Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

le,ia-ted in getting Invitations to; but
1t was noticed that. though his chef was
4 marvel, he rarely nte anything but the
toup and joint himself, and that, while
others were drinking the best wine that
Burgundy, or Ay, or Rheims could pro-
Guce. he scarcely ever Quenched his thirst
with anything but tumbler Of claret.
But he would sit Mt the head Of his
iable with q smile Of satisfaction upon
ais handsome face, contented with the
knowledge that his guests were happy
and enjoying themselves.
This man Of whom Ida was now think.
.ng and whose story may be told here,
had commenced life at Westminster
School, to which he had been put by his
uncle a rich owner Of mines and woods
In Honduras, from which place he paid
flying visits to England once year, OF
once In two years.
The boy was an orphan, left by hii
mother to her brothers care, and tha
brother had not failed in his trust.
The lad went to Westminster with ths
full understanding that Honduras musI
be his home when school days were over
but he knew that 1t would be a home OF
luxury and tropical splendor. There. af-
ter his school days, he passed some years
u
to the consignments Of shiploads of ma
hogany and cedar, going for days in the
hills with no companions but the Mestizos
and the Indians, and helping his uncle to
garner up more wealth that was eventual
ly destined to-be his.
Once or twice in the space of ten years
ne came to Europe. generally with the OBJ
ject of increasing their connection with
London or Continental cities, and Of look
ing up and keeping in touch with his old
school-fellows and friends.
And then, at last, two or three years
before this story opens, and when his
uncle was dead. it came to be said about
London that Walter Cundall, the richest
man from the Pacific to the Gulf Of Hon
duras, had taken a house in Grosvenor
place. and meant to make London more or
less permanently his residence. Other
places had been purchased one
by one, and he used all his pos
sessions sharing them with his friends
by turn; but London was, as peo-
pie said. his home. Occasionally he would
go off to Honduras on business. or would
rush by the Orient express to St. Peters
burg or Vienna: but he loved England
better than any other spot on the globe.
and never left it unless he was obliged
to do so.
This was the man whom gossip had said
was the future husband of Ida Raughton
this tall, dark, handsome man, who
was. when In England, a great deal by her
side.
But gossip had been rather staggered
when it heard that during Mr.. Cundall's
last absence of six months to the tropics.
she had become the affianced wife Of Lord
Penlyn.
1t wondered what he would say when
he came back, as it heard he was about
to do very shortly, and it wondered why
on earth she had taken Penlyn when she
might have had Cundall. 1t talked 1t over
in the drawing rooms and the ball rooms,
at EPSON and on the lawn at SandOwn,
but it did not seem to arrive at any con-
clusion satisfactory to itself.
81 suppose the fact of it is that Cundan
never asked her. one said to another
.and she got tired of waiting"
Did she think so herself, as she sat
there that bright afternoon? No, that
could not be possible! Ida Raughton was
girl with too pure and honorable a
heart to take one man when she loved
another.
CTo be continued)