The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-17

ssStay." she said: mot yet-not yet.
/ There is something first. / will tell you
/ what I have done. 1 counted on this.
! have ordered the carriage after dinner at
| 1890. You and go in that and leave by
the train. Jack, am yours-wil you
| comeFf
Jack felt as If he was waking out of
/ some blissful dream to return Of his
I ordinary every day life, which, untort-
unately, had certain moral obligations at
! tached to it. If Dodols speech had been
I shorter the result might have been differ
eut. He steadied himself for moment,
! for the room seemed to reel and swim,
and then he answered her.
mo, Dodo," he said, hoarsely, 81 can
not do it. Think of Chesterford! Think
of anything, Don't tempt me. You know
/ cannot. How dare you ask me?"
Dodo's face grew hard and white. She
tried to laugh, but could not manage it.
''Ah," she said, "the old story, isn't it?
Potiphar's wife again. / really do not
understand what this love of yours is.
And now now 1 have debased and hum
bled myself before you and there you
stand in your Immaculate virtue, not car
ing"
Don't, Dodo," he said; be merciful to
me-spare me. Not caring-you know it
is not so. But cannot do this"
Chesterford, by accident, overhears
enough to give him the knowledge that
his wife is tired of him, and that Jack,
though he loves Dodo, is too much his
friend to betray him; but he conceals his
discovery. Dodo, however, is uneXpect-
eddy freed from her chains by the death
ofhe husband through q hunting acct
dent. A burst of genuine feeling comes
to her at his death-bed when she realizes
that she has despised the best that man
could give her. He dies forgiving and
loving her and begs her with his last
breath to marry Jack.
Dodo soon RECEIVERS her spirits and we
find her next at AK, the center of a gay
company, giving banjo parties on the
water, singing doubtful songs, taking
part in private theatricals, and playing
baccarat. She is engaged now 10 Jack,
who has succeeded TO the title and estate
of his cousin, Lord Chesterfield, and the
wedding is to take place when the year
of mourning has expired.
JILRs JACK AND MARRIEs THE PRINCE.
An Austrian prince, who is lowering
around Dodo, gives Jack an occasional
twinge of jealousy, but the latter is far
from perceiving the curious influence this
admirer is beginning to acquire over the
woman he loves. 1t is, perhaps, of a
nature resembling hypnotism, and Dodo,
though she does not love the prince, be-
comes so dominated by him that suddenly
she marries him. The news is broken to
Jack in this way:
Next day Jack called at Dodo's house.
The door was opened by a servant, whose
face he thought he ought to know. That
he was not one Of Dodo's men he felt GER
tain. In an another moment it flashed
across him that the man had been with
the Prince at Zermatt
rs Lady ChesterfoFd in?' he asked.
The man looked at him moment and
then, like all well-bred servants. dropped
his eyes before he answered: Her Sc
rene Highness left for Paris this morn
ing"
So the curtain falls The story leaves
Jack standing there stunned by the blow.
The story is acknowledged to be ro-
man clef, many of the characters being
easily recognizable by those familiar with
London socociety. 1t may be of interest
to add that Dodo is said to be in some res
poets portrait of Miss Margot Tenant,
a sister of Miss Dorothy Tenant, who
married Henry NJ. Stanley few years
ago.