The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-31

deed, I am in deep, deep distress now,
and most drendfully lonely ] do not
sleep---don't speak to a. soul They
have some kind of scent. ! know of Ed :
mond's secret letters. SO | have been
voted "rebellious" Jenny has got a
months warning. and when she goes
shall be all alone; while on the other
side this Edmond Is ever at me with
his letters--such etters!--demanding
me as his lawful.own. a perfect stranger
ordering me to forsake my father'
home 10 go1 don't where with him; and
I negotiate show slow and Sluggish
but a fault in my heart can quite say
No-the dear. So what is one to do?
An. If you were only here with me! But
not even a letter from you. and IN
three days time am under orders to
make Lord Isambard happy!" For
give IL / can give no thought to ausht
hut nv poor little self. / can't ask
after your Ernest-no interest for the
moment: and where is the likeness you
spoke of between your love and nine?
Yours will be all calm to It's end, IKE
your calm self; mine all typhoon But
you will will write instantly? II ne
has beaten you in my heart he shan [
teach my head to believe that you are
not the best and sagest on eartn 4.
vi.
emily Holmes to Blanche Bathurst)
II seems to me wild beyond believing.
blanche. that Claude or any one. at the
Hall should even conceive the thousht
of stopping a letter of mine to YOU
and vet. Of course. poor dear, wrote
and since this one must reach you-no
miscarriage this time. for your life, as
far asI canread into your last. depends
,,non it send this to the Ashton o.
fee. and have Just telegraphed you ehe
words. "Do be good till you near
: gain," as first hint of the dlsgraceiul
story that have to give you. tro' my
own part in 1t don't overmI.uifGn aG9-
Mise. assure YOU some 49, $50 noor
disgust perhaps but ah! for your rsooIr
q 'e ,e,na1m' and so soon as have
any chance Of success ! shalt III, -. :,
nort,lne Your mamma to lend you W 'lis
bosom. that I may WOO ana iuie
back to your laughter. Mean,iiis., - os
are to try to smile with that fulness
of scorn which I feel. since this mlser
able being Is certainly worth no more,
I,speak of being you see sinsu-
lar. cirlie-not dual. for indeed there y
only one of them-only one moi Two!
All. no they are not twin brothers'
Rlanchie. but nearer yet and dearer
still. that so masterful Edmond OF
yours and that so fond Ernest of mine
Like two dewdrops, they have flown
into one before my face on,
cheap that we have been to this telloW,
who is now no doubt laughing his hard-
est at us two pigeons.
How do know? Mainly by second
sight though I am not without my
proofs, too. How easy with the new
light to explain why Ernest should
write me from your countryside. Ed
mond" you from mine. Not two, but
one! That is the phrase of shame
which keeps up its ache in my brain
And only listen to this. The
time is evening. two days ago; the
place. the drawing room. sitting duti-
fully on a stool at the feet of this
gallant Gamaliel. feeling all the time
that I ought to be at mama's bedside.
who is still very i'll. but trying to look
fond. though far from feeling so, main
ly because he is not so; for my lord
sits chfll and absent OF stage en-
braces we have had enough. I have
sung myself hoarse for him Che pre-
tends to be enormously fond of my
voice.. No more singing. then: but
happy thought-the album. l plant
1t on his knee insisting that he inter-
est himself in my friends. He turns a
leaf. conceals yawn. another, aneth-
er: then he starts-visibly-tu gold
color, the second time that I have seen
the good man do that. But vigorous
male beings don't turn golden for moth