The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1896-05-22
CH APTl.R VI.
4 Deem Plot

Deep Plot
Stanley tlaremOnt, to forward at
especial purpose which he had in view
lnSlnuated to his uncle 4 pretended be
lief that their guest was not deriving
any very great amount Of qualification
from his present residences at the man.
sion.
Into very frequent fits of abstraction
had sydney fallen since he had been
Sir Lc1hlcn's guest. the cause Of which
will be readily surmised by the reader:
and his guests great absence of mind
had been more than once observed by
the baronet.
And so Sir Loshlen was very easily
brought to believe that time was now
In reality passing rather slowly and
drearilv with sydney Drummond
And what could be done for his
young guests enlivenment
Stanley was ready with his answer
to that question
A few young friends Of his own he
suggested. had better be invited: and
II his advice were adopted he could
safely promise that Mr. Drummona
would soon be cured OF the ennui with
which he was now so evidently troub
led
Sir Loghlen had conceived Il partic-
'llar liking for his present guest. and
SO readily consented to that which
would make the youn. mans time pass
more pleasantly while beneath his en-
tertainer'S roof
Stanley. then. lost not a moment in
sending out invitations to five or six
of the most reckless young men of all
his acquaintance: and by the follow
ing morning all whom H. had invited
had arrived.
And Stanley took gotd care that
neither his unele's guest Tor his niece
should again approach Sir oghlen TN
til all the invitations were fairly on
their way and entirely beyond recall.
And recalled. il that had been possi-
bic. they certainly would have been
when the lovers-We now may safely
term them so-had been told by the
baronet Of that which his nephew had
said. and Of that which. under permi,-
sion. lie had done.
Frances was furious against her
cousin for what She Justly termed his
willy. unlerhand conduct. and sydney
protested with Il sincerity which the
baronet could hot doubt that in all his
life before he had never known such
perfectly happy moments as had been
many Of those which he had already
enjoyed as Sir Loghlen's guest
And as so he said. Sydney, perhaps
unconsciously to himself. glanced TO-
ward Frances. whose eyes sank be-
meath the gaze, and whose face was
once more suffused with a rosy blush
But the mischief had been done the
friends whom Stanley had invited had
,.,.sx e..
came the opportunities for those con
versations. in which indeed but little
had been said. and for those rambles
together which-forgetting. for the
time. how impossible. in the future.
appeared the realization Of the dream
i'll which they We're indulging- made
this greatly world to them "A
paradise.
BoiSterouS fast" Young men were |
these friends Of Stanley's. who de-
stroyed al peace AMI comfort within
the house: and as deeply as the lovers. |
though from far different causes. did |
the baronet detest their presence in I
his mansion
In the dusk Of evening. four days be- |
fore that one on which the baronef had |
fixed for his departure toward London I
with sydney, and his nephew. and
niece. Stanley Claremont and Abra- |
ham Mailer We're together. and in earn
est and almost whispered conversa-
tion, in thick plantation which be /
longed to Sir Ioghlen O'Meara and
which was but 4 few hundred yards
from his mansion.
The pcddler was now we'll mutfled
up and without his pack.
He had followed the instructions
which he had received from Stanley.
and had taken good care not to be seen
in neighborhood which ii was gen
orally believed he had quilted several
days before
After many words had been ex-
between these two men-so
different in station. but so perfectly
equal in lascality peddler. doubt
Ingly shaking his head, srumbled forth.
'Um, 1t will be a very hard Job
Not to il man Of your genius, Ahra-
ham, f1atteringly said Stanley. And
continued. DO but succeed in ii. my
good fellow. and then shall be the
first to say to my uncle. Behold in
Sydney Drummond the man whom you
were seeking""
Whatever might be the secret which
united the baronet to Sydney Drum