The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24

cd and fevorsh, tossed Upon his bed
Poscy's white face and strained OK
preston Of anxiety kept thu other villa J
Glynn, III tho motor cur was running
over to Nice on business not stnted.
Helen Cnrstnirs met him early next
morning upon the terrace, at his re-
quest. asSi. a.. 3
"How has she slcpt7" he asked eager
~.
Like tired baby. Toward morn
ing she nwokc sobbing, ana I soothed
her till she fell asleep again. Just
now, when I went into her room with
tho news that Lord Clandonald nlso
had passed good night, sho was worry
much moro like hcrself-gentlo, yet
plucky. and determined to keep ,ip.',
II hato nervous shock for an i'm
nj no worse! Suppose you and I had
happened not to be with her--lt makes
me sick to think OF It! Helen, this
isn't tho time to beat about the bush
to find phrases Tell me the honest
truth. Does Posey love ClandonaldfT
u think SO. But she has fought .
against 1t from the first Don't let
your sympathy with her ut this mo-
ment lead you to any rash act of re-
nunciation. She Is SO young. She will
get over 1t. Besides, she has told mo
most positively that sho could never
bring herself to marry man whose
divorced wife was living"
IF that IS the only obstacle. 1t need
not count" said Glynn gravely. 'The
woman who called herself Mrs. Dnrien
died last highland a blessed solu-
tton 1t Is to miserable snarl. She
went back with the housemnid to her
har tut
bed. By the time I reached the place
the woman, crying bitterly. came down
to tell mo her ladyship' was dead. It
was apoplexy-the second attack
precipitated by her insane passion OF
Jealousy Of Posey.'
Thank Heaven, 1t wasn't murder
she had to carry with her into eterni-
"! Our poor darling. Poscy-if that
horrid flint had struck her in the head
where the woman aimed to hit-I can't
bear m think of it"
Don't. We have shaved the narrow
edge. but have escaped. Helen, one
of the strangcst things that ever hap
pened to me was that Mrs, Dnrien left
IN the blotter on her table scaled
letter addressed to me. l took posses
sion Of 1t by showing the landlord and
the doctor my visiting card I don't
know what they thought Of me. I
don't much care In 1t she asked my
pardon for breaking her pledge to me.
Said she was tempted beyond resist
anceS to return to Villa Refine des Fees
that she was dead broke. desperate
expected to die suddenly some day, and
! wanted me to know that IL she ever
! could have gone straight again It was
because of the way I had trusted her..
But your trust was In vain" said
4 Helen, with the hardness Of most good
women toward bad ones. "Thereforc
can feel no sentiment for her but
one of thankfulness that she is out OF
your hands, In Higher ones"
| They walked back and forth for a
few moments in the crisp morning air,
| Nature smiling as she always does
after the poignant scenes enacted in
her sight. Mr. Winstanley. who was
| having his breakfast in the rose
Wreathed loggla upstairs, and from,
| whom the incident OF the attack on
Posey had been kept. saw then, and
waved his kind hand cordially.
| Glynn stopped.
Its no use, Helen. All the things
] long for upon earth would lose their
II flavor at the cost Of ingratitude to
4. him. Even II Posey does believe tina
she cares most for Clandonald-and II
you had heard the words the poor
/ child spoke when she held him, with
I, out life, bleeding, against her heart
soh1 3nOuiN NV aouDLH lit Is not
| who can withdraw from my pledge to
her.
4 Helen could not speak. She was
thinking Of that letter to Mariol not
yet sent. Although she felt now that
Glynn meant to keep to his engage
4 ment at all costs, she was sure she
A could never send it; that Mariol's brief
\ mirage of winning her must fade into
the desert sands of friendship. If ht
would be content with that.
During the days that ensued sht
kept almost altogether with Posey, who
T was not allowed by her physician t
leave her room And as Helen wa!
in the act Of making up her mind t
go to Paris to enter as a boarder II
the family OF a governess of former
days who now gave shelter to ar
students and girls whose voices wer,
in training for the stage, she received
q startling telegram.
1t was from her father at Taormina
recurring her presence there withou
\ delay. II am alone and ill.," were tn
magic words that sent her speedin,
back to him, to find the hapless gen
tleman deserted by his wife, who's
affair with Danielson had ended ii
guilty flight! Aged, mortified, broken
clinging to Helen In his humiliation
Mr.. Carstairs had yet made short worl
of Kidding himself OF the unwelcom
visitors who had preyed upon hi
money. while deriding him for blin
| old fool not to have seen before tn
= condition Of affairs. In the flotsar