The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-10-12
CHAPTER sSx11.-Goon.an 70 1rr

Lady Harry lifted her veil, and looked
Mt Mountioy with sad entreaty in her
eyes. Are you angry with me?f she ask
ed.
II ought to be angry with you," he said.
''rhis is very ~imprudent. lris,'
ut is worse than that she confessed.
"It's reckless and desperate. Don't say l
ought to have controlled myself. ] cunt
control the shame | feel whe1 | think of
what has happened. Can ! let YOU go
without taking your hand at parting?
Come and sit by me on the sofa. After
my poor husbands conduct, you and are
not likely TO meet again. ! don't expect
you to lament it as 1 do. Even your
sweetness IL your paticnce-so often
tried-must be weary of me now
''if sou thought that possible, my dear,
Won would not have come here tonight"
Hugh reminded her. while we live. we
have the hope of meeting again. Nothing
in this world lasts, Iris-uot even jealousy.
Lord Harry himself told me that he WAS
q variable man. Sooner or later he will
come to his senses"
Those words seemed to startle Iris. 81
hope you don't think that my husband
is brutal to mel she exclaimed, still re
seuting even the appearance of Il reflection
on her marriage. and still forgetting what
she herself had said which justified a
doubt of her happiness. "Ilave you form.
ed a wrong impressions" she went on
"HaS Fanny Mere inuocently-"
Mountjoy noticed, for the first time, the
absence of the maid. 1t was a circum,
stance which justified him in iuterrupting
lris-for it might seriously affect her n
her visit To the hotel happened to be dis
covered.
II understood he said, that Fanny
was to come here with YOU"
'Yesl yes! She is waiting in the car.
riage. We are careful not to excite attcu
ton at the door of the hotel; the coucilman
will drive up and down the street till ]
hive something to say to you about Funny.
She thinks of her own troubles, poor soul,
when she talks OF me, and eXaggerates Il
little without meaning 1t. ! hope she has
not mtSlad you in speaking Of her master
1t is base and bad of him, unworthy Of Il
gentleman, to be jealous-and he has
wounded me deeply. But, dear Hugh, his
jealousy is a gentle jealousy. | have heard
of other men who watch their wives-wht
would even have taken away from me
such a trttle as this" She smiled, and
showed to M9untjoy her duplicate key O
such degrading distrust as that! There
are times when he is as heartily ashamed
Of his own weakness as | could wish hin
to be. have seen him on his knees be
fore me, shocked ut his conduct. He is NJ
hypocrite. Indeed, his repentance is sin
| Stlt, "illI ~ lttSlS- DIii1 IL -NlcCSi u "idst
His jealousy rises and falls like the wind
He said last night (wlen The wind wa
high: If you wish to make me- the hap.
piest creature on the face of the earth
do not encourage Mr.. Mountjoy to re
main in Paris!' Try to make allowances
for him
81 would rather make allowances, Iris
for you. DO you, too, wish Inc to leav,
Parise'
Sitting very near to him-nearcr tina,
her husband might have liked to see-lri!
drew away a little. Did you mean to b,
deserve it,
ut was kindly meant" Hugh assured
her. IF | can make your position NOR
endurable by going away, l will leav'
Paris tomorrow"
Iris moved back again to the place which
she had already occupied. She was cage
to thank him (fos IL reason not vet mon
%tioned), as she had never thanked hin
yet. Silently and softly she offered he
gratitude to Hugh BY Offering her cheek
The irritating influence of Lord Harry,
jealousy was felt by both of them at tina
moment. He kissed her c~heek-npd lin
gered over it. She was the first to recove
herself.
when you spoke just now of my pos
ton with my husband" she said, you re
minded me of anXieties, Hugh, in whicI
you once shared, and of services which
can never forget,h
Preparing him In those words for tn
disclosure which she had now to make
Iris alluded to the vagabond life OF adyer
ture which Lord Harry had led. Th
restlessness in his nature which that lit
implied had lattefly shown itself again
and his wife had traced the cause to II lei
Ter from Ireland, communicating a repor
that the assassin of Arthur Mountjoy I'm
been seen In London, and was supposed I
be passing under the name of CnrrigeeL
Hugh would understand that the despel
ate resolution TO revenge the murder C
his friend, with which Lord Harry ha
left England i'll the past time, had bee
urged into action once more. He had nc
concealed from Iris that she must be Y
signed to his leaving her for n while
the report whict, had reached him frul
Ireland proved to be true. 1t would /
useless, and worse thar useless, to remin
this reckless man of the danger tn,
threatened him from the invincibtes If h
returned to England. III using her pow
Of influencing the husband who still love
} her, Iris could only hope to exercise salt
tarY reStraintin her own domestic int
} ests, appealing to him for indulgence b
} careful submission to any exactions o
which his capricious jealousy mightinsis
Would sad necessity Reuse her, il she n
cepted Mounijoy's offer 10 leave Paris, fl
the one reason that her husband had asl
} ed 1t of her az a favor?
Hugh Mt once understood her motist
and assured her of his symplttEr
You may depend upon my returning 4
London Tomorrow" he said. sin I'll
: mean time, is there no better way in whic
! can be of use II, you? IL your infiuent
. fails, do you see any other chance of keel
ing Lord Harry's desperate purpose und,
controlsn
, 1t had only that day occurred to Iris til,
(: there might be some prospect Of an e
couraging result ii she could obta i Il
]. assistance of Mrs. Vimpany.
The DOCTORS wife was well aculaiute
Q with Lord Harry's past life, when he ha
/. pened to be in Ireland; and she had M
many OF his countrymen with whom |
lad associated. Ii one OF those frient
iappened to be the oflicious person wi
: ,tti written to him, it was at least poss
dc that Mrs. Vimpany's discreet Int
/ Ference MIGHT nrnYanf his mischievni