The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-11-16


that he loved me. All, then for me
rose the new heaven and the new
earth created, and all the hours ran
in golden sands; for, no matter how
tenderly she may have been shielded
and cared for, woman never knows
what joy is till she loves and is be-
loved; neither does she know the
meaning of pain until love has made
her heart soft enough to feel it.
There was some mystery about
Richard which he could not then
make clear to me. He trusted the
time would soon come when he could
claim me as his own, and until then
he asked me would / wait? Would
I? / would have waited for him
until the grave covered me, and never
have thought it long if I had con-.
stantly the assurance of his love.
/ So he went away, and for nany
weeks his letters came-oh, so ten
der, SO gentle, and loving Then
they ceased.
A month of anguish, and my father
| q
1 read notice of the marriage of
Robert Earle and Lady Arethusa
Cleares.
After that felt like stone-cold,
passionless and apathetic.
1t was at this time that Lord New
bury pressed his suit. He had long
loved and admired me, and my poor
father was very earnestly bent on the
marriage for Lord Newbury was
very rich and generous, and my poor
father had faced poverty all his life,
and no wonder, now that old age was
approaching, he coveted little rest,
and home where privation was not
a constant guest.
Lord Newberry was three times
my age. but he was true. loyal
hearted English gentleman, and I re-
spectcd him highly. When Richard
was lost to me, what matteredit what
became Of me2 As well one thing
as another
To hurry matters on, Gerald be-
came involved in daring forgery,
and the prison stared him in the face.
Then my father pleaded with me to
save him. If his son was sent to
prison he could never hold up his
head again. If l valued my fathers
life, would become Lady Newbury,
and then my husband would take
care of his wife's family honor!
So I suffered my lord to marry me,
and Gerald, for the time, was saved.
Three years went by and / had
drank my fill of the worlds admira-
ton. I was great favorite in society,
and my husband was very proud Of
me. He was one of the neblest and
best of men, and Heaven knows
was never anything else to him than
a faithful wife, though never loved
| him.
In the third year of my married
life / became acquainted with the
Countess of Huntly. She was gay,
beautiful woman, about my own age,
and her husband-an easy going sort
of man-owned house in London,
a manor house down in Dorsetshire,
| quite near the coast. / had been
there on two occasions with the
countess for week rusticating, and
a most delightfully."- weird and mys-
terious old house was Huntly Manor.
When was invited there to wit
ness the nuptials of my lady's only
brother. Lord Albert Trevelyan, of
course I was immensely delighted
with the idea. About Lord Albert
there had always seemed to me some
thing very strange and interesting,
not that I had ever seen him, but I
heard his sister tell so much about
him. An only son, born to peer
age, handsome and accomplished as
| Apollo himself, he had preferred the
wilds of Asia to civilized England, for
the past three years and more; but
now he had come home, and was going
to marry and settle down like Chris
tian. The bride elect was the woman
his father, now dead, had selected for
him-the Lady Christine McDougal,
Scottish beauty of immense wealth
and surprising beauty, but Lady
Hunt1y whispered to me that she had
a dreadful temper.
Lady Christine's parents being dead
Lady Huntly had profered her own
house for the nuptial festivities, and
the offer had been accepted. Lord
Albert was now in Ireland, with
party of gentlemen friends, hunting
and fishing, for it was hard for him
to give up his adventurous habits.
1t was very early in June that we
went down to Huntly Manor. My
husband was of the party, and Lord
Huntly came down in day or two.
| A week before the wedding day Lady
Christine arrived. A very handsome,
stately woman she was indeed but
if Lord Albert had been friend of
mine 1 should have shuddered for his
life with her for companion.
1 think she hated me from the first,
though she could not probably have
given reason for it. But there are
some very strange and mysterious
things in this world and when all
was made clear by time, / understood
why it was that Lady Christine and
1 were so strongly antagonistic.
Lord Albert delayed his coming to
the last moment. His sister was an
noycd with him for beiIg so dilatory,
and Lady Christine's steel blue eyes
took on an ominous glitter as day
after day passed and still he fingered.
Two days before the wedding, just
before sunset, I was sitting in my
chamber, which fronted the English
Channel, looking ont on the glitter
ing waste of water. The day had
! been calm and bright, and the sun
was going down in a wilderness of
| golden and crimson clouds.
| Suddenly, as gazed, mist SEEM
ed to come before my eyes. felt