The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-07-31 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

STEPHEN WILLOUGHBY."  Hubert gave me this letter to read as well as Este's, and I was conscious he was watchinz my face as I read it; and I was conscious, too, that I showed some little aritation.  "He evidently feels it very deeply," I said, without raising my eyes, for I knew they were misty with unshed tears.  "Most men would feel such a. terrible ffaiP very deeply," answered Hubert, coldly; and he sho- afterwards left the room, carrying away the two letters with him. _  It made a, great sensation, of course, all over the country, when the true story of Mrs. Orme's murder was known. And it made a brief sensation also in town among Stephen Willoughby's circle of friends and acquaintances. Este was delighted that his friend should be cleared of such a horrible suspicion, and boasted not a little of is own cuscernment in the matter.  "Didn't I always say so?" he went about saying • and everyone agreed new that it was disgraceful that a man like Sir Ste-hen should ever have been suspected. "People would make a. little hero of him, I believe, if he would allow it," Madge Bagot wrote to me, "and matrons of the strictest propriety (including Lady Langton) are ready to receive him with open arms. But Sir Stephen goes out very little, and looks very sad when he does go." But a letter which L received from Lady Este about this time caused my heart to ache for days with a dull, cold pain. "My dearest Laura," wrote Lilla, "we were all so awfully sorry when you were taken ill that night: and when I called to inquire about you the next day, to my deep regret I heard ycer dear father was not so well, and that yofi and Colonel Stanley had started for Erdly. I earnestly trust. however, that Mr. Erdly is better. But we cannot wonder at his illness, which happened, I suppose, when he learned the dreadful news about poor Mr. Orme. "I conclude this unfortunate man must have been mad; but why poor dear Willoughby should have been suspected of ahything so horrible, I cannot conceive!. I conclude it was because he is stmgosed to have flirted at one tim:i with this wretched woman, who actually wanted (by her. husband's account) Willoughby to run away with her. However, it-is a great blessing it is all cleared up; and when Sir Stephen dined with us last night, I assure you the way the ladies ran after him was absurd. "Este insisted on giving a dinner-party in his honour, and among other guests Lady Langton and her two fair daughters were present. You should have seen how her ladyship rushed at him! Deve nor, you know, is so amusing about Lady Lawton, and he declares he lives in bodily terror of her! He (Devenor) would not dine here, ai` Lady Laneton 'and her brood,' as he calls the girls, were coming. But she made up by courting Willoughby, who, by-the-bye, is the handsomest man I see anywhere. She (Lady Langton) invited him down to Leioh for the autumn, and Este has invited him to Oreford, so I suppose you will SF` 3 your old admirer once more. And Laura, Laura. what a naughty sly girl you are, to he sure! Willoughby inquired after you—it seems he saw you faint that night of the ball here—and when I said smilingly to him that at one time we had thought you and be were going to make a match of it, he looked :It me very gravely. 'Do you not know that she refused me?' he said. And all I can say is, my dear