The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-03-03
CHAPTER XVIII.

but | think l began to love you Just
when 1t was wrong to do so-on the
day you came to tell me you had dis
covered your wife was living. Then
came that unhappy time, and the letters
written in Jacks behalf really helped
yourself. At last, when l saw you SO i'll
and sorrowful looking, my heart went
| out to you"
This will be an awful blow to Jack!"
Never mind Jack now. Your kind
ness has made him think himself a para.
gon. think it will do him good to find
out that he is not so irresistible as he
fancied himself"
Presently, after some conversation.
Ethel said:
Papa viii wonder what has become
of us. We had better go and tell him
everything. He will be so pleased"
DO you think SOP? Polling asked
doubtfully; and Ethel throwing her arms
about his neck answered him with kisses.
or course Sir Godfrey was delighted.
As man, he thought highly of Captain
Pelling. Besides, he had undoubted adj
vantages of birth and position. and
would make an excellent master of the
household when the present possessor
should have gone to rest.
Jack was inclined to be displeased NJ
first; but 1t was characteristic of tho
facile nature of the man that he con-
sented to be conciliated, and STAYED on
right into the summer, making Mailing
ford his headquarters during his trims
into the surrounding country to touch nm
from nature Lord Summers six pictures.
And. as the days heightened to their
longest Polling gradually recovered
much of his old brightness. Ethel was
devoted to him.
Sometimes people, looking at her ra-
diant young beauty and his grave ma
turity, wondered at the girls uncon-
cealed devotion and admiration. One
DAY some one ventured to say some
thing of the kind to her. Her ewes
flashed little, as she answered:
you don't know him as he really isl
If you did, you would not be surprised. ="
Alec took her to Paris on their we'd |
ding trip, and amid the gayeties of the
city they did not forget one day to nav
visit to Pauline's grave. Ethel placed |
a large wreath of immortelles on the
resting place of her unfortunate cousin
and turned away with a lump rising in
her throat. Husband and wife were
both very silent ON the way back to their
hotel.
They received one visitor before tbav
passed on toward ltaly-t was Bahette
now Nine. Couronne. of the Boulevard
des Italens. She had invested her five
thousand pounds judiciously, and was
already becoming rather celebrated as
one of the leading modstes of the civ.
She wished one piece of news to be con-
veyed to Sir Godfrey. Messrs DAVIS &
Raven had made "a fash In the pan"
with their two thousand FIVE hundred
pounds; they had specialized through a
man who was hammered" the very next
settling day, and so lost every penny.
and were In worse plight than ever.
They wanted me to join in the same
'peculation.' added Nine. Couronne.
with the money your father had been
20 SO generous as to insist upon my ac-
'epting; but you have a proverb, "A bird
n the hand Is worth two in the bush.'
ina kept my money under my own
management, as madame sees, with good
'esult
Erect, white-haired Sir Godfrey il
lever SO happy as when he is walking ,
,ut with toddling Godfrey Mailing Pei +.
ing' who Is to carry on the old family
lame, by and by. Captain Polling is
verything that country gentleman
mould be; and, In spite of the many calls
N him, he Is always able to spend plenty
Il time in his wife's society. The pleas
Ire these two find In each others COM .
ANY Is as strong to-day as it was on $
heir wedding tour, and it Is likely to :
Increase rather than diminish, for it is
union founded on the most lasting of
IL foundations-a deep mutual respect 6
nd an impregnable faith. c
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