Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-07-09

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80 suspIclousl Mr. Hastings Is going TO
England on business. and Col. dAguiiar
Il going with him."
"D'AgaIlar.s cried Francis Clayton,
starring has he been hereT
"Yeg"
"And you have met himr"
Eyes"
"And spoken TO himi"
"Yes.D
"And danced with hlmT
II plead guilty TO that also" answered
Fee, trying to speak gayly. She was ae-
customed 20 violent outbursts from her
husband, but the passionate violence he
gave way to on this occasion surpassed
anything she had ever witnessed.
He said such terrible things TO her,
that, trembling, frightened, as she was,
her Indignation was greater. She walked
straight up TO him.
How dare you use such words TO me!'
she cried How dare you utter your
base-minded suspicious before me! !
would not lower myself so much In my
own eyes as TO attempt TO justify my
fOHuuEl. 10u uEt RVVAg Ai@NAebt~
tyrant, with whom II Is impossible for
woman to live and retain her self-re-
spect. will not stop under the same
roof with you another hour. From this
moment leave you," aud she swept to-
ward the door. But he was there before
her, and stood with his back against II,
to prevent her egress.
Il forbid you to leave this house"
"Henceforward you have no authority
over my actions" his wife replied, coldly.
II leave Paris tonight"
"Then you go without servants or
clothes"
BE 1t so! l care not how, but go
will.'
lie saw that she was resolved. and he
was afraid of her. He tried TO justify
himself--to make up the quarrel; she
would not hear a word. Then he apollo
gized, humbly, abjectly; and at last she
consented to receive his amende. Their
misery was sealed from that hour. How
could man with a mind like Claytons
ever pardon a woman who had so hu'
inflated him?
The Champions were perhaps not the
! most united family In the world. Mr.
! Champion was proverbially indifferent t.
his wife; Sir Howard and his grand
children had perpetual alterations; and
latterly, Mrs. Champion and her daugh'
| ter seemed far less attached to each 9th
er than formerly. Flora Champion was
unhappy and discontented. Her aim In
life was to make brilliant marriage, and
she failed.
Scenes between her and Sir Howard
were Of frequent occurrence. She qua.
relied constantly with her brother. and the
last aud crowning part OF her mortitica'
! tion was that he had fallen desperately
in love with Winifred Eyre. When Mr.
Eyre died, Sir Howard had gone to the
Farm and offered to take Winifred to the
Manor. But she refused-not bitterly,
not angrily. but firmly. "Thank you,
| she said, ~ am sure you mean kindly
You desp;sed and slighted my dear, dear
! father when he was alive, and / will moi
accept anything at your hands now." And
Sir Howard, instead of being displeased
and offended, was rather gratifed by an
, independence OF spirit which he consider
ed due to the blue blood she inherited
from the Champions.
Meantime Winifred very gratefully &C
cepted another offer that was made tC
her. The moment kind Lady Grace heard
of her young friends trouble she came Il
her and wanted to take her away to EN-
don Vale at once. But no persuasion
could induce Winifred to leave the Farm
until after the funeral, and even then she
clung to her old friend, Madame de Mon
tolieu, and could not bear the thought
of leaving her. But Lady Grace wa;
bent on having the girl, whom she had
come to care for very dearly. So she
finally persuaded Madame de Montolier
to give up her cottage and go with Wini
fred to Endon Vale.
To return to Flora Champion. The
retributiOn which her conduct toward Mr.
Vane deserved had overtaken her, He
was Lord Lancing now; his father haC
been dead six months, and he was al
Indifferent to her as she had formerly
been to him. And, worse than all, theil
positions were reversed, and she was il
love with him, to her own bitterness an,
modification. She tried first to win hin
back, and when that failed, she strove
with all her strength Of win, to mastel
her unrequitted attachment. Lord Ian
cling never sighted her-he was fur to,
generous minded for that; he paid her tn
same attention in public that he had al
ways done. But he never, as long as h
lived, uttered another word of love to her
He was kind and tender to her, for tn
sake of olden times, but a brave, gener
GUS heart like his could never again low
woman who had been capable of cold
ness and cruelty.
II will marryw Flora vowed to her
self, "and marry well. shall never Low
any one but Evelyn, and he does not car
for me now. IL man as old as my grand
father asks me to be his wife, and ne ha
rank and wealth, will take him. Surel
l have still beauty enough to buy love!
and Flora Champion looked proudly int
the long mirror before which she wa
standing.
CHAPTER MI.
Winifred was no longer unhappy. Sh