The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20

1t oft-all Drowned and dusty as it was
to touzled haired lady who sold tobacco
in a street round the corner.
Upon the day following the dinner party.
sir Paul Redgrave duly paid his visit
to Mrs. Joliffe. AS he stood at the en-
trance to her little villa he turned his head
10 look at what seemed like vision of two
seas, one sombre gray in the foreground,
one all gold beyond, right up to the edge
OF the furthest horizon. Some large cor
morants on the wing showed inky black
over the far-off shining expanse There
were outlines of shadowy sails where the
yellow melted into the neutral tints.
Above the water, the flying birds and the
loatlnS craft, was a moist luminous sky.
me air was unusually tender and soft.
The general found Mrs. Joliffe alone.
Raymond had gone off to play golf, she
SAID. Her manner was shyer and more
constrained than it had been at their last
meeting, for the truth was that she had
been tormenting herself in the meantime
with uncalled-for and morbid scruples.
Having been brought up in old-fashioned
and narrow surroundings, it had seemed
TO her that she must have been somehow
to blame in feeling much interested
as she had done In listening to Sir PauPs
talk, in accepting his spray of flowers,
even in agreeing, half in joke, to learn
the rudiments of astronomy from him.
She knew that, when Raymond had been
speaking of his own affairs, she had all
the time been recalling snaIches of the
generals more amusing talk, and that
she had wished to be left in solitude so
as to be able to think at leisure about the
latter's views and suggestions. And there
fore her poor little conscience had been
torturlng her for some fifteen hours, leaV-
ing her at last in a mentally draggled and
exhausted state, and only capable of list
ening half heartedly to a conversation
upon subjects that had seemed to her all
absorbing so short time ago. Sir Paul
although experienced enough as regards
women, was little puzzled by her. He
supposed at first that she was tired, until
suddenly another idea flashed upon him
and diverted him, whereupon he began to
speak of Raymond and his future career.
And then, as he had imagined it would
be, Mrs. Joliffe suddenly frightened Her
visitor thought how surprisingly lovely
she was when her great violet eyes shone
responsibility, as they now did, under those
dencately lined brows And how prettily
her fair head was poised upon her slight
shoulders Her wrists, too-none of these
points escaped the generals keen eyes
how slender they were-like a little
child's-and he admired both them and the
white fingers all the more for the absence
of bangles and rings upon them. When he
got up to go he spoke very kindly. She
was little surprised and pleased at his
calling her husband by his Christian
name.
Il must get Raymond to play golf with
me sometimes. Il am afraid my twenty
years seniority will handicap me a good
deal, but though l have not as a rule a
good temper, Mrs. Joliffe, l pique myself
upon never losing it at games"
Il am sure he will be only too delight
ed" she cried, walking in the most friend
ly way toward the door with the general.
All her foolish qualms of conscience were
stilled now. He seemed so entirely a
kind old friend. And he had never once
referred to the proposed lessons about the
the stars, or even renewed his request
of last night for her photograph al
though a new one, Raymond's favorite,
had smiled on him from its frame on the
chimney-piece.
Raymond came home from his golf
match, hot and tired but in joyful spirits.
Before changing his clothes, he sat for
a little while in the drawing room, fan
ming himself with a newspaper, and dilat-
ing upon the various incidents of the
game All shop when discussed to ex-
cess becomes a source of violent irritation
to a listener: but probably none ever oc-
casions stronger feelings of boredom than
golf shop" and Trix was destined to
hear good deal of that upon this partic-
ular evening But she smiled indulgently,
and even put such intelligent questions
on the subject to Raymond that he re-
marked delightedly:
well, old girl, that was a sharp re-
mark of yours about Betram's putting.
I didn't believe that you'd quite caught
my meaning so well about the difficulty
of that stroke, you know
Presently he came down, paler, but still
radiant, after hot bath, and flung him
self into a chair.
"Trixie, my darling, will you fetch me
old 'Hohenlohe" l want to have a look
a him before dinner. One mustn't let ones
soldering get slack" He yawned as he
spoke. She brought him the thumbed vol
ume, in its shabby red binding, and sat
down on a footstool at his feet, her yell
low head resting on his knee. And shortly
afterwards the book slid down, bang on
the top of the fair curs, then down to the
floor Raymond was fast asleep His
dark eyeashes swept cheeks which look
ed drawn and sunken, and TriXie noticed,
with a pang how the flesh had fallen
away at his temples, Decidedly he took
too much violent exercise, thought the
poor little wife. He had never recovered
from the unfortunate circumstance of
having grown about three inches too much
before he was II. When the dinner hour
an l,a recovered