Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-17

 lot of good I should not now be lucky emission. Lord Darlington would have nothing to do with his son, and there was trouble with MT. i Lockwood.
 T lived with the two of them during their married life. A son was born, and she died. was glad when she died. and was sorry s1e left the boy. Percy was wrapped up in the child and gave him to me to nurse. Mrs. Vane was buried in Pere la Chaise, and then | Percy, with myself and the baby, went to Monte Carlo. He gambled there in | order to forget his grief, though | don't see what he had to moan over, l seeing what silly fool his late wife was. Percy lost money and wrote to 1 his father. who declined to help him. i Then he went to Italy and wandered i about. Now that he was free hoped | to marry him. When not nursing that i horrid child devoted myself to study l so as to be worthy of the time when l Percy would marry me. I knew that i the future Lady Darlington would hold high rank, and I qualified myself to ! fill the position gracefully. I did work. l I learned arithmetic and French like 1 native. I got an old artist to teach me | to paint in water colors, and I bought | a book which taught the manners of l good society. Percy saw the change in me and congratulated me on the i'm l provement which had taken place in ! me since leaving England.
 'As to that child, should have liked l to drown 1t or to have given 1t to gyp- l sies As Lady Darlington I did not 1 sides, Percy loved the boy so that he used to make me envious the way he l nursed him. But had I got rid of the l child-and I thought of a thousand l safe ways I could have done sol should only have been sent away. l "The end of 1t came in Milan. We. l were stopping at the Hotel de Ville, l and there was a waiter who fell in l love with me- He was an English boy l called George Rates, horrid, scrubby, red haired, nasty, pale faced creature, who worried me to death. Besides, he was younger than was, and wished for husband to protect me. I should have had to look after George Rates, l whereas Percy in the days to come | would look after me. Besides felt l that it was an impertinence for low l waiter to expect me to marry him, me, who had done so much to improve my l self and who looked forward to taking | proud rank among the British aristoc- racy.
 "At first laughed at him, but be became such a nuisance that told him | f~4.> H. Ar.-A Y +<> do with him. He then accused me of lebefng in love with my master. ac- l knowledged it proudly. Why should | not? A woman should glory. in her I love. I did. told George Rates that worshiped the very ground Percy
 walked on. gave my passionate feel ings full vent and bore him to the ground under the storm of my indigna- tion. He told the other servants, and Il they insulted me, especially the Eng fish ones, as there were two or three in the hotel was persecuted, but bore all for his dear sake. Then 1t came to his ears. Percy heard what I had said I to George Rates He called me in.' He accused me of making him ridiculous, I of being out of my mind, of thousand and one cruel things. lost my head. l told him how I loved, him. kne1t at his feet. I implored that he would reward my love-my long, long suffer ings. He laughed in my fearful face.
 At that moment hated him, but not
 for long. My life was bound up in
 his. When he dismissed me thought that my heart was broken.
 'sI was dismissed He procured
 new nurse from England-a Scotch
 hussy, as ugly as she was silly. saw
 her often in Milan after my dismissal.
 Oh, that time: Oh, those weary days!
 I wept. prayed. moaned. I was
 a wreck. With what money had
 went to a convent near Milan and J stopped there for a month. But I
 could not remain away from him. I
 came out. He was gone. I went to in
 quire at the hotel He had gone to l Rome. Afterward message came
 that all letters were to be sent to San
 Reno. I determined to go to San
 Reno and to be near him. would
 have died else. George Rates, who I was still in love with me, proved a
 willing tool. could not get to San
 Reno without money. He offered to
 auVduCG m0 LuG HALLWAY ldFG, duu u0 I got me situation in the Hotel d'An-
 gleterre as housemaid. He also was
 going there for the season as a waiter.
 said that if he took me to San Reno l would marry him. He did so, and T.
 but that comes later. Sufficient 1t is
 to say that George believed in my promise and that found myself again
 in the presence-the heavenly presence
 -of my adored Percy.
 ~But had only come to submit my self to fresh anguish. He saw me. put took no notice of me. I was afraid to
 follow him too closely lest he should
 ask the police to interfere. George
 Rates was Jealous, too, and had to consider. him, as, failing Percy reward
 ing my love, could fall back on 1 George. He was always useful to sup ply the money for me to get back to
 England, where was certain of a sit l ftcn r hondIod fho Sif1Jo fiar in a