The Press., 1894-09-20
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point where he could put sudden i'm pulse into practice without flinching. He was bitter against his people. He credited them with more interference than was actual He felt that happi- ness had gone out of his life and left him hopeless. As we said, he was a man of quick decisions He would have made dashing but reckless soldier. He was not without the elements of the gamester. It is possible that there was in him also strain of cruelty, untle veloped, but radical
 Life so far had developed the best ill him. He had been cheery and candid. Now he travelled back into new avenues of his mind and found strange aborigi- nal passions fully adapted to the present situation. Vulgar anger and reproaches were not after his nature. He suddenly found sources of refined retaliation. He drew upon them. He would do some thing to huniliate his people and the girl who had spoiled his life. Some one thingl It would be absolute and lasting. It would show how low had fallen his opinion of women, of whom Julia Sher- wood had once been chiefest to him. In that he would show his scorn of her. He would bring down the pride of his family. who, he believed, had helped out of mere selfshness to tumble his happiness into the shambles
 He was older by years than an hour ago. But he was not without the facul- ty of humor. That was why he did not become very excited; 1t was also why he determined upon a comedy which should have all the elements of tragedy. Perhaps, however, he had not carried his purposes to immediate conclusions were it not that the very gods seemed to play his game with him, for while he stood there looking out into the yard of the fort Protestant missionary passed the window The Protestant missionary, as he is found at such places as Fort Charles, is not c strictly superior person. A Jesuit might have been of advantage to Frank Armoursat that moment. The Protestant missionary is not above com fortable assurances of gold. So that when Armour summoned this one i'll and told him what was required of him and slipped generous gift of the queen coin into his hand he smiled vaguely and was willing to do what he was bidden. Had he been Jesuit, who is sworn to poverty and more often than not man of birth and education, he might have influenced Frank Ar mour and prevented the notable mishap and scandal As 1t was, Armour took more brandy.
 Then he went down to Eye-of- the the missionary met him there. The next morning Lali, the daughter of Eye-of- the Moon and the chieftainess of DOT tion of her fathers tribe, whose grand father had been white man, was in- troduced to the Hudson bay country as Mrs Frank Armour. But that was not all. Indeed as it stood it was very little. He had only made his comedy possible as yet. Now the play itself was to come. He had carried his scheme through boldly so far. He would not finch in carrying 1t out to the last letter. He brought his wife down to the great lakes immediately, scarcely resting night or day. There he engaged an ordinary but reliable woman, to whom he gave in- structions, and sent the pair to the coast. He instructed his solicitor at Montreal to procure. passages for Mrs. Francis Armour and maid for Liverpool. Then by letters he instructed his solic- itor in London to meet Mrs. Francis Ar mour and maid at Liverpool and take them to Greyhope in Hertfordshire- ho% fc Ar mour or some representative of the fam fly did not meet them when they landed from the steamship. .... .......z
 Presently he sat down and wrote to his father and mother and asked them to meet his wife and her maid when they arrived by the steamer Aphrodite. He did not explain to them in precise detail his feelings on Miss Julia Sher- woods marriage, nor did he go into full particulars as to the personality of Mrs. Frank Armour, but he did say that because he knew they were anxious that he should marry 'acceptably" he had married into aristocracy, the oldest aristocracy of America, and because he also knew they wished him to marry wealth he sent them wife rich in vir- tues-native, unspoiled virtues.
 He hoped that they would take her to their hearts and cherish her. He knew their firm principles of honor, and that he could trust them to be kind to his wife until he returned to share the affection which he was sure would be given to her. It was not his inten- hon to return to England for some time yet. He had work to do in connection with his proposed colony, and wife, even a native wife, could not we'll be companion in the circumstances. Be- sides Lali-his wife's name was Lali- would be better occupied in learning the peculiarities of the life in which her fu- ture would be cast. It was possible they would find her an apt pupil. Of this they could not complain that she was untraveled, for she had ridden ahorse. bareback, half across the continent They could not cavil at her edueation, for she knew several languages-abo- rigtnal languages-of the north. She had merely to learn the dialect of English society and how to carry with adcepta- ble form the costumes of the lace to which she was going. Her own costume was picturesque, but it might appear unusual in London society. Still they could use their own judgment about that
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