Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24

to Fred Mostyn some of the misery he
caused me-"
How 50? I do not see''
"Oh, you must see, if you will only re-
member how crazy Englishmen are about
their sons. Daughters don't count, you
know but a son carries the property in
the family name He is its representative
for the next generation. AS l lay suffering
and weeping, a fine scheme of revenge
came clearly to me. Listen! Soon after We
soe home mother cabled Mostyn's lawyer
that Mrs Mostyn had had SON Nothing
was said of the boys death. Almost i'm
mediately l was notified that Mr. Mostyn
would insist on the surrender of the child
to his care. / took no notice of the letters.
Then he sent his lawyer to claim the child
and a woman to take care of 1t. | laughed
them to scorn, and defied them to ind the
child After them came Mostyn himself.
He interviewed doctors, overlooked baptis-
NAL registers, advertised far and wide,
brlped our servants bearded father in his
Office, abused Bryce on the avenue, waylaid
me i'll all nay usual resorts, and bombarded
me with letters, but he knows no more yet
than the cable told him. And the man is
becoming monomaniac about his son.
Are you doing right, Dora?"
"If you only knew how he had tortured
me! Father and mother think he deserves
all l can do to him. Anyway, he Will have
1t to bear If he goes to the asylum he
threatened me with, l shall be barely salts
fed. The 'cat-faced woman is getting her
innings now"
Have you never spoken to him or writ
ten to him? Surely"
He caught me one day as l came out of
our house, and said, Madam, where is my
son?' And l answered, You have no SON.
The child was mine. You shall never see
his face In this world. L have taken good
care of that.
Il will find him some day he said, and
I laughed at him, and answered, He is too
cunningly hid Do you think l would let
the boy know he had such father you?
M ind U
for the disgrace l touched him on the
raw in that remark, and then l got into
my carriage and told the coachman to
drive quickly. Mostyn attempted to follow
me, but the whip flashing the horses was
in the way" And Dora laughed, and the
laugh was cruel and knocking and full of
meaning.
Dora, how can you? How can you find
pleasure in such reVenges?"
Il am having the greatest satisfaction of
my life. And l am only beginning the just
retribution, for my beauty Is enthralling
the man again, and he is on the road to a
mad jealousy of me-
why don't you get a divorce? This is q
case for that remedy. He might then
marry again, and you also"
even so, l should still torment him. II
he had sons he would be miserable in the
thought that his unknown son might
his death, take from them the precious
Mostyn estate, and that wretched, old,
haunted house of his. l am binding him
to misery on every hand"
us Mrs. Denning here with your
Both my father and mother are with
me Father is going to take a years rest,
and we shall visit Berlin, Vienna, Rome.
Paris or wherever our fancy leads us
And Mr.. Mostyn''
He can follow me round and see mobiles
and princes and kings pay court to the
beauty of the 'cat-faced woman. / shall
never notice him. never speak to him; but
you need not look SO suspicious, Ethel.
Neither by word nor deed will l break a
single convention of the strictest respecta
bility.'
MIR Mostyn ought to give you your free
DOM
II have given freedom to myself have
already divorced him. When they brought
my dead baby for me to kiss. l slipped into
its little hand the ring that made me his
mother They went to the bottom of the
sea together. As for ever marrying again,
not in this life. l have had enough of it.
Ny first husband was the sweetest saint
out of heaven, and my second was some
mean little demon. that had sneaked his
way out of hell; and, I found both insup-
portable" She lifted her hat she spoke
and began to pin 1t. on her beautifully
dressed hair Have no fear for me-" she
continued. II am sure Basil watches over
me- Some day l shall be good and he
will be happy" Then. hand In hand they
walked to the door together, and there
were tears In both voices as they softly
said "Ciood-by."