Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-07-06

known which was which. For she
loved Jack, and it took most of her
time to prevent his discovering fact
Blair Athol had long ago discovered,
but which did not weigh one jot against
the latter's infexible determination to
marry her. Kitty was an heiress, and
her principal charm lay in her money
bags to Blair Athol, while the very ex-
istence of those bags were so abhorrent
to Jack that they had hitherto proved
an ipsurmountable barrier between
them.
Both men visited her at her guard
ian's house in Park lane, but Jacks
were like angels visits, few and far
between, while Blair Athol came con-
stantly, showing himself at his very
best, and never making the mistake of
disparaging the absent man to the girl
who loved him.
If Jack knew the truth. he deliberate
ly shut his eyes to it, but if all her for
tune had one fine morning turned to
rainbow gold, he would have been by
her side as fast as he could get to her
after hearing the news = meanwhile
never by word or look did he betray
himself.
People who saw Miss Dasent with
him, saw nothing, but they saw a
great deal between her and Blair
Athol, who occasionally assumed airs
of annexation that were more patent
to the world than the girl who was
preoccupied always with the thought
of Jack-and Jacks coldness
Who shall say that the extraordinary
resemblance between the two men did
not make her accept as frequent visi-
tor man whom she did not like, but
who yet kept alive in her thevisible i'm
age of Jack? She saw the latter so sell
DOM that it wanted tenacious memory
indeed to remember him, but neither in
her case nor in his did absence make
the heart grow fonder of somebody
else. The other lovers who came and
went, some for her lovableness and
loneliness, others who could not see
the woman behind the shining of her
gold, were no more to her than the
shadows at play at hide-and-seek on a
mountain side, and Mr.. Stranbenzee,
her guardian, grew angry as she re-
fused one great marriage after another
and extended, apparently, favor to
Blair Athol that neither the man nor
his fortune warranted. Matters were
at this stage in the cold early days of
February, when parliament, having
assembled at an unusual time of the
year, Mr.. StranbenZee was forced to
be in town and assisting at those dis
NAL sittings that, varied by uproarious
scenes, seem the fashion in parliament
to-day. Kitty was as incapable of dull
ness as any other brightly intelligent
girl of twenty, but the winter months,
without news of or any sign from Jack,
had tried her greatly, and when Blair
Athol came to call the familiar face,
that so closely resembled the other,
turned her sick with pain and longing,
and she could scarcely control herself
to utter commonplace greeting,
Blair Athol was a far cleyerer man
than Jack, and he read her like a
book, read her and realized distinctly
and once for all that she would never
take himself as Jacks double, since
she could not marry Jack, and no one
would have guessed from his manner
that the words he had come to say
forever now would remain unsaid. He
looked at the beautiful young lady
warily drawing her thread through the
work in her hand, only looking up
now and again to glance with a
strange usefulness at the trees in the
park, and mething whether an EN-
anation from his own evil heart or a
direct prompting of the devil-inspired
him with an idea that grew and grew
until 10! perfect in all its devilish pro
portions, was unfolded scheme be-
fore him. He hardly breathed; he was
glad that she did not speak, as he
could not then have replied to her.
Wondering at his silence, she pres
emily looked up, and there was that in
his eyes, interpretive, almost clair
voyant, that chilled her. What mis-
take it is" she cried, suddenly, "tc
suppose that you are like Capt. lnche
quin."
Blair Athol smiled, The smile VIZ,
worse than the concentrated gaze of 6
moment ago. He rose, kissed her hant
in courtier fashion and passed out.
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bedroom, enjoying all the rapture ant
newness of reading the first love letter
she had ever received from the mar
she loved, She pressed it to her lips
she clasped it to her bosom, she held il
away from her and she held it near
She laughed, she cried, and all bu
went out of her senses for pure Joy
that after all love had conquered
pride - that mountains of hateful
money had not been able to bury hel
out of reach of her lovers arms
II fear it will all be uphill work
darling" came at the close of the let
ter, las your guardian will never con
sent to your marrying a comparatively
poor man, and you are under age anC
subject to his authority. Nevertheless
there is almost no inpasse out of which
love cannot find way, and if you low,
me enough and are true enough i
may not be SO very long before we ar,
together, | am taking it for granted
my dear one, that you love me, FOL
have not seen in You those timic
signs that girl only gives to the maj
for whom she has preference? Ant
if you knew what struggle it ha
been to repress all outward manifesto
tions of my passion during the pas