The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-01-04
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Not many English tourists go out OF
1t has q Hotel de Vtlls surprising even
that of Brussels itself, aud though one
can get there in an hour from that city of
youth and pleasure. And there are no
English residents at all in the place-at
least, none in evidence, though perhaps
there may be some who have gone there
for the same reasons which led Mr.. Will
lam Linville and his wife to choose this
spot-iirorder to be private and secluded.
There nre many more people than we
know of who desire, above I'LL things, Sc
clnsion and retirement, and dread nothing
so much rs Il chance meeting with an old
friend.
Mr.. William I.inville took a small house,
furnished. like the cottage at Passy, and,
also like that little villa, standing in It's
own garden. Here, with q cook aud a.
maid, Iris set up her modest mendge. To
ask whether she was happy would be NIB
surd. AT no time since her marriage had
slie been happy; to live under the condi-
ton of perpetual concealment is not in it.
self likely to make 4 woman any the hap
pier. Fortunately she had no time to eX-
perience the full bitterness of the plan
proposed by her husband.
Consider. Had their scheme actually
been carried out quite successfully, this
pair, still young. would have found them
selves condemned to TRANSFORMATION for
'N asto tAk hitDNtliihH. 4NtAU, lntY
could never make any friends among their
" conntrymen or countrywomcn for
fear OF discovery. Iris could never again
speak to an English lady. Ii they had
children the risk would appear ten times
more terrible, tne consequences ten times
more awful. The children themselves
would have to grow up without family
aud without friends. Fhe husband. cut
off from intercourse with other men.
would he thrown back upn himself:
laid upon them, would inevitably grow to
loathe aud hate the sight OF each other,
The man would almost certainly take to
drink: the Woman-but we must not fol-
low this line any further. Tue situation
lasted only SO long us to give the wife u
glimpse OF what it might become in the
future.
They took their house, and sat down in
It. They were very silent. Lord Harry.
his great coup successfully carried so fa:,
sat taciturn and GUM. He stayed indoors
all day, only v%enturing ont after dark.
For Il man whose whole idea of life was
motion, society and action, this promised
III.
The monotony WAS first broken by the
arrival of Hugh's Letter which was sent
IN with other documents rom passy. Iris
read it; she read it again, trying to under
stand exactly what it meant. Then she
tore it up, IF he only knew" she sad,
''he would not have taken the trouble
even to write this letter. There is no an
swer, Hugh. There can be noue-now
Act by your advices ~Henccforth, | must
act by order. l am a c~onspirator."
Two days afterwards came "a letter from
the doctor. He did nor think it necessary
to say anything about Fanny's appearance
or her journey to Berne. "Everything,"
he Wrote, has SO far gone well. The
world knows, through the papers, that
Lord Harry is dead. There will be now
only the business of claiming the money.
For this purpose, as his widow is the sole
heiress and eNecutriX. it will be necessary
for her to place the will and the policies
of insurance in the hands of her husbands
lawyers, so that the will may be proved
aud the claims duly made. Forms Will
have to be signed. The medical certificate
OF death aud the forms attcsting the burial
are already in the lawyers hands. The
sooner the widow goes to London the bet
ter. She should write to naunc her
arrival, and sine should write from Paris
as If she had been staying there after her
husbands deaJh.
II have only to remind you, my dear
Linville, that vou are indebted to me in
the sun of $4,000. OF course, ] shall be
very pleased To receive Il check for this
sum in full US soon rs YOU nave touched
the amount due to you. / shall be in
Paris, at the Hotel Continental, where YOU
may address me. Naturally, there is no
desire for concealment, aud if the lnsur-