Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-08-25
90. 1t was sent by you to my moth

Impossible"
"Do you deny the scriptf'
IL do not deny it. but twas written
by me eight years since and presented
to my third wife, whom married pri-
vatcly."
"Your third wife? Who was she?'
'Shc was Mistress Elizabeth Rhodes,
and is now Lady STAFFORD
Then she is your fourth wife. You
will see by your own inditing that this
letter was written in March, 1921"
The date was Enthusiastically set down
by the same hand that had pcnncd the
bold signature Thomas Wentworth"
and the bewildcrmcnt of the carl in
creased as he recognized that here was
no forgery, but a genuine letter ante
dating its duplicate.
"ls il possible" he murmurcd to him
self. chat a man has so little original
ity as to do practically the same thing
twice." Then aloud to the girl he
said:
who was your mother?"
II had hoped the reading Of this
document would have rendered your
question unnecessary. Has Il man such
/ gift of forgetting that the very name
! Of the woman hr solemnly married has
| slipped his memory as easily as the
writing of the letter she chcrshcd:"
"She was Frances, daughter of Sir
John Warburton," murmurod the earl.
Ills only daughter, as am hers my
/ lord
! "Rut when Sir John wrote mo coldy
Of her death. he made no mention of
any issue
MY grandfather always hated you.
my lord. 1t is very like that he told
you not the cause of my mothers death
WAS her chldrcns BIRTH
"Chldrcnt'
eyes. my lord. My twin brother and
myself
IF. as you say, you have a brother,
why is he not here in your place. YOU
in the background, where you properly
bclongF"
Sir. suppose that her good name is
thought more of by woman tuan by
a man She wishes TO he assure! that
she came properly authcn.. -ated into
|
lie of his origin. SO he it he is here
with some one TO fight OF to love. Or
perhaps it Is that the man is the deep
or and refuses to condone where wo-
man vcarns to forgive. My brother
shares our grandfather's dislike of
You. He thinks You cared little for
our mother or you would not have been
I oh bn- 10 do
II knew nothing of it. The times
then. as now. We're uncertain, requiring
absorbed attention from those thrown
willingly or unwillngly into public af-
fairs. What can a boy of sixteen know
of the duties thrust upon a man in my
situnton:"
"SiXteen or not. he considers himself
even now man Of position and he
holds your course wrong He saws he
has tak.n up the opinions you former
ly held and will do his best to carry
them TO success. lie is for the parlia-
mcnt and against the king As for me.
| know little of the questions that dis
turb the state. NJ, own knowledge is
that you are my father, and were YOU
the Wickedest person IN tho world |
would come N YOU. \ man may have
many daughters. but daughter can
nave hut ON" father; therefore am
mere my lore.
Like Ia" quick succession of shade
ana sunshine over the Son>itiV" surface
Of lovely lake the play Of varying
'ino' ions added am ever changing
beauty 10 IL" girls expressive lar";
now piuful yearunG toward Arr
rather when she saw he suffered. teen
wing attitude, as If 81. would
Win him whether he would or no;
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