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Continued.

btl utDub III tic SitclJ WOllhs dllu was
received there with open arms. Lord
Carlswood's prophesy was realized;
her marvellous beauty and grace
created a perfect furore More than
ever he regretted her unfortunate mar
. riage but for that there was no rank
she might not have attained. The only
thing that reconciled him in the least
to it was the fact of the child's ex-
istence.
There opened then to Ismay VALID
ron a most brilliant life; nothing that
she had ever dreamed of equalled this
magnificent reality. There was one
drawback, She had one dispute with
Lord Carlswood; he was very DESTROYS
that she should relinquish the name of
Waldron, and that she would not con-
sent to do. She looked at him with
flashing eyes, her beautiful face Grim
son with anger.
II have broken my husbands heart"
she said; 81 have deserted him; | have
spoiled all his life; but will not give
up his name. i was proud enough the
day / bore 1t first; I will not give 1t
up."
He saw that IL was useless to urge
the point, so he ceased discussing It.
lsmay had more spirit and determine
ton. than he had given her credit for.
She was known as Mrs. Waldron."
Lord Carlswood's beautiful grand
daughter People at first used to ask
where was her husband-who was he?
and the answer was, "She married
no
ated from him.
After a time they ceased to ask, and
the beautiful Mrs. Waldron became one
4of the queens of the fashionable world.
How admired she was! Men spoke of
her with wonder-of her marvellous
loneliness and grace, her bright smile,
her quick ready wit, her radiant face.
Ismay Waldron enjoyed her life. She
gave herself up heart and soul, to the
spirit of gaiety; no party, no ball no
soiree was complete without her; she
was interchangeable in the pursuit of
pleasure. Lord Carlswood smiled as
he watched her.
Il was not mistaken in my estimate
of her character" he thought "She has
forgotten her husband"
He became warmly attached to her,
chiefly because her great beauty and
popularity BATTERED his pride. He
aoyed her. too, because she so closely
resembled her mother, the Katrine he
Remembered as child and had loved
so dearly. He took great pride and
Interest in the little Leo-his heir who
was to be, the Lord Carlswood of the
future.
There were times when Ismay Wald-
ron looking around her, said to her
self II did we'll: II the time and the
choice were to come again, | should do
the same. 1t would have been cruel to
waste such life as mine in a wood
Keepers cottage; it would have been
cruel to deprive my beautiful Leo Of
this grand heritage"
SO year after year passed, and with
time her beauty developed into mag
nitlcent womanhood; she grew more
fashionable, more popular. The beauti-
ful Mrs. Waldron was perhaps more
universally admired than any other
lady in London. The world loved her.
as she loved It,
There were times when she hardly
realized that she, the admired and fiat
tered beauty the queen of the season
the most popular woman in London
was the wife of Paul Waldron. In
the midst of her grandeur she looked
back with sick, faint shudder on the
past-that past wherein she had been
she disconnected wife of poor man.
She had reached the climax. Life
had nothing more to give her. Wealth.
luxury. magnificence, pleasure I'M
bounded. admiration--all were hers.
The world she had once looked upon
with such longing eyes now lay at her
feet. She delighted in her own beauty.
she took the greatest pride in adorn-
ing 1t, she was never weary of CON
tempating 1t.
The admiration of men pleased and
amused her, it did no more. She was
vain and worldly. she loved riches and
grandeur better perhaps than she
loved her own soul: but she was never
even IN thought, false to Paul Wal
dron. She never forgot. that. though
parted from him-though she had de-
serted him-she was still his wife. No
one dared to speak to her of love that
she could not receive. Yet some of the
best and noblest in the land would
fain have wooed her, had she been free
TO be wooed.
Lord Carlswood noticed that trait In
her character. as he noticed every
dhing.
she is a true Cariswood," he said
more than once. she is beautiful and
pure as were all the women of our
race"
So the years passed away to Ismay
Waldron, one of the most admired aud
celebrated women of her day.
CHAPTER XIV.
There was one season in London
when people were all talking of a
new man." who had made his entry
into public life. He was Mr.. Dale.
Of Ravensdale, who had been recently
returned as NJ. r. for Taverton. At
first Tories. and then Liberals had |
tried to ignore him. but he was becom- 4;
ing power amongst the people. He /