Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-29
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remove her veil to make Dallas aware
that his visitor was Lady Dangcr;icld.
what is the mattcr:' lie cried, spring
ing TO his feet.
His lordship knows ali. lav" left
home forever. ard l have come TO you."
Dallas grow white under the brorI,
with which the sun had DYED. him. lie
went through Al niomc.it long and coinpra-
hensiye as that of the drowning man.
His love lost forever, himself saddlcd with
Il virago whom he had certainly never
loved and whom he abhorrcl to-day, his
position ruined, his li:e done eor-this WAS
the tax on the pleasant and Fashionable
amusement of :s.lliing love to cne's neigh
boris wife,
He staring at her; his face, al
WAYS expressive of the emotion of the
;Sfloment, wore n horror-struck expression,
which could scarcely be tlattering to her
ladyship under the circumstances. She
few at him with bitter rcproachcs. That
was the way with a man! a woman sacri-
feed everything for him, and then, the
moment things vent wrong, he wanted to
cry off.
Dallas leaned against the chimney piece,
gnawing his under lip. and incapable, in
this desperate situation, of saying any
thing. He only felt an unutterable hor-
ror, IL sickening sense of n lost life, of
ruin. misery, wretchcdness.
''NNhat docs he know? How does he
know?' he gasped Mt length.
II gave that wretch Amelie warming
last night. and she wen to him after
luncheon to-day, and he came straight to
me and made the most violent scene. 1t
seems she found one of your letters and
kept 1.-THE tiend!"
Dallas rackcd his brain to remember
what lie could ever have written to her
ladyship. He did not believe himself fool
: enough to nave sent her IL really COM
promising letter.
What was in the letter." he asked.
81 don't know. He would not let me
see ii: hut he threatened me, and I told
him l should leave him, and l have"
But you can't stay herei' cried Dat
las. with moro energy than he had yet
displayed. "Any moment some OH may
come in and see you."
what do / carc?' cried her ladyship,
violently. bursting into Il passion of sohs..
"You have got me into this, and you must
get me out of it"
Dallas felt himself n brute. He ought
TO soothe the grief of this distracted lady;
the circumstances required expressions
of tenderness oil his part, and he felt
nothing but anger, Impotence and general
despair. He must move heaven and earth
to get her away from his rooms-to pre-
vail on hcr, if possible, to go back home;
hut it was hopeless, knowing her moods
as we'll as he did, to say IL word until she
had Gained down Il little. And. perhaps,
after all. the worst would happen, and
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ever. What in the world had he even
seen in her? And then he thought agon-
izingly of the girl he loved, whom he
now perhaps he lost to him forever. The
door opened ngain-very quietly this
time; Dallas had not heard the slight pre-
liminary tap-and Mrs. Trcvanion came
in. Size was we'll in the room before she
saw Lady Dangerfcld crouchcd in n low
chair, sobbing violently. Then she
paused, looked ut Dallas pale, distracted
face. and graspcd, in part mt least, the sit
uation. She prepared to retreat. and
made n reckoning sign to him, which he
-obeycd.
, what OH earth does this mcan?" she
asked, looking mt him with frightened
eyes. "My dear boy, how can you be SO
imprudent"
"I%mprulcnt!' he gasped. II expect 1
am about ruincd!!'
He leaned against the framework of the
door, looking the picture of despair.
"Shc has left Dangcrtield and come to
1,c-says lie knows everything; md what
in the name of heaven an 1 going to do
with hcr?"
THAT is nonsense!' said Mrs. Trcvan.
ion, sharply. She must be mad. She
cannot stay with you. Does she want to
ruin you?"
81 suppose so." uttered Dallas, despair.
ingly.
I'VE must get her away from here
somehow said Mrs. Trcvanion, who was
as anxious about Dallas as she would
have been had her own son been placed
In a similar prcdicament.
II don't know how" he answered.
''When she is in one of her tcmpers, she
won't listen to reason"
81 shall go and talk to her. said Mrs
Trevanion. with determination.
''Impossible!" cried Dallas. in n smoth.
cred voice. "She would never forgive
me. Besides, awful as this business is, ]
can't shirk it."
"You must go away and leave her tt
NO."
Dallas was SO much in the habit of do
ing what his friend told him, that, in spite
of dreadful misgivings, he obeyed her
and when the street door closed upon hin
Mrs. Trevanion went to interview Lady
Dangerfield. feeling about as uncomforta
lie us she had ever done In her life.
Mrs. Trevanion's n Is so quiet
and her tone so cool that they have
mesmeric effect on Lady Dangerfeld
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