Arizona republican., 1899-01-18

his engagement to Kathleen Kennaird, even if they allowed him to wed at all. She was not, from the Dendudlon point of view, his equal, and the whole prop osition would have been met with daln- ty disgust.
 So poor lame Lord Egbert stubbornly made up his mind. One morning he hobbled to the side of Kathleen's mother and murmured few words in the ear of that lady. She listened, and even in listening Margaretta Kennaird committed a species of folly. But she did more; she lent herself, before two hours had passed, to scheme of elope- ment. Early the next morning Lord Egbert and Kathleen were to depart from the hall together, only returning thither as man and wife. Kathleen, when she was apprised of her mothers fixed resolve, turned very pale and de- clared that unless it were abandoned she would acquaint Lady Dendudlon with the entire affair. The girl was ter ribly in earnest and her auditor GisF cerned it. But Mrs. Kernaird attempted no coercion She literally sank at her daughters feet and implOred her to yield. Then, with a retrospective glib ness that sometimes narrowly missed el- oquence, she Giscoursed of Ter own past the privation, the injustice and the pa thos of it! Kathleen hearkened, and the spell began to work. Before her mother had done with her she gave her consent, but in a mood Of conscience stricken reluctance.
 Of course two or three servants had to be trusted, and ore of these was T IN<r1,a 1n+ f,1-, +lf1~--r f,f conservative tenets and willy diploma cies. In the autumn dawn of the fol lowing morning Kathleen and her mother descended from their apartments to find Lord Egbcrt waiting them. Out side vehicle also waited, and the threc were about to enter it when Lady Den dudlon appeared, accompanied by her husband, the marquis, who had ar rived on the previous evening.
 It is no exaggcration to state that the enraged marchioness now covered her offending guest with the most furious invectivc. Mrs. Iio1naird and Kathleen were actually hustled from the hall with as little ceremony as if they had been two suspicious tramps, and the wrathful revolt of Lord Egbcrt was treated very much as if it had been the d signed elopement did not end merely in detection, but in pitiless exposure as we'll The marchioness, having once got rid of two women whom she re- garded as vipcrs warmed at her hearth stone, proceeded to bruit what she de nounced as their willy treachery, from one end of the kingdom to the other. She was an excellent hater, was this noble lady, as already has been chron- iclcd. She did not spare the Kennairds, nor did her husband, whom she notori- ously ruled. Their acrid statements engendered a scandal from which sprang the most hurtful odium. Mrs. Ken naird's matrimonial plot" was soon on numberless lips. The society journals had their fling at her, and she was re- ferred to as the ''inveigler" and again as the American pEsher." To rally round her few genial adherents meant one thing, to fight the powerful acri- mony of the Dendudlons meant another. She soon woke to the fact that her Lon don position was ruined, and that her attempt to connect her child with the naughty house of PoindeXtcr had wrought for her dreadful coEtumely and ridicule There is no doubt that she had been cruelty treated, consider ing all the circumstances; but there is no doubt, too, that in a measure she had brought upon herself the punishment which had overtalzen her with such rude and public lash-strolzes.
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