Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-07

gle, to have been led into maxim
such a blunder.'
She laughed coolly and paused t
rearTange some La France roses in
silver bowl before she answered him
Then she said:
oh, wise young man. On, goo
young judge, you are laundering IA
more aWkWardly than | ann. Sir An
drew introduced Mr. Vereker to me
and it was at Sir Andrews reques
that Mr.. Vereker got into my vic
toria and drove with me to Len;
Cumberland's lodgings"
''Nonsenser'
But truth nevertheless Sir An
drew and | were doing Darby ant
Joan in the park and We saw Mr.
Vereker leaning against the rails
The very man | wanted to see,' sale
Sir Andrew, SO we pulled up, and Sill
Andrew introduced him to me anG
we were as affable as possible. Need
less to relate, l didn't mention the
fact of having met Mr. Vereker last
night, and he was equally reserved
He said he was going to afternoon
tea with his cousin, Lena Cumber-
land, who is, [ understand a great
friends of yours, Lady Gwenap? Sir
| Andrew said for me, Yes, she is,
1 and suggested that | should go ON
! with Mr.. Vereker and have tea with
Lena, too, and l did it. That's ALL"
Was she at home?" Sholto asked.
! suspiciously.
Yes, she was expecting Mr.. We're
ker, but she was not expecting me,
and must do her the justice of say
ing that she didn't profess any ex-
orbitant amount of delight at seeing
me-"
Did you say lodgings? l thought
you told me she was immensely rich ?
Does she live in lodgings? Did she
tell you that she had been at the
academy with me?"
That was her business, was it?,
Lady Gwenap laughed. mo, she said
nothing about you. She is only in
these rooms in Hill street while she
is arranging a gem of a house in
Dover street. She just keeps these
rooms to see people in who come on
business while she is furnishing
But she will be my guest again till
her house is ready. as soon as she has
got things we'll in train"
She wouldn't give me her ad-
dress" Sholto grumbled.
Why did you want it?''
L wanted to call on her. natur-
ally"
AL, well, l have no doubt she will
perm. you to call as CT ell as you
like when she gets into her house. If
you want to write to her you can ad-
dress her here. But do you want to
write to herr"
Yes" he said, CURLY.
Then why take am injured tone
about her having refused to give you
her temporary address? Sholto. if
you're too precipitate you will ruin
everything"
What on earth do you mean, Mag
gie?'
Il mean that if you want to marry
her you must be very cautious. She
mas told me repeatedly that she will
be married for herself, not for her
money"
Want to marry her? You know
very well that I'm engaged. though
you choose to ignore my engage
ment"
Not more completely than you do
yourself, my dear Sholto. [ Thought
ut must be all over, as you have said
NOT HING ho
have been Mrs. Cumberlands shadow
since meeting her again last night"
Maggie, you are heartlessr'
Did you think l had much heart
left for myself when | married Sir
Andrew GWenap? But [ have a. warm
and true one for you, Sholto. | want
to see you in first-rate position,
with a fortune that will enable you
to fill it well. If you play your cards
properly you may marry Mrs Cum
berland. She is a wealthy woman
and woman of the world. She's
ambitious, too, she will always spur
you on, and she's pretty enough to
please any mans taste''
Shes not so pretty as my Patrice,"
he said, lapsing into loyalty to his
love for moment.
Lady Gwenap gave way to a. mo-
mentary burst of Impotence.
Your Patrice, indeed! She will be
your ruin unless you get out of the
ENHANCEMENT. Han pered with a no
body for wife it will be impossible
for you to soar"
L shall have to soar into some
thing higher than a clerkship at the
war office before | can marry her, so
you needn't talk about her hamper
ing me yet awhile" he said, sulkily.
Sir Andrew would like to see you
in parliament" his sister said, spe-
ciously. For the time she felt that
1t was a mere waste of words to at
tempt to thwart him about Patrice.
He might be lured from that fnelig-
| ible young lady but he would not be
wrenched from her with violence.
I should like to see myself there
too he said, eagerly. his vanity ris-
ing readily to the bait But in the
first place I have no political inter
est, and in the second place l have no
money to throw away in electioneer-
ing
Have you any political views
Sholto? Sir Andrew, like many an
other self-made man, is a strong con-
sentative. Probably, as you are en-
gagged to wild Irish girl, you're &
Parnellite or a Fenian?"
''Patrice Laugherne is not wild