Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10

husband, Squire Humphrey, TO jump fence
when out hunting with him, and was
brought home crippled and SCARED for
life-a lovely girl of twenty who went
through agonies for eleven years without
aught of love and help, and died alone
while he was following a fox; and there
was pretty Barbara Mostyn-
Come, come, mother. l did not call here
this morning to hear the Rawdons abused,
and you forget your own marriage. 1t was
a happy one, l am sure. One Rawdon. at
least must be excepted; and l think /
treated my wife as good husband ought
to treat a Wife
Not you! You treated Mary very badly
Mother, not even from you--
I'm say it again The little girl was
dying for a year or more, and you were SO
busy making money you never saw 1t. II
she said or looked little complaint you
moved restless-like and told her she moped
too much. AS the end came spoke TO you
and you pooh-pOohed all l said She went
suddenly l know to most people, but she
knew It was her last day, and she longed so
to you that l sent servant TO hurry
you home, but she died before you could
make up your mind to leave your cases
She and | were alone when she whispered
her last message for you-a loving one, TOO.
Mother. motheri Why recall that bitter
day? l did not think-I swear dld not
think
Never mind swearing l was just re
minding you that the Rawdons have not
been the finest specimens of good husoanos-
They make landlords, and Judges, ana SOL
diers and even loOm-lords of very re-
spectable sort; but husbands! Lord help
their poor wives! So you see, as Mostyn
woman, l have no special interest In Raw
You would not like it to go out of the
family?'
Il should not worry myself If it did
II suppose you know Fred Mostyn has a
mortgage on ii that the present squire Is
unable to lift"
sand pounds on the old place. l told MIN ne
was a fool to put his money on 1t.
zone of the finest manors and manor
houses in England, mother
Il have seen ii. l was born ana prong IL
up near enough to it, think.
Eighty thousand pounds is a bagateiie
for the place; yet If Fred forces a sale, II
may go for thai, or even less. l can't pear
to think of it
why not buy 1t yourself?'
II would lift the mortgage tomorrow II
had the means. 1 have not at presen..
well. l am in the same box You nave
inst spoken rs if the Mostyns and RaWdons
had an equal interest in Rawdon Court.
Very well then it cannot be far wrong LOT
Fred Mostyn to have 1t. Many a MostyI,
has gone there as wife and slave. Woulu
dearly like to see one MostSh ~ "S mas
ter" 49,, ,,r
II shall get no help from you, then, I'M
I'm Mostyn by birth, I'm only Rawdon
by marriage. Inc pF'h-o@Ilu '407 W
to my family" 800 s,,o,
Good morning mother. You have falled
me for the first time in your me ~,
''If the money had been for you Ed
ward, or yours
at fs-good-by."
she called him back peremptorily, and he
returned and stood at the open door
"Why don't you ask Ether
II did not think had the right nlo'n r,ho+
she says SHE'S Ra"u'''
"Perhaps I may. OF course, can sell Sc
curites but it would be at sAcfih0e
great sacrifice at present no
ETHEL has the cash; ana, as saio' SNo
is Rawdon-Tm not
81 wish nv father were alive
HE wouldn't move me-you neeon .lii,iS
that, What / have said to you Woula
have said to him. Speak to Ethel IN pe
hound she'll listen If Rawdon caiis ner'
II don't like to speak to Ethel
"It isn't what you Ike 70 40 ~ " +be
Won And you'll have to do. that carries ine
dsV: and a good thing, too, considering.
Good morning. again. You are not quite
yourself, l think. ,,. -. .ha-e,s
well 1 didn't sleep last night, SO tneLe ,
no wonder If I'm bit cross this morning.
But II lose my temper NeeP my
She was really cross by this time Her son
had nut H4r IN a position she dld not IKE 70
ase,,noa No love for Rawdon Court was III
w. heart She would rather have advanced
the money to buy an American estate. she
had been little pleased at FREQ mortgage
n tho old place. but TO the American
Rawdons she felt 1t would prove white
eIaT,hant; and the appeal TO Ethel was
advised because she thought II would
aroount 10 nothing. In the first place, the
5,,5oa had the strictest idea of the sacred
ness of the charge committed to him as
Guardian OF his daughters fortune. In
the second Ethel inherited from her York
shire ancestry an intense sense OF the
,,aii,a and obligations of money. She was
an ardent American, and not likely to spend
# on an old English manor; and, further
more. Madam's penetration had discovered
a growing dislike in her granddaughter for
Fred Mostyn.
shed never abide him for a lifelong
neighbor," the old lady decided. 1T is the