The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-14

ised to be a beauty, and would be sure TO
marry we'll.
So they would enjoy their life, and leave
the future to take care Of itself, he said, and
so they did. Dorothy was just sixteen when
she was called out Of her bed in the middle
of the night to bid her father a last farewell.
A neglected cold had settled on his chest,
and even when he began to feel ill he would
not have advice, or take any care of himself.
He had been out shooting all that day in the
damp woods, and had gone to bed still de-
clining to see the doctor, although he con-
-fessed to being out of sorts
In the night he rang up his valet, who
found that his master had broken a blood
vessel and was sinking fast There was
daughter, after giving him some brandy and
the stimulant enabled; him to rally sufficiently
to speak a few last words gaspingly, to the
weeping wife and child.
take care of Dolly to Lady Lesson. BE
good, child" to his daughter. God bless
YOU both!" And then he was gone.
It had been 50 aWtully sudden, neither
could realize it at first; but Lady Lesson
was the first to recover. She and her. hus-
band had always been good friends; they had
had the sympathy for each other which
comes from kindred tastes, but there never
had been any deeper feeling on either side.
Therefore, though much startled and really
grieved, in a way, she was not overcome
when the first shock was over, and could
look things in the face.
The estate was entailed, and went with
the title to Sir CnGTleS' nephew, a lad OF
seventeen, who had just left Elton.
She would have a jointure of six hundred
pounds a year, and the use of the Dover
House rent free, for life. Dorothy had a
charge of five thousand pounds, which would
be paid to her on her marriage, or on coming
of age.
Besides her jointure, Lady Lesson had two
hundred and fifty pounds a year Of her own,
making eight hundred ard fifty pounds a year
in all, therefore she and her daughter could
cto EI1f in,
spending eight thousand pounds year, and
found that insufficient you would naturally
wonder how you were going to exc out the
hundreds, and which of your expensive tastes
YOU could best mort1fy
No more gowns from Worth's would be pos
sible. The town house, the expensive finish
in governess, would all have to be given up.
She must have a useful, instead of an orna-
mental, maid.
She would have to sell her carriage horses
Indeed, so many retrenchments seemed nee
essary, Lady Lesson began to wonder if she
should have anything left at last, and
whether life would be worth living under the
: enforced conditions.
She sat all that day thinking and planning
until her brain ached, and finally she decided
to go abroad for her year of mourning, and
finish Dorothy there. BY economizing in this
way she would be able to afford six weeks or
two months in town when Dorothy was pre-
scented, and give her chance of making some
grand conquest in her first season.
And so it came to pass. AS soon as the
funeral was over Lady Lesson transferred
all her private belongings to the Dover
House, left an old servant and her husband
in charge, and retired to a great educational
center on the Continent, where Dorothy
worked hard at languages and accomplish
ments without neglecting her English studies
At seventeen and a half, when Lady Lesson
returned to England, the girl was one of the
loveliest young creatures who had ever been
presented at Court and she made a sensation
that satisfied even her mother She had
eight offers of marriage the first six weeks
but none of the pretendants quite came I'D to