Connecticut western news., 1921-07-28

EFT a penniless orphan when a
 timid and sensitive girl of eight
 cen, the beautiful Lady Isabel Vane found herself at the mercies of an unsympathetic relative. In her in- nOcence she admired certain frequent visitor at this home-Captain Francis Levison, an unprincipled spendthrlft. Beyond heartlessly leading her on to care for him he made no honorable mention of marriage. Small wonder was it then that she accepted Archi- bald Carlyle, when that worthy and straightforward country lawyer, the purchaser of her fathers estate at East Lynne, took courage because of her distress over her unpleasant sur roundings to ask her in marriage.
 "I ought to tell you-I must" she confessed to him in hysterical tears. ''Though I have said yes do not yet-this has come upon me so by sur prise," she stammered. "I like you very much; esteem and respect you i; but do not yet love you"
 "I should wonder if you did," Archi- bald replied. "But you will let me earn your love, Isabel??"
 ''Oh, yes," she earnestly answered, q hope so."
 Passfvely she let him have his first kiss, My dearest" he said, "it is all I ask"
 Six years passed. Life at East Lynne was not all that one might wish for. To be sure Lady Isabel had a most de voted husband and three lovely chil- dren. But her happiness was marred by two thorns, of which her husband was quite unaware. COrnelia Carlyle. the dOmineering and narrOw-minded half-sister of Archibald, had steeled ginning, and made life at East Lynne quite miserable for the poor little mex perienced bride. The second disturb ance was the suspicion that her hus- band loved and was now renewing his love for Barbara Hare, the daughter of the neighborhood justice. Incited by the idle gossip of servants, this suspi- cion grew into jealousy.
 It was true that Archibald seemed to have many meetings with the pretty Barbara-but how was poor Lady Isa. bel to know that in reality these meet ings concerned only private business of a professional nature? Barbara Hare had brother, Richard, who years before had been accused of murder. Her mother was an invalid, and her stubborn, unfOrgiving fatuer would hear naught of the son who had dis graced him. Barbara's secret meet ings with her exiled brother had con- vinced her of his innocence. Her one recourse, when implOred by Richard to seek help in finding the real criminal, was to cOnf1de in their old family friend, Archibald Carlyle.
 Always delicate in health and wor- ried sick over her imagined troubles, Lady Isabel was finally persuaded by her physician to go to the French coast for change of air and scenery. The autocratic Cornelia forbade her being accompanied by the children. Lady Isabel was looking forward to a lonely fortnight before her husband was to join her, when she chanced to meet Francis LeviSOn, eXiled to the continent because of his debts in Eng land. Bewildered when she began to realize. that she still had that indefin- able, involuntary feeling toward him, she was yet completely fascinated, as in the old days before her marriage. She would have given all she possessed to overcome this attraction. Courage failed her to conf1de all in her husband.
 Full of sOphistries as before, the un- serupulous Captain Levison compelled her to listen to him. "The past is