Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-09-04
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BY P. B. PATTIssoN

er afternoon as the big z. and
amer slowly glided from her
ngs amid the crowd of ship
hat filled the harbor.
re were not many passengers
ard the Parramatta, for this
lot a time of the year that
people Travelled from the east
ward, but amid the stir and
attendant on the departure
pig mail steamer and the set
down of newly joined passen-
two people, both passengers,
d a tranquil contrast.
or Walton, although his eyes
on the gold tipped hills they
SO swiftly passing, saw them
all. His thoughts were all
d, too much occupied with a
past to take much heed of the
findings of the present. 1t was
Id, old story his mind was
ng on-that of woman's
and a mans villainy-and,
Ugh the events which had well
wrecked his life had all hap
more than a year ago now,
were brought but too freshly
mind by this journey home.
ne! And what a home com
he said to himself bitterly.
e story was one perhaps only
ommon. He and his wife, the
beautiful, spoiled, vain, had
staying In the south of France
lad gone on to Monte Carlo for
k or two. Here they had met
lionel Hippesley, a handsome,
pw young Englishman, who was
his best, without success, to
himself at the tables, although
money he so freely squandered
not his, but his young wife's,
as a rumor averred, he had mar
the pretty Scotch heiress only
er fortune.
was staying at Monte Carlo
much en- garcon, his wife being
home and unable to travel.
and the Waltons became ac-
lted, and he appeared much
k by Mrs. Walton's beauty,
she was both pleased and fiat
by his admiration and atten-
and her husband, glad that she
Id be amused, thought or sus-
d no wrong. Under Hippesley's
Rnce Mrs. Walton became an
bit gambler, and a good many
notes futtered away, but Wal
vas a rich man and could afford
dulge her every whim.
fen had come the war in South
Ca, and Walton's regiment was
be the first ordered to the front,
he departed, leaving his wife
OF less her own mistress and
the command of plenty of mon
uring her husbands absence she
q met Sir Lionel Hippesley, this
at home, and he, more thar
fired by her excessive beauty
uaded her, a too willing victim
-un away with him to Paris
N there she wrote to her hus
and told him she had neve
VI cared for him and that nov
loved only one man on earth
that man was Sir Lionel Hippes
he blow almost stunned Walton
h he was wounded and invalide,
G. when he obtained his di
e. Hippesley's wife had alread
reed her husband. Immediatel
+ the trial Walton had starte
voyage to Japan and was now
+ a year spent in the east, ono
e returning to England.
18th short, impatient sigh Wa
reused himself and turned t
O the smoking room. As he di
he lady near him turned to 6
w at the same moment, and the
e face to face. Such a beaut
pathetic face, out of whic
ne a pair of dark blush gra
Walton, as for an instant h
met hers, felt a sudden thri
interest, and he wondered VIII
was.
e very soon found out, for 0
-d ship one speedily become
re of the identity, whether trr
alse, of ones fellow passenger
was a Mrs. Grenville, a widoy
had been staying at Hongkon
friends and was now returnin
England. She was chaperone
N aunt, Lady Grahame.
| wish Violet would make up h,
d to marry again" she said Of
when the Parramatra had lie.
rapore far behind and they wei
ming through the heat of IL
ian ocean, "but l fear she nevt
She had a very unhappy ma,