Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-07-09

have lived the full space OF mans years.
And Madame your mother? She 10 wellY'
For a moment the young man hesitated.
Then he said:
"She is dead, too"
"Pauyre dame," the landlord said, and
MS he spoke it seemed as though he was
talking to himself. "She was bright and
happy in those days SO far of, bright and
happy once; and she, too, is gone. And
l, who was older than either Of them, am
left! But, Lord Penlyn," he said, read
dressing himself to his guest, you look
younger than your years. 1t is thirty
years since you used to run about those
sands outside and play; i have carried you
to them often"
"You carried me to those sands thirty
years ago! Why, / was not"
"Stop!" Philip Smerdon said to him in
English, and speaking in a low tone. do
you not see it all? Say no more"
Later on, when the landlord had left
the room after insisting upon shaking
the hand Of "the child he had known
thirty years ago." Gervase said:
5 he who was so stern and self-con-
tanned, who seemed to be above the Or
binary weaknesses Of other men, was,
after all, worse than the majority Of
them. I suppose he left this poor woman
when he married my mother, ! suppose
he left the boy, for whom this man takes
me-to starve or to become a thief prey.
ing on his fellow men. It is not pleasant
to think that I have an elder brother who
may be an outcast, perhaps q felon!"
Il should not take such q pessimistic
view of things as that" Philip said. "For
aught you know, the lady he had with him
here may have died between 1854 and
1858, and, for the matter Of that, so may
the boy; or he may have made a good al
lowance to both when he parted with
them. For anything you know to the
contrary he might have seen the boy fire.
quently until his death and have taken
care to place him comfortably in them
world,
'In such a case / must have known it.
I must have met him somewhere"
So we'll did the landlord remember Mr..
Occ.eve's face, ever after all these years,
that ever since Lord Penlyn had been in
the house he had been puzzling his brains
to think where he had seer him before.
He certainly should not, he said, have
remembered the child he had played with
so often, but that his likeness to his father
was more than striking. To Madame, his
mother, he saw no resemblance at all.
but l did not tell him." he said to him.
self afterwards, as he sat in his parlor
below; Il did not tell him that on the
second summer n gloom had fallen over
them, and that / often saw her in tears.
and heard him speak harshly to her. Why
should l disturb the poor young mans
meditations on his dead father and moth
err"
On the next day the storm was over,
and the Electra was skimming over the
wave and leaving the dreary French
coast far behind it.
ut hasn't been a pleasant visit" Lord
Penlyn said to Philip, as they leant over
the bows smoking their pipes and watch
ing LIE Vocq fade gradually into a speck.
Il would give something never to have
heard that story"
ut is the story Of thirty years ago."
his friend answered. "And it is not you
who did the wrong. Why let it worry
your"
II cannot help It! And-I dare say you
will think me a fool!-but l cannot also
help wondering on which Of my fathers
~children-upon that other nameless and
unknown one, or upon me-his sins will
be visited"
CHAPTER I.
Ida Raughton sat, on a bright June day
of that year, in her pretty boudoir, look
ing out on the well-kept gardens OF q
West End square,, and thinking Of an i'm
portant event in her life that was now
not very far Other marriage. The we'd
ding day was fixed for the LIST Of Septem-
berd. Her future husband was Geryase
Occleve, viscount Penlyn.
She was the only daughter Of Sir Paul
Raughton, a wealthy Surrey baronet, and
had been to him, since her mothers death,
as the apple Of his eye-the only thing
that to him seemed to make life worth
living.
That she should have made a sensation
during her first season was not q thina
to astonish Sir Paul, nor, indeed, any
one else. Ida Raughton was ~ thor.
oughly beautiful q girl, when arst she
made her appearance In London society
al any who had ever taken their place
in its ranks.
xall ana GRACEFUL ana QO8Seoee0 OF ar
exquisitely shaped head, round which he,
auburn hair curled in thick locks: with
bright hazel eyes, whose expression varied
in accordance with their owners thought,
and feelings, sometimes sparkling viii
laughter and mirth, and sometimes sad
dened with tears AZ she listened to in
tale Of sorrow: with . nose the line q
which was perfect, and q mouth, thu
smallness Of which disguised, though Il
could not hide, the even, white teetl
within, no one could look at Ida withou,
acknowledging how lovely she was. Ever
other and rival debutantes granted hel
loneliness, and the woman who a oh
tain such . concession as this from he,
sisters has fairly established her right t,
homage.
As she sat In her boudoir window o,
this June day, thinking Of her now def
nitely settled marriage, she was wonder
ing IL the life before her would be a,
bright and happy 40 the one she was leav
ing behind forever.
That, with the exception Of the dealt
Of her mother, . sorr~w that time has
mercifully tempered - her, had beef
without alloy. Would TIE future be 90?
There Wal no reason to think otherwise
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