Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-02-01
CHAPTER XVIII.

Mailing were locked in close embrace.
CHAPTER XVIII.
ut Is very dreadful to have to say it;
but 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 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 para
gon. think it will do him good to find
out that he is not 80 irresistible as he
fancied himself"
Presently, after some conversation,
Ethel said:
Papa win wonder what has become
of us. We had better go and tell him
everything. He will be so pleased"
"Do you think so?' Polling asked,
doubtfully; and Ethel throwing her arms
about his neck answered him with kisses.
OF course Sir Geoffrey was delighted.
As a man, he thought highly of Captain
Polling. Besides, he had undouhted ad-
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 1t was characteristic Of the
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 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 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 eyes
flashed little. as she answered:
"You don't know him as he really is
il 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 pay
a visit to Pauline's 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-
veyed to Sir Godfrey. Messrs. DAVIS &
Raven had made "a fash in the pan"
with their two thousand FIVE hundred
pounds: they had speculated 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
speculation" added Nine. Couronne,
with the money your father had been
so so generous as to insist upon my ac-
cepting; but you have a 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 Geoffrey Mailing Pei
ling. who Is to carry on the old family
name. By and by. Captain Pelling IL
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 u !
a union founded on the most lasting Of |
all foundations-a deep mutual respect |
and an impregnable faith.