The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-18

point of view is so different. On the
contrary, we should have brought
Tom here long ago. He ought to have
learned as a child that there were
men calling themselves his fathers
friends, who were not At company for
him. | think he has learned that les
son now, and to force him away from
a place he is fond of, as if 70 show
4 him that you could not trust him"
/ 1T is not for Tom, she said Ed
ward. cannot you understand? it is
for myself
you are not the sort of woman to
think of yourself when Toms inter-
ests are at stake. We ought to stay
4 even after he is gone to make all the
| friends we can for him. For my
! own part, / like the place very well. !"
Beaufort said. And then, there is
/ your sister so near at hand. You
must try to forget the little accident
/ that has Disguised you, Garry Think
of the pleasure Of having Edith SO
1 near at hand, and that excellent fel.
low John though he's too much of
an M. p"
1t was with purpose that Beaufort
laughed, with that gentle and friend
/ ly ridicllle of his hrnther-in-law, to
carry her thoughts away from the
accident-from Toms escapade,
which he thought was the foundation
of Carry's trouble. And what could
she say more? She did not, could
not. tell him that Toms look had re-
minded her of another. and that Tor.
rance himself, standing in full length
In the hall, claiming its sovereignty,
master of all that was within, kept
the miseries of her past life and her
unsatisfied heart too terribly before
her. OF that she could say nothing
to her husband, nor of Janet's rebel.
lion, nor above all. of what was in
tolerable in Edith's gentle society, the
sense of her superior happiness. her
pity for poor Carry! He might have
OWNED what it was which made the
house intolerable to her; but if he
I did not. how could she say it? Thus,
Lady Car gradually achieved the
power of living on, of smiling upon
all who surrounded her, with some.
thing which nobody comprehended in
1'her eyes, but which some few people
were vaguely aware of, though they
4 comprehended 1t not.
"Poor Carry!p Lady Edith said. in
the very tone which Lady Car heard
! IN her heart. but it was said in John
Erskine's library at Dalmylian, with
the windows closed, five miles away
Why poor Carry?" asked her hus-
oand; 4ff you were to ask her, she
would say she was a happy woman,
happy beyond anything she could
have hoped. When 1 think of her
with that brute Torrance-where she
Is now. but in such different circum-
| stances. =
"Oh, John, the circumstances are
different; Edward is very nice,
but
But WHAT"
aCarry is not like you and me-.
said Edith, shaking her head.
mo, perhaps so much the better
for us. She is fanciful and poeticals
and nervous, not easy to satisfy; but
the comparison-must be like heaven
after hades.''
Edith continued to shake her head.
but said no more. What was there
20 say? She could not perhaps have
put it into words had she tried. and
get John to understand TIA man
immersed in public business, fearing
that soon he should need a private
secretary, which was an expense quite
unjustified by his means. She patted
him on the shoulder as she stood be-
hind his chair, and said: Poor John.
have you all these letters to answer?s
Every one, +" he said, with a laugh.
You are in a compassionate humor
to-day. Suppose you answer few of
them for me instead of saying poor
John"
This was so easy! If she had not
been so busy with the children she
was the best of private secretaries!
Alas! there was nothing to be done
for poor Carry in the same simple
way. Nor in any way, Edith reflected,
as she sat down at her husbands
table-a sympathetic sister must not
even venture to show tina. she is CON-
passionate. She must conceal the
consciousness Of his fathers look in
Tom Torrence's face. and of the fact
that Beaufort's book had never been
written, and that his name was alto.
gether unknown to the world save as
that of Lady Caroline Torrance's sec
ond husband. oh, poor Garry! Edith
said again. But this time only in the
depths of her own heart. not to John.
The only other person who saw the
,hange in Lady Cars look was Janet
who had defied hefAmother. The girl
was in high rebellion STILL She spent
her life as much as she could with
Tom, seconding powerfully. without
being aware Of It, the watchful super.
vision Of Beaufort. who. If he had
failed her in SO many respects. was
anxiously and zealously acting foi