Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-09-07

which he had been treated. Miss Henley
had not trusted him with her new adj
dress In London; and Lord Harry had sud.
denly left Redburn Road, bidding his host
good by in a few lines OF commonplace
apology, and nothing more. Mr.. Vimp-
any did not deny hat he had been paid
for his medical services; but, he would
ask, was nothing due TO friendship. Was
one man justified in enjoying another
mans hospitality, and then treating him
like a stranger II have done with them
both-and | recommend you, my dear sir.
to follow my example," In those terms
the angry land sober doctor expressed his
sentiments and offered his advice.
Mountjoy laid down he letter Ia de.
spstr.
His last poor chance of preventing the
marriage, depended on his being still able
10 communicate with Iris-aud she was as
completely lost TO him as IL she had taken
fight to the other end OF the world. Ii
might have been possible to discover her
by following the movements of Lord Har-
~, but he too had disappeared without
leaving a trace behind him. The precious
hours and days were p~assing-and Hugh
was absolutely helpless.
Tortured by anxiety and suspense, he
still fingered AT the hotel in London.
More than once he decided on giving up
the struggle, and returning 10 his pretty
COlLdxt III SCOiltuu. .hOEt lUlu once lie
deferred taking the journey. At one time.
he dreaded TO hear that Iris was married.
II she wrote 20 him. At another time. he
felt mortified and disappointed by the
neglect which her silence implied. Was
she near him, or far from him, Iu En-
gland, or out Of Eugland, Who could
sayi
After more weary days Of waiting and
suffering a letter arrived, addressed TO
Mouutjoy IN a strange handwriting, and
bearing the postmark of Paris. The sig.
nature revealed that his correspondent
was Lord Harry.
His first impulse was TO throw the letter
into the fire. unread. There could be lit.
tie doubt, after the time that had passed,
Of the information hat IL would contain.
Could he endure TO be told OF the mar
riage Of Iris, by the man who wsN her hus.
band, Never! There vas something hu-
initiating in the very idea OF IL. He ar
rived at that conclusion-and what did he
do in spite of IT, He read the letter.
Lord Harry wrote with %scrupulous POI
likeness OF expression. He regretted that
circumstances had prevented him from
calling on Mr.: Mountjor, before he left
England. After the conversation that
had taken place at Mr.. Vimpany's house.
he felt IL his duty to inform Mr.. Mountjoy
that he had insured his life-and. he would
add, for a sum OF money amply, aud more
tu&d nIIRAt cNlitACut W pIONlut lot Ills
wife in the event Of her surviving him.
Lady Harry desired her Kind regards, and
would write immediately To her old and
valued friend. In the meantime, he would
conclude by repeating the expression Of
his sense OF obligation to Mr.. Mountjoy.
Hugh looked back at the first page Ut
the letter, in search Of the writer's adj
dress. II was simply Paris" The In
ention to prevent any further correspond
ence. or any personal communication
could hardly have been more plainly i'm
piled. In another moment, the letter was
in the fire.
In w DAYS more, Hugh heard from
Iris.
She. too. wrote regretfully of the sudden
departure from England; adding. however,
that il was her own doing. A slip of the
tongue, on Lord Harry's part, In the course
of conversation, had led her 10 fear that
he was still in danger from political con-
s~piratOrs with whom he nae imprudently
connected himself. She had accordingly
persuaded him to tell her the whole truth,
aud had thereupon insisted on an imme
date departure for the Continent. She
aud her husband were now living in Paris:
Lord Harry having friends ia that city
whose influence might prove to be Of great
Importance to his %pecuniary prospects.
Some sentences followed, expressing the
writer's grateful remembrance q all that
she had owed TO Hugh in past DAYS, and
her earnest desire that they might still
hear Of each other, from time to I me, By
correspondence. She could not venture TO
antic. pate the pleasure OF receiving y visit
from MIN, under present circumstances.
But she hoped that he would no. object to
write to her, addressing his letters, for the
present, to post restante.
In a postscript q few words were added,
,lluding to Nj. Vimpany. Hugh was re.
luested not to answer, any inquiries which
nat man might venture to make relating
TO her husband or to herself. In the by.
zone days she had been thankful to the
doctor for the care which he had taken,
medically speaking. Of Rhoda Bennett