New-York tribune., 1903-05-12
Beeufy's Beast.
nv KATHARINE lyman.

his marriage he had followed his wife s suDn1S hd
sively society which had no PIy PraeJIy w Ut,boIt
rem0nstrance and returned TO his own qu!st poa es
ding way of life. in which the one bright sPo' """
He attended his wife's great receptions. IN
waTs ineGpressbiy relieved when the hour came
which he might slip away 70 ,9 tnaI aoo and d nov
erty of which refuge to him IN the ihasli
He had learned quite early in his married life
that his function was TO provide money ana and a
her girls. With a dumb resignation ne nag had ao a
cepted the fact that ne had Ifb 6eeh him ad been
more merciess one than any city city bd 1e1 in
she took X al a and GItD gags gHthns gsa ana hu
He had erred when he had imagined that ne
could gauge the depths of a fashionable lady SA-
travagance Mrs Bryanston never troubled her her
self about her husbands resources never i asaee s6
herself if Bryanstons could stand the cans @ Inae
upon ii. the West End mansion. the country mouse mouse
in Scotland. and the rest Of the things in wnich
she We'd with people whose wealth was a , iaDle.
something dingy IN the City which had yleided Her
all she asked and must be made TO yield more TX
As time passed her extravaganza became greater
All the heart she had in Violet and May. her
two beautiful daughters. When the time came LOT
Them to be extravagant it occurred TO John Bry-
aIston's, might some day give out IT. ,or...oa
LOOKS i and and his hisU fast whitening hair. There
was little between them by this time put nut d d
piteous eagerness on her husbands TO NEE!
her demands so long as he @ might; Ihe neaS SaTd OF
worrying Of his great staff of underlings. He
works w0Tked & in hours f6 and out QT nogrf BUT IN the % @
ter days, while the trouble was sun only q Attle
cloud on the horizon, John Bryanston worked NE
a galley slave so that he might give ms wlIe ths
thing she had married him for He had married married
her because of some inherent strain oE weIkne5is i
in him. The weakness made him strusgie
anv M effort of his the time should come when he
would have to refuse his beautiful, scorn1ul WlIe
the price OF her marrying him. .,.,-.,,. o,,o--
v tbe bra5oy d of Viot and May
Shp had no le things
she yielded them without a contest
duty as she conceived it. to her stepdaughter,
treating her, she said pathetcally to her dearest
friends exactly as she treated her own daughters.
giving her the same advantages of upbringng that
they enJoyee anu n4 r ss tbev We're
sure to do, to take Beauty out in her place
Beauty was a tiresome child. very odd, very un-
grateful. and she feared with taste for low com
pany. So she gave up trying to drive Beauty her
way, and allowed her to follow her own
and more into seclusion. in which she had only one
companion. her father. over whom her heart ached
While she was Vet little girl she used to escape
from in the hottest part Of the summer to eer &
.'Dovey" Mrs. Dovel, her devoted old nurse. and
her to be taken out OF town to Dovey's cottage
were the things that made Mrs; Bryanston suspect
her steDdaughter OF q taste for low company.
However one cannot always remain a child and
& beauty greW ~ Her father was nearly always
too busy now for the old rambes and expeditions
growing indignation against her beautiful step
mother The visits to Doveys cottage We're a tniils
s~d Tu1e 3 much out OF the gayetieS as
her father himself. because II she went 10 Wind
over the great country house. her father wouid De
XTban the household moved to WindOver. 50 that
violet and May might refresh their diEnneu roses
Beauty still remained oehlnu me VISITS 70 ,I I,S
German spa. the grouse shooting, the winter co.l-
trJ house visiting, not for her she was SIN
csreIv glad when the season was over ana SIfs-
T2rvanston and her daughters went out OI t9"A,
1-.t-aT1 +ha great drawing were mufffed N
boIIand and Beauty and her fatner nad tiSr
meals served them In obscure little room az tls
1,Is9saut faced little houSemaid VINO had aeclaFec
her sympathy with John Bryanston IN the ser'a
hall .... - :, z,,-.to,. thar, avar The
gree+s IN the watering carts less IN eVldehce. Hut
a. the eraat echoing house there wSs peace ior
Iorn T}Tvanston and his daughter Win no coil.
unloving faces IhaAius d ~
tween t9sIc asston spent his days in the city as
,,s,,ai Feautv amused herself as she would; TOOK
ttsu95, f,-. a. nm in the park rode omniouseS.
-1eayed in at shop windows did all sorts OF thihS5
4EbIeb Mrs Bryanston would have been shocked at
IN nea Owls o~i thew went out OF town. Ramssate
81, SfarGate or some such peDeian place, ana
p...Tfv IA splte of her fathers istraSSeo Iace,
,.t3 not holm euioyiug erything-the bands the
;a-a-- ,-~frsfrels the bathing. the happy cFoWca
i hours Tassad all too quickly I'LL Monday morn
i5leSs e,cpress raced them back 70 town.
u 6re eyerfrr 10 Beauty's amazement. john Bry-
anstou brought home a visitor.
He was a dark young man pale 70 saiiowneesss; Sneas
,-fb somewhat sunken eyes, and that pincheo
49, boa1t the face which speaks OF long knowl-
&c M suffering He was slightly lame ana MS
clothes were rather cussy - I'M % t m bo,,se
80 Teru+v said afteTward with a little humorous
inivIla tion that IL papa wanted company ne n.ht
t said in Holm Bryanston's face took on II possl-
bic, an added state OF Anxiety
Cro DO eontinEedo