Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-07-16

loved him. cried little Lady Franz.
Then she saw what an admission 4
had made and blushed furious ~.
let. Roger smiled a little sadly
Frances. you know all my tfanti.
you have helped me in some ~ fba,
You know that | loved Venetla Vii
all my heart"
I should be sorry If you had M,
loved her.
And some people would saw ~,
my battered affections were very noo.
things to offer to one so young az
fresh as you, but no one can ha =
me what you are and so that il vhs
l cannot come back 20 England
"Why not?'
Child. cannot live so near n,
without loving you"
"Then love me-" said little Iasv
Frances.
And she held up her face to ba
kissed.
There was rather an cutlery about
the marriage. Many people blamAa /
Lady Sewerage for letting her daugb,
ter become the wife of man with
Roger vanbrugh's history, but tbsl
countess was perfectly we'll satisfied
She knew Frances and she knew Roger
and she saw that they were wonder.
fully well suited to each other. SomsI
persons prognosticated a quarrel he.
tween father and son; but I.anceotI
and his wife were delighted al tbal
prospect of the colonel's happiness
"IIe has had very little of it In bisI
life" said Lancelot to Madeline. "andI
we won't grudge it to him now
Constance de Marsac, living unban.
PLY with her husband at a pleasure
resort" in the Riviera, head of the
marriage and curled her lips derisively
"She fell in love with him when she
was H." she said to Rene, who had
told her the news.
"All the girls at that precious school
seem to have done so.' said the count
dryly You must have set the ex.
ample"
Il can only hope that she will bel
happier than I have been"
And on her wedding morning Fran
ces received a packet without a name
attached, which proved to contain al
little turquoise ring which she herself
had once given to Constance when they
ere girls at Miss Joyce's school
Frances wept over it and held it as Al
token that after all something OF love
and goodness still lived in Constance
de Marsac's warped and wounded
heart.
Those young people seem very
happy" said Roger Vanbrugh after a
visit to Lancelot and Madeline some
months later; "but they are no happier
than ourselves, l think, although am
such an old fogy, Frances"
Nobody could be happier in the
whole wide world than l am" said
Frances, with authority, and if you
are happy, too, Roger"-melting into
softness-'it is all I ask"
MY dearest-my sunshine! | had
fc rgotten what happiness was like I'M
til you gave it to me again"
He took her in his aims and kissed
her and the sunshine that he spoke Of
was bright upon his face.
In all Madeline's prosperity there
was no reason to think her unfeelng
to those less richly lowered than her
self, She and Lancelot became known
as very generous helpers to all Poles
and Russians who were in want and
applied to them for aid and many were
the blessings which these Inflated ex-
lies called down upon their heads
And there were others, less deserving
perhaps, who had reason to think Of
Madeline with gratitude. But for her
the Despards would probably have
sunk from bad to worse and Oscar
would no doubt have speedily landed
himself in a prison. Madeline settled
an annuity upon Mrs. Despard, thus
making Oscar dependent upon her and
unable, therefore. to squander the
money all at once. Bobby and the
younger boy were sent, as they grew
up, to good schools, while Jenny be-
came the constant and much-beloyed
companion of Madelines leisure hours
and the idolized playfellow and teacher
of Madelines children. Perhaps few
people led really happier life than
little Jenny Despard.
Miss Joyce, still Furnishing at Clap
ham, rejoices over Madeline's prosper
ity, as IL it were shat of a child OF
her own 1t is rumored that she
means shortly to retire and mas
planned to live in little house not
very far from the one which is occu-
pied by Laneelot Vanbrugh. Some
people prophesy that she will scola
and tyrannize over Madeline's children
as she has done to her pupils IN days
gone by, but those who know her oes'
declare that Miss Joyoes face grows
gentler every day and that the tones
of her voice have completely lost the
harshness that was once their eharae-
teristic Happiness is a great sweet
ener of character, and Miss joyce
happier than she has ever been in ne'
life before. And Why? Because q