New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-03


mat Is to say, he had very few more possessions
than his debts. his handsome face and figure.
rulnous old castle somewhere in the wilds of Ire
land. and his sword
he had covered himself with glory in the wars
in the Low Countries, and it said that he
had 1t in him TO carve his way to fortune as John
Churchill had done It,
Anyhow. when peace was proclaimed and he
came home covered with laureIs. there were a
good many ladies ready to spoil him with their
smiles and praises: and at first he took kindly to
IT, and staggered in drawing rooms. and was
splendid and gay and reckless. though he did
not owe for the very suit his back. and know
that the tailor, with good many other accom-
nodatinS gentlemen. counted on his making rich
marriage, so that their debts might be paid of
with interest
There were a good many fortunes that would not
nave objected to being Lady Tresham. and he
might have flung himself away carelessly for it
was not In him to resist woman. II il had not
oeen for Lady Mary Trelawny. who saw in the
daa likeness to her dead son and took an inor-
Lady Mary was delightful old lady. with white
dfir anu PINK cheeks and eyes as bright her
to be insensble to her charm She took possession
Oh MN almost as though he had been the boy he
Mas ILEouSnI 70 resemble. and soon there not
thought OF his brave. honest. simple. proud heart
that she did not know.
me, nnssy were on terms of tender intimacy. and he
aush n IN her race albeit he bushed, while she
ms ms. Diminishing one after the other with Of
And. above ALL" she said. beware OF Joan
SouTtenay. for she means to have you. And she is
miidsT h enough fresh from the hands of her
under the rouge her cheek is yellow. She is fully
one knows that she ought to have married An
thony brandon, but she drove him from her with
her tongue. and then was too bitter to recall him.
and. If she were to marry you. it would be for
anything but that she would spite the gentleman
VINO IoVed her and would show to the world that
she Is not too old for love-.
that the ladies but honored him with their kind,
ness and had no thought TO marry him; but OF
that Lady Mary took no heed. although she liked
him the better for his modesty
And when he met Mistress Joan at the card table
about her age for. if there were crows feet her
was damn efiT ga re- Gu t uIu5[ r's Iou5e Sne
kind to him as Lady Mary.
But his boys heart was yet unawaLened till one
evening, at a rout he young girl. sitting in
the shadow OF a frowning old man, and dressed in
watched her from little distance. and presently
he observed the old man lead the girl to where
duce the two with much bowling and many gest-
ures- And then, apparently having satisfied him
great briskness as fast his short legs would
Sir Gilbert at once crossed the room and took
the seat by Lady Marys side. which was always
kept for him, and introduced to the young lady
whose name he learned was Mistress Prue. And
no more he learned for that night although he LED
of the evening, when Lady Mary had made one OF
a party at ombre he cOntrived TO have her TO him
self in an alcove for a full hour. by the end of
which time he was head over ears in love with her
and she with him. although they barely knew each
The following morning, calling Lady Mary
when she was slipping her chocolate he announced
that he was consumed with love for Mistress Prue
and that she returned il. and Mistress Prue he
would marry and no other lady.
Lady Mary rolled her eyes and claSped her hands
to have the Mysteries like a fashionable miss. and
would have rung for her woman If she had not
come 10 with startling suddenness and prevented
little Prue." she said little Prue Lord Over
bury's daughter, Was there ever such folly?
He looked at her with hurt face and her own
Lord Overbury." she said. more gently. hates
the Irish than any living. for that he
He said he smelt Tory. and the irish said he
would save his smelling another so sliced off the
tip OF his nose, His lordship minded the laughter
I should have done the same if were the Irish
"Prue Is one OF the creates. heresses in Eng
s does sG9 not ssre o for Sa said the lover
oh but what OF her father
SO INFECTIOUS was the confidence OF the youth
mat }hat wn me, ne was with her Lady Mary almost Pc
Lord Overhury would consent TO his daughters
marriage with pennIless soldier of the race he
But wher he was gone from her she knew better.
with the memory of the beloved dead. 10 make his
gallant careessness and generosity the more win
Having made up his mind that he must possess
am dressed himself like a bridegroom, in a white
silk suit watered with silver. and drove in a coach
yond the pastures of Kensington and Fulham
The same evening he flung himself into Lady
At'10iN'
Over bsr tains her tbs rsi,Its ord OIsrb5r,9 mad
heaped upon him. AS the narrative moved him he
strobe up and down. the silver OF his suit seeming
Mary. apart from her tender association with Sir
Gilbert, loved handsome man; and her eyes glist-
ened as she watched him. lie was magnincent,
olympian, Jovian! What woman could resist him
And was that the end OF the Interview she
asked. as he paused for breath
The end of the Interview he replied. finging
back his elegant head so suddenly that the powder
flew. was touler insult even than those nave
the Lord Overbury and Your Lordship said l. II
were not that you are an old man and that am
began but spared to finish And so 1 left him so
like. I thought. to have a At that I ordered the
footmar as passed through the hall TO fetch
physician. lest there should be need to bleed him.
And you look to marry his daughter after that
child. He is too violent He is horrible in his
tempers"
cleared-"because he brought into the world
thing so sweet and innocent Mistress Prue. Why.
tears. mists and sunshine. softness and Witness:
the airs of ireland in her dear face
Overbury and Mistress Prue were he found, and
0verbury relaxed his vigilance. Till one morning
there came a letter from Mistress Prue handed In
more, since She was promised to Mr. Anthony
Brandon. honorable gentleman in the West
He went to his friend. Lady Mary. like mailman
DO YOU suppose it IS plot he said and that
she never wrote it? Or is 1t In women to look inno
cent as DAISIES Wnlle OF Oiach
deception? She swore that she loved me and would
never wed another"
Lady Mary looked at the letter. She saw what
he did not for his fury-a great tear drop had
rOded the ink midway OF the letter. Doubtless the
girl had written il with her fierce Old father stand
ing her. But she said nothing of the tear. IL
weqe to rea hs little rue Re
Lord Overbury would never consent and besides
Lady Mary was having her niece to stay with her
n handsome girl with pretty fortune of her own
who might be trusted TO catch Sir Gilbert fresh
ans heart in the rebound
rs it her letter." Re asked impatiently
1T is hers said Lady Mary, "and iIl-spelt,
becomes the letter of a woman of fashion An
thony Brandon. too! Why. he might we'll be her