Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1898-11-05


from being landed dead, this golf
Ing girl was looking fixedly at lit
tie patch of thick bent 20 yards
from the tee. She drove it into that
patch as exactly as if she had played
for it. Crawley commented suitably
uuder his breath.
The ball was found to be unplay-
able and the match was over. Miss
Mostyn gave Miss Howe a curious
look when saying "Good bye on the
links. 1t was a curiously trium-
plant look for beaten player.
Some days after the competition
Gordon met May on the lawn. She
was cutting flowers from the de-
tatched beds scattered about.
81 wish to speak to you, Miss
Mostyn," the doctor said as May
was moving away. II wish to ask
you an important question: There
was touch OF raillery in this.
"Or' said May. "The important
question, l presume. When shall
we be ready to clear outl"
REALLY, that is too bad. / doH't
think you are justified in saying
that to me. I don't think I have
deserved it," The touch of raillery
gave place to touch OF pain that
was unaffected.
"No, you haven't May agreed
with sudden humility. at isn't fair,
but can't help it. am afraid l
can't be quite fair to you. OF bother
it. / don't know what anu saying.
I wish you wouldn't worry me-"
81 will not worry you. My ques-
ton is not very important. But tell
memo one shall know-why did
you deliberately drive into the bent
in that match2" This was said with
brave but Intellectual effort after
chaff.'
Gill;
"Dont, please! saw you do it,
and 1t was not to please Mr.. Craw-
ley that you did it,
Perhaps you think it was to please
you? May could not help it. The
words were spoken and could not be
recalled. So she just tried to laugh
it off as joke. But Gordon would
not be laughed off. He was quite
serious now, and maintained that as
she had purposely lost the match to
please him, she should refuse to
dance with Mr.. CrawIey at ball to
which she was going that evening
also to please him. The man was
all in earnest about this. 1t dis
tressed him beyond endurance to see
May in Crawley's company. May
was determined not to be dictated
to. She took the part of the absent.
Gordon unwsely insisted. May lost
her temper. Some warm words
passed and then there was terribly
unfortunate allusion to the property
which DR.. Gordon had inherited.
And then all was over.
"You threaten you will go away
tomorrow May said in a dry voice,
"If l dance with Mr.. Crawley to-
night2'
mo; do not threaten. / could
not stay after what you have said.
You have practically called me a
thief, and you can hardly suppose |
would wish to remain For q mo-
ment Gordon's temper failed, and he
said, almost roughly: "Pray forget
what 1 have said, and dance with
whomsoever you please"
II certainly shall-with Mr..
Crawley among Others"
That night DR.. Gordon, who was
included in the invitation to Lady
STATIONS ball, pleaded indisposi-
ton, and begged that Mrs. Mostyn
would convey his apology. There
was nothing else to do but go with.
out him, so the two ladies got into
the carriage and drove off. AS the
house disappeared behind great
bank of rhodonendrons round which
the drive swept, Mays combatant
mood disappeared, and only that it
would have beeh indiscreet ia a
young woman with so much strength
of character she would have cried
not, of course, that she cared a
straw about the doctor, but just to
pass the time.
On their return from the ball the
ladies found letter addressed to
Mrs. Mostyn in DIR. Gordon g
writing. 1t was long letter, and
the lady to whom it was addressed
was in tears before she had flushed
reading il. The last sentence will
be enough to quote. After explain-
ing that he had only stayed to put
the affairs OF the estate into some
thing like order before handing it
oyers the writer finished with:
"It would be quite uneandid il
pretended that at no time had l any
intention of bene6tting by the will;
but / was not long here before |
determined that so unjust an inssru-
ment would never be executed by
me, and that under no circumstances
would sccept farthing to which
l had 70 moral claim, and for
which / should only be indebted to