Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-09-16


world in which you have moved
reigned, rather!"
She laughed again.
1t has always been one Of my day
DRAINS to steal away to church with
me man l loved, and be married with
out the usual fuss and formality."
He looked at her with a CLEAN OF
pleasure and relief in his eyes, little
dreaming that It was for his sake she
had made the proposal.
How strange!" he muttered. It
well, it is unlike what one fancles of
you, Lenore."
Perhaps she said, with smile,
"but 1t is true, nevertheless. If l may
choose, would like to go down to the
little church there, and 10 married
like farmers daughter. or, if moi that
exactly, as quietly as possible"
He rose and stood looking out Of
the window, tboughtfully.
Il shall never understand you, lie.
nore," he said; but this pleases me
very much indeed. 1t has always been
my day dream as you call the
smothered sigh. Certainly It shall
be as you wish! Why should it not
be?"
Very we'll" she said; then that is
agreed. No announcements, no fuss,
no st. Georges, Hanover Square, and
no bishop!" and he rose and laughed
softly.
He looked at her, and smiled.
"You appear in new light every
day, Lenore," he said. If you had
expressed my own thoughts and
desires, you could not have hit them
more exactly; what will the mother
say?'
The countess had great deal to
say about the matter. She declared
that it was absurd, that It was worse
than absurd; it was preposterous.
at is very well to talk of daugh-
ter. my dear but you are not far
mer's daughter; you are Lady Lenore
Beauchamp, and he is the next earl.
The world will say you have both
taken ledNe OF your senses.
Lenore looked at her with a sudden
CLEAN In her violet eyes.
do you think l care? she said, in
low voice-Leycester was not pre-
sent. Il would not care whether we
we're married in Westminster ABBY by
the archbishop himself. with all the
Court in attendance, or in a village
chapel 1t is not /, though l say so.
Il is for him. Say no more about it.
dear Lady Wyndward; his slightest
wish is law to me.
And the countess obeyed. The pas
siOnate devotion Of the naughty beauty
ost0nished even her, who knew some
thing of what a woman's love can be
capable II
My dear, she murmnred. do not
give way too much"
The beauty smiled a strange smile.
1T is not a question of giving way,
she retorted, with suppressed emotion.
I'll is simply that his wish is my law:
| have but to obey--it will always be
so, always" Then she slipped down
beside the countess, and looked up
with a sudden pallor.
DO you not understand yet how
love him." she said, with a smile.
NO, do not think anyone can un-
derstand but myself-but myself"
The earl offered no remonstrance or
objection.
What does it matter" he said.
THE place is Of no consequence. The
marriage is the thing. The day Ley
cester is married, heavy load of care
and apprehension and shall be
divorced. Let them be married where
they AXE, in Heavens name"
So HORROR and Harbor we're set to
work, and the principal Of that old
established and aristicratic firm came
all the way down to Devonshire, ami
was closeted with the earl for a
couple Of hours and the settlement
deeds were put in hand.
Lady IGNORES fortune. which was
large one, was to be settled upon her
self, supplemented by another large
fortune from the hand of the earl So
large that the lawyer ventured on a
word of remons rance, but the earl
put it aside with a wave Of the hand.
ut is the same amount as thai
which was settled upon the countess,
he said Why should my sons wife
have lesso"
Quiet as the bethrothal had been.
and quietly as the nuptials were to
be. rumors had spread, and presents
We're arriving daily. If Lenore could
have found any particular pleasure N
precious gems. and gold-dtted dress.
ingbags, and ivory prayer-books. there
they We're in endless variety for her
delight hut they afforded her noue
beyond the fact OF their being ev,-
denoe Of her coming happiness.
One present alone brought her joy
and that was Leycester's, aud that
not because the diamonds OF which the
necklace was composed were large
almost priceless, hut fer the fact TIA,
he fastened The jewels round Ler neck
with bis own hands.
These are my necklets.~ she mu.-
INJURED. taking his hands a. they
touched her neck and pressing them,
How could he resist her?
And set as the time moved on Sirl
that logged obstinacy which IL as.