Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-11-15
I FORBID THE BANNS.


me- Rooney Carlton, eighth Baron Calnc.
on me 81 OF August, 1894, at Clantyre. III
| scotland" said Lord Calne steadily. His
! Drown lace was white with excitement
OF emotion OF some sort, but his voice
/ never taltered from his self controlled
! emphasis. jean and Angus Macintosh.
you are my witnesses!"
! he tall Seotchwoman took step for
| ward and looked the clergyman vet more
! squanely IN the face.
! Me and my mon haa come TO sweer
that the young Teddy was married 10
! Master Rodney Carlton in our presence,
| by the Scotch law" she said firmly
| was at Clantyre station, seven years
| ago IN August, an my mon Angus will
| sveer TO il too. Ay, but there's moo set
ting by a Scotch marriage, meenister!"
| The clergyman turned from one to the
| other IN agitation.
| Follow me to the vestry!" he said
| hWriedly~ 1t is not seemIy to discuss
/ all this here. | can but ask YOU" he
/ continued, turning to the excited guests,
/ to all disperse. Until these peoples
allegations are proved false, l shall cele
/ hratc no marriage between Samson Pitt
/ Samson and Theodore Renee Deering."
He turned bUniedly towards the yes
! try, and with the same stoical calm the
man and woman. Jean and Angus Mack
| lntosh, followed him. But Pitt Samson
/ mad lost his self-control He hfted IN
his voice suddenly and raved, cursmg
LORD Calne, and his witnesses, the clcI-
/ gyman and Theo, Unfortunately. Even
Mrs. Narrlngton's effort to stop him was
! useless. She was a shrewd woman. and
! she saw that for the moment the game
was up. If she could accomplish it later
| on she would, but She knew that her
| triumph was at least deferred. Pitt
! Samson, however, was like a madman
| Instead of following the clergyman, he
stood between his white-f6ced bl ide and
Lord 'Calne, raying like lunatic, until
with n sudden movement the latter took
him by the collar and flung MIN out OF
the way.
Il will deal with you, sir, after!" he
s. ID, with a suppressed anger which ir.
pressed even his adversary ."For the
present, must request you to follow
me-"
he passed his arm round Theo after a
hasty glance at her face, and half led,
half lifted her into the vestry. There,
as in a dream, she heard him carefully
explain thu circumstances of the boy and
! girl marriage which had taken place
rearly seven years ago. She heard Jean
and Angus repeat their statement and
testimony, she heard The lawyer state
his opinion that the marriage would hold
| good, and the cleTgyman's agitated ac-
ceptancc of it. But wheI she tried to
realize it ALTO make her poor tortured
brain lind some connection between the
boy Rodney Carlton and the man who
was Lord Calre--something seemed to
snap in her head, a great darkness came
down and blotted out the faces before
her. She put out her hands blindly, and
fell before them in swoon.
When Iheo came back to conscious
ness, and looked round her, the scene
seemed to Fhaye changed. She was 40
longer in the damp, moldy smelling
vestry, with the strange figures round
her so obviously disturbed by the scene
they had gone through. She was alone,
save for one person whose face for the
| minute she did not recognize. Her ewes
wandered languidly round q room she
had never seen before. 1t was a com
fOftably, even luxuriously, furnished
room, but it reminded her of the sitting
TOon in hotel. Then she felt q hand
passed gently over her hair, and q voice
said, Drink this!"
AS she obedientIy swallowed the wine
held to her lips, she looked up and then
smiled.
F'Why, Lord Calne!" she said vaguely.
Il thought"
She paused as it all came back TO her,
and instinctively chung to his arm.
"Are they all gomez" shc said breath
lessly. "Am 1 saved?"
"They are all gone, my darling. You
are quite safe-with met" he said gently.
"But what room is thisf"
"a private sitting room in the Lang
ham hotel"
"And who are your"
81 am Rodney Carlton, Lord Caine-
and-your husband!"
"You-that boy travelled wita! How
can you be?"
every easily, though I never thought
to mention my family name to you, nor
did I dream until you told me so IN my
own rooms the day you came to- me in
such distress. You see, my father IVES
Lord Calne. but as he was only baron,
/ had no title but the Hon before my
name, and l did not think 10 vouehsafe
all that unnecessary information to you
seven years ago"
mo, of course not" said TIeo, stG1l in
the same bewildered tone; but how
extraordinary! To think that came to
you and told you your own story! Did
you know that it was a Scotch Imar-
riagel"
mo, certainly not I never thought
abo;Tt such a thing, and might have mar
ried quite unconscious of any tie binding
me l lost sight of Jean Macintosh and
her husband soon after that eventfui
Journey, and had the greatest difficulty
to find them. They had left Clantyre !
and gone up to the Highlands, their orr |
hal home, and was very nearly too late |
through tracing them. Did you thi TX !
| was eorning?"
Theo shivered. and turned white again. |
81 did not know what to think. she |
said. Il was nearly mad, or delirious
this morning. Lord Calne"-she pushed |
his arms away, And sat up little I'M
steadily-"is it-fAat Scotch marriage |
binding?"