The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-12-20

"You are very KIM 10 your grand
father, Bett. Far kinder than you
are to me, and yet he has been cruel
to you"
Gan men are cruel" she an
swered, "most cruel when they seem
to love you best"
Clement Dunraven WINGED. Lis
beth would scarcely please him az
much as she had hitherto done, IL
she began to gave him truisms in.
stead of kisses.
Could 1t be possible that the power
she had over him for many months
past was already a little on the
wane. No there was no woman in
in the whole world like Lisbeth. He
was only a little provoked at
her to-day, because she would not
obey his wishes implicitly. He
loved her all the better for her
loyalty, would ever love her the best
on earth.
az fervently and ardently wish
that Lady Gertrude was dead" he
said, encircling Lisbetb in a very
close embrace.
ooh, Glenn, how wrong it is to
talk like that. For the last two days
have been madly, wildly jealous of
that beautiful Lady Gertrude Vers-
choyle, but to-day l pity her from
my very heart. Yes, ] do think,
Glen, that she needs pity even more
than | do, who am your rejected,
deserted wife,
"You are neither rejected nor
deserted, sweet one. You are only
helping me to obtain q fortune,
which will be most advantageous to
us both"
"You will be very good to Lady
Gertrude, Glenn. You will not let
her see that she is second in your
affections"
~ will try and do my duty by her,
Bett. But it will be very difficult,
knowing all the while that she is
unsurping your place.
~ wonder If she loves you, Glen,
loves you as much as I do"
"Confound her, that is just what
she does. If she did not adore me
quite so palpably it would not have
entered Uncle Louis head to force
this marriage"
"Poor Lady Gertrude!" again
repeated Lisbeth. She took a sort
of pleasure in %torturing herself with
thinking out the future relations
between her Clement and Lady
Gertrude.
BY sight she knew Lady Gertrude
Verschoyle very well. The earl, as
| Lord Melbury vas called by all the
r people in and around Coleshill
owned most of the property in those
parts, and was looked up to as if h'
were a small king. Lisbeth wal
!, strongly imbued with the veneratioi
in which the earl and his famil!
we're held. In fact, it is very doubt
1 full if she would have consented t.
waive her claims on Clement sine,
she was really and truly his wife
S for any star Of lesser magnitude thai
o Lady Gertrude.
10 her ulsorAistica Nj mind !
,cciicu a hthu ~ IIViTVI ~ nersel
that her Clement should be Gale
upon to make such q grand allianc
o and that she, an unknown and insig
/ niticent minon, should be brougf
,. into rivalry with the greatest lady
y the country.
u~neducated people like Lisbet
Glendinning have strange ways {
looking at the circumstances whic
s arise in life, hence her willingness t
give place to Lady Gertrude, il tn
t son and heir, whose portion she cor
e sidered ought to be her first though
did not come between them.
= The word bigamy and the chane
r that Clement stood of having h
r first marriage found out, and stant
ing in a dock for his pains, new
e once entered her head.
,. If she chose to give him up VIII
1t right had anyone else to ~interfer
she would have asked.
d They did not discuss the situate
3 any farther, there seemed nothir
more to say. They tried to
,r happy again for the few feetil
moments left to them. A bar, hov
1t ever had come across the escutchet
,e of their happiness, and life wou
IN never again be the same for eth
of them, although neither realiz'
,, what trouble in the future they hi
been preparing for themselves.
AT last a hoarse cry from u
upper room put a stop to the int
view, which had assumed a painful
Up strained character.
1t was old Josh who had awaken
sd from a sleep, fretiul and angry
he finding himself alone, aud was ca
AZ ing Lisbeth.
Is. "God bless you, Glenn" she sal
ct kissing him hurriedly, "and m
ke your happiness be as great as is t
love of your poor deserted Bett."
be She was gone, and he stood alo
W. by the doorpost for some minut
ge after she had left him.
at Not until she was gone did he sec