Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-01-05
CHAPTER III.-tContinued.)

uAo Win the memory OF ner last nnger-
Ing look, and the blood danced in his fin
gers as he recalled the warm, clinging
pressure of her hand at parting
Il think | must be mad when she is
near me, for somehow l 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 then? Could l throw Ethel
over? My sweet, pure little Ethel, it
would break her heart! | must get rid
of this folly. I'll finish Ethel's letter at
once, and send it off by the morning post
I'll write long, loving letter to the poor
little girl; it will do me as much good to
write it as it will her to receive it,"
This time he commenced with "My
dear Ethel" and then, before proceeding
! rther, he made close examination of
me beautifully executed address and
crest on the paper.
The crest of 'Mallyngs"-as the name
was originally spelled-a tigers head and
'front.' paws in repose, with the MOTTO
Let the sleeping le," 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
1t to be bestowed on them as their
badge.
Il wonder why she never married 2"
he unused. II 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
chance of finding out If l accept her in
yitation for the partridge shooting in |
September, for Lord Summers told me |
she would be twenty-five in that month. |
Ought l, in justice to Ethel, to place my.
self In the way of such temptation? |
bosh! 1 must be weak fool indeed if |
cannot live in the society of a beautiful
woman without making an idiot of nv
self! Besides if come and see for nv.
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-
sohihg; nevertheless he would not listen
10 conscience, and, with gloomy brow
ana tightly compressed lips, sat glaring
moodlly at the blank sheet of paper be-
fore him.
Ill you take your luncheon In here.
sir! 1t will seem less lonely than in the
dining room, think"
Jack looked up in surprise at the
housekeeper.
Il must have been sitting here nearly
.hree 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 ,;
ng room"
Mrs. Perkins walked to a sideboard
IND licked away an imaginary speck of
lust
Were you here in Sir Paul's timer
10 asked, more because the old lady
wanted to talk than from any interest he
ook in the matter.
Bless you, sir, I've been a servant in
his house for turned fifty years.
egan as under housemaid at sixteen
nd here I've been ever since; so I'm
what you may callian old servant" q
"Of course you remember Miss Mall
ng's mother2 She must have been a
eautiful woman"
sometimes she was and sometimes
he wasn't. She was handsome enough
aturally; but she had such an awful 3
emper that it quite disfgured her at q
mes. I've known her to sulk about =
ne mouse for month at a time because {,
er brother, the late Sir Paul, had re- g
used her some triiing thing. We were -
ute relieved when she got married.
nd went away on the Continent with -
err husband. You see she was many IL
ears younger than her brothers. Sir
aul and the present baronet. Sir Geof- Ut
'ey, and was a bit spoiled in conse-
uence-though there is an old saving u
the family that a Malling's daughter y
always hend, asking your pardon -
IT the word, sir; so it's lucky Miss a.
auline is only a Mailing by adoption" u
Then you think she has eccaped the
Iiling usual to the ladies of the fam M
"" -'iN' re
L should not like to give an opinion ~ ~
my mistress disposition. 1t would he T.,
Try bad taste on my part, sir. Miss o.
'ailing, during the six years she has "
zen mistress here, has been everything os
lie could desire" as
i beg your pardon" he said, politely
did not wish to betray you into dis T,
spect for Miss Mailing. My question "a "a
as the natural outcome of your remark -.
TO Miss Malling's being only a Mail >"
g by adoption" -,
10 be sure, sir; and that takes me- c. g.
ok to what | was saying Miss pauI- IA
es mother was away on the ContinoD. ~
th her husband directly after tbov - -
ere married, and roamed about for So
arS from one country to another with
N; she never came home again, poor n,
arl She died when Miss Pauline was ,r'
teen years old; and then Sir PAM was 49,
xious to have the child with him IN NY
lgland, as he had made her his beirass an an
consequence of the c,ier brotber i nn
'offrey, having married without b;s III
nsent. But Major Lufton would not
TT with his daughter, al refused evan ", ",
let her come on visit; so we none s .ns
US ever saw Miss Pauline until She ~ ~
me here, a grown woman - - sue Gle