The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-02-14

lJor was, suppoblnR
ven were rash enough to pay many
more such visits. The sting then
partially extracted for q time from
Lisbeth's somewhat malleable nature,
she was more civil to the man whose
sudden presence in her home awed
and worried her to an extent abe
little guessed.
After all she argued to herself he
was her father and therefore would
surely be prepared to help rather
than distress her, II help we're want
Ing, and 30 che was decently behaved
to him.
Alas for the straits in which Lis
beth found herself when she dreamed
of getting help from such q quarter.
"Ths weather cock is veering," he
thought, when Lisbeth without watt
ing for any further assertions as to
his having seer Sir Miles since his
return, went silently to a cupboard
In the kitchen and set some viands
on the table.
She did not invite the w-comer
to penetrate into the aanctum she
had prepared with 30 much care for
the advent Of Clement Dunraven,
yet she old not consider that II
would be expedient altogether to
refuse him Tie r~Ssffsaifty Of shsr
house.
Jim Glendinning seated himself at
the well scrubbed table where he
had sat often as a boy, and eyed the
viands. Convict though he had been
he was an epicure and the aspect Of
the well-cooked supper pleased his
dainty appetite.
Could it be possible that In pre-
pairing it Lisbeth might have had q
notion that perhaps Clement Dun
raven would not have dined. Any
way she had little guessed who
would share with her the food she
had cooked with more than usual
care.
Jim Glendinning helped himself
with no frugal hand.
"Who finds the money, grip" he
asked, with coarse assurance. "Food
had not used to be plenty at our
cottage in the old days"
Crimson to the very roots of her
hair Lisbeth answered, "There Is no
money, father. What little I have
is honestly earned. I have been
working for Lady Marcia Foljambe,
she came over from Brentwells yes
terday and brought me a basket Of
provisions"
"Bless me, the girl seems to be
acquainted with all the county. You
are a cler woman, Lisbeth, you take
after your old dad as I said BEFORE"
Lisbeth did not reply, beyond
murmuring that she had much to be
grateful for. She was wondering
what effect this unexpected home
coming woulu have upon her future.
Would she be able to keep the
existence of little Lisa a secret from
Jim Glendinning's prying eyes and,
great heavens, IL he should find out
that Clement Dunraven was her
legitimate husband what dire catas-
trophe might not be brought about.
Thus bordering she was neverthe-
less by no means forgetful of her
fathers appetite and rather re-
gretted that shs had no liquor to
offer him, as it might have loosened
his tongue and given her more in
formation on several matters about
which she would gladly learn.
Without the aid of liquor, how
ever, she was to be told something
which gave her a shock almost as
thrilling as when Jim Glendinning
told her he had seen a man in even
ing dress in the wood.
1t vas when he had finished his
ample repast and was putting down
his knife and fork that he said,
"You'll have to give me a shake
down for to-night, Lisbeth, and I'll
go back to the City Road in the
morning. You're right, the Coleshill
gossips and I shall not hit it off,"
"To the City Road" she asked,
"are you living in the City KoadT"
Ana the question seemed to CULVER
on her ashen lips.
"Of course. Surely You knew my
dead sister, Mrs. Ellis2 No, I sup
pose you never did. You've been
at Coleshill all your life, but ou've
hsard Of her. Well, I arrived from
abroad expecting to be received with
some fuss, for Sally and I were
always good friends, when / dis
covered she had been dead only a
short time and of course I walked In
as heir-there Yves no one to try and
GUST me. They said there had been
some female eopsin, uursin, on
stayin' OF something, but she was
gone. I can't think who she could
be, we amt got no cousins, have we
Lisbeth?"
"Perhaps it was a relation of her
husband's," and Lisbeth, making
such an effort at composure that
she nearly tainted from the strain.
HRipht Won are Girl. that's what