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and now was certain of its success
j,entreatcd that Mrs. Willoughby would
{ not refuse her consent t. its attempt,
and reminded her that. rejecting the
plan he had conceived, Ros:l's first
Dorm would be left to struggle with a
world which did not always bestow its
best rewards ON those who most mer-
tied them.
Ct. And> Mrs. Willoughby thought of
sydney, out of employment and
wretched, and could but acknowledge
the truth that was in the words the
.baronet had last spoken. And Sir
Loghlen promised Mrs. Willoughby
that he would not take his son beyond
her reach. The baronct would reside
IN London, and with him, his niece
and her husband, if it should be CON-
pleted, as he had no doubt would be
the case, the marriage he so joyfully
contemplated.
You would promise that he should
not be taken from me?" cried Mrs.
Wtlloughby, now fast yielding before
this last temptation.
Never should he go beyond your
sight" cried Sir Loghlen, growing
warmer and more urgent in his plead
1ngs as he felt convinced he would Sue
coed. Consent to all 1 ask. Our fate
as In your hands; for it is not only of
the future of my own son that
think; the happiness of the other is at
stake; for I would not separate the
two brothers."
Tony, pnor boy, he would also be
we'll cared for" thought Mrs. Will
.oughby; and then demanded of the
3ibarOnet how lie would contrive to
make acquaintance With the grand
SONS.
And Sir I.oghlen replied that moth
ing could be more easy; he would re-
turn in an hour or two with his niece.
saAd Mrs. Willoughby would have but
to say that, in former years. she and
the barOpet had been acquainted.
"Let it all be as I would have it,"
-entreated Sir Loshlen. "Let Frances
and my son behold each other, and
heaven, who judges all Intentions, and
who knows what are mine, will accom-
plish the rest"
And Mrs. Willoughby was greatly
-troublcd-knew not how to decide.
The baronet was, perhaps, right; and
it might be that love for the other
would arise in the heart Of each; and
then, oh! then, Mrs. Willoughby would
believe that Rosa's pardon had de-
scended to him who had SO basely
wr0nged her; and poor, old Mrs. Will
Oughby would then herself be able to
forgive.
And, with joy Mt his heart greater
than it had ever known since those
days of his youth, when he had re-
ceived confession of her love for him
from the charming lips of Rosa Will
oughby, the baronct took his leave, for
IN hour or SO, of the mother of the first
and the only woman whom, in all his
life. he had ever truly loved.
How often had Sir Loghlen wished
that he had possessed the courage to
brave his fathers anger and threats of
disinheritance, and that his marriage
with Rosa had been as real as to that
unhappy and cruelly-deceived young
girl it had appeared.
The baronet's carriage had rolled but
a few PAGES from Mrs. Willoughby's
door, when it flashed across his mind
that even yet he knew not what name
had been given to his son, nor what
had been the name of Rosa's second,
land lawfully-wedded husband.
Sir Loghlen, in his hurried and ex-
cited interview with Mrs. Willoughby,
had forgotten to ask the name Of that
son, about whom his heart had been SO
deeply Interested.
About to order his coacllman to re-
turn, the baronet then thought to him
self that it was not worth while, since.
in an hour or so, he would behold the
young man. and from his own lips
learn his name.
Mrs. Willoughby, left to herself, had
some difficulty in believing that she
had not been asleep and dreaming, SO
strange did it seem to her that now,
after SO very many years, she had, for
the first time in her life encountered
the man on whose head her curse had
always rested and that she had been
won so easily to pardon him.
But it was no dream she soon con-
WINGED herself. The baronet had been
there, accusing himself and imploring
that she would pardon him the wrong
he had inflicted on her child, and he
had left her feeble. and disarmed.
She had been Won by the prospect of
fortune for her two grandsons, for both
were equally dear to her heart, al
though the circumstances of his birth
for Sydney compassion which, in its
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.erence in her love.
And without doubt Tony would have
been angry with his grandmother if he
had not believed in her preference for
his brother, for he never put himself
in comparison with Sydney, whom he
considered altogether superior be-
dng.
But Mrs Willoughby well knew that
although in physical beauty Sydney
nigh surpass his brother, they were
most perfectly equal in their estimable
qualities of mind and heart.
And the baronet had promised that
he would not separate the brothers,
and Mrs. Willoughby believed that
great happiness was now in her old
age about to arrive to her and to re-
main with her for the little time that
she had yet to dwell on earth.
CHAPTER XII.
Unvvelcome Visitors.
The brothers had returned home and