The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-21

49,. holm" she had patcheu up eiioue'A
-.-t,,opial ouarrels to be accused OF rob
tbo divorce court Of its prey; she
jus ma 90. ANYBODY out of a scrape if she
WI and if she couldn't she wouldn't
esa her back on them. She entertained
(. lily She was sympathetic and gener-
She was always perfectly dressed;
~ although a small woman, and not
s-,I,ont one. she managed somehow to be
O''' ..tr,l 0eure wherever she went.
sro NAV have been SO. Her age was
..,+ar of speculation, as she toned In
j. ,.h the old. and seemed young among
4 ,.,,,ng Her womanliness was her chief
i .a..otion. It impaired a charm to her
/ ,..-,, Garments and trinkets. Nothing jar
-, ohopt her. Her admirers maintain
i - ,b,t she was an exquisite example OF
s.,oote plumpness; her fair hair had no
niars Of gold in it; her features were not
fs.rkAd. they merged into one another with
4 soft mistiness which stamped her with
necnliar air of distinction.
uer face would have given the impress
3 clan that her life had been passed in I'M
ttasad happiness had it not been for one
aeon line which ran perpendicularly from
4 noint between the eyebrows and was
lost among the short curls on the fore
head That line told a tale.
She had made her entrance into society
some twelve years before, as a widow I'M
der the wing of her aunt, Lady Turner,
who spoke pityingly of her, and scath-
ngly of the defunct James Lennox, to
i whom She ascribed but one kind action,
namely, his perishing in the shipwreck,
4 from which Minnie was miraculously
3 saved. Lady Turner left her niece all her
f money.
Mrs. Lennox often told her intimate
& friends that her greatest weakness was a
s certain lndecision of action.
B AT critical moment" she would say
4 II know what ought to be done, but IL
H isn't easy to do. l can't do it; l haven't the
& strength, and l let myself go with cir
5 Cumstances. l knew l ought to have re-
4 fused MIR. Lennox; but everybody wanted
T the marriage, and so l drifted into it"
S Then she would sigh heavily.
81 When Col. Stanmore asked her to marry
him, she said with a frightened gasp:
B "On, no, please, Col. Stanmorei I'm a
widow, and ] thank God I'm a widow
\ Her answer TO her various suitors was
& always more or less couched in the same
terms. So what with one thing and an
& other, backed by the hints of Lady Tur-
4 ner and that line that married the
Smoothness of Mrs. Lennox's forehead. it
was voted that the late lamented Len
: nox must have been a brute.
4 Although Mrs. LennoX was determined
to preserve her regained state of single
oessedness, she was never so happy as
When arranging a marriage for somebody
else, And she was almost vexed that
While she had been on the Riviera, and
was sauntering home via Paris, her pet
friend Lady Mildred Hill, daughter to
the Earl and Countess of Chinkford, had
got engaged. So. Mrs. Lennox had moth
+ ing to do with it.
/ She arrived in London the dav before
i the suspicious occasion, and she had
brought in her trunk a lovely green gown
Which she knew would create a sensation
al me ceremony. When Minnie Lennox
went to church on Sunday she went to
pray, but when she went to church for
wedding she went to be looked at.
from what she could gather neither Mil
dIed nor any of her people were exactly
proud OF the coming union; he who was to
De taken into the noble family was GER
AMY outrageously rich, but was colonial
ana elderly and never spoke of his an
Sstofs-in fact, was a nobody from the
,,. point of view. But then poor
aLlIed was over 30, had suffered many
APPOINTMENTS in her time, had never
yseh success, and had had the bitter
sorrow Of seeing her four Younger sisters
Il marry off one after the other. so that she
was lett lamentng. After all, therefore.
NJ Oainpden b. Anstruther, with his mil
.s' member Of the Victorian, or Cana
aH' OF something parliament. was very
yep'aole to the Chinkfords.
was early in May and the wedding
pIoke me and sunny. Mrs. Lennox
as satisfied with herself, caparisoned as
was In her frock and bonnet fresh
Ym drls. Her appearance as she walk
up 81 Georges called forth that sub
murmur of approval which is dear
tAe heart Of woman.
me church was thronged. The bride
' eg., was already there.
thore's the old gold nugget There's
@HP p,.,h T. Anstruther" whispered Yer
'1 mn, am Lady Mildreds favorite cousin,
4 ~, LehnoX. Look at him!'
Ivb., LehnoX was curious TO see the man
bo was so soon to become Mildred's hus-
'pce1-she looked hard.
No. God! she couldn't breathe-her
a pno SEEMED to have stopped flowing. That
4 Sc a. ner forehead showed out suddenly
Il M IL haq been drawn In black chalk.
1 han " spite OF his bald head and false
carna INA grey-streaked beard, she knew
al g'eh H. Anstruther to be that figure
fsro.' past which she had thought could
{fp,o appear again but as a ghost-that
w. ol the past, James Lennox. There
AgCs. ''N'iis ms coid' cruel shifting
{gar''Il a A., moment his gaze met hers; he
1haog,,t. htly' shot at her one glance Of
IhFs5 i.,loh' then turned away calmly, and
i ~. w. sumo people near him.
y,n Vernon nm ~
&Nrr., E 80, forced q smile and MUIR
Xhr,lt NO And she was thinking des-
&p86g,isS' m not a widow-Tm not a
~ M .''ii travelled back to that misera-
Idbo IN winch she ha1 played the part
Wb,, ol Iured, outraged, suffering wife
"a bo. ouould she do? Mildred, leaning
H. v,,'ler arm, was already passing
Xsmgh nat should she do? She knew well
&bAst "hat she ought to do-she ought
- OUT before It was too late, That
my husband" But all she did was
- rI,' 70 nerself in a dull panied way,
90 Wldow-Im not a widow" And
~ "s II she would like TO rush away
M ~ qulel village churchyard. dig a
ie' ana cast herself into II, and
10 the world for evermore.
III co..ss' numbcd by the horror that
S upon her. she let the minutes
9H4 again Lady Mildred nanaed her.