The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-19
A GROWN OF FAITH
CHAPTER XI.-(Continued.l

CI1Af Eli
In about an hour Lionel Leigh entered
the room. The young 7nen had never ex-
changed words before. Lionel bowed. Ar
thur pointed to a seat.
"Mr. Leigh. l bavs been excessively an
ooyed that you should have been subject
to distress on the night wien some mis-
creant tried to murder me. | an sorry.
In one sense, that you allowed yourself to
be mixed up in an intimacy with my poor,
hair-brained brother Dick. I suppose he
made himself a~greeable?"
well. Mr.. Calthorpe. your brother is
too reckless, and loves trifes ana pleasure
too much, to be quite fascinating as a
companion TO me at sll times. He IS GER
tainly amusing and dashing: but l pitied
him. 1t seemed horrible TO be the nephew
of a nobleman. anil the twin brother Of an
earI's heir. AMI to be banished from home.
and living on his wits, at an i'm, borrow
Ing. and running into debt. | wished the
earl to pardon him. and allow him a regu-
lar income. and insist on his keeping
within bounds"
"He would never do it." said Arthur
Calthorpe. He told me himself That the
hundred and fifty half-yearly payment al
ways goes in a week and he said he never
paid his debts. either. if he could help it.
ale has told me the same said Lionel
gloomily.
well, then. l am sorry you allowed
your name TO be mixed up with poor
Dicks. 1 thought you might have suf-
fered som annoyance. | know Dick
wouldn't care; he is off in Ireland now
and the next move he makes Will be TO
France. He knows that | believe he
would not think of Draining me-. and be
understands that the earl will never for
give him-the earl never does forgive: so
/ send him three hundred a year. But
you, Mr.. Leigh-you are sure you have
not been snubbed. in consequence
Not at all. sir. 1 think. on the whole.
the Abbotshold people are aware that /
am not an as ASSN in disguise: and l
have not lost lay pupils at st. Martha's,
even"
your sister is there, isn't she!'
YES" replied Lionel dryly.
I'VE Calthorpes are given to making
love matches-Dick excepted. He is a
cold-hearted savage in all affairs of the
afections-would marry a brokers' widow
if she had seven thousand a year. If she
were short. stout. red faced, and fifty :;
but for me, Mr.. Leigh. 1 an sincere; l
hope and pray that some day your sister
may be Countess of Beryl. What family
of Leighs do you belong toT"
mr.. Calthorpe. my father was a Re
publican-what they call here a Radical.
i know he was a scholar and a gentle
man"
'Bu there is breed about her. said the
young aristocrat, moving his foot restless
ly. Have you nothing which speaks OF
ancient family honors?"
"Oh, yes; Leila has a gold cross, with
a portrait of our mother in the center"
what would 1 give to see it? Bring
it to me-"
But. sir, although you speak honorably
most honorably-there is the earl"
ale is seventy-nine. l would wait
ten years for Miss Leigh"
Then, Ella WatsonT'
"Why, it was a lark-a bit of school
boy nonsense. Listen to me. and judge
for yourself. /. with two college friends.
Everson and Sir George Power. wa fish
ing in the Highlands: and one week it
rained. and rained and rained, and we
had nothing to amuse us. and we went
into the town of F.uravon, and ate short
bread. in the bakers shop, which was also
he postofice. and made love. all three
of us, to this long-faced girl, who stood
behind the counter"
MADE love?" Lionel asked obviously.
well. yes; talked all sorts of trash
to her, all of us: and we invited her to
supper at st. Swithins' Inn; and she
came; and this Ellen. having seen an en-
velOpe addressed TO me, called herself Mrs.
Arthur Calthorpe. and / said nothing
against it. After that, she wrote me a
letter. asked for two thousand for her
father, who is an unm;tigated scamp, and
had the insOlence to inform me that she
was my legal wife, and that il was her
intention to announce that fact to an adj
miring world. | was stupid enough TO
beg her silence. whereas an open contest
would have been the best thing for me
but / feared the earl. l knew his obsti-
macy"
And now, Mr.. Cal,horpe, what do you
propose doing:"
According to strict law, and this afro
cious Scotch code, which has never been
altered. I suppose that my madcap prank
has placed me in this woman's power.
Anyhow, there will be a lawsuit and trial.
There is no doubt about that; but, mean
while. l have made up mind there is only
one woman in the world whom / can ever
love; and that woman is your sister, Mr..
Leigh"