Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-07-26


thwarting, even in tribes He COM
plated Of her present extravaganza,
with insolent reference to the poverty
of her girlhood, and asked sayagely II
she thought his fortune could stand
forever against her expensive follies.
IL don't think my follies are so likely
to exhaust your income as your in
increasing taste for horse-racing, Gill
bert" she answered coolly, What Is
to be the cost OF these racing stables
YOU are building near Newmarket? ]
heard you, and that dreadful man, your
trainer, talking of the tan galop the
other day, and it seemed to me alto
gether rather an expensive affair, es-
pecially as your horses have such q
knacS OF getting beaten. 1t is most
gentleman-like of you to remind me Of
my poverty. Yes | was very poor in
my girl-hood and very happy"
And since you've married me you've
been miserable. Pleasant, upon my
soul. You'd have married that fellow
Cyprian Davenant and lived in ten
roomed house in the suburbs, with u
maid of all work, and called that hap
piness, | suppGse."
"If | had married Sir Cyprian Dave
nant | should at least have been the
wife of gentleman" replied Con-
stance.
This was not the first time that Gil
bert had mentioned Cyprian Devenant
of late. A report OF the missing tray
elers had appeared in one of the news
papers, and their friends began tohope
for their safe return. Gilbert Sinclair
brooded over this probable return in a
savage frame of mind, but did not COM
munlcate his thoughts upon the sub
iect to his usual confdant, Mr.. Wyatt,
who thereupon opined that those
thoughts were more than ordinarily
bitter,
Before the London season was over
Mr.. Sinclair had occasion to attend a
rather insignificant meeting in York
shire where u 2-year-old fly from
which he expected great things in the
future, was to try her strength in a
handicap race. He came home by way
OF Newmarket, where he spent few
days pleasantly enough in the super
vision of his new buildings, and he had
been absent altogether week when he
returned to Park Lane.
1t was about o'clock in the after
noon when he drove up to his own
house in hanson. He found his wife
in the drawing-room occupied with
several visitors, among whom appeared
tall figure which he remembered only
too well, Sir Cyprian Davenant, bronzed
with travel, and looking handsomer
than when he left London.
Gilbert stood at gaze for moment,
confounded by surprise, and then went
through the ceremony of Misunderstanding
with his wite's guests In an awkward,
embarrassed manner.
Constance received him with her
usual coldness and he felt himself al
together at a disadvantage in the pres
ence OF the man he feared and hated,
He seated himself, however, deter
mined to see the end Of this obnoxious
visit, and remained moodily silent UNI
til the callers had dropped off one by
one, Sir Cyprian among the earliest
departures,
Gilbert turned savsgely upon his
wife directly the room was clear
$50 your old favorite has lost no
time in renewing his intimacy with
you," he said 81 came home at rather
an awkward moment, l fancy"
81 did not perceive any particular
awkwardnes So in your return, his wife
answered coolly, unless 1t was your
manner to my friends, which was calcu-
lated to give them the idea that you
scarcely felt at home in your own
! house"
There was some one here who
seemed little too much at home, Mrs.
| Sinclair-some one who will find my
presence u good deal more awkward
If | should happen to find him here
again. In plain words, forbid you to
receive Sir Cyprian Davenant in my
house"
Il can no more close my doors upon
Sir Cyprian Davenant than on any
other visitor" replied Constance, "and
do not choose to insult an old friend
of my family for the qualification Of
your senseless jealousy"
Then you mean to defy me-"
There is no question Of defiance.
shall do what consider right, without
reference to this absurd fancy of yours.
Sir Cyprian is not very likely to call
upon me again unless you cultivate his
acquaintance.
Il am not very likely to do that,
Gilbert answered, savagely. His wife:
quiet defiance baifled him, and he
could find nothing more to say for him
self. But this jealousy Of Sir Cypriar
was in no manner abated by Con
stances self-possession. He remem
bered the fainting fit in the morning
room at Davenant, and he was deter
mined to find some means of Furnishing
her for her secret preference for this
man. An ugly notion flashed across
his mind, by and by, as he saw hel
with her child lying in her lap, bend
ing over the infant with look of gu
preme affection,
"She can find love for everything il
the world except me-" he said to him
self, bitterly. He had ceased to car,
for the child after the first month o.
so of its existence, being inclined t,
resent its sex as u personal injury, ant
disliking his wife's devotion to the in
FAINT, which seemed to make her indit
ference to himself all the more obvious
TO BE CONTINUED,
His Interpretation.