The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-07-02
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But the DarOnet insisted 'Hdt thi>
project might be- very easily accom-
pliShcd. bad long sine" Imagined 1t.
and now was certain OF its Silc"cSS-
entreatcd that Mrs. Willoughby would
not refISe her consent t. its attempt,
and reminded her that rejecting the
plan he had conceived. ROSl'S first
born would be left IN struggle with a
world which did not always heslow lis
best rewards on those who most ner-
tied them.
And Mrs, Willouglby thought Of
Sydney. out of employment and
wretched. and could but acknowledges
the truth that was in the words the
baronet had last spoken. AMI Sir
Loghlen promised Mrs. Wilioughby
that he would not take his son beyond
her reach. The baronet would reside
i'm London, and with him. his niece
and her husband. if it should be COM
pleted. as he had no doubt would be
the case. the marriage he so jOyfully
contemplated.
You would promise that he should
not be taken from me?' cried Mrs.
Willougbhy. now fast yielding before
this last temptation.
Never should he go beyond your
SlRIt, NIIfh Pt l'-ii'h' "
warmer and more urgent in his plead
ings as he felt convinced he would sue
coed. Consent to all | ask. Our fate
Is in your hands: for it is not only OF
the future of my own son that |
think; the happiness of the other Is at
stake: for would not separate the
two brothers.
TONY. p,or boy. he would also be
,,,Il n,.nl Pnr" thnttuht Nps Ntin-
oughby; and then demanded Of the
baropet how he would contrive To
make acquaintance with the grand
sons.
And Sir I.OsGlen replied that moth
ing could be more easy; he would re-
turn in an hour or two with his niece.
and Mrs. Willoughby would have but
to say that. In former years. she and
the barouet had been acquainted.
"Lct it all be as | would have It,"
entrcated Sir Loshlcn. Let Frances
and my son behold each other. and
heaven, who judges all Intentions. and
who knows what are mine, will accom-
plish the rest"
And Mrs. WilIoughhy was greatly
troublcd-knew not how To decide.
The baronet a perhaps, right; and
1t might be that love for the other
would arise in the heart of each; and
then. oh! then. Mrs. Willoughby would
believe that Rosa'S pardon had de
seconded to him who had so bascly
wronged her; and poor. old Mrs. Will
oughby would then herself he able to
forgive.
And. with 4 JOY ut his heart greater
than it had ever known since those
DAYS of his youth. when he had re-
ccivcd Il confession of her love for him
from the charming lips of Rosa Will
oughhy. the barOnet took his leave. for
an hour or SO. Of the mother OF the first
and the only woman whom, in all his
life. he had ver truly loved.
How often had Sir LOGhlcn wished
that he had possessed the courage To
brave his fathers anger and threats OF
disinheritance. and that his marriage
with Rosa had been rs real as TO that
unhappy and cruelly-deCpived young
girl it had appeared.
The baronct'S carriage had rolled but
a few PAGES from Mrs. Willoughby'S
door. when il flashed across his mind
tina ever vet. he kucw not what name
had been given to his son, nor what
had been the name of ltOSa'S second,
and lawfully welded husband.
Sir Loghlen. in his hurried and eX
cited interview with Mrs. Willoughby,
had forgotten To ask the name OF that
son. about whom his heart had been so
deeply interested.
AbOut to order his cOachman to re-
turn. the baronet then thought TO Hun
self that it was not worth while, since.
i'm an hour or SO. he would behold the
young man. and from his own lips
learn his name.
Mrs. Willoughby, left to herself. had
some difficulty in believing that she
had not been asleep and dreaming, so
strange did il seem 10 her that now,
after so very many years. she had. Tor
the first time in her life encountered
the man on whose head her curse had
always rested and that she had been
won so easily To pardon him.
But il was no dream she soon con
vinced herself. The barOnet had been
there. accusing himself and imploring
that she would pardon him the wrong
he had inflicted on her child, II he
had left her feeble and disarmed.
She had been won by the prospect OF
fortune for her two grandsonS, for both
were equally dear to her heart. al
though the circumstances of his birth
and Of his mothers wrongs had caused
for sydney a compassion which, in its
display, had perhaps appeared a pref
erence in her love.
And without doubt Tony would have
1een angry with his grandmother il he
had not believed in her preference for
his brother, for he never put himself
In comparison with sydney, whom he
considered altogether u superior be-
Ing.
But Mrs. Wfloughby well knew that
although in physical beauty Sydney
nigh surpasS his brother. they were