The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-14

- those glorious days. He had
found his mate. His life was
a complete. How bright the world
and how fair the future.
The only disagreeable incident mar
ring the utter joy of existence and
that only for an instant, was his ell
counter with Langdon at Mrs. Ather
ley's pretty fiat in Mount street.
Grenier, endowed by nature with an
occasional retrospective glimpse of a
nobler character, read him correctly
when he said that Arson would never
condescend to name the intruder in the
presence of the woman he loved.
But he did ask q servant who it was
with whom he had just been con-
versing in the entrance hail. and the
girl said the gentleman was Mr.
Langdon. No; Mrs Atherley did not
know him well. He was brought to her
Eat home' on a previous "Wednesday
by friend
Obviously Evelyn could not have
! more than passing acquaintance with
the man or she would have recognized
him herself Her agitation that night
in the park, the terror of a difficult
situa ton, was enough to account for
her failure in this respect, nor was
Philip then aware that at her previous
meeting with Lady Morland's son she
entertained a curious suspicion, in
stantly dispeiled by his glib manner,
that Langdon was the man who sought
to thrust his unwelcome attentions
upon her.
ctv Afrc fhny
ley and her daughter to return to the
precincts Of Mayfair? That was a lit
tie secret between Philip and Lord
VanStone
When Evelyn slyly endeavored to
make her new admirer understand that
there could be no intimacy between a
| millionaire and young lady who was
embarking on a professional career
she thought so, be it recorded; this is
no canon Of art-he seemingly disre-
garded the hint, but interviewed Lord
Nanstone next morning
The conversation was stormy on one
side and emphatic on the other Philip
had heard sufficient Of Mrs. Atherley's
history by judieious inquiry to enable
him to place some unpleasant facts be-
fore his lordship.
When the facts had been thrust
down the aristocratic gorge Arson
turned to pleasanter topics. He in
formed Lord Nanstone, who bore thu
title as the third son Of a marquis,
that his niece's future was more i'm
portant than his lordship's dignity.
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willingly withal.
Various firms of solicitors set to
work, and, marvellous to relate, Lord
Vanstone was able to write and inform
his half sister that certain speculations
in which he had invested her fortune
were turning out We'll. A cash pay
ment of $1,000 would be made to her
at once, and she possessed an assured
income of at least s., 500 per annum
during the remainder of her life
The poor lady had heard these fairy
tales before. Indeed. some such story
of more gorgeous proportions had con-
verified her consols into waste paper.
But a lawyer, notIIord Vanstone's,
sent her check for the larger amount
and at subsequent interview affirmed
the statements made by her unreliable
relative.
So she went back to her caste, and
her caste welcomed her with open
arms, and the dear woman thanked
Providence for the decree that her
daughter might now accept the atten-
tons of any man, no matter how rich
he might be, for she saw the drift of
Philips wishes, and, If Evelyn were
married to him, surely all their pre-
vious trials might be deemed fortunate.
She little dreamed that imperious
Philip had ordered matters his own
way.
1t was not to his thinking that his
bride should come to him from the
genteel obscurity Of Mazda Crescent.
He would give her a great position,
worthy Of the highest in the land. and
it was better for her that he should
WOO and win her from the ranks of
her order
1t should not be imagined that he
was hasty in his decision. To his mind.
Evelyn and he We're known to each
other since they We're children. 1t was
not by the Maynard caprice of chance
that he met her on the night of the
meteor's fall nor again that he came
to her assistance second time after
the lapse of years.
1t was his mothers work. He was
faithful to her memory - she to her
trust. Never did his confidence waver.
On the day that Evelyn consented to
marry him he showed her his mothers
photograph and told her his belief.
The girls happy tears believed the
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