Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-25
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
CHAPTER Leslie Malincourt. a
coquette, is invited to visit her aunt.
Lady Appuldurcombe. that she may
be satisfied on her return to marry
Bob Heatherley. She is welcomed
by her cousin, Ronald Kilmurray.
ll-l.esley meets Miss Cynthia de
Sails. IlI-And is interviewed by
her aunt. Iv-Mr. Yelverton tells
Lesley that Ronny is the best gentle
man horseman in England. V-Les-
ley rides out with Mr.. Yelverton and
is criticised for SO doing. VI
Ronny buys Yelverton's mare for
Lesley. Wellesley desires to see
Ronny brought to sue for Cynthia de
Sails, who is in love with him. VIII
But Lesley's aunt suspects her Of
wishing Miss de Sails out of the way
thst she may have Ronny herself.
LX-Lcsley walks with Ronny in
Leicester square early in the morn
ing and is seen by Graham Dash
wood, whom she had snubbed. "
Cynthia faints at the races on ac-
count Of Konny's attentions to Lesley.
Xl-Ronny overhears Eastwood &C.
cusing Lesley of having been in the
park with improper persons. lie
slaps his face, and n challenge passes.
XlI-RoDnv tells Lesley he loves her.
XIII-Cynthia upbraids Lesley. who
resolves to 90 home and leave Ier
rival free to win Ronny. XlV-She
leaves without announcing her de-
parture. Xv-Ronny and his moth
er discover that she has gone. XVI,
XVII, XVIII and XIX-Lesley ar.
rives home and tells her friend. Lad v
Cranstoun, what has happened.
Lord lalincourt rejoices to have his
daughter ut home. Bob Heathcrley
asks Lesley If she is going to marry
him. and she runs away from him.
XX-Lady dc Sails dies. and Lady
AppuldurcOmbe. promises to look out
for Cynthia. NXI--Ronny and Dash
wood fight in Paris. Ronny is
wounded, and Dashwood's Jaw is
broken. Being disiigured and dis
graced he shoots himself. XXI.
XXIII. XXIV, XIV, XXVI, XXVII
and XXVlII--Lady Appuldurcomb be
is informed of the fact and COOS To
her son. Lesley hears Of the duel
Yelverton brings Lesley news OF
Ronny, and Cynthia joins Lesley.
Yelverton visits the Craustouns.
Cynthia nurses Ronnv. XIX and
NNN-Heatherley and Yclvcrton dis
cover that each loves Lesley.
CHAPTER XXXI.
Lady Appuldurcombe had Park lane
all to herself, and she had Ronny all 20
herself and was happy in way that
seemed To her quite extraordinary.
With RonDy's real but very slow i'm
provement she Sound it in her heart to
partly forgive Lesley and to- be heartily
ashamed Of that dreadful letter she had
sent Malincourt. To be sure. Lesley's
heartlessness in making no inquiries for
Ronny and this news today concerning
her and Yelverton showed what mere
flirt she was. Still Lady Appuldurcombe
would have given good dol to wipe
out both her curse on the ~ and her
letter, and it was of this she was think
ing one afternoon as from Ler boudoir
window she gazed out on the full glory
Of those flower beds reserved for the
toiling millions who do not 70 out OF
town in September and wondered what
she could do to set her mistake right.
Nelvertun was very curt with her
when he came-it WIS extraordinary
how loyal I'll the men who loved Lesley
were TO hor-aDd Malincourt had replied
to her letter with that most terrible OF
all replies, silence.
But today from IN old friend now
staying with her husband in Somerset
shire Lazy Appriietconbc had received
quito ut the end of a long chatty letter
the following item of intelligence: $50
your niece, the lovely Malincourt, rs
we all called her i'll town, aud Il morc
natural. delicious creature l never met
so distinguished, tools to marry
Roger YelvertOD. who is now ut Ma!in-
court, and all the men who wanted to
marry her-aud they are legion here
are in despair. Not such n good match
for her. after all, but that is the last
thing she would think of. They say
there is bad blood between him and i
lover she formerly favored, but l &c
hope there are to be no more duels Gbou,
her. She is SO much too good for ali
that sort Of thing
Lady Appuldurcombe thought Of the
girls winning ways. how she really
could not help being different from othel
girls-natural, in short, as her friend
had put it-and she had not wanted &c
come to town, and Ronny had been
unwise-to notice what o ruffian like
Eastwood said.
She turned impatiently away from
the window. She would go and lool
after Ronny and Cynthia in the draw
ing room. Tho two had grown so friend
ly in these past weeks, almost months,
and, after all, thought the mother, with
q sharp pang. would it Iot hurt her ev
cry whit rs much to give Ronny up tc
one woman rs another?
She went abruptly into tho long
salon, and as she entered caught the
name Of Lesley" which. strangely
enough. was the talisman, the bond be
tween the two, and a sudden access Of