The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-03

piled: Since you urge it so vehement ly, l promise you not to inquire more about it.
 After completing her hurried break fast, she made anxious inquiries as to whether the post had yet arrived It had not yet come in, and Sir Tristram asked; Why are you so particular about letters today? Because l eX- pect to hear of Lord Tyrone's death, which took place on Tuesday, We'll remarked Sir Tristram, I never should have put you down for superstltious person; but I suppose that some idle dream has disturbed you Shortly af- ter, the servant brought in the letters; one was sealed with black wax. Tt is as I expected she cried; he is dead! The letter was from Lord Tyrone's steward, to inform them that his mas ter had died in Dublin, on Tuesday, Oc- tober IA, at four p. m. Sir Tristram endeaVored to console her, and begged her to restrain her grief, when she as- sured him that she felt relieved and easier now that she knew the actual fact She added: I can now give you a most satisfactory piece ofintelligence, viz, that l am with child, and that it will be a. boy A son was born in the following July Sir Tristram survived it's birth little more than six years.
 After his death Lady Beresford con- tinued to reside with her young family at his place in the county of Derry and seldom went from home She hardly mingled with any neighbors or friends, excepting with MT. and Mrs. Jackson of Coleraine. He was the principal parsonage in that town, and was, by his mother, a near relative Of Sir Tristram. His wife was the daugh- ter of Robert Gorges, LID Ca gentle man of good old English family, and possessed of a considerable estate in the county of Meath by Jane Loftus, daughter of Sir Adam Loftus of Rath- farnham, and sister of Lord Lisbuple. They had an only son, Richard Gorges, who was in the army, and became general officer very early in life. With the Jacksons Lady Bereslford main tained a constant communication, and lived on the most intimate terms, while she seemed determined to eschew all other society and to remain in her chosen retirement.
 ''At the conclusion of three years | thus passed, one luckless day Young | Gorges' most vehemently professed his passion for herand solicited her hand, urging his suit in a most passionate | appeal, which was evidently not dis pleasing to the fair widow. and which, l unfortunately for her, was successful. They were married in 1704. One son and two daughters were born to them, when his abandoned and absolute con- duct forced her to seek and to obtain separation. After this had continued for four years, General Gorges pre- tended extreme penitence for his past misdeeds, and with the most solemn promises of amendment induced his wife to live with him again, and she became the mother of a second son. The day month after her confinement happened to be her birthday, and hav- ing recovered, and feeling herself equal to some exertion, she sent for her son, Sir Marcus Beresford, then twenty years old, and her married daughter, Lady Riverstone. She also invited Dr. King, the Archbishop of Dublin (Who | was an intimate friend), and an old clergyman who had christened her, and who had always kept up most kindly
 intercourse with her during her whole life to make up a small party to cele- brate the day. In the early part of it Lady Beresford was engaged in a kindly conversation with her old friend the clergyman, and in the course of it said: You know that I am forty-elght this day?' No, indeed he replied, you are only forty-seven, for your mother had dispute with me once on the very subject of your age, and l in conse- uuence sent and consulted the registry and can most confidently assert that you are only forty-seven this day. :, You have signed my death-Warrant then, she cried leave me, I pray, foI I have not much longer to live, but have many things of grave importance to settle before die Send my son and my daughter to me immediately The clergyman did as he was bidden. He directed Sir Marcus and his sister to gt instantly to their mother; and he sent to the archbishop and a few other friends to put them off from joining the
 birthday-party.
 "When her two children Arepaired tC Lady Beresford she thus addressed
 them: I have something of deep i'm portance to communicate to you my dear children, before die. You are nc
 strangers to the intimacy and the af
 lection which subsisted in early life be
 tween Lord Tyrone and myself. We
 were educated together when young
 under the same roof, iu the perniciou|
 principles of Deism. Our real friend:
 afterwards took every opportunity tt
 convince us of our error, but their ar
 guments were insufficient to overpowel
 and uproot our infidelity, though they
 had the effect of shaking our confidence
 in 1t. and leaving us wavering betweer
 the two opinions. In this perplexin&
 state of doubt we made solemn prom
 ise one to the other, that whichevel
 died first should, If permitted, appear t'
 the other for the purpose Of declarlnS
 what religion was the one acceptable tC the Almighty. One night, years ate this interchange of promises, l wa
 sleeping with your father at Gill Hall when I suddenly awoke and discovered
 Lord Tyrone sitting yisibly by the sid of the bed. I screamed out and vainl! endeavored to arouse Sir Tristram
 "Tell me-" I said, Lord Tyrone, Wh. |, and wherefore are you here at this tim
 of the night?" Have you, then, for gotten our promise to each other
 pledged in early life I died on Tues {. day, at four o'clock. I nave been per
 mitted thus to appear in order to as