The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-09

bara and Carlyle excited at first the
curiosity and then the jealousy OF
Isabel Then she overheard a gossip
ing servant telling of the intimacy
which formerly existed between Archi-
bald and Barbara, and exaggerating as
gossips will, servants or not, and end
ing by declaring. Depend upon it, she
loves him to distraction, and I believe.
after all, that she is his real love" Poor
Isabel. Archibald found her In tears
and explanations ensued. 1T is a mat
ter of business which causes me to see
Barbara SO much" he told his wife,
land while we were brought up TO-
gether almost as brother and sister.
it Is you and you alone, of all the
world, that holds my love" Isabel was
satisfied for the time being, but tho
shaft of the gossips had left wound
that refused to zeal completely.
Now. Lady Isabel fell ILL., and it was
decided that she should go TO Boulogne-
sur-Mare for a change of climate ard
the sea air. Archibald must go with
her. No, Archibald had to attend to his
business--he would come over once in
awhile and see her. She would take the
oh ildren. Miss CornelIa put her foot
down. Isabel was going for rest and
must not be bothered with children.
Joyce-good. faithful Joyce, who had
been Miss Conveys maid and had been
handed over to Lady Isabel-would
stay behind and take care Of the
children. Joyce was half-sister of Afy
Hallijohn, and so the cloud of the muir
der hung over her as well as over
9th ems. and made her subdued and seri-
Gus. We'll" said Isabel. with laugh
to Archibald, don't make love to Bar
bara Hare while I am gone"
So Lady Isabel found herself alone
in Boulogne, and there whom should
she meet but the gay and captivating
Francis Levison. His debts had brought
him there. he frankly told her-the
doors OF Albion were closed to him.
Levison put forth all his destinations,
and the old feeling which Isabel had
had for him returned. When Carlyle
came over to see her he Aound her Inc
such improved health and spirits that
he was deligh ted. But she had begun
to realize the danger she was running
by being In the society of Francis Levi
son and begged her husband to take
her home with him. But no--her health
was so much improved that she must
stay longer.
The next day when Levison called Isabel
refused to see him but he found her
walking on the pier, however, and the
former intimacy was re-established.' Isa-
bel saw plainly the perils into which she
was drifting and wrote off TO her husband
peremptory letter saying that II he did
not come and fetch her to England she
would start on the homew;lrd journey
alone. Carlyle came to fetch his wife and
met Francis Levison. The young man
told the lawyer of his financial straits
and asked him to be an intermediary
between himself and his uncle, rich old
baronet.
AS Levison was an old friend of his
wife Carlyle consented and invited the
adventurer to East Lynne where he might
lie concealed from his creditors while ne
gotiations were pending. Lady Isabel did
not learn of this Invitation until she aud
her husband had regained home. Then She
expressed her dissatisfaction; but Archi-
bald said: ''Oh, l see you have taken a
dislike to Levison. Well, he is not very
reputable person to be sure but you need
scarcely see him while he is here and he
will be here such a short time" Isabel
felt her heart sink with foreboding of
coming evil but resolved TO keep bar
rier between herself and Francis Levison.
With the companonship of her husband
and her children. surely. this would not
be difficult. so the serpent entered into
paradise and tempted Eve with the fatal
apple. Sktllfully did Levfson encourage
tho jealousy OF Isabel and insinuate to her
things which he knew TO be false regard
ing the relations between Barbara and
Archibald. Crafty did hs exercise his
ewn fasoina*ion over ths woman whose