The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-02-10
CHAPTER XVIII.


but I think l began to love you just
when it 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 / 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 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 will wonder what has become
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.
OF course Sir Godfrey was delighted.
AS man. he thought highly of Captain
Polling. 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 at
first but it was characteristic of the
facile nature of the man that he con-
scented to be conciliated, and stayed on
right into the summer, making Mailing
ford his headquarters during his trips
into the surrounding country to touch up
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 RAJ
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 eyes
flashed little. as she answered:
"You don't know him as he really is
if you did, you would not be surprised"
Alec took her to Paris on their wed
ding trip, and amid the gayeties of the
city they did not forget one day to pay
visit to Paulines grave. Ethel placed
a large wreath of immortelles on the
resting place of her unfortunate cousin
and turned away with lump rising in
her throat Husband and wife were
both very silent on the way back to their
hotel.
They received one visitor before they
passed on toward Italy-it was Babette,
now Nine. Couronne. of the Boulevard
des Italiens. She had invested her five
thousand pounds judiciously. and was
already becoming rather celebrated as
one of the leading modistes of the city,
She wished one piece of news to be con-
viewed to Sir Godfrey. Messrs. DAVIS &
Raven had made "a fash in the PAM
with their two thous isl 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 10 join in the same
speculation added Nine. Couronne,
with the NJ" ey your father had been
so so generous as to insist upon my ac-
cepting; but YOU have proverb. A bird
in the hand is worth two in the bush,
| and l kept my money under my own
management, as madame sees, with good
| result.
Erect, white-haired Sir Godfrey is
never so happy as when he is walking
out with toddling Godfrey Mailing Pei
ling. who is to carry on the old family
name, by and by Captain Polling is
everything that a country gentleman
should be; and, in spite of the many calls
on him, he is always able to spend plenty
of time in his wife's society. The pleas
ure these two find in each others COM
pany is as strong to-day as it was on
| their wedding tour, and it is likely to
| increase rather than diminish. for it is
a union founded on the most lasting Of
all foundations-a deep mutual respect
and an impregnable faith.
ENyT