The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-06-27
CHAPTER xxx.-THE sPEoTREs o.
THE FUTURE.

II FUTURE.
"Don't you think, Gertie darling,
that a drive would do you good9 For
two days you have not been out OF
this hotel-we might as we'll have
stayed at home II you do not benefit
by the change"
81 am so tired, Glenn, I feel as II I
only want to lie here and be at
peace"
care you sorry you came abroad,
dear2"
"No, I am very glad, for you al
ready look the better for the
change"
And 80 he did. There was a good
deal of elasticity in Clement Dunra-
vents nature, hearing and seeing
nothing to annoy him, he had to an
extent thrown off his weight of wor-
ries. or course he had his dark
hours, and very terrible they were,
but since the boys death he had
managed to conceal them from Lady
Gertrude, and as he did not look 30
haggard as he had done in England,
she reasonably conjectured that the
change was doing him good. And
this was the one CLEAN of sunshine
the poor little woman had, FOR her
own heart was very sad, and so bro
ken was she that those about her al
most feared che had received her
death blow when the baby died.
Sir Clement, however, would not
believe this. He declined to see any
danger in his Gertie's condition.
Other women had lost children be-
fore and got over it, why should she
not do the same. There was no or
ganic disease, of that DR.. Watson
had assured him.
Lady Marcia and Elvira Delane
would arrive in a couple of days and
then Gertie would cheer up. How
could he, miserable and remorseful
wretch that he was, expect to be
able to cheer her up, and as yet they
had not met any one in Wiesbaden
whom they knew. Thus he consoled
himself as he wandered about the
lovely garden in which the kurkaus
and the principal villas are situated,
and longed for the time when, her
friends having arrived, Lady Ger
trude would be induced to accompany
them in their w%anderings. If he
could get her into the Kur-garten
every day to hear the band, he knew
she would soon get all right.
How fallacious is hope, yet but for
hope how deep would be despair.
Wiesbaden was not perhaps alto
gether the very best place to which
Lady Gertrude could have come, a
more bracing climate might have
served her better. 1t was Lady
Marcia who had chosen it. She had,
or imagined she had, various ailments
for which a residence at Weisbaden
would be beneficial, since it abounds
in specialists of considerable renown,
and, the chief object being to get
Lady Gertrude away from the remi-
niscences that surrounded her at
Aboyne Court, the climate of her
temporary abode had not been
brought under discussion.
"Do you not think if l ordered a
carriage you would drive to the
Greek Chapel or the Platte, OF some
of the places Of interest in the neigh
borhood," persisted Sir Clement.
81 am very well at this window, I
can see the trees"
They were at a hotel on the Will
helm Strasse, looking on to the Park.
"Then l must 60 all alone" said
Sir Clement, with a sigh.
This appeal at once reused Lady
Gertrude.
81 will go with you, Glenn, dear
forgive me for being 80 selfish. Or
der a carriage for five o'clock, it will
be cooler then"
He kissed her and went out to give
the order, wondering, as he went,
what there was in him, a mere Grim
inal, that two women should be al
ways ready to sacrifice their wishes
and pleasures to his.
Having arranged about the car
riage to his satisfaction, he thought
he would go to the post office and
see if there were any letters. Ow-
ing to some uncertainty about their
rooms in the hotel, all letters were
to be sent opposite restant," a plan
which especially suited Sir Clement,
as he could thus receive letters from
Lisbeth without their being observed
either by his wife or the servants.
There was one awaiting him now,
with a small P marked in the corner,
which meant that he was to open it
when no one was by.
The sign some what astonished Sir
Clement, for though he himself had
told her to put it, she had declined,
saying ''that the letters she intended
to write him in the future would be
of such a nature that anyone might
read them"
Something unexpected then had
occurred, Sir Clement feared, as he
stood in the street tearing open the
letter with trembling fingers, "per-
haps the other child also was dead"