Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-10


, tives were closely watching Rudersdorf,
who as yet had not left the neighborhood
OF Shadwell, where he had taken lodgings
Whether this was true or not had no
means of knowing, for Kavanagh still kept
| away, though a week had passed since our
| last interview. The suspense Of these days
| was hard to bear, but incidentally learned
fact from Gordon, which explained and
excused his postponing the final act to the
| last moment possible.
DO you see Miss Bell very ofteni"
asked Gordon one day.
Not half so often as | should like to, I
assure you," he replied, and then, rather In
consequently, MS it seemed to me, he added.
| 'you see, she's such brick OF II girl"
| as that any reason why you should not
see her If she's engaged to your
We'll. that's provisional sort of affair
| you know. 1t all depends OH the SUCCESS
of the pottery. hang it, though OF course
| it's bound to succeed You See. the old
| colonel has stuck all his capital into the
| concern 1t wasn't much, to be sure. but
| it's all he has. Well, If he gets jolly good
| income out of il, Judith will be my wife-
| II he edoesn't-well then''-after pulling his
| beard refectively for minute in silence
| swell, then we shall be married all the
-
Il don't think quite understand"
ATS like this. matlemoiselle, don't mind
| telling you, because you are the last one in
| the world that would betray the confidence
! of a friend The fact is poor old Bells had
! rough time of it, and through trusting
| one COMPOUNDED kind friend and backing
| bills for another has got his finances into
| such muddle that ! doubt il he would
| have $50 year to live upon If all his pre-
| cious bonds and securities and shares were
| put in the market and realized. Well, you
| know, he doesn't know that, and heaven
| forbid it should ever come to his ears. II
| shan't If can have hand In cooking his
accounts, you may be sure. But the deuce
| of it is the old boys rs proud as Luciter.
and it would just break his heart II he
| found out one day that he WAS subsistine
| on any ones 2enerosity-a sort OF pen<io:ier.
| don't you know. And-well, that's how il
| Is, don't you SEE.
mo, don't quite. How does that aiec,
| your marriage with Miss Bei,;
why. Judith knows how matters stand
| though the colonel doesn't. You ladies are
| such lot sharper than we at seeing right
| into things She knows that II this last
venture of her poor old dads breaks down,
| he must learn the truth, and-well. she's
| n
| straight back, too bless her and she won't
marry me before she is certain tnat am
not to be saddled with her father. It's con
| foun. ed nonsense of course-we're bound
! 10 marry because we couldn't love anybody
| else-but honor her for it. you know. She
| is a brick"
But still, If you love each other, it seems
natural that you should want to see each
| other sometimes, even if you can't marry"
sid, thinking OF Taras.
| "Oh, we do sometimes, but not every day
| not even once week. II isn't practica-
| BILE, because. don't you know, Judith isn't
exactly free Knowing the critical state OF
their pecuniary resources, she took an en-
gagement as nursery governess: that Will
show you what a capital sort of girl she is
| This Is quite between you and me. for the
colonel. with his awfuly narrow ideas
about class and that sort of thing. would be
Mortified Mt the notion of his daughter earn
ing her living.'
"Bnt how is IL kept a secret from himt"
"Oh, that's easy enoughl He supposes
that she is staying at Sydenham ON visit
with Mrs. Eavanagh, wEo is an old friend. y
Mrs. Kavanaghr exclaimed in aston
ishment
Mrs Charles Kavanagh- Barry Kava,
nagh's sister-inlaw," he explained.
"A did not know that he had any rela-
tivcs living in London"
| That's not u bit surprising Kavanagh's
such an awfully rum. taciturn fellow IN
| some matters You never know what he
feels or thinks or knows or does or any
thing about him must have known him
couple of years and with some degree Of
intimacy before | discovered and then by
accident that his mother was living"
"ls she living nowf
'Oh, dear, yes She resides with the fam
! lily ut Sydenham. It's odd, isn't itf One
would think he had no one dearer to him
| than Tar;is and me II seems SO natural to
| talk about people you love, and believe
| Barry's n most devoted son and brother /
know he spends couple Of days week at
| Sydpnham ! suppose it's the logical out
come Of his confoundeti rationalism."
| After hearing this could not expect that
| Kavanagh would take the final step one
moment before Ruderslorf's patience had
been stretched to the utmost limit.
One morning, it must have been the 9th
of November. Taras. looking al the paper,
said; There's to be a large display Of fire
works at the Crystal palace tonight. Shall
we 10 and see ity'
| acceded joyfully TO the proposal.
"'Then Ill knock Off at lunchtime." said
he, going to the window and looking out
I'VE may as well take advantage of this
sunny day. We may not get many more
| To my oversensitive ear there was some
thing terribly prophetic in hat phrase, and
indeed there seemed to be ~ touch of sad
ness in his voice rs II some sorrowful prog
nostic were passing through his mind.
| | looked forward to our spending the
afternoon and evening together alone. but
Taris, finding Gordon with me when he
came down from his work, asked him to
stay to lunch and go with us, doubtless
thinking to add to my pleasure. Gordon