The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-09

Oh, Lud, Lud trnus sac prayeo Sir
Jasper in a frightful whisper). would
he in mercy walk softer? Ny lady was
nsieep. her IanysnIp ga Deen SO un
well, so indisposed. thai she. Megrim
had seen the moment when she must
send for the apothecary and have Sir
Jasper looked for all over Bath. Sir
Jasper did not seem to realize it, bu;
my lady was of delicate complexion;
a tender flower, \ harsh look from
Sir Jasper, an unkind word, much less
cruel treatment, and she would slip
through his fingers. Aye, that she
would,
Sir Jasper cast a lowering suspicious
look around. He glared at the woman,
at the corners of the room, at the closed
door. He felt his hot jealousy sicken
and turn green and yellow within him.
He stretched out his hand toward the
lock Of his wife's door; but Mistress
Megrim came between him and his
purpose with determined movement.
her stout bust creaking in its tight
stays.
NO" said she, "no, Sir Jasper, unless
it be across my dead corpsev' Here
about the eyes and nose.
'Pshawv said Sir Jasper, and walk
ed away down the stairs again aud
into the empty, lighted drawing room
First he halted by the window, where
Lady Standish had stood and smiled
upon Lord Verney. Then he went TO
her writing desk and laid his hand
upon the casket where she kept her
correspondence; then, Withdrawing it
with a murmured curse, turned to the
chair where she sat and lifted up her
bag Of silks. But this he tossed from
him without drawing the strings An
other moment and his eye caught the
CLEAN of the letter so artfully hidden
and exposed by Mistress Bellairs. He
picked 1t up and surveyed it. 1t bore
no address, was vaguely perfumed and
fell temptingly open to his hand. He
spread the sheet and saw the rudy
curl. Then his eyes read in spite of
himself, and as he read the blood rush
ed to his brain and turned him giddy,
and he sank on the settee and tore at
the ruffles at his neck. For a moment
he suffocated. With recovered breath
came a fury as voluptuous as a rap
ture. He brought the paper to the
light and examined the love lock.
"Red"' said he. Red
He thought of Lord yerney's olive
face and looked and glared at the hair
again as If he disbelieved his senses.
Red. Were there two Of them, black
and a ruddy? Stay. Oh, women were
sly devils, Lord Verney was a blind.
This, this carrot Judas was the con-
soler. There was a patch above the
dimple at the corner OF your lip. !
dreamed l kissed it, Sir Jasper gave
n sort of roar In his soul. which issued
from his lips in broken Groan. The
dimple and the patch. Aye. he had
Seen them' Only, few short hours
ago he had thought to kiss that dim
pie with husbands lordly pleasure
That dimple set for another man.
BLAST them, Blast themr' cried Sir
Jasper. and clinched his hands above
his head. The world went round with
him. and everything turned the color
of blood. The next instant he was cold
again, Gliding himself for his passion
He must be calm, calm for his venge-
ance. This lock he must trace to its
parent head no later than tonight If
he had to. scour the town. He sat
down, stretched the fatal missive be-
fore him and sat staring att.
IT was thus that visitor. who was