Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-27

to her company.
 Years after that first morning Marion
 caught herself shuddering at the
 thought that came to her when she saw
 Lali lowering on the bridge Whatever
 Marion's faults were, she had fine dis
 like of anything that seemed unfair
 She had not ridden to hounds for noth-
 ing, She had at heart the sportman' s
 instinct It was upon this basis indeed
 that Richard appealed to her in the first
 trying days of Lali's life among them.
 To oppose your will to Marion on the
 basis of superior knowledge was only to
 turn her into a rebel, and a very effect
 i've rebel she made, for she had pretty
 gift at the retort courteous, and she
 could take as much and as we'll as she
 gave. She rebelled at first at assisting
 ill Lali's education, though by fits and
 starts she would teach her English
 words and help her to form long sen.
 tences and was on the whole quite pa-
 tient But Lali's real instructors were
 Mrs. Armour and Richard; her best,
 Richard.
 The first few days she made but little
 progress, for everything was strange to
 her, and things made her giddy-the
 servants, the formal routine, the hand
 some furnishings, Marion's music, the
 great house, the many precise personal
 duties set for her to be got through at stated times and Mrs. Armour's rather
 grand manner. But there was the relief
 to this. else the girl had pined terribly for her native woods and prairies. This was the park, the deer, the lake, the hares and birds. While she sat saying over after Mrs Armour words and phrases in English or was being shown how she must put on and wear the sashes which a dressmaker from Regent street had been brought to make, her eyes would wander dreamily to the trees, and the lake, and the grass They soon discovered that she would pay no attention and was straightway difficult to teach if she was not placed where she could look out on the park. They had no choice, for though her resistance was never active it was nevertheless effect i've.
 Presently she got on very swiftly with Richard, for he, with instinct worthy of woman, turned their les sons upon her own country and Frank This cost him something, but it had its 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 a few times and failed. The general did it with rather a 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 fixed on him when he chanced to mention Frank s name that determin- ed him on his new method of instruc- tion. It had its dangers, but he had cal culated them all The girl must be edu- cated at all costs The sooner that oc- cured the sooner would she see her own position and try to adapt herself to her and face the real state of her husbands attitude toward her
 He succeeded admirably. Striving to tell him about her past life and ready to talk endlessly about her hus- band, of his prowess in the hunt of his strength and beauty, she also strove to find English words for the purpose, and Richard supplied them with uncommon 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. It gave him kind of fear. too. because she was sensitive, and there was tho possible danger of her disheartened or desperate and doing some mad thing in the hour that she wakened to the secret behind her 
 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 sho had rigidly set before her, introduced Lah into the drawing room. The visitors yelled their curiosi- ty and said some pleasant casual things to th" young wife, but she saw the half curious, half furtive glances, she caught a sidelong glance and smile, and when they were gone she took to looking at herself in a mirror, thing she could 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. sast and timid and hunted in face as the first evening she came Now she restless and excited.
 If Mrs Armour was not exactly sym pathetic with her. she was quiet and and General Armour, like 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 into the beeches, making friends with the birds and deer and swans But most of all she loved to 20 'o the stableA She was. however, asked lot to go unless Richard or General Ar nour was with her. She loved horses. md these were a wonder to her. She aad never known any but tho wild un- Indian pony on which she had ridden in every fashion and over every 1rt It Is absurd to be perfectly natural Anything, anybody, can be that We'll Captain Hume Vidall was something of m artist, more. however. in principle han by temperament He refused to the rather malicious adroit- ness with which Marion turned his re- marks again upon himself. twisted out 'f all semblance. He was very patient He inquired quietly. and as if honestly about Frank and said-be- cause he thought it safest as we'll as most reasonable-that naturally they must have been surprised at his marry ng a native. but he himself had seen 'ome such marriages turn out very we'll