The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-09
CHAPTER XVIII.

- REAT were the rejoicings in
NJ Arundale when it became known
that Max Schippheim and his
bride were coming home. The majority
of the people We're tired of the reign
or chaos, and longed for the old days of
order and regular payments to return.
T~wenty-four hours passed, and still
the two partners had not met, nor any
sign of welcome home been given by
Lady Muriel.
Report said she was ill; that her
nerves had been overstrained by all the
mental worry she had undergone dur
Ing Max Schippheim's absence; when.
however, he was told this by Patty,
who had heard all the Arundale news
from Elsie Bligh, he half shut his eyes
and nodded his head and chuckled,
while he repeated the one word check
mated more than once The present
aspect of affairs seemed to anus Mr..
Schippheim vastly; it was. just that
working out of a difficult bit of play
in the great game of life which gave
his astute mind subject for observa-
ton. 1t was his turn to nave the best
of it, he fancied, but he wondered none
the less what move Lady Muriel would
try for, now that she had scarcely q
piece to command.
AS it happened, however, at the end
of two days the partners met acct
dentally in the quadrangle and shook
hands. Herbert Aston got very red.
and shuffied from one foot to the other,
but Max Sohippheim was imperturbably
cool.
How is Lady Muriel?"
Very i'll. l am sorry to say"
Dear, dear, l am sorry. When she
is better tell her I hope she will come
and %patronize my little wife; she is
rather shy, poor child"
Could he nave heard Lady Muriel's
indignant outburst when his message
was given her by her husband it would
probably have ripened into a laugh.
mo, Herbert. I will be brought into
no collision with Max Schippheim's
wife, and, in order to avoid all possi-
bllity of it, l intend to leave Arundale."
Leave Arundale, leave Dale House.
Why, where do you intend to go?"
ITO London, where my artistic tastes
and my knowledge of organization and
the reforms necessary TO place large
undertakings in good working order
will be thoroughly appreciated"
Herbert Aston gave a prolonged
MnlSllts Dll Nlitlllti ne was Gull ~
his wife's failures or the London under
takings, he did not venture to say. He
only asked: 81
And what is to be done with Dale
House? And what am l to do?'
"tYou must let Dale House, and take
a room somewhere in the town where
you can come occasionally to transact
business"
81. ,oo,f,r.1 % laftar from Rprfha IN
forming her of her engagement to
Christian, and telling her of Mas
Schippheim's generosity about money
This was the severest stab Lady Muriel
had received for many a day.
Like a runaway cuIprit, then, she pre-
pared to fly, not because she feared
contamination by the tussle for place
with Mr.. S%chippheim's low-born bride,
as most people would suspect. but be-
cause she had not sufficient strength
to endure the sight of that great happi-
ness which she knew would be paraded
before her eyes whenever Christian ara
Bertha came, as they frequently would,
to Arundale.
One sunny day in the early spring.
while Lady Muriel, who had departed
without ever seeing Max Schippheim,
was basking in the sunshine
of the fair South, Bertha was married
to Christian Meyer in the parish church
at Richmond. 1t was a double we'd
ding, for at the same time and place
Angey Tramberley became the wife of
that finest of London bachelors, the
Hon. Felix Elton.
AS for Bertha and Patty, hey re-
NAMED firm friends, the roughness of
manner and tone that Mrs. Schipp-
helms early surroundings had inn
parted to her being considerably de-
creased by association with Bertha's
more gentle and refined nature. Only
one thought troubled Patty during the
early days of her married life. What
had become of joe"
Someone in Arundale, however, was
found to darn over the worn places. so
neatly, too. that they became scarcely
perceptihle. That someone was not
Joe had quite enough good
sense to regard his love for her as an
forgotten dream. though they
always had a few cordial words for
each other when they met.
No, it was pretty little Elsie Bligh
who took the smoothing of Joe's life
her charge. and acquitted herself
of her self-imposed task so effectually
that when they were married n had
a cottage of their own they were pro-
nounced the happiest couple in Arun-
dale, and Elsie was never tired OF
showing the neighbors who called on
her the many beautiful, precious house
hold treasures which had been the gift
of Max %Schippheim land his true
hearted wife,
THE END.