Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-04-06
CHAPTER III.

EVERY FAMILY has its skeleton, its
strange incidents, its romantic story,
its secrets that the world family
guesses but never knows The Lynnes
Of Lynnewolde had a romance, but IL
had not been hidden,--it had been
partly forgotten; that romance was
the marriage of Stephen Lord Lynne
TO the beautiful Andalusian whose life
had ended so suddenly. No one knew
much about it; the English papers had
announced 1t; but no one ever saw
the fair and Inflated Lady Lynne.
The only thing known of her was that
she was the daughter of a widow lady
who was inconsolable at her death,
ana who begged from Lord Lynne per-
mission to keep the little child. He
gladly consented; some said, because
be did not like to see the little Inez,
as she reminded him of his lost wife:
be that as ii may, certain 1t was that
he made no effort to see her. An
English governess was provided for
her, so that she was brought up not
only with thorough knowledge of
English polite literature. A sum of
money was paid annually to the
Sonora Monteleone, and twice every
wear the father received letter Civ
ing him all details of the child's
health and progress. He was salts
fed to have things as they were he
knew the child was well, and happier
than she would be in his house,
where another Lady Lynne lived and
ruled, He had formed fresh ties,
md that one early romance of his
life was nearly forgotten. But there
were times when the remembrance of
sunny Spain, her myrtles. orange
groves, and olives, her dark-eyed
daughters and chivalrous sons, came
upon him, that one year of welded
life when the warm love, the deep de-
votion, the almost alteration of the
beautiful Spaniard had been his own.
His English wlfes calm, quiet affec-
ton paled before IL, there was no
romance about that gentle lady,
whose vast wealth had been so great
an acquisition to the Lynnes OF
Lynnewode.
Lord Lynne looked back upon that
| past as upon a beautiful poem that
he had read in his early youth He
shrank selfshly from infiicting pain
upon himself He knew, for they
! had told him, that his daughter re-
sembled her lost mother, She had
the same dark, passionate, beautiful
| face; the same wondrous southern
| eyes and hair He did not wish to be
obliged to suffer the old pain OF that
| loss over again So he allowed his
eldest child to grow up in foreign
| land, under another's care. In his
own heart he wished that she would
| marry and settle there. He intended
to endow her most literally: but one
| day three came a message from that
| far-off home. saying that the Sonora
| Monteleone was dying, and Inez must
| be sent for. Then Lord Lynne sent
/ a trustworthy agent TO bring his un.
/ known daughter home. Lady Lynne
was dead and his younger child
| Agatha, was only too pleased to have
/ her sister with her. They were pre-
pared 10 see a pretty girl; but no
| thing like this dark-eyed Andalusiar
! had ever been seen at Lynnewolde
No mere words could do justice to thai
wondrors beauty--to the proud
passionate face, so perfect in colo,
! and feature-to the bright dreamy
eyes, in whose liquid depths there lay
a world OF beauty and OF loye-to The
rich, ripping hair black as night, ye
| soft and shining as the wing OF {
/ bird-the graceful figure, so perfectly
moulded. the dainty white jewelleC
hands, the rare mixture Of languiC
ease and dignity. Yet, what made he
the most wonderful was the passion
and genius that seemed TO emanat'
from her. Every one who saw he
felt instihctlyely that she was capabl'
of great things either great evil o.
great good There was no mediocrit,
IN IDez Lynne.
To be Continued