Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-16
Love in Lodgings.
CHAPTER X-CoNTINUED.
BY FLORENCE WARDEN.

done for your goodness to our grand
father. 1t was all because we didn't
know. We have found out lately how
good you were, you and-and your
daughter. He shot out this last
word with a hot blush, in a num-
bling, shame-faced manner. "And-
and we hope you will accept our
apologies, you and-and your daugh-
tor"
It was lucky that he had come to
tho end of the sentence. since he
could not have uttered another word
For Mrs. Hutchinson had suddenly
put down her knitting, and was re-
garding him witE a fixed look of icy
displeasure.
"My daughter! Oh yes. / am eX
ceedingly annoyed to find that my
daughter has struck up some sort OF
an acquaintance with you, that she
has so far forgotten what is due to
herself and to me as TO visit at your
house, or should say at the house
which was your grandfather's. You
understand that the acquaintance is
entirely at an end. If your father
thinks that in this affair the pride is
all on one side, he is mistaken.
Now Cameron felt better. This de-
FAINT bitterness, and the danger of
losing sight of Annie altogether,
loosened his tongue.
my father has nothing to do with
It," said he passionately. 81 love
your daughter. She's the incest girl
] ever met as well as the prettiest,
and want to marry her. Let me see
her, do let me speak to her. | never
have, at least, not in so many words
but think she knows"
Whatever she may know or may
not know will not make the slightest
difference. should not let her marry
into your family if you had the vir-
tues of an archangel."
why? Why? II were as good
as thatp"
Il went to see your father yester-
day, thinking he would want to know
some details about his fathers last
Illness. He had nothing to ask, he
would not listen. He only seized the
occasion to abuse and insult me. He
was the loser by it, but that doesn't
matter. My daughter is a great deal
too good for any son OF his, and
will hear no more of this, nor will
She"
"Yes, she will hear more OF il, 4"
said Cameron doggedly. "You haven't
the least right to treat me like this
because you are angry with my
father; don't defend him don't say
hos not in the wrong. But you are
putting yourself just as much in the
wrong as he. But I'm not going to
visit the parents sins upon the child
She'll be twenty-one in two months.
and then If she should care to have
me. as l hope and pray she will, she
can snap her fingers at you as can
at my own father. Good evening"
With short, stiff bow he shot out
OF the room before she had time to
answer But il he had looked in at
the window as he darted in hot anger
out OF the house, he would have seen
that Mrs. Hutchinson looked less dis
gusted with his hot-headed imper-
Thence than he deserved
While his brother was undergoing
the ordeal Of his interview Temple
had sauntered out in the direction of
@ spot where, truth TO tell, it had for
tho last week been tacitly understood
between Linda Frere and himself that
they should meet every evening at
about this time. They still kept up,
nevertheless, the farce of exhibiting
little surprise at these encounters.
Temple would reduce his pace to an
she appeared in sight. Linda would
raise her eyebrows In the prettiest
establishment before she held out her
hand. And yet either of these two
hypocrites would have been desper-
ately disappointed and amazed If the
other had failed TO appear at this
particular spot at this particular
time.
On this occasion, however, Temple
forgot to show surprise. A more dis
turbing emotion was so apparent in
his face and manner that Linda
guessed he had something to tell her,
and she. In her turn, dropped the
little comedy of astonishment. They
sat down on the first seat they came
TO, after few perfunctory remarks
upon the weather and the state OF
the tide. Still Temple said nothing.
Miss Frere crossed her pretty little
French boots, and in the search for
something TO say, let her eyes for a
moment rest upon them.
Eve cut the kid of my boots
dreadfully on those nasty little peb-
bles," she observed plaintively.
Eyes, noticed it this morn"
began Temple without reflection.
And remembering, with a start,
what a terrible revelation he had
been on the point OF making. he grew
crimson and fell abruptly into silence.
Linda seemed not TO notice the alb
ruptness with which he stopped,
although, il he bad dared to look at
her, he would have seen the corners
OF her mouth twitching in an extra
ordinary fashion.
III wonder" she presently went on,
still looking down, ''who 1t is that
they get to clean the boots here. "
She aDDeared not 40 notice har rom-