Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-01
Translation of aSaVage
By GILBERT PARKEB.
Copyright lS9s byJ. B, Lippincott Col
 CHAPTER VII

It was h.'.l to tell save for a certain dclircra.. n,'~> of speech and a color a httlv Ihor,' pronounced than that of Spauish wuuI,.n, that Mrs. Frank Ar mour had not been brought up in Eng land. She had kind uf grave sweetness and distant charm which made her no table at any table or i'll any ballroom. Indeed it soon became apparent that she was to be the pleasant talk, the interest of tho season This was tolcrably com forting to the Armours Again Rich ard prophecy had been fulfilled, and as he sat alone at Greyhopc and read The Morning Post, noticing Lall's name at distinguished gatherings, or, picking up The World, saw how tho lion hunt CTS talked eXtravagantly of her. he took some satisfaction to himself that he had foreseen her triumph where others look ed for her downfall. Lali herself was not elatcd It gratified her. but she had been an angel, and a very unsatisfactory one, if it had not done so.
 As her confidence grew (though out wardly she had never appeared to lack it greatly she did not hesitate to speak of herself as an Indian, her country aS a good country and her people as a no ble if diSpoSSCSSCd racc-all the more so if she thought reference to her na- tionality and past was being rather con spicuously avoided. She had asked General Armour for an interview with her husband solicitor. This was grant cd When she met tho solicitor, she asked him to send no newspaper to her husband containing any reference to herself. nor yet 10 mention her ill his letters,
 She had never directly received line from him hut once, and that was after she had come to know the truth about his marriage with her. She could read i'll tho conventional sentences, made simple as for child, the strained po- itvl,,~~ and his absolute silence as to whether or not a child had been born to them. the utter absence of affection for her She had also induced General Ar mlur "nl his wife to give her husband : | solicitor no information regarding the ] birth of the child. There was thus ap- | parcntlv nu moro induccment for him to hurry back to England than there | WAS when he had sent her off on his | mission of retaliation, which had been 1 such m iEuominious failure, for the | humiliation St his family had been short | lived. the affrOnt tO Lady Haldwell l nlthiH: at all. TEr Armours had not | been human if they had failed to enjoy | their daughtCr-in-law' success. Al | though they never perhaps would quito recover from the disappointment con corning Laly Agnes Martling, the result was >o much better than they i'll their Ch"crlnllr>t mOmt ntS dared hope fer that th, Y apprar~,} genuinely content
 To t!l, ir ,yranl]t hill tn, Y were dCvot- rdlv attach q. Marion was his faithful slave and ",i!,irrr, so much 90 that Cap tan NidAU, who now and then was p2rlm;trdtnsr see ;he child, declared him. self jealous It. and Marion were to be married Soou "Thc wedding had been delayed owing to his enforced absence abroad Mir Edward Lambert. once Mrs T0wulpy, >..-i v regretted in Lali' $ prcsrHco that the cnlld or one as sweet was not hers H,r husband evidently shared her opinion from the extraordi- nary notice he took of it when his wife was not prr>ent. Not that Richard Jo- scph Armour. Jr., was always en evi- dcncc, but when asked for by his faith Eui friends and admirers ho was amia- l,y produced.
 Meanwhile Frank Armour across the tca was engaged with many things. His business concerns had not prospcTe6 prodiSiou>ly, chiefly because his Judg mcnt, as .lS ttmpor. had grown some what uncertain His popularity in the Hudson lay country had been at soma tension since he had shipped his wifi, away to England. Even the ordinar! savage mind saw something unusua alid undomrStic ill it, and the genera h. pij..lltv declined little, Armour dii. not immediately guess the cause but one day about a year after his wifi hal gone inc found OCCa>i0n to reprOv half breed. by uame Jacques Pontiac and Jacques, with more honesty thai poli;: ness. said some hard words an, asked how much Inc paid for his Eng Iish hired devils t0 kill his wife Strang to sav, he did not resent this startling rCmark. It set him to thinking. He be gan to blame himself for not havin written oftCn6r to his people-and t his wife He wondered how far his re vrngo hal succeeded. He was mos
 
 had done diShunurablc thing. Tn more he thought upon it the more angr ; with himself he became. Yet he dread cd to go back to England and face } all-tho rcprOaCh of his people, tn amuscncnt of society. his wife herself b. He never attempted to picture her as civilized being. He scarcely knew he when he married her. She knew hiI 2 much better, for primitive people ar quicker in the play of their passion: al shc had come 10 love him before b h.,d begun Ia notice her at all,
 Presently he ate his heart out wit . modification. To be yOked forever to- savage! It was horrible! Their childreI
 It was strange he had not thought (
 that before Children: He shrugged hi = shoulders. There might possibly be l. ..hild. but children - nevorl But I doubted even regarding a child. for | word had come to him concerning tb.
 possibility. He was even most puZZ.e
 at the tone and substance of their Ie ! tcrs. From the beginning there Ina
 been no reproaches, no excitement, I B railing, but studied kindness and col venuonal statements, through whiC
 Mrs. Arnour's solicitous affectiC ,, scarcely ever peeped. He had shot h
 bolt and got-consideration. almost in =; pcrturbabil:ty, They appeared to Ire L5 the matter as though he were a wi
 youth who would yet mend his way t. He read over their infrequent letters
 him: his to them had been still mo D. infrequent, In one there was the stat D ment that she was progressing favo ably with her English, in anoth Q that she was riding a good deal. '' again that she appeared anxious n adapt herself to her new life.
 At all these he whistled a little 8 himself and smiled bitterly. Then, [
 at once. he got up and straightwi