San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-19

London season.
You'll grow out of that fast
enough" he said "But I'm glad you
haven't been bored After all, there's
no place like the manor to my mind.
I'm awfully fond of the old place, and
on my word go back to it with greater
gusto every time I've been away. 4"
Then, after a long pause, he added, 81
shall like it better than ever with you
at its head, Lola, and think you'll get
to feel about it pretty much as do.
shall, If you make it pleasant
place to me, she answered, with a
laughing look of affection. eff not, 1
shall hate it..
"I'll try not to make you do that.
shall be glad when we get there We're
due in tomorrow afternoon, and if all
goes as it has hitherto we shall be well
up to time. We shall be home before
midnight, all being we'll I'm afraid
that our getting in at such time will
bit upset any arrangements which the
Walcote people may have made for
reception, but we must have 'em up
next day and give 'em lunch or a feed
of some kind Wonderful cure for dis
appointment is good feed. Jove, I
shall be glad to see the old place againp'
That night, the last they were to
spend on board, the baronet went up on
deck to smoke cigar after supper, and
Lola went with him. 1t was a Gear
crisp. sharp air, and the moon and stars
were shining brightly. She took his
arm, and, pressing. closely to him,
walked up and down the deck
"Our last night at sea. Jaffray, she
said.
"And a lovely one, eh?"
"Have you enjoyed the timer
Never had better in my life," he
answered enthusiastically. Didn't
know marriage was half so good. -
"Or you might have tried it before?"
And she laughed.
''If I'd met you before, he replied,
like lover.
"I'm glad I've given You one span of
happiness, Jaffray," she said, and the
tone in which she spoke seemed rather
sad.
st seems to have changed you a
good bit," he said. You're not like
the same girl in some ways. !"
mot with your" She put the ques-
tion in tone that touched him at once
I'm the same with you. You forget
that till you came into it mine was
fighting life. -
$50 that chap must have thought in
Calladua," he 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. l wonder if you always woult
and will. -
1--WE don't breed wboys 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 kind" he said. "Whenl
I've been hunting big game, for in
stance, and missed at the first shot,
always took it for an omen that if
didn't hitwith the second should have
bad time, and l took good care not
to miss, l can tell you.
"Oh, / don't mean things you can
avoid"
"Then l don't believe in any other.
Bad luck doesn't begin with a man as a
rule till he's made mess of things for
himself. ("
"Yes, but l mean if you fear some
things going to happen?"
"But man doesn't fear that unless he
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 / saw you that day in the lit
tie woman's house, had PRESENT.
ment that you would be my wife, and
here we are. j"
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 Walcote 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
a 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 on
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 had observed since the marriage.
With Jaffray himself his mother was
all tenderness and love, but she felt the
change in the position.
1t was the first time that he had come.