The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-07-26

! This cost him something, but III mao It's
reward There was no more listlessness.
Previously Franks name had scarcely
been spoken to her. Mrs. Armour would
have hours of hesitation and impotent
regret before she brought herself to
speak of her son to his Indian wife.
Marion tried to do it few times and
failed. The general did it with rather
q forced voice and manner, because he
saw that his wife was very tender upon
the point. But Richard, who never
knew self consciousness, spoke freely OF
Frank when he spoke at all, and it was
seeing Lali's eyes brighten and her look
earnestly fixed on him when he CHANGED
to mention Frank name that determin-
! ed him on his new method Of instruc-
ton. 1t had its dangers, but he had cal
culated them all. The girl must be edu-
Gated at all costs. The sooner that &C.
Cured the sooner would she see her own
position and try to adapt herself to her
responsibilities and face the real state
of her husbands attitude toward her.
He succeeded admirably. Striving
to tell him about her past life and
band, OF his prowess IN the nunu, Oh Ills
strength and beauty, she also strove to
find English words for the purpose, and
Richard supplied them with uncommon
willingness. He humored her so far as
to learn many Indian words and phrases,
but he was chary of his use Of them and
tried hard to make her appreciative OF
her new life and surroundings. He
watched her waking slowing to an un-
derstanding of the life and Of all that
it involved. 1t gave him kind of fear,
too, because she was sensitive, and
there was the possible danger Of her
growing disheartened or desperate and
doing some mad thing in the hour that
she Weakened to the secret behind her
marriage.
His apprehensions were not without
cause, for slowly there came into Lali's
mind the element of comparison. She
became conscious of it one day when
some neighboring people called at Grey
hope. Mrs. Armour, in her sense of
duty, which she had rigidly set before
her, introduced Lali into the drawing
room. The visitors yelled their curiosi-
ty and said some pleasant casual things
to the young wife, but she saw the half
curious, half furtive glances, she caught
sidelong glance and smile, and when
they were gone she took to looking at
herself in mirror, thing she could
scarcely be persuaded to do before. She
saw the difference between her carriage
and others, her manner of wearing her
clothes and others, her complexion and
theirs. She exaggerated the difference.
She brooded on it. Now she sat down
cast and timid and hunted in face as
the first evening she came. Now she
appeared restless and excited.
If Mrs. Armour was not exactly SYM
pathetic with her, she was quiet and
forbearing, and General Armour, like
Richard, tried to draw her out-but not
on the same subjects He dwelt upon
what she did-the walks she took in
the park those hours in the afternoon
when, with Mackenzie or Colvin, she
vanished into the beeches, making
friends with the birds and deer and
swans. But most of all she loved to go
to the stables. She was, however, asked
not to go unless Richard or General Ar
mour was with her. She loved horses,
and these were a wonder to her. She
had never known any but the wild un-
groomed Indian pony ON which she had
ridden in every fashion and over every
kind Of country. Mrs. Armour sent for
riding master and had riding costumes
made for her. 1t was intended that she
should ride every day as soon as she
seemed sufficiently presentable. This
did not appear SO very far off, for she
improved daily in appearance. Her hair
was growing finer and was made up in
the modest prevailing fashion. Her
skin, not now exposed to an inclement
climate and subject to the utmost care,
was smoother and fairer. Her feet, in
cased in fine, well made boots, looked
much smaller, her waist was shaped to
fashion, and she was very straight and
issom. So many things she did Jared
on her relatives that they were not fully
aware of the great Improvement in her
appearance. Even Richard admitted her
trying at times.
Marion went up to town to stay with
Mrs. Townley, and there had to face
good deal Of curiosity. People looked
at her sometimes as if it was she and
not Lali that was an Indian. But she
carried things off brGvely enough and
answered those kind inquiries which
ones friends make when we are in en-
barrassing situations with answers so
calm and pleasant that people did not
know what to think.
''Yes," she said III reply to Lady
Balwood, cher sister in-law might be
in town later in the year, perhaps be-
fore the season was over. She could not
tell. She was tired after her long voy-
age, and she preferred the quiet Of Grey
hope. She was fond Of riding and coun-
try life, but still she would come to
town for time. " and so on.
"Ah, dear me, how charlning AnG
doesn't she resent her husbands alb
sence during the honeymoon, or did
the honeymoon occur before she came
over to England?" And Lady Balwood
tried to say it all playfully, and GER
tainly said it somewhat loudly. She