The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-22
CHAPTER VI.
AFTER THE NEWS.

AFTER THE JEWS.
Course my stupidity! Here, landlsdy fill
me another bitter beerm
The landlady mopped up the slop he had
Inadvertently caused in the first shock Of
his surprise, and, while be was waiting for
his glass to be rehlled, Sydney turned the
paper, and while appearing to glance over
its contents, peered over the top at his com
panions.
None Of them had noted his astonish
ment, ana after drinking deep Of his fresh
supply of ale he again turned to the ex-
citing paragraph which bad startled him so
much, and filed his be siIdered mind with
host OF burning thoughts.
He was half afraid he would not ind the
paragraph now-was inclined to think that
the whole thing was the outcome OF his dis
ordered imagination-or that be had mis-
taken the names Of others for those of his
father and brother.
With trembling hands he turned the page,
his nostrils dilated. his gray eyes aflame,
breathing hard, and with his pulse throb-
bing at feverish rate When he came to
think of the matter afterwards he was
compelled to admit that he had behaved in
point-the turning oce Of his life. He had
felt afraid not that his father and his brother
were killed, but that the account was I'M
founded or that he had mlsread the state
ment
There is no mistake" be whispered.
hoarSely, TO himself as he slowly re-read
the brief account of Sir Nicholas and
Frederic Carsland's sudden aud terrible
end. There it was before him in urmis-
taxable print, aud the details given pre-
cluded the probability Of any mistake hsv-
ting been made by the pressman in respect
of tho unfortunate mems names.
10 fever of pleased unrest and strange
EMULATION he drained his glass TO the drega,
and passed out into the night. He wanted
20 be alone so that he could think calmly,
clearly, of his future course of action.
The night was moonless one, but the
stars shone out from their inky background
like remote specks Of electric flame. The
air bit sharply upon his skin, but he paid
no heed the rhine was thick on the Drowned
grasses and black rugged hedgerow. aud the
lane was silent and tenantless.
Hepaused few PAGES from the tavern
and wiped his clammy brow. Half an hour
before he had entered that country inn q
poor, an obscure mana criminal even,
who bad not entirely freed his soul from all
fear of the law.
Now he was Sir Sydney Carslnnd, the
owner of the richest collieries in Lapca-
shire, the proprietor OF the lordly mansion
from which be had fed thief-hke, and in
reality thief, only few short months
ago.
He was rich, titled, free was young,
With the love OF life at full flood within
him, and the power TO enjoy all the worlds
fair and good things still unimpaired. He
could make of existence perpetual revel
now, an endless chain OF holidays, feasts and
pleasures. He would realize the dream that
had come TO him when he had stolen the
jewels-would repay old friends with in
terest auo heap the contumely Of scorn on
his old foes.
He was well nigh intoxicated with the de-
lightful vision bis imagination bred and he
walked along the hard roads between the
tall hedges like one TO whom all the bless
ings and gifts of the gods had come Sud-
denly the swift rush or his pleasant ref1eo-
tions was damned back-the delicious
warmth of anticipated pleasures was chilled.
and be came TO a quick standstill in the
middle OF the road.
From the unshuttered windows of the
cottage which sheltered Pedro Velazo and
his handsome girl came broad stream of
light which, cutting a vivid channel for
itself through the rounding blackness
and falling full upon Sydoey Carsland,
threw his heightened shadow across the road
and upon the boar jeweed hedge. -s..
Until now, since reading of his kinsmen's
decease, be had completely forgotten the
existence of his wife and her father, and to
be brought suddenly back to know ledge Of
them and all il implied gave him small
satisfaction indeed.
Rigid and irresolute he stood there his
brows bent and breathing heavily as some
men do when Unexpectedly brought face to
face with IA difficulty.
Had the baronetcy and the fortune come
70 him some months ago when the spell of
Salome's beauty was new and strong upon
him the result might have been very diff
ferent. Then in au excess of love and
gratitude be would have rushed to her
side and poured the tale of his great luck
into her ears
And nowa Well, he had grown just the
least, little trihe tired of the simple aud
beautiful maiden be had married Eers
was q strong, passionate ma turs which was
constantly craving for affection and out
ward and visible manifestations OF love;
his was more Of cynical and cold blooded
kind; his passion came in gusts, he had
loved too many women already, was too
much of bohemian and a man of the
world to love any one woman for long
much ess for all time.
And now Salome was In actual fact Lady
Carslaud. The handsome daughter of the
old Spanish Gypsy was entitled now to take
Ter pace among the aristocratc ladies of
the land. II she were to obtain her rights
she would be the mistress of Carsland hall.
he heard sound from the cottage and
thinking either Pedro or Salome was about
to open the door he sped onward into the
sheltering dark ness
And as his form plunged into the gloom
OF the night his mind took the plunge which
led him astray from the path Of honesty
nnd rig5t. immediately he began TO form
excuses for deserving Saome.
Why need be tell her at alll Was It
rpniy uPc ssary 20 DO so-just yetl II he
were u Introduce Snlome 70 the world as
Ls4y sydney Cars and what would the
world sag OF bin aud OF her when il was
discovered that she was the daughter OF "A
csnDlou gnmegeeper child Of a whllom
wandering Spanish gipsyi
he would be tho talk and the laughing
stock u bis nsIghbors; and how Adelaide
Woldcock would carl her pr0nd lip and
open her cold, soorDful eyes when she