The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-02
bled her voice shook.
TT was Sir John. wasn't IT."

Yes. 1t was Sir john
What were you talking nbou, "a
long,
You"
you didn't tell him"
II did my best. l asked for his sons
hand In marriage and he refused
Father. How could you? oh. 1T
was cruel-it was wicked of you TO os-
tray me-"
Il didn't betray you. Don't blame
me-"
u think 1 shall die OF shame. oh.
fathers! don't you understand what
you've done? All tho world Will laugh
at me. ii they knew, there's not Il
girl ~ the place but would point at ms
and mock at me And what
will Mr.. Jack think of me when lie
hears?"
"He won't hear-and | kept you out
of II in that sense. / asked for my
SELF
But Sir John will tell him-and then
! he'll guess.
NO. he won't. Sir John promised not
to tell him. Sir .ohn will keep. his
word"
CHAPTER N.
Lizzie Crunden took to her bed.
turned her face to the wall, and wished
that the bed had been h4r grave. AT
least. she believed that she wished it.
She whispered the words TO herself: II
wish was dead. ] only wish I was
dead" The wall was just before her
eyes, in reach of her hand; and with
her finger SHE traced the outlines of
bouquets and ribbons that repeated
themselves again and again on the
| wallpaper, while she lay thinking.
| thinking. thinking. At night she
| stared with widely opened eyes
through the heavy darkness of this
room at the lesser darkness outsida
| the muslin curtains OF the window.
And by night and by day hot shame
swept over her, in great waves, every
! time that she thought OF Mr.. Jack.
One thought especially made her like
a swimmer, struggling, drowning In .
| vast sea of shame.
| 1t was the second timc that she hnd
( proposed to Mr.. Jack. This was the
| thought that completely overwhelmed
her. For years now she had flushed
| holly whenever she remembered that
| as child she asked Jack to marry
1 her. That was thing. even a child
sshould not have done. And now that
she was grown up, her father. acting
/ as ambassador. had done 1T for her
again. Mr.. Jack. II he heard OF tho
second diplomatic proposal-and could
one hope that he would not sooner or
lnter hear OF itT-would Immediately
recall the first most brazenly direct
proposal.
Mrs. Price, with handkerchief. plain
water, and eau-dc- cologne. could not
\ take the throb from ones forehead; OF,
with tea and lemonade. Stake the fever
Ilof this dreadful thought. Only one al
deviation of torment was within the
scope OF Mrs Price.
'Pricey, keep I'll. Blake away. Don't
llet him be fetched. If he comes here
4 Questioning me, I shall so out q my
II tyf1 an,,r RI xh,t,1 mi
Such wild words frightened Mrs.
rrice sorely. # U .
5"oh, my pet. we must fetch him if
|! you ain'tsyourself. You do seem worse
than the headache should make you.'
4 TITS only headac nd--alld
compelled to account for her trouble.
and perhaps achieving a lucky fluke IN.
A diagnosis. promise you'll keep DR..
E3lake away. At.any rate. tin to-mor.s
4 row S5 Nv AZ "a
'.It's on'S her nerves, sir" said Mrs.
Price, downstairs. With long face.
|3"AnL she'll he better to-morrow. Us
4 n Lizzie thought of herself as q woman.
d who had offered her heart 70 u man.
4 wllp had earned the reprobatIon Of all
|iwomankind-eve though the offer had
1 been made unlntehtionally. quite by
!. laccident. She thought of herself az
grown np; vet in,,truth she was only :
4 years, she was chtldlike In feeling ana
|. sentiment; no more a real ''grownup"
/. than the young gentlemen OF thc Hill--
4 than Mr.. Lardner a forty, or Mr., Ridg-
a sworthfat fifty. The soft, enervating
4 Southern air had kept her, tooy young
| land foolish but as gshe lay now pain-
q fully brooding over the present and the
y past 1t was as though her childhood
was Shipping froln her forever. Nhis
J, was tile end Of all her childish drea1n-
4 Ing. This Was what her nonsense had
n brought:&writhlpg shame, shaking fear
u OF public discovery, and worlel-wids
I disgrace. " 35 AZ IN "a /. n Il III
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