The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-08-15
MRS. FORREST

so suspicious! Mr.. Hastings 10 going to
England on business, and Col. d'Aguilar
is going with him."
"D'Aguilarg cried Francis Clayton,
starting. has he been hereT
"Yes.n > ...s Id.
Sand you have met himT
"Yes."
"And spoken to him2" -
s'Yes." - = a-
"And danced with him?'
II plead guilty to that also, answered
Fee, trying to speak gayly. She was &C
customed to 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
conduct. You are q poor, miserable
tyrant, with whom it is impossible for
woman to live and retain her self-re-
spect. I will not stop under the same
roof with you another hour. From this
moment leave you," and she swept to-
ward the door. But he was there before
her, and stood with his back against it,
to prevent her egress.
II 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 it so! care not how, but go
will"
He 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 a man with a mind like ClaytOn's
ever pardon a woman who had so hui
INFLATED him? A...
a =
The Champions were perhaps not the
most united family in the world. MIR.
Champion was proverbially Indifferent to
| 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 discontinued. 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 and browning part of her mortifca-
ton 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, II am sure you mean kindly.
You despised and sighted my dear, dear
father when he was alive, and / will not
accept anything at your hands now" And
Sir Howard, instead Of being displeased
and offended, was rather gratified by an
independence Of spirit which he consider
ed due to the blue blood she inherited
from the Champions.
Meantime Winifred very gratefully ac-
cepted another offer that was made to
her, The moment kind Lady Grace heard
of her young friends trouble she came to
y
don Vale at once. But no persuasion
could INDUCE Winifred to leave the Farm
until after the funeral, and even then she
chung to Ter old friend, Madame de Mon
toleu, and could not bear the thought
of leaving her. But Lady Grace was
bent on having the girl, whom she had
come to care for very dearly. So she
finally persuaded Madame de Montolieu
| vsx han Il ~;
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 had
been dead six months, and he was as
Indifferent to her as she had formerly
| been to him. And, worse than all, theil
positions were reversed, and she was in
love with him, to her own bitterness ant
modification. She tried first to win hin
back. and when that failed, she strove
, with all her strength of will, to master
, her unrequitted attachment. Lord Ian
cling never sighted her-he was far too
, generous minded for that; he paid her thu
| 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
lie was KIM ana tenuer TO uer, LOT ln'
2 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
b self, land marry well. l shall never low
e any one but Evelyn, and he does not car
for me now. If man as old as my grand
4 father asks me to be his wife, and he ha
rank and wealth, will take him. Surel
: l have still beauty enough to buy love!
: and Flora Champion looked proudly int
y the long mirror before which she wa
- standing.
CHAPTER MI.
:, Winifred was no longer unhappy. Sh