Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-25

CHAPTER XvII-(C Continued
Its from Tarrant & Rice Of Lin
coins Inn They have been instructed
by client, who insists on remaining
unknown, that in the event of your
being unmarried one year from last
July they are to pay me twenty thou
sand pounds year as long as you
remain unmarried, and four hundre:.
thousand pounds down should the
same mysterious client die while you
are still unmarried"
What can this mean, mamma?
Who on earth"
"It means many things, Kitty,
Interrupted her mother. Zone of them
Is that we need not keep poor Mr..
Dumbdale in suspense any longer. AS
to who 1t is, we must respect the
wishes Of our unknown friend, and
allow him to retain his incognito."
tsI don't like it, mamma! | think
we ought to refuse
1--WE ought to- Kitty, but we won't.
High principles and steam yachts are
not within our means. The unknown
seems to have foreseen your probable
refusal, and has thrown the burden
on to my conscience. Still, if you in
sist on marrying Mr.. Dumbdale-"
Lady Kitty went to- the oriel Win
dow, and looked down on the clean,
dark, peat-dyed river, hurrying along
over a hundred feet below. She was
fighting revulsion of feeling which
threatened to embroil her in a scene
with her mother She was trying to
restrain her wings from battering
against the bars of artificial conven-
lions with which th;.t mother had sur
rounded her A sudden longing for n
real mother, real father, real house
hold duties, real love, the solid earth,
made all the too-accustomed splendor
Of her surroundings seem cheap and
tawdry. Her mother, looking at the
pose of her finely modelled shoulders,
ed the subject. When Kitty cried, as
a child, her mother had proceeded on
the assumption that she didn't like
given her something else to think of.
She did the same now.
II have another rather interesting
letter, Kitty, about the Donoyle chap
laincy. The bishop of Cloyne has
to endorse him for the appointment!
1hlLGy IuluSu loulu lIOhi tilS Will
dow. "Fabian Dare!" she cried, in a
startled voice.
Eyes. Don't you remember, dear?
He was introduced to us at Oxford
the commemoration before last. Rath-
er a nice boy. / took quite fancy
to him. 1t is so hard to get anybody
worth while for these private chap
laincies. l suppose he remembered
meeting me, and heard the chaplaincy
was vacant. / think I may as well
write to the bishop and Mr.. Dare to
accept. One is always glad to do a
kindness to nice boys. You thought
he was a nice boy, didn't you, Kitty?
Not of our world, of course"
Don't have him, mammal
why not? Why on earth not?"
81 can't give any reason. I just
have a feeling he wouldn't suit the
place." She turned back to the win
dow again.
"You are in shocking mood this
morning, Kitty, dear. Poor Mr.. Dare !!
shall write to the bishop that he
may send him along" Lady Donoyle
collected her letters and left the
room.
Kitty continued to look down on
the swift OF water. winch Ine capri
cious Irish sun had suddenly yelled
In gloom. AS she looked she shudder-
ed in the recoil of a highly intuitive
nature from the shadowy hand of des-
tiny, whose clutch she felt closing on
her. In the past she had vainly tried
to analyse her feelings for Standish
Vandraken, to account for the change
from light-hearted camaraderie to q
deeper feeling of soul ENHANCEMENT,
which his prolonged absence had done
nothing to dim. She had felt that she
and Vandraken were two of three
characters in play; that they had
been alone on the stage together
while third character lurked in the
wings, ready to come on. Then Van.
draken had made his exit bodily, leav.
Ing his shadow behind on the stage,
and that shadow and the mysterious
third character had become more and
more mixed in her mind. Now the
third character was about to make his
entry, for it became clear to her that
the mysterious third was Fabian
Dare.
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