Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-18
A NOMAN'S ERROR

BY
BERTHA NJ. CLAY

scholars. She gave rewards and prizes;
she had founded all kinds Of societies
and clubs; in fact, people looked upon
IThornleigh as a model parish, and up
on Beatrice Lady Selwyn as a model
lady. Now that the schOol-mistress,
who had been very happy at Thorn
leigh. was leaving. DR.. HeGTne thought
the mistress of Creighton Hall ought
/ 10 be the first consulted.
4 should certainly say advertise "
was the advice OF Lady Beatrice; lad
vertise. and select from the applicants
yourself
Il think" suggested the doctor that
/ fer a post so important we shedid re-
iouire personal interviews"
by all means" said her ladyship,
Ilanguidly opening a superb blaclE1and-
silver fan that lay near her.
Then the better plan will be for
me TO advertise" continued the doc-
tor. and from the answers select a
certain number that I think most
promising. and request the writer's tc
come TO Thornleigh. The only ques-
ticn is, would you, Lady Selwyn, wish
TO examine the candidates, or shall p
A smile rippled over the beautiful
face of her ladyship.
IL the weather were more propiti-
Gus. 1 would examine any number of
candidates" she replied; but in the
present state of things. DR.. Hearne, /
shall be grateful il you will do il your
self"
And those few words altered the
destinies of many lives.
So the subject was dismissed as
rather a tiresOme one, and the good
rector was pressed to take claret
cup. the NEST invigOrating refresh
ment. Lady Beatrice declared, in .ex-
istence. He did so, and talked to Lord
Selwyn on the one subject which neyer
wearicd hinl-his son, Rupert Selsyn.
He will soon be fifteen" SAID fhe
rector. "and you must think aboN pls
education in good earnest"
4 think I shall keep him with me a
year longer said his father. He is
all my own now. have jealous kind
of feeling ever his going to college.
He viii be mine no longer he will
belong to ell the world then, He will
have a thousand interests, loves AMI
thoughts away from me-"
The rector laughed.
1t must be so, my lord he replied.
Rupert canont always be young.
When he is a man in years, he will
have the cares and interests of a
man."
4 suppose so" was the reply, accom-
panied by a deep-drawn sigh. The
fact is. doctor, he has wound himself
so completely into my heart that l fear
| set too much store by him. am
afraid Of my own great love for him.
You cannot spoil him." replied DR..
HeaTne, for he is. without exception,
the most truthful, the most honorable
boy have ever met"
And again Lord Selwyn sighed. He
remembered TO whose gentle counsels,
TO whose wise and tender training his
son and heir owed his love for truth,
his love for holor-the training that
had at one time been scorned and
marked as "Old-fashioned," but was
new bearing such magnificent fruit.
Lady Beatrice noted the sign. and
gave a very accurate guess as to its
origin. Her proud face had grown
pale as she listened to Lord Vivian's
words All that love for Violante's
SON All. why had she no child that
he might love and cherish? Why was
fate sc cruel 10 her?
She clenched her slender fingers UNI
I'll the gemmed rings she wore made
great indentations. What avail that
the rival she hated lay sleeping under
the white marble monument. while her
son lived 10 succeed her n LORD
Vigian's heart? OF what avail that
the fair. pure beauty of her rivals
face had been married and blotted out,
when Niolante's sweet eyes shone in
her sons face? Hatred and jealousy.
blacker AID darker than before, rose
in her heart against the unconscious
boy whom every one loved.
Perhaps" she thought to herself,
after z time, perhaps it is just as well
that | have no child. If / had son,
and Rupert Selwyn, Violante's boy,
stood in the way, should .slay him!
could never bear to see a child of mine
supplanted by one of hers"
Lady Selwyn," she heard the rector
say, at last, shall send the advertise
ment today?"
She looked at him with the express
sion of one suddenly dazed. She had
completely forgotten, in the bitterness
Of her own thoughts, all that they had
been speaking Of; and the rector.
meeting the troubled, gloomy glance of
those dark eyes, thought to himself
that, after all, he knew very little of
Lady Selwyn.
DO in every respect as you think
best. DR.. Hearne." she said. in her
most stately manner; Il give you carte
blanche"
She rose to quit the cool. shaded
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