Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

N '~NoAA 40 oeiCiS uIu, DuL the WDOie
time there was strong impulse upon
her. urging her to cry aloud that she
was an impostor, who had no place
there-a convict's daughter, who ought
never to have been an earls wife.
There were times when she had to
bite her lips, or the words would have
escaped her.
Outwardly she regained her compo-
sure, singing when desired; moving
and warming all hearts by the rich,
passionate music of her voice, charm
ing all eyes by her smiling, sweet
grace, while her thoughts were ever
with the dead mother who lay in the
Fir Cottage. She could not leave
home again alone. She sent money
TO Mrs. Paine: but Lord Bayneham
had taken alarm at the state of her
health, and was not willing to let her
/ go out of his sight.
Tuesday morning came at last, when
Magdalen Hurst was to be laid in her
lonely grave, and Lady Hilda resolved
to attend her funeral; yet she found
great difficulty in doing so. Happily
the morning was bright; the sun
shown as though shedding a last bless
: ing upon the broken-hearted woman
who was never to see it more.
Happily, too. the countess asked her
son to drive her over to Grainton Hall,
so that Hilda founo the greater part of
the day at her own disposal.
E
It was a very poor funeral; there
was nothing to be seen save the
bearers, and Mrs. Paine as chief
mourner. No one noticed the lady
In the dark dress who knelt in one of
the pews, and wept as though her
heart was breaking. There was no
one to note how she stood some little
distance from the grave, longing and
wishing that she too. could be at rest
/ "ith her beautiful, unhappy mother.
80 they laid Magdalen Hurst to rest.
OF all those who had loved her in her
fair youth none were present. The
sun shown brightly upon her grave, as
it had done on the bonnie woods Of
Byrnmar, when she met her fate so
many years ago.
Some weeks afterward a plain gray
stone marked the spot 1t bore no
name; she had wished it to be so; but
that lonely grave was watered wi''l
bitter tears, shed for her who, after
LIES fitful fever, was now at rest.
Il am not at all satisfied with Hildas
state of health sad Lady Bayneham
to Barbara Earle. THE child looks
as though cloud had fallen over her.
Claud tells me she goes about visiting
cottages, and all that Rind of thing.
1t must be very injurious to her."
did you ever try 1t sunt?', asked
Miss Earle, quietly.
Cottage visiting? No my love. |
am too sentitive.'s said the countess,
the late earl's lifetime; but | cannot
blandly. 81 gave plenty away during
endure sorrowful sights; they make
me III"
We will hope Hilda's nerves are
stronger than yours" said Barbara. "f
do not think the cottagers weigh upon
her mind; but she is really i'll, and
should have change of air"
February had arrived, and the snow
drops began to show their dropping
heads; still Lady Bayneham and Bar
bara fingered at the castle. The Young
earl was unwilling to part with them;
ne mad grown anxious respecting his
wife. He could not understand the
change that had fallen upon her The,
light had died out of her beautiful
race, the smiles had left her Inns
whenever he came in and found her
alone, her face was so sad and wistful
that 1t panied him. He thought her
spirits forced, and her gaiety unnatural
and assumed.
1t was strange lot that had fallen
upon that fair young child and she
faded away under the weight of the
secret, The grass was beginning to
grow upon her mothers grave: stiu no
mint OF 1t had escaped her; yet its
( weight was robbing her of life, and
nope, and love. She began to think
she might be justified in telling Lord
Bayneham. mo matter" she said 10
herself, how binding the VOW. it could
never be right to keep a se,eret from
) him. She grew bewildered and there
were times when she could hardly dis.
tinguish between right and wrong. II
was hard to keep secret from him
when she loved him so much.
One evening Barbara Earle had been
singing a pretty ballad. founded upon
the story of Lord Burleigh. of Burleigb
I House
Il do not like that story" said Lady
Bayneham; Lord Burleigh should
have chosen a wife from his own class
Unequal marriages are never hapnv
ones"
Hilda was busy arranging some
photographs and Lord Bayneham was
assisting her.
rs that your belief?" she sai5 n
him, when Lady Bayneham had fin.
ished speaking.
Yes" he replied, carelessly. Tam