Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-14

haT8 that little talk you promised mi
NOW nearly two weeks ago."
@AbJut what my dearY"
Surely YOU remembe ?"
Avexed look passing like SHADOW
RrrQs3 the round, good tempered face
showed that Mrs. Jardine did re mem
her, though she would have been GLAD
enough to pretend she did not, and Il
nhirk the question,
"Wnat that ENHANCEMENT Of yours
with the little Swiss girlI Oh, she
has forgotten you by this time, depend
hpon 1t; and l was In hopes you had
BDrgOtten her"
THAT vas not likely, and / must beg
@g you not to call 1t an 'entanglement.
What have to speak to you about is
Rhe Very serious uestion OF my mar.
Ni9ge. You promise to consider 1t.
haTe waited, not merely few days,
hut n whole fortnight and you have
nAGyOr said a single word to me on the
matter, viii h, you must know, Is so
very near my heart 1t is rather hard,
mother"
HtWas hard, and TO do the young
RaAn Justice, he had behaved exceed
fRgly well Never sulky, never dis
0'Ait, rs is the manner OF young mon
i'm love, he had set his mind steadily to
10 his best, had been at his mothers
beck and call from morning till night,
hRd gone with her wherever she had
wished, and done whatever she told
him to do.
Mother he said sitting down by
MHr and taking her hand-it was a wet
afternoon, and she had just sent the
carriage away-"gou promised me to
ahinlS 1t over-thi5 matter so very near
nay heart. Mother have you done
go Win you give ne your approval,
ard lot me take your love and blessing
with me to Neuchatel;"
"And why What may be your bust
apss at NeuchTel?"
He turned bitterly away. Mother,
do you think | am stone, that you
Try me sO' You understand quito we l.
though you pretend to misunderstood.
You know am going to Neuchatel to
@sk Mademoiselle Jardine to marry
mo
%And them"
"TThen, suppose, we shall be mar
sied
Might l in luire what you intend to
marry upon?"
Il have not considered the question Of
my income; ut it keeps me, and it is
doubtless enough to keep wife. You
pay it so regularly that it is you who
Gan best inform me its precise amount,
and whence draw it for | should like
naturally, from this time, to be as in
dependent as possible"
$50 you shall be, never fear, and
much good may your independence do
you. Koderick Jardine, since you will
DO such fool, hear first what you have
10 look to. When | married your
father, except that tumble-down place,
&l0ckhall, he had not o half-penny. |
was daft to marry him, 7 know that;
RlE was young and l was fond of him.
MNr voice trembled little. "How-
ever, that's all past; and he was o good
NaAn and kind husband to me-always
EaS me do as | liked with my own. For
QVerything was my own and is still,
aud ! will do as like with it; mind
Nhat
~Of course; who wishes to hinder
YOU, mother?" said Roderick, gently,
for the loud tongue was growing louder
and the red face redder. Self-re-
Rtraint, he knew was not one of his
Naother's characteristics perhaps that
WAS why he had been obliged to learn
III himself.
my money is my own" ("my ain,
she pronounced it, dropping, a. she
always did in excitement, into the
speech of her youth. "If We vex me,
Rn0 marry against my will, lad, We may
do the best we can with that wretched
hole, Blackhall; 90 and starve in the
Hausty old rooms among the mice and
Knta, as | dare say your father would
have liked to do; but yell get naething
out o. me. has thousands hundreds
a. thousands to spend and to leave;
INIT though you're my ain, only son,
RArry that woman, and I'll neither gle
Hn, nor leave We, ae bawbee
She thought she had overwhelmed
hfm crushed him; but he stood there,
without any visible change in him, ex-
@opt certain loftiness of carriage and
brightness Of eye.
~DOn't let US quarrel over money
nnatters, mother. AS you say, do as
you like with your own. 1t | have
Rlackhall l shall be quite satisfied,
and so will She"
Then you mean to brave me, insult
mo, and marry herr"
~NOt to insult you But certainly
Rean to marry her-if l can"
With or without my cOnsent?"
RCderick waited q minute and then
answered, in a very low Tone eyes.
Lad, lad have We gone clean daft?
rDOlye really mean what We say?" For
apparently, until now, ever accustomed
10 entire and unquestioned authority,
she had re used to believe him in
earnest.
Il shall go back to Switzerland,
Marry my cousin if can, and present
her here as soon as possible as my wife.
IL she will not marry, me II shall
MoSer come home at all"
"yrae fear O. that. She'll TAX We, lad =;
she'll jump at We II she thinks you've
gOs the siller.
Mother" Frederick spoke beneath
Mis breath in white heat of sup
pressed passion" mother, how dare
you say such things to me? If there
lis creature in the world that ought
tn be sacred to woman, it is that
other woman whom her son loves"
THAT other woman, as you call her,
rs nothing to me. You chose her with
G1t my knowledge, and you say you
will marry her with or without my
consent. Do it. But from that day
viii never set eyes upon either her or