Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-07-25

through during the next few days, but
they managed to get it all done In time to
start from London mt the end of the fort
night. There was so much more to do
than to an outsider might seem absolutely
pecessary-so many more arrangements
to be made than IL they had merely been
setting of on an ordinary yachting-tour.
In Julia's mind. at least, there was nc
idea OF ever coming back again: IL was for
her going into exile for ever as an act OF
explation for the sins Of one whose SIM
were dearer to her than the virtues OF any
other man would have been.
Considering the time of year, they got
their nat of their hands in q really mar.
vellous manner, md they arranged to take
so many OF their belongings on board the
Dauntless that IL was fairly easy TO dispose
OF the residue that was left. But apart
from this there was n great deal besides
to get through. Julia needed an outfit
suitable for a prolonged yachting tour,
and stephen had TO get the same. They
had TO lay In great stores OF everything
they were likely to want during the next
year, paper and pens and Ink and books
and music enough as Stephen said with o
laugh, TO stock a shop.
Then they had TO say adieu to their al
ready very large acquaintance, and Julia
spent the whole OF six afternoons driving
about To bid good-by to her most intimate
acquaintance, thankful to find some OF
them ont and drop a quiet p. p. C.. at their
doors-but TO brace herself up to face the
IRE OF questions put to her by those whom
she was unlucky enough to find at home;
to go through the same catechism, to
hand on the polite fiction that Stephens
health was not Of the best in England and
Sir Fergus Tiffany had advised him. in
deed ordered him, to leave England at
ouce. So they had got rid Of their fiat and
bad bought a steam-yacht, the Dauntless,
and in future IL they found he was able TO
bear a London season they would only hire
for the time they were able to stop. Yes,
IL Was a deprivation TO her for she liked
England. and much more so for Stepher
who liked England better than any Other
part OF the world; but, Of course, his health
was the first consideration and everything
else must give way to that.
Was the Dauntless a good sizei Oh
yes, nearly four hundred tonsl Then were
they going 10 take a large party out with
themf On which Julia was obliged e
confess that they were not going 10 take
anybody but themselves; and oh! how heI
cheeks burnt, poor girl, as she reached
that point and how she gasped when she
got back into the blazing July sunshine
aud uttered n fervent thanksgiving tina
she had one less ordeal 10 undergo.
But the hardest struggle Of all which
fell upon her was when the last night In
London came, and she and Stephen had t.
go 70 n very smart dinner which Mr.. anC
Mrs. Bob Markham gave IN their honor
and to with them God-speed.
For julia was convinced that wha'
Stephen had been. Bob Markham and hi
wife still were. She had been able TO gel
no information out OF Stephen on the sub
ject, absolutely none, yet she had formed
her own opinions and she kept to then
firmly. Mrs. Bob, as soon as she hearC
the news. came round to see Julia ant
had been all that was kind and tende
and womanly, she had sat for n long tim,
holding Julia's little clay-cold hand IL
hers and she had cried softly when sh
heard the story Of the something that wa
wrong with Stephen.
MY poor little sister," she said-sh
had never gone so far as TO call Julia b!
! that name before, II I'm so grieyed AM
) sorry for you, dear. Ii falls hard upol
you, darling" aud so she had gone o
soothing and petting her until at last JUL
had broken down and cried her heart OF
: on little Mrs. Bob's gentle bosom.
: And then Bob had come in In his blu
{ tering. breezy way. and a tried to r
4 assure her by telling her the doctors we
a act of old women and Sir Fergus Il
+ biggest old duffer OF the whole lot. Al
:; then he had clapped stephen on the oa'
and had told him that he ought TO
I ashamed of himself, Q Observation-Disclosures