The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-03-06

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claimed Lucille when she had reread
the letter for the third time. Engaged
to Kathleen Mayse, indeed Engaged to
her thousands, he ought to have said
q horrid, plain, little, red haired thing
without an idea in her head. It is per-
fectly disgusting, the things men will
do for money, but did think Wilfrid
was different. did believe in him at
least And she rose from her chair in
dignantly. "Why, not year ago, he
was ready to blow his brains out because
I would not marry him, and now
She finished her sentence with dra-
matte gesture worthy of Duse herself
A dangerous little person she looked as
she paced up and down the pretty bou-
doir. The fact was that Mrs. CORN was
suffering acutely from the complaint
which in our nursery days we called
"dog in the mangerness.
Married before the close of her first
season to a man whose hold on life and
fortune was more unstable than any
one had supposed, at 81 she was left
widow with an income which allowed
small margin for opera boxes or Pari-
sian toilets, both Of which, with tout &c
que sen suit, were exceedingly dear to
the little woman's heart. Launched
among certain set, however, she was
swimming with the stream to no very
safe port when Gilbert Corin-an elder
ly banker-came, saw and was con-
quered.
Some one says somewhere that there
are no wedding bells which do not ring
the knell of somebody's happiness, and
certainly on Lucile's second marriage
morning Wilfrid Endicott might we'll
have been dubbed the "Knight of the
Rueful Countenance. - He and the pref
ty little widow had. for some time be-
fore Corin's appearance upon the scene,
been engaged in a very serious Irritation
so serious indeed that when her elder
ly sutton declared himself, and Lucille
murmured the fateful Eyes" she had a
neRTsr approach to a qualm Of con.
science than she had ever experienced.
Without doubt had Wilfrid been suit
ably endowed with this worlds goods
there would have been small chance for
Gilbert; but, as things were, marriage
was luxury they could not Afford" as
Lucille told the angry young man when
he came to upbraid her for her faith
lessness. The little woman was not with
out a taste for dramatic situations, and
on the whole she rather enjoyed her
farewell interview with Wilfrid. She
wept little in a becoming fashion and
gave utterance to few sentiments of
the blanche Amory" type and ended
by saying that she would like to keep
his letters as a souvenir Of their
"dream.'
Though she had laid express COM
mands on Wifred as to their conduct to
each other after her marriage, Lucille had
no intention of their being obeyed. I'm
fortunately, however, and as every silver
lining has it's dark cloud, Gilbert CORN
was as jealous as a Moor, and some
whispers concerning his wife and Endi-
colt having reached his ears it was
speedily made clear to Wilfrid that Mr..
CORN was by no means likely to find
place among the maris complaisants.
Acting on the principle that when a
mans heart is broken he gathers up the
pieces and melts them together again at
the nearest candle, Wilfrid had gone to
Kathleen Mayse for consolation, which
consolation was possibly all the more
effective that, as a setoff to her red hair
and hazel eyes, the young lady was sole