Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-01-05
CHAPTER TII.-CCoDtinuedl

BeE5 as ne recdleu the warm, cEnglng
pressure of her hand at parting
Il think / must be mad when she is
near me, for somehow | always manage
TO believe in the possibility of her love
for me when in her presence" he NUT
tered, remorsefully. "And, if she did
love, what then2 Could throw Ethel
over7 My sweet, pure little Ethel, 1t
would break her heart! l must get rid
OF this folly. I'll finish Ethels letter at
once, and send it off by the morning post.
I'll write long, loving letter to the poor
little girl; 1t will do me as much good to
write it as 1t win her to receive it."
This time he commenced with my
dear Ethel" and then, before proceeding
further, he made a close examination of
the beautifully executed address and
crest on the paper.
The crest of ''Mallyngs"-a the name
was originally Spelled tigers head and
front paws in repose, with the motto
Let the sleeping lie," particularly in
terested him. He had stood for many
minute during the past week in front
OF one Of these emblems of the family
circle-herce, ungovernable-and ponder
ed the probable events that had caused
It to be bestowed on them as their
badge.
II wonder why she never married 2"
ne unused. Il wonder If mine is the true
reason, and there really is some poor
beggar In the background awaiting her
twenty-ffth birthday? l shall have a
chance of finding out if / accept her in
vitatiOn for the partridge shooting in
September, for Lord Summers told me
she would be twenty-five in that month.
4 IN, 4,,-&
self in the way Of such temptation?
Bosh! | must be a weak fool indeed if
cannot live in the society of a beautiful
woman without making an idiot of my
self! Besides if come and see for N.Y.
self that she is really gone on some
lucky fellow, it will be the most complete
cure | could find for my own folly"
But Jack knew this to be false rea-
soning; nevertheless he would not listen
to conscience, and with a gloomy brow
and tightly compressed lips, sat glaring
moodily at the blank sheet Of paper be-
fore him.
"Will you take your luncheon in here,
sir1 It will seem less lonely than in the |
dining room, | think"
Jack looked up In surprise at the |
housekeeper.
three hours. | don't mind where lunch, |
Mrs. Perkins"
Then I'll put it in here, sir; it's |
brighter and more cheerful than the din
ing room"
Mrs. Perkins walked to sideboard
and hicked away an imaginary speck Of !!
dust
Were you here In Sir Paul's timer"
hn mol A.
wanted to talk than from any interest he
took in the matter.
Bless you, sir, I've been a servant in
this house for turned fifty years. l
began as under housemaid at sixteen,
ard here I've been ever since; so I'm
what you may call an old servant"
"Of course you remember Miss Mall
ing's mother? She must have been a
beautiful woman"
Sometimes she was and sometimes
she wasn't She was handsome enough
naturally but she had such an awful
temper that it quite dishgured her at
times, I've known her to sulk about |
the house for month at time because
her brother, the late Sir Paul, had re-
fused her some trifing thing. We were
quite relieved when she got married, |
her husband. You see she was many |
years younger than her brothers, Sir |
Paul and the present baronet, Sir Geof- |
frey, and was a bit spoiled in conse- |
Quence-though there Is an old saying |
in the family that a Malling's daughter
is always a iend, asking your pardon |
for the word, sir; SO it's lucky Miss |
Pauline is only a Mailing by adoption"
fnIr ehn has = o
failing usual to the ladies of the fam
ily2"
II should not like to give an opinion |
of my mistress disposition. 1t would be |
very bad taste on my part, sir. Miss
Mailing, during the six years she has
been mistress here, has been everything
one could desire"
II beg your pardon" he said politely. |
IL did not wish to betray you into dis
respect for Miss Mailing. My question
was the natural outcome of your remark
as to Miss Malling's being only a Mall |
ing by adoption"
''ro be sure, sir; and that takes me
back to what was saying. Miss Paul |
ines mother was away on the Continent
with her husband directly after they
were married, and roamed about for
years from one country to another with |
him; she never came home again, poor
dear! She died when Miss Pauline was
fifteen years old; and then Sir Paul was
anxious to have the child with him In
England as he had made her his heiress.
In consequence of the other brother. |
Godfrey, having married without his
consent. But Major Luton would not
part with his daughter, and refused even
to let her come on a visit; so we none
of US ever saw Miss Pauline until she |
came here, a grown woman, to take her |