Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-10-08
THURM0NT, Frederick County, Maryland Thursday October 8, 1896
CHAPTER Xxx.

grown, blind, deaf, destructive, and
when two persons who love each other
very dearly get a simultaneous attack
they are neither to be held nor bound by
the ordinary laws Of reason. Utterly
wretched, furious1y hot headed, Will
and Mamie gazed upon the ruins Of
their happiness, and in very sensuali-
ty Of suffering piled more fuel upon the
flames. which they would have liked to
see reach up to heaven. A month mar
ried, and already they owned up to
fatal mistake their only aim being to
hide from their little world the ship
wreck to which they had come.
Had even one Of the two kept his head
all might have come we'll, but both
were angry, both undisoiplined, and
both, alas, 80 very, very young and
lacking entirely in sound common sense.
II Mamie would only lay her head on
Wills breast and talk it out with him
what the trouble was, but barrier had
been raised between them, and now try
as he would he could not grope his way
through 1t. Every day he went out with
his gun-sometimes with a neighbor,
sometimes alone-but Mamie never
came ont with the luncheon now, and
the keepers and servants looked askance
at him and for once were really sorry
for the trouble that had evidently be-
fallen their betters.
II that old heather, Lady Lirriper,
had been a woman Of the right sort. she
could have put things right in trice,
but the folles, not the virtues, Of man
kind furnished her amusements, and she
was only maliciously glad that every
thing was turning out precisely as she
had foretold.
"Only it's 20 indecently soon," she
said one day to her maid, who was her
bosom friend and entirely after her
own heart, land do hope the fools
won't make q scandal-at least while I
am here. Malleable! Timid Why, my
niece is a perfect little devil. and, as to
that old sarcophagus stuck up on end
among his books, he won't see anything
till he's told. and then he'll have to sit
up and no mistake"
well, I don't hold with unmarried
ladies carrying on with married gentle
men," said Josephine as she deftly ap-
piled o touch Of ro~~a to her mistress
cheek. ut breaks up the home, and I
call 1t shame, my lady. with plenty
Of single men about as there are here.
And it's my belief Sir william don't
care . fig for Miss Gregorias and is
just eaten up with love for his wife,
and Lady Anna don't care for Milford
Trelawny. only che wants to take leaf
out Of her husbands book
Talk about what you understand
said Lady Lirriper tartly as Josephine
laced her into her dinner gown; you've
got to be civil to the Gregorias, mind, In
town she II wake me up and bring men
around and be new sensation, and l
cant do without her.
Josephine, buxom, unprinoipled, but
still human. shifted for every servant
in the house hated the woman whose
position was so anomalous, and put
upon her those impalpable but very real
sights and snubs with which servants
40 we'll know how to serve an interloper
and make her feel hundred times day
how unwelcome and despisod creature
she is.
Didn't I hear some one arrive7
Quick, the chrysoprases. stupid I don't
wear emeralds with peach color. Is
that you, Hagarl Go down and talk to
Dalrymple till come"
Hagar, who wore black gauze, against
which her neck and arms showed like
alabaster, and who carried great clus-
ter Of orange colored roses at her breast,
nodded and retired, both the women
looking after her with that slight in
drawing Of breath which betokens as
Constituent.
And look at that" said Lady Lir
ripper, nodding at her own enameled,
oleverly painted face, land at her age I
made more hearts beat in week than
she will In a year"
Down stairs In the little chintsy
drawing room Dalrymple was saying
urgently:
"For Gods sake. give me some sort
Of answer tonight! Do you mean to
plAy Win LILO AOAONoA
But when Lady Lirriper came in be
was saying hurriedly:
Heard such a joke today. Had 10
punish man for drunk, and what do
you think his excuse VAST That he had
got drunk on port winel How do you
do, Lady Lirriper? Tallant's awfully
sorry no can't come. Wired for to his
L. $o1 Aol
1--WE are an odd number, then" said
Lady Lir,iper. "for expect Trelawny
and the vicar-not the wears wife, OF
course. He plays capital rubber.
Trelawny hates cards. so I'll send round
a limo to the curate to come in by and
by. The Cassilises can't come. They
have q duty dinner at distance. Ughl
They forgot the dinners when they de-
oided to honeymoon at home. "
For. as if to make them more miser-
able still, the county was dining the
young pair with a vengeance, and the
hardest part to both Of them was the
long drive to and from the mookery OF
baked meats to which they were bid
den.
They conversed, Of course, for Mamie
had developed an unexpected amount OF
courage In dealing with the situation,
but only Of outside things, never by
word or look seeking to bridge over
that gulf which, in the height Of their
happiness, had suddenly yawned be-
tween them.
Will firmly believed she loved
Trelawny and had entirely mistaken
her feelings toward himself. She was
equally certain that he adored Hagar
and only bitterly regretted the haste