Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-08
CHAPTER xI.--(continued.)

In about an hour Lionel Leigh entered
the room. The young men had never ex-
changed words before. Lionel bowed. Ar
thur pointed to a seat.
"Mr. Leigh, I nave been excessively an
noyed that you should have been subject
to distress on the night when some mis-
creant tried to murder me. I am sorry,
In one sense, that you allowed yourself to
be mixed up in an intimacy with my poor,
hairIbrained brother Dick. I suppose he
made himself ag~reeabley
swell, Mr.. Calthorpe, your brother Is
too reckless, and loves trifes and pleasure
too much, to be quite fascinating as a
companion to me at all times. lie II GER
tainly amusing and dashing but l pitied
him. 1t seemed horrible to be the nephew
Of a nobleman, and the twin brother Of an
earl's heir, and to be banished from home,
and living on his wits, at an inn, 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 haIf-yearly payment al
ways goes in a week and he said he never
paid his debts, either. il he could help It,"
"He has told me the same" said Lionel
gloomily.
swell, then, I am sorry you allowed
your name to be mixed up with poor
Dicks. / thought you might have suf-
fered some annoyance. I know Dick
wouldn't care he is of In Ireland now ;
and the next move he makes will be to
France. He knows that I believe he
would not think Of Draining me, and he
understands that the earl will never for
give him--the earl never does forgive 30
I send him three hundred a year. But
you, Mr.. Leigh-you are sure you have
not been snubbed, in consequence
"Not at all, sir. I think. on the whole,
the Abbotshold people are aware that |
am not an assassin in Disguise; and l
have not lost my pupils at st. Martha's,
even"
your sister is there, isn't shef"
Eyes, replied Lionel dryly.
1--WE Calthorpes are given to making
love matches-Dick excepted. He Is a
cold-hearted savage In all affairs OF the
affections-would marry a brokers' widow
IL she had seven thousand a year, IL she
were short, stout, red faced, and fifty;
but for me, Mr.. Leigh, I am sincere; I
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."
"But there is breed about her. said the
young aristocrat, moving his foot restless
sly. Have you nothing which speaks Of
ancient family honorsw
"Oh, yes Leila has a gold cross, with
1 portrait of our mother in the center"
what would I give to see It? Bring
II to me-"
"But, sir, although you speak honorably
most honorably-there is the earl"
"He IS seventy-nine. would wait
ten years for Miss Leigh"
..Then, Ella Watson? ~
why, 1t was a lark-n bit Of school
boy nonsense. Listen to me, and judge
for yourself. i, with two college friends,
Everson and Sir George Power, was 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 Euravon, and ate short
bread, Ia the bakers shop, which was also
the postofice, and made love, all three
Of us, to this long-faced girl, who stood
behind the counter"
Made love2" Lionel asked obviously.
"Well, yes: talked all sorts Of trash
70 her, all Of us and we invited her to
supper at st. Swithin's Inn; and she
came and this Ellen, having seen an en-
.yelope addressed to me, called herself Mrs.
Arthur Calthorpe, and I said nothing
against It. After that, she wrote me q
latter, asked for two thousand for her
father, who IL an unmitigated scamp, and
had the insolence to inform me that she
WAS my legal wife, and that It was her
intention to nou that fact to an adj
mining world. was stupid enough to
beg her silence, whereas an open contest
would have been the best thing for me
but / feared the earl. I knew his obsti-
macy"
"And now. Mr.. Calthorpe. what do you
propose doing"
According to strict law, ana this afro
|cious Scotch code, which has never been
altered, 1 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, I have made up mind there is only
one woman in the world whom I can ever
love and that woman is your sister, Mr..
Leigh"
CHAPTER XII.
Lionel Leigh loved Ella Wycherly. Not
Withstanding the strenuous effort made
BY Miss Worthington to Danish him from
Wycherly, 1t fell out that he was not
forbidden to teach German to tho colonel's
daughter; and during the three months
which followed the bali he had given his
three weekly lessons.
He would tell her that, though tutor,
and she heiress, he was still man, and she