The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-09-13
lola CRAVSHAY.
copyright. 1887. by the Authorl

mot With youi' She put the ques-
ton in tome that touched him at once.
"t'm the same with you. You forget
that till you came into 1t mine was q
fighting life"
40 that chap must have thought in
Calladua," be said, laughing at the
recollection Of the way she had treated
the man who had tried to insult her.
"But you had to come to the rescue
then. ! wonder IL you always would
and will"
1--WE don't breed cowboys in old Eng
land" he answered.
''True, but there are other villains.
Do you believe in omens. Jaffray?" She
put the question impetuously.
"Yes, Of q kind" he said. when
I've been hunting big game, for in.
stance, and missed at the first shot, I
always took II for an omen that if I
didn't hit with the second I should have
q bad time, and ! took good care not
to miss, can tell you"
"Oh, don't mean things you can
avoid"
"Then don't believe in any other.
Bad luck doesn't begin with man as a
rule till he's made mess Of things for
himself.
"Yes. but I mean il you fear some
things going to happenT'
"But man doesn t fear that unless no
knows there's something that can hap
pen. A man who walks straight isn't
afraid Of tumbling into the ditch at the
roadside. But once I had a PRESENT.
ment, by the way, and it came true,"
he added after pause.
"What was that?''
"When I saw you that day in the lit
tie woman's house, had PRESENT.
ment that you would be my wife, and
here we are"
He laughed pleasantly and pressed
her arm, and she thought it wiser to
say no more about omens after what he
had said.
Their arrival at Waloote manor was
necessarily very quiet They reached
Liverpool in the afternoon Of the fol-
lowing day, and as soon as the baggage
could be got together started for home.
Lady Walcote had remained in the
house by Lola's special wish-one of
the results Of the change in her feelings
and Lola did her utmost to follow up
the kindlier letters she had written with
greeting Of really affeotionate warmth.
But the old lady had not changed on
her side, and, though resolved to act up
to the promise she had made to Sir
Jaffray before the marriage, she did not
like the woman he had chosen and
would not pretend that she did.
Thus the home coming was chilled Oh
the threshold, and Lola herself was both
disappointed and irritated, and there
was more of the old Ishmaelitish feeling
of defiance in her manner than her hus-
band bad observed since the marriage.
With Jaffray himself his mother was
all tenderness and love, but she felt the
change in the position.
TWAS the first time that he had come
home from any of his wanderings when
she herself had not had the first place in
his thoughts. If the other woman had
been Beryl, she thought, it would have
been tolerable, but to give place to Lola
was unbearable.
She staid with them for long time
while they talked to her of their tray
els, and she listened attentively.
"You have been a good correspond
ent, Jaffray - better than usual, I
think" The baronet had thoughtfully
made point Of writing much more fire.
quently than he had been accustomed to
write on former occasions. "The let
tiers from you both have been most
bright and interesting. You have had
all mine, suppose?"
Eyes, think SO. We got the last
batch at New York"
''And what is your theory Of the five
s:ringed violin enthusiast? Is he luna
tic? He has been here and was most i'm
patient to know when you would be
buck"
Five stringed violin?' exclaimed
Sir Jaffray. "What do you meant"
"There. you haven't read my letters
| told you about him and his queer visit
to Beryl."
"Who is he? What is it? I must have
missed it"
1.-THE foreign violin player, M. Pierre
Turrian, who has theory about vio-
lins."
"Jatfray. I think I'll go, dear. I'm
dead tired" exclaimed Lola, rising the
instant Lady Walcote finished. eve
must have all the home news in tho
morning" she added, with smile.
So it had come already, she thought
as she went away, with great pang at
her heart, but making no outward sign
Of any kind.