Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-09-28
CHAPTER xxxlL.-Goop.BY TO IRIS.

Lady Harry lifted her welt, and looked
at Mountioy with sad entrcaty in her
eyes. Are YOU angry with met she ask
ed.
II ought TO be angry with you, =" he said.
This is very ~imprudeHt, IRIS,
1T Is worse than that, she confessed.
at, reckless and desperate Don say /
ought To have controlled myself | can't
control the shame ! feel wheG ! think oi
what has happened. Can / let yuu 90
without taking your hand az parting
Come and sit by me on the sofa, After
ms poor husbands conduct. you and ! are
not likely 20 meet again. | don't expect
YOU 10 lament IL a. ! do. Even yonT
sweetness and your patience SO often
tried-must be weary Of me uOy.
If You thought that possible, my dear,
YOU would not have come here tonight
Hugh reminded her. While we live. we
have the hop of meeting again. Nothing
in this world lasts. lris-uot even jealousy.
Lord Harry himself told me that he was
q variable man. sooner or later he viii
com 10 his senses
Those words seemed 70 st1rtle Iris IL
hope you don't think that my husband
Is brutal TO met she exclaimed, still re-
senting even the appearance off reflection
on her marriage. and still forgetting what
she herself had said which Justified n
doubt of her happiness. HAY you form.
tu u WfODR IitDftEsibHk sue went On
"Has Fanny Mere innocently-'
Mountjoy noticed. for the first time, the
absence OF the maid. IL was "A circum.
stance which justified him in i~nterruptiug
Iris-for il might seriously affect her y
her visit 20 the hotel happened TO be dis
covered.
II understood" he said. that Fanny
was TO come here with YOU
Yes! yes, She is waiting in the car
riage. We are careful not TO excite atteD
lion al the door OF the hotel. the |colchmar
will drive up and down the street tili !
want him again. Never mud tha', j
have something 10 say 10 you about Fanny.
She thinks of her own troubles, poor soul,
when she talks Of me, and ~eXaggerates q
little without meaning IL. ] hope she has
not misied You in speaking Of her master
It is base aud bad or him, unworthy OF q
gentleman, 10 be jealous-and he has
! wounded me deeply. But, dear Hugh. hIs
jealousy j. a gentle Jealousy. | have heard
Of other men who watch their wiyes-wht
would even have taken away from mt
such q tritie as this. She smiled, aud
showed TO Mountjoy her duplicate key OF
the cottage door 'Ah, Harry is above
such degrading distrust as that! There
are times when he f. as heartily ashamed
| OF hts own weakness as ! could wish hin
TO be. ] have seen him on his knees be.
| fore me. shocked ut his conduct. He Is nc
ny pO1lAkfs lAbtNAs l1I1 sNRFAkauAt - al
cere, while il lasts-only IL doesn't last
His Jealous; rises aud falls like the wind.
He said last night when the vino was
high: III Won wish to make me the hap
piest creature on the face OF the earth
do not encourage Mr.. MOuutjoy to re.
main In Paris Try 10 make allowances
Tor him
II would rather make allowances, Iris
for you. DO you, too, wish me to leay.
Paris
Sitting very near To him-nearer than
her husband might have liked 10 see-lris
drew away a little. Did you mean to he
cruel, in saying that she asked. II don't
deserve it."
1T was kindly meant" Hugh assured
her, III | eau make your position more
endurable by going away. ! will leave
Paris tomorrow
Iris moved back again 10 the place which
she had already occupied. She was eager
TO thank him tfor a reason not yet men
toned. rs she had never thanked him
yet. silently and softly she offered her
gratitude To Hugh by offering her cheek.
The Irritating influence OF Lord Harrys
jealousy was felt by both OF them at that
moment. He kissed her cheek-and tin
gered over it. She was the first TO recover
herself.
when you spoke just now of my posi-
ton with my husband she said. you re-
minded me of anXieties, Hugh, IN which
you once shared, and Of services which !
can never forget"
Preparing him i'm those word for the
disclosure which she had now TO make,
Iris alluded to the vagabond life OF adyen
ture which Lord Harry lac led. The
restlessness IN his nature which hat life
implied had latterly shown itself again:
and his wife had traced the cause To IA let
ter rom Ireland. communicating a report
that the assassin of Arthur Mountjoy had
been seen la London. and was supposed 10
be passing under the name of Carri2een.
Hugh would understand that the desper-
ate resolution 10 revenge the murder OF
his friend, with which Lord Harry had
left England ia the past time, had been
urged lnto action once more. He had not
concealed from Iris that she must be 7e-
signed to his leaving her for a willis IL
the report which had reached him from,
Ireland proved to be true. Ii would he
useless, and worse than useless, to remind
this reckless man OF the danger that
threatened him from the lnvineibles il he
returned TO England. In using her power
oi Influencing the husband who still loved
her, Iris could only hope TO exercise salu-
tary restraint in her own domestic inter-
ests, appealing 10 him for indulgence by
careful submission to any exactions on
which HIS capricious jealousy might insist.
Wouid sad necessity excuse her, IL she ac-
cepted Mountjoy's offer TO leave Paris, for
the one reason that her husband had ask
ed il OF her as a favor?
Hugh ut once understood her motive,
and assured her OF his sympathy
You may depend upon nv returning
London Tomorrow" he said. I'm the
mean time, Is there no better way In which
! can be OF use ~ your Ii your influence
fails, do you see any other chance of keep
ing Lord Harry's desperate purpose under
controlsv
IL had only that day occurred TO Iris that
there might be some prospec, Of an en-
couraging result IL she could obta 4 the
assistance of Mrs. Vimpany.
The doctors wife was well acquainted
with Lord Harry's past life, when he hap
pened TO be In Ireland; and she had met
\ many OF his countrymen with whom he
lad associated, IL one Of those friends
lad written to him, il was at least posi-
Ole that Mrs. Vimpany's discreet Inter
ference might prevent his mischievous
correspondent from writing again. Lord
HarrY. Waiting for more nawa wonld IN