslAnd; the young
ladies were taken in hand by other cava-
liers; and in the course OF a few moments
they were all four comfortably seated in
the large. roomy vehicle, and were being
driven homeward, while Sir Sydney and
his friends repaired to the club.
II Lady Carsland had not pressed the
worthy mayoress and the latter's daughter
TO accept seats in her carriage the Cars
lands, mother and child, would have been
spared sight which gave them no small
amount OF astonishment and pain.
When the carriage aud pair drove up be-
fore the semi-detached villa 10 which the
Harrington family resided, the m ayoress
was so pressing In her offers of hospitality
that her ladyship, un willing to give offense,
ahghted and went into the house. 20 crack
biscuit and sip glass of cheap wine with
her kindly hearted, il somewhat too obse-
quous and importunate friend.
AnVF -, f. L.&
visit, and when the carriage rolled through
the dimly lit, silent and sleeping village Of
Marsh Green the village tavern had been
closed about twenty minutes.
One solitary gas-lamp shone in the centre
OF the wide space opposite the White Crow,
and as the carriage rolled past the lamp
Cordelia Garland, who CHANGED at that
moment to be gazing through the window,
gave low cry OF amazement.
Well might the girl emit an exclamation
of wonder, for there under the lamp she
beheld two well-knu wn forms-those of Paul
Meredith and the White Gypsy.
Lady Carsland heard the note of aston
lshment and IN a moment she OWNED the
reason therefor. But, although she saw her
husbands ward and the pit brow girl, she
made no comment upon the surprising fact.
1t was a matter she could not discuss with
her daughter; and as the carriage sped on
NhEus anu OOFubllh E6ul6lu6O silent, LDeTe
was no occasion to speak. The truth Of the
matter was that neither desired the other to
think she had seen that strangely matched
pair beneath the lamp.
But Cordelia Carsland had frightened her
thin lips ominously at the sight, vowing the
while that her lover should pay dearly for
his shameless gallivanting with such a low
born thing and her mother was consider
ing with bent brows that the sooner Paul
Meredith and her daughter we're openly
affianced to each other the easier she would
be in her mind. Sir Sydney's ward must be
brought to his senses at once, or there was
no telling whet might happen-so thought
her ladyshlp.
That meeting between Salome and ber
lover was not in any way due to her; she
had neither sought nor desired to see Paul
again after satisfying herself Of the un-
perdonabe deception he had practiced.
Paul had arranged their meeting. The
reader will have gathered that Sir
Sydney Carsland'S ward was a creature of
impulse. The moment his eyes and those Of
Salome met in the theater he cursed himself
mentally for the fraud of which he had been
guilty and her cold and pitiless face so elo-
quent of the scorn In her heart told him
that his deception was laid bare unto her,
During the remainder Of the play his eyes
had often wandered TO Salome. The post.
tion in which he sat enabled him to gaze
upon the girl without attracting attention,
as the slightest DETECTION OF his head took
his eyes from the stage to her, ana from her
to the actors.
Long before the curtain fell for the last
time he had resolved TO speak to the girl
that night by some means. The glance OF
contempt had set his soul afame, and he
wanted TO see her that he might swear
that the fraud he had praOticed had no sin
lister motives underlying ito tell her also
that he loved her and honored her more
than any other woman in all the world.
Paul Meredith enjoyed the play little
more than the pit brow girl did. Now and
again his eyes would wander frum Salome's
perfect profile to the face of Cordelia Cars
land, and while he was compelled to admit
that the girl beside him was very handsome,
it was impossible to compare her for a mo-
ment with the superbly beautiful lass whose
heart he had already won.
What pity it was, he said TO himself
that Salome did not belong to his own sta
ton of life. In that case, how gladly would
he have acknowledged his affection for her
before the whole world. Now-well, al
though he loved her madly, he was toe
much the slave of custom to dare to offend
his world by linking his life and fortune to
those Of q mere working girl, be she ever &c
lovely.
1t was an easy matter when the curtain
dropped upon the last scene in the play for
Paul to glide out of the theater while the
Carslands were surrounded by their friends
He had seen Salome and her companion
hurry away half minute before, and, di-
viniDg that the girls would have to walk
home, he resolved to follow them.
Gliding through the crowd. he hurried
along the principal thoroughfare, and COM
ing TO the top of the street went along the
road which led toward Marsh Green
Thorrall and Thorrell Moor Walking at a
good pace no had soon left the town behind
| him; the houses became fewer and more
scattered, and evidences that the country
was near began TO show themselves In the
| shape of hedgerows, trees and open stretches
| Of meadow aud pasture land.
Paul was just beginning to think that he
had missed Salome and her friend-had, he
| thought, probably passed them in the
/ crowded street in which the Theater Royal
was situate-when he discerned ahead OF
| him two female figures, and, quickenIng
| his pace, he was soon able to perceive that
one Of them was the girl he sought.
Having satisfied himself on that point, he