Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1919-10-09

1ntlmatlon tnat Sno would sooner
marry Williams, the groom, than the
young baronet he spoke of. This
frightened the old Earl exceedingly
'Her mothers blood runs in her
VEINS" he said to himself. by heav-
on, she'd marry a stable-boy II I
thwarted her."
Here was the spectre which haunt
ed him continually. He feared to
read the story OF his own youth and
marriage of his daughter. Notwith.
standing his jests, his love for her
was passionate and dominated every
other instinct of his life. "You are all
that have in the world, my little
Evelyn" he would confess in gentler
moods. He desired her affection in
like measure, but had never wholly
won it. Perhaps instinctively she un-
derstood that some barrier Of the past
interposed itself between them. Her
fathers defects of character could
not be absolutely hidden from her.
She feared she knew not what.
And II this were her normal mood,
what of the Evelyn who had gone to
London at the bidding Of mad de-
sire; who had become Eta Romney
there; who had returned at the dead
Of night and awaited her fathers
Homecoming with that tremulous ex-
pectation which at once could dread
exposure and yet delight in the peril
Of It. When her flrst alarm had pass
ed and quiet days had led her to be-
lieve that she dreamed the story Of
espionage, Evelyn could await the is
sue with no little confidence. After
all, why should Count Odin betray
her, even II he had her secret? He
was a man Of the world and had
nothing to gain by dealing treacher-
to London so rarely that she might
we'll deride the danger Of his visits.
Nothing but q clumsy accident could
write that story SO that the Earl might
read II, she thought. And so she well
coined him home with all her habitual
composure, and upon the morning of
the second day of July she found her
self seated opposite to him in my
lady's bower, listening to his stories
Of Italy and his plans for the summer
and the autumn months to come.
"We ought to give some parties, I
suppose" he said; "the servants ex-
pect it, and we must not disappoint
them. Ask all the people who don't
want to come and get rid of them as
quickly as you can. I have written
to Colchester about the yacht and we
t0 IN, toe fy,
August. You always loved the sea,
Evelyn. and this will be a change for
you. We can put into Trouville and
Etretat and gee what the Frenchwom-
en- are wearing. I shall steam down
to the Mediterranean later on; but
that won't be unit, December. We
have the birds to kill first and plenty
OF them. OF course, know you want
ed to be in London this Spring, and
1t is not my fault If you did not go.
This copper mine in Tuscany is going
to make me as rich as Vanderbilt. I
could not neglect 1t Just because lot
of fools were driving mail phaetons
in Bond Street."
Evelyn smiled little coldly.
men do not drive mail phaetons
nowadays" she said, "they drive
motor-cars. OF course, it is very nee.
essary for us to keep the wolf from
the door-we are SO poor, father"
The Earl had grown accustomed to
remarks such as these, and had be-
come skilful in evading them. He
understood perfectly well that Eve
1xyr cAd MT
ment and that she meant to remind
him of his broken promises to take a
house in Mayfair for the season and
to sacrifice his own pleasures at least
for few brief weeks.
II am poor enough" he said, "to
want all the money l can get. This
old place costs fortune to keep up.
l mean to do big things here by and
by, and twenty thousand won't be too
much when they are done. Besides,
1t is not money that we men run after,
but the qualification of our own van
ity in getting it. The claims on this
estate are heavy and they have to be
met quickly II 1t Is to be cleared. /
backed my own opinion about this
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Germany and am coming out top all
the time. If it put fifty thousand
year into my pocket, who'll benefit
by 1t but you? Think of that when
you talk about the little crowd OF
paupers you want to see in London.
Moneys money. And precious glad
some of them would be to see the col.
or of It,"
Evelyn did not contradict him. She
was too weary of the subject to wish
to revive 1t. Initiating others, whose
youth had been one of far from splen-
did poverty, the Earl permitted money
to become the guiding principle Of his
life in the exact ratio of its acQuisi-
ton. An exceedingly rich man when
he inherited the bankrupt estates of
the Melbournes, each year found a
waning of his natural generosity, a
growth Of unaccustomed meanness,
and diligence In the quest of for