Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-04-23


This terrible announcement she ut
strike despair and remorse into the
hearts of her hearers; and, indeed, in
Lady Caroline's breast 1t awoke min
gled feelings of Joy and terror, though
in those OF Mildred and Mabel the joy
reigned supreme.
Lady Caroline attempted a faint re-,
monstrance, but was sternly silenced;
and on "Wednesday two days earlier
than that on which she had originally
decided, the old lady, bag and bag
gage, swept out of Kings Abbott, very
much to the relief of those she left
behind.
And now came the most trying time
In all poor Mildreds life. During all
OF the past weeks that she had been
suffering violence at the hands of her
relatives, Lord Lyndon had become
constant, untiring visitor at Kings
Abbott, taking no rebuffs, nor open
sights, nor petulant actions to heart,
but, as might faithful animal, attend
ing all the more assiduonsly to her
wants who was his acknowledged mis-
tress. $50
z Patience, assisted by perseverance,
has ever been known to work wonders,
so 1t followed that in process of time
he became-though so imperceptibly
that it was without her knowledge
necessary to Mildred; SO much so in
deed that fewer and fewer grew the
Sights and unkindnesses on her part,
while in their place certain winning
friendliness came and increased, rails
ing false hopes in Lyndon's breast that
. should never have been there.
The end of all this was that close
upon Christmas-time, somewhere about
the middle of December, while all Their
minds were fully occupied with Lady
Eagleton's sayings and doings, Lord
Lyndon proposed for Miss Trevanion
and was rejected. This blow might
perhaps have effectually daunted an
other man; but Lyndon, still following
up his trusty instincts, determined to
bide his time, and never surrender hope
until more favored sutton took his
place.
Mildred, having lively recollections
of the treatment she had received on a
similar occasion. thought well to keep
<iT1nnprf sspAcAnseI in this matta,.: and
II greed upon between them
Void the entire circumstance SCI
cret from the rest Of the. family--to
insure which, things of course wentson
In the usual way, he calling every 9th
er day and she accepting his atten-
tons which were never OF the obtrus-
i've description--in the same manner as
formerly. So well did they sustain
their several parts that even Lady
Harriet's keen old eyes failed to de-
tect that anything was amiss.
Sir Georges affairs at this time were
going from bad to worse. He had been
hard at work for the past two months
trying to find the ways and means to
ward off the inevitable day of reckon
ding, and had suggested plans and pur-
sued theories, all of which his man Of
business had frowned at and pooh
poohed as utterly impracticable. Moth
= ing but the possession of large sum
of money-and that to be written in
five figures stood between him and
complete ruin; and how to secure the
money was the difficulty-a difficulty
beyond all surrounding unless some
body could be found who for pure
friendships sake would lend it for an
indefinite period, trusting to time and
chance for repayment. Such friend
was hard to find.
One evening Mildred, on her way to
her mothers room, was stopped by a