The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-03-24

~scornfully; and scarcely let him touch
her hand when she said good BY
Then Kitty was taken i'll in her grand
new lodgings, and Theodore Done at
tended her.
You can guess the consequence. The
very first day she went out of doors
the doctor drove her to church and
they We're very quietly married.
Now you know by this time that
Kitty was ambitious. Well, suppose
we skip over ten years and find her,
socially speaking, at the top of the
tree, Her husband is a full blown ply
sician now-with a host of letters af-
ter his name and a title in front of it.
Kitty nae looked upon life in London
IN tAe early part of their marriage as
decidedly dangerous and had induced
her husband to take a practice in Scot
land, where, through Mrs. Dene's clev-
er scheming, he had come under royal
notice and quickly risen in royal favor
After ten years she considered herself
sufficiently safe to come back to Lon
o Lady Theodore Dene. the beauti-
full wife of the we'll known physician,
was not likely to be connected in any
way with vanished Kitty Coram. 1t is
wrong to tell a lady's age, and Lady
Dene carried hers in her pocket. She
looked about twenty-five, though really
she was thirty.
You can guess what a blow it is to
her when, coming out Of a jewelers.
in Bond street, where she a been
choosing a new setting for her dia-
monds. a gentleman raises his hat,
stopping her in her way to her car
riage. and addressing her in well re-
membered tones.
How do you do, Lady Dene? You're
in danger of forgetting old friends, I
fear. Take a run with me over to the
continent TOmnrrpV Re M Victoria in
the afternoon. Don't stop to consider.
come"
Give me time. Let me think"
No! That's just what 1 don't want
to do. If you're not there, I'll come
to your grand house in the evening,
and he'll turn you over to me himself
when hes heard my tale. Aye, and be
glad to get rid of you"
Poor Kitty. What a sleepless night
she passed. Kissing her wedding ring
with passionate pain, scalding it with
her tears, looking with loving, sorrow
full eyes at her husband, smiling in his
sleep. Praying, planning, plotting, all
to no purpose. Any way, she saw how
certain her downfall was-how she
must lose everything, even her hus-
band's love. Her weak little word
would never hold out against Gerald's
plausible lies.
A lie that is all a lie can be met and
obS L ooll n 1 +,
But a lie that is half a truth is a harder
matter to fight.
Through the dark night she lay and
pondered. Poison? Nc! Too easily
detected.
Drowning = hanging = she went
through a list of deaths, but all were
too palpabie.
When morning dawned she was
white and i'll.
Dene stayed with her all the day,
rested her aching head on his breast.
She clung to him tremblingly in her
despair.
There were to dine with an earl that
night; h would insist upon going.
THE excitement will do me good she
said.
1t was past six o'clock; they had a
long drive before them. He waited,
watch in hand, at the head OF his mag
nificent staircase, to conduct her down
door opened and out she came.
Dressed like a bride almost; in pur-
est ivory silk with draperies Of rich
old lace. Diamonds in her hair-round
her fair housekeeping her beautiful
arms and cleaning from her breast.
Her face was star-like in it's lovefiness,
only so strangely pale.
You Should never wear anything but
white, sweetheart" he whispered, of
fering his arm.
She turned and kissed him gratefully.
GO back, dear, and csk Jane for my
wedding ring; I left it on my dressing
table," she said.
AS he passed away from her side.
she threw herself Coward with wild
energy, down those many. many poll
ished oaken stairs. Down.! down!
down! till she lay in a shapeless mass
on the marble pavement below.
She was plucky to the last" said
T~horndyke to himself as he read the
many accounts Of the beautiful Lady
Dene's fatal accident, and heard Of the
letters of coincidence that were show
cred on the bereaved husband from the
highest quarters.
No accident that, I know. Anyway,
I won't peach on her now. Wouldn't
the world stare, though, if 1 showed it
the flaw in DR.. Dene's divinity?"