The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-01-30

better put good face on 1t ana let Burtlo
think you were sincere from the begin
ming. In fact, you'll have to do so.
There is nothing else for It,.
Leave me-lct me go TO bod" said
Lady WhiChCls tartly. II am too angry TO
sit up, and to talk about it makes mo feel
worse. Good nightr'
But just after Miss Dornton's visit came
to termination she had cause to feel
worse still, for something horrible had
happened. lr began Where did II be-
gin2 1t matured i'm the smoking room
one evening. 1t eliminated in Lady
Whichols dressing room at O'Clock one
ghastly morning when she was half dead
with misery and sleep.
For ten days Bortio had been feeling
less sure of himself than he had done.
Opposition was the breath of life to him,
and, with the course of true love running
smooth, he began to ask himself whether
1t was true love, after all
In the meantime the baronet's first i'm
preston of his brothers hanceo had been
more than confirmed, and, tickle on tho
young lady's part Us it may look she up
peared TO find more pleasure In Sir Philip
society than in Bertie's.
Well, one night, when the brothers were
alone together in the smoking room, the
younger man unbosomed himself. He
told the baronet that his engagement had
been a mistake, and he wished to goodness
that he had never blundorcd into it. Sir
Philip, who had been mixing himself n
whisky and potash, dropped the glass,
which shivored into 30 pieces in the Alb.
botsford stove AS a man not given tO
dropping things, the accident was note.
worthy and suggested that his nerves were
not properly under control.
"YOu'll have treated the girl ID
badly" he said sharply.
"You think that l ought to marry herp
81 think that you Oughtn't to have asked
her II you weren't sure Of yourself. What
are you going to dOY"
"I'm going to jilt her." said Bertit
sulkily; chats what I'm going to do, ant
don't believe she likes me as much al
she did Philip"
"A good thing for her If she doesn'tr
opinod the other
Il dare say. Anyhow she leaves us to
morrow morning, and l shall write to he
rooms in town, saying feel that made
mistake, and-and-that it had better end
If she wants check, L dare say my
mother
"Oh, don't be such n confounded young
cadi" exclaimed Philip. "a checkp
"You seem to have a very wonderful
opinion of Miss Dornton. wonder yol
don't marry her yourself"
Perhaps l may, if got the chance o
asking her and she will have me-" an
swered the baronet. when you havt
written your elegant epistle let me know
Now I'm going to turn in"
1t was ON the morning Of the next da,
but one that Sir Philip, who had spent tn
previous afternoon in London, disturbed
his mothers repose in the fashion alluded
to. He told her that he was going to b
married Lady Whiohels, wrapped in
dressing gown, listened to him with asher
cheeks.
ITO Miss Dornton, mother BERTHE ha
Tilted her, and l proposed yesterday.
don't suppose you'll be pleased, but she
the incest girl ever met in my life, an,
mean to make her Lady Whioheis. "
"Bertie has Tilted herl" gasped the wild
ow. "And you-you"-
eyes, Even II Last month I scoffed
today fall Perhaps it Is judgment o,
me. Perhaps it is Judgment on you 70
plotting her downfall as you did. Ger
tainly should not have had the opportunit
of falling in love with her If you hadn't
Anyhow I worship the ground she walk
on and we afe engaged"
And what Is more he married her, fac
from which an interesting moral may b
draXn by ladies who fancy their abilitie
for diplomacy. The deposed dowager neye
forgave him. nor herself, and when she re
fleets that it was all entirely due to he
own brilliant interference she feels ther
are certain emotions which language
wholly inadequate to conyey.-F. @. Phi
ips In Madame.