The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-02-18

LADY Carr
THE SEQUEL Or a LIFE.
OLEPHANT.

SOmetllng IN 1t which made the girl
afraid. AS she stood gazing with
more and more uncertainty upon the
pictured face, Lady Car came quickly
| into the hall-almost running-in
evident anxiety and concern. She
stopped suddenly as Janet turned
| round, casting half-frightened,
shuddering look from the picture to
the girl before it. There was some
thing like an apology in her nervous
pause.
"I-thought Tom was here" she
said.
He has gone out riding-with
Beau" 81 sa
with Beau?" Lady Car breathed
something that sounded like, THANK
God"
rs there anything wrong-with
Tom?" said Janet, gazing round upon
her mother with defiance in her eyes.
Wrong? I hope not. They say
not. Oh, God Forbid" Lady Car put
her hands together. She was very
pale, with little redness under her
eyes.
Then, mother, if there's nothing
wrong, why do you look like that?"
Like that?" Lady Car attempted
little laugh. Like what, my dear?"
She added, with long-drawn breath,
1T is my foolish anxiety; everybody
says it is foolish. 1t is plus forte
que moi"
Il wish you would not speak
French. Tom" said Janet, sis well
enough, though he doesn't look we'll.
He ate no breakfast; and he looked
as if he would like to take my head
off. Isn't Tom-very like father?"
she added in a low voice.
They were standing at the foot of
the picture, full-length, which over
bore them as much i'll reality as i'm
agination, and made the woman and
the girl look like pigmies at his feet
Carry gave slight shiver in spite of
herself.
Yes" she said family; "and, my
dear-so are you, too"
Janet met her mothers look with
stolid steadiness. She saw Lady Cars
eyes turn from the picture to her own
form and back again, half sorry, half
pleased. She had very little under
standing of her mother, but a great
deal of curiosity. She thought to her
self that most mothers were pleased
with such a resem blance-so at least
Janet had read in books. She sup
posed her own mother did not care
for it-perhaps disliked it because
she had married again.
You never told us anything about
father" she said, but nurse does a
great deal. She told me how he-was
killed. Was that the horse?"
Yes" said Lady Car, with a trem-
bling which she could not conceal.
1T is because you are sorry that
you are so nervous?" said Janet, with
those dull light eyes fixed upon her,
which were Torrance's eyes.
Janet" cried her mother, "do not
ask me about it." She said in low,
hurried voice, rs it not enough that
it was the most terrible thing that
ever happened? I cannot go back
upon it."
But afterward," said the girl, i'm
nailed by she knew not what-some
influence of vague evaporation,
which was half opposition to her
mother and half disappointment to
find the dead father, the tutelary di-
vinity of this house to which she had
been so eager to come, SO different
from her expectations-"a afterward-
you married Beau"
Janet" Lady Car cried again, but
this time the shock brought back her
dignity and self-control. Il don't
know what has got possession of you,
my dear, to-day. You forget yourself
and me, You are not the Judge of my
actions, nor can I justify myself be-
fore you She added, after time,
Both Tom and you are very like your
father. After while he will be mas
ter here, and you perhaps mistress till
he marries. Your father-might
have been living now" (poor Garry
grew pale and shudderel even while
she pointed her moraI I-"if he had
not been such hard rider, $3.50
careless, thinking he could go any
about Tom? You will have to learn
to do what you can to restrain him,
to keep him from those wild rides, to
keep him" Lady Cars voice fall
tered, the tears came to her eyes Il
believe it is common" she said, that
a young man, such as he is growing
to be, should not mind his mother
o Ifa1n Ia fol
they mind their sisters more"
Tom does not mind me bit, " said
Janet, "Oh, not a bit-and he will
never marry. He does not like girls
Perhaps he will change his mind
said Carry, with faint smile. Boys
often do. VIII you remember what
have said, dear, if you should ever be
mistress here?"
But how can l be mistress? Where
will you be? Why should there be
any change
The house is Toms, not mine.
And I Shall be at my own house at
Easton-if / am living.
oh. " said Janet Carry, though
little reused in her own defense, al
most Quailed before the look in the
girls eyes. You will be happier
then she said. with the air of an
assailant hurting a stone at his VIC
tina: for YOU will be all by yourself
with Beau.
60 upstairs. Janet,
Il will not, she cried. You said
it was Toms house not YOURS. lie
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