Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-30
HIS GRACE"
BY MRS. C.. N. WILLIAMSON.
Author of 'The Barn Sormers," "The Woman in Grey,
Fortunes Sport" "The House by the Lock-,
"a Man From the Dark" Lady Mary
of the Dark House." "Her
Royal HighnessN etc.
Royal Hlghness' etc.

!. SYNOPSIS of Preceding Chapters;
lord Wareham had been brought home
from the hunting field with his neck
Fbroken and young Lady Wareham-
ldoleful procession as it entered the
house. The consequence was that she
salso lay in peril of her life, while another
life, still more precious to the family
Efortune and future, was trembling in the
balance. The verdict of the doctor was
kthat there was little hope for either
Emother or child. Should the doctors
tgloomy prediction be fulfilled the man
whom Lady Mary Blandon-the spinster
sister of the Duke of Acknowledgment
above all men, would soon come into the
title and estates. She and Mr.. Saver
make, who acted as a sort of confidential
clerk to the Duke, concoct scheme TO
Illustrate this. A certain document which
Savernake extracted from the pockets of
Lord Wareham, revealed that a woman,
who claims to be his wife, has come to
live in the neighborhood to ascertain
sriage are true, and acquainting him of
1.-THE birth of twins-two boys. Whilst
this story is discredited by Savernake
and Lady Mary they conspire together
Ito effect out of it a way out of the
difficulty which lies before them. This
is nothing less than the exchange of the
young Lord Wareham the moment he
should die for one of the infants of this
sstrange woman. This is accomplished by
lSavernake, the woman consenting with
various stipulations To the amazement
whom Lady Mary ingeniously got out of
1.-THE way, little Lord Wareham got better
an a remarkably short time. We are next
s4ntroduced to Randall Palgrave, at the
grand ball is given at Lurlworth Towers.
His mind is full of bitter thoughts as he
{ PAGES the picture gallery, and inwardly
icomments upon how near he had come
! to the dukedom. Maurice, the Duke be-
Ecomes acquainted at college with young
Blandon, and Randall has a good reason
fNN
belonged to a rapid, card-playing, hard
drinking set of young men, most of them
much older than ne. and through his
and his fathers influence the Duke had
been drawn into ii as we'll With such a
feeble constitution Leicester's, no
way of life could have been more in
FURIOUS and upon this fact Randall Pal
grave had calculated. If the young man
married, all his efforts of the last ten
years would have been in vain. History
would repeat itself. There would be an
heir, and whether the Duke lived or died,
Randall Palgrave's fate would be the
same. This fear of Randals was well
founded. The attentions which the Duke
bestowed upon the Princess Lady
Ann o Neill-called up all the bitterness
in his nature The Princess promises to
be the wife of Maurice, not because she
and sees in such a marriage a way of
helping the poor people of Kildaragh, for
whom she would have given her life.
The Duke takes her upon these terms.
The effect of this upon PalgraVe is to
suddenly bring to his mind his posses
sion of the "Moated Grange dilap-
idated house on the banks of the Thames,
which had been left him by the departed
Duke. This he seeks to have furnished
and renovated, the money for which he
borrows from the Duke himself. Some
time after Henley Week the Duke goes
in his dinghy up the river to keep an
appointment with his tiancee, who is
staying with her guardians at the Moated
Grange and takes note of a particularly
dangerous part of the river. where. he
observes to himself a man coming home
late at night might have n nasty acct
dent and ne decided to beware.