The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02

Florentne marriage, and at the mention of the name of Saclkville Thaddeus fell back on the sofa, every feature fixed in l dismay.
 What is the matter?'' cried the Count ess in alarm. Are you ill?"
 Pray, madam, go on," gasped Thad- deus. Tt Is nothing. I am subject to these attacks" But a bolt of indelible dis grace had struck to his heart as the con clusion forced itself upon him that the disreputable Earl of Tinemouth was his 1 father.
 Lady Tinemouth, interesting herself in behalf of the exile, procured him a po- 1 sition as teacher of German to the two daughters of Lady Dundas, widow of | Sir Hector Dundas, in Harley street He | found the family a very rich and very vulgar one. The elder daughter was q blue-stocking of shallow attachments, and the younger, Miss Euphemia, a silly, TO- mantle young person full of false sentl- ment, and continually falling in love and l out again.
 Miss Dundas and her mother and most | of their guests, who were generally of the same social standing as themselves treated Thaddeus haughtily and took every opportunity to humiliate him and make him feel that he was an inferior. But Miss Euphemia at once fell violently 1 in love with the romantic-looking Pole, | wrote poetry to him, tried to entrap him 1 into an avowal of passion and caused him far more annoyance by her attentions than did the others by their supercilious | insolence.
 Thus Thaddeus now found himself with l two, women in love with him-Lady Sara | Roos and Euphemia Dundas. But one woman was married and the other was a fool. and Thaddeus had no inclination to either. Then there came to visit the | Dundases a young lady, who was of quite hon Cnrf. Tfco Ma arxr for+ I is not probably that Mary Beaufort would ever have known the Dundases had it | not happened that she was a ward and niece of Sir Robert Somerset and that the same Sir Robert had been left by Sir | Hector trustee for his family. Mary con | sidered the visit she was making to Har- ley street as one of duty-to please Sir | Robert.
 | The fair and gentle girl saw at once l the true nobility of soul possessed by | Thaddeus; and a pity for the sights and | insults to which he was subjected soon deepened into a more tender feeling, while ! every look and word of hers betokened a character so superior to the people who | surrounded her that in the heart of the | exile were awakened feelings and emo- | tions which he had never known before. Lady Tinemouth was not slow to see | how matters stood between the two, and | after extracting from Thaddeus a con-
 
 | she made every occasion which she could | to bring the couple together. A couple of 1 months had passed, when the rapid de- | cline of his aged charge, General But | zou, which ended in the death of that | gallant man, kept Thaddeus from at- | tending to his duties in Harley street for | a week or so. One day during his absence 1 Miss Euphemia came rushing into Miss Beaufort's room. exclaiming: "Oh, Mary! what do you think has happened? MT. | Constantine has been sent to prison. Mir. Lascelles has just come in to dinner, and | he says that about a week ago he saw | Mir. Constantine going down Fleet street l in the custody of two bailiffs' | "Oh. no-nor' exclaimed Mary. What l can he have done?"
 | Bless me, child" replied Euphemia, 1 "does not everybody run into debt with out minding it?'
 Miss Beauford shook her head and looked distractedly about her. As soon