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* IF WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CASE OF LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.*" George, sir,she went flying over everything thatcame in her way and was in at the death! The only woman there; just think to go. â€" She was the wildest little beg used to go tearing about the country o little Arab horse she had. Once she t it into her head to ride to hounds, and. with the colonel, and the colonel did as he pleased with everybody else, for he wa&s a Tarter, and never allowed any memâ€" ber of his household to contradict himâ€"alâ€" ways with the one exception, you know; and so the end of it was that every man, woman, and child about the place had to be Miss Fenella‘s very humble servant, or had ~__He had a poor op nion of Lord Castleton‘s intellect, but he believed him to le s truth» ful as Le knew how to be. Jacyuth was quite capable of disbelieving a story against a woman, even though shne were young, beautiful, full of impulsive high spirit ana separated from her husband, and even, al. though he had not happened to be in love with her. Hedid not intend to break a lance on her behalf. He was not given to such breaking of lances, for he also "knew the world." But neither was he going to accept Lord Castleton‘s statements with the undoubting faith that Lord Castleton seemâ€" ed to expect.: Nevertheless he listened. «"‘She was an only child, you know," said Lord Castleton, hooking himself on to his companion‘s arm, so as to speak confideuâ€" tialy in his ear as they walked up and down, "idolized by her father. Hermother died when she was small child, so she w 8 left to take pretty much her own way ever since she was six years old. Firench got some old woman or other to look after her as she grew olderâ€"a kind of duenna, you know. But as to controlling her it wus a mere farce. Fenella did as she pléased T wolshes CC C2 RIRCIL D meighbors. But Jacynthl= had often been eyuically amused by the childish credulity with which a knotof men at his club would swallow evil stories, intrinsically improâ€" bable, and supported by no ti. gle of evidence that he would have dared to offer to the least enlightened of juries, merely because they were evil. For these g. ntlemen "knew the world." Something he dimly . rememâ€" bered hearing of the separation which had taken place between Lord and Liudy Francis Onslow‘ ; but nothing clearly. He had not lived in their world ; he did not now live 11 Men may declare that they give no heed to that sort of gossip ; lut, as a rule, their minds are porous, and do not resigt it. With persons who pride themselves on knowing the world, credulity has almost voume »boâ€"signify believing good. of men‘s netonbors." ‘But" ITanowtw . had Mess l esd take a turn somewhere ; h quiet cath, andâ€".â€"=" No ;.not there!" said Jac Bback roughly, as Lord Castle band on his arm. â€" It was where lhe had *Inst" haan‘ . File ( f Waxt tA, ‘;{l S mererce e T ERANTC § 7 3 4 CSR Y y 4 4 Nh q § §) & \J a \i_\\:« \ "*«-,v‘&& e Ca5 t SSA 9y S vyery much s( ich when 1 s: NC E/4 Look here, Jacynth ; just let us irn somewhere ; here, this is a nDere sol!. At least he looked alive saw him about half an hour § %""3‘\\_\\53. % snn gE8 on a took ; :by ar: ‘‘Oh, I suppose so. The fact is, she butterfly kind of creature that no ought ever to have taken seriously," «‘And the husbandâ€"â€"" \ ‘"Frank wasâ€"well, the fact is, F acted like a fool. He was very young, you know. They were like a coupl| children together, and used to squal and kiss, and make â€" up like child Frank never lhad the least shnen‘n‘. ‘"‘The Romeoâ€"andâ€"Juliet passion meanwhile died a natural death? s cynth, staring straight before him. Lord Castleton fancied be heard Jacynth mutter under his breath, "Poor child!" But the cleanâ€"shaven, firmly molded jaw ‘looked set and grim when he glanced at it; and a countenance less expressive of any ‘‘compunctious visitings" of sentiment than the countenance of Clitheroe Jacynth, bar« risterâ€"atâ€"law, as it appeared in that moment it would be difficult to imagine. w "Lady Francis made one of the biggest sensations I can remember when she began to get into the swing of London society. She had been pro_ ‘ed on her marriage of course. But ; ‘ink had carried her off to the cott. rey, and the world had seen no m , so that now she appeared as a i. .. And she isâ€"well, you know what sh. is to look at. I know dozens of women handsomer by line and rule. . But _ there is something fetching â€" about Fenella that I never saw equalled. And then the old game began again. Fel. lows were mad about her and she flirted in the wildest way. ‘*Well, the main point of the story is what happened after the colonel‘s death, and when Frank Onslow and his wife weut up to town. Only I thought it well to give you a glimpse of the madcap sort of life the girl had been allowed to lead, because it to some degree explains a good deal of her reckâ€" less way of carrying on." i 1 : Aftrinnintatstits; stsdlBiiiies s i 4500 000004 8S Castleton inwardly pronounced to be ""had form." _ But Jacynth was sore, â€" poor wretch! Terribly sore ! However, _ his lordship compressed his narrative someâ€" what, as being very doubtful what venomâ€" ed criticism might be lurking in the barâ€" rister‘s mind. his rank. But there was something in Jacynth‘s wordsâ€"a twang, not only of bitâ€" terness, ‘ but ; of contemptâ€"which. Lord ol hoi a €a ; van‘t expect to, marry a lady from Chicago or New York with miliions of dollars in pigs or petroleuin. Of course not ! That‘s reserved for his seniors," said Jacynth. Y *‘Efrench‘s place was in Hampshire, not quite out of reach by a drive from Portsâ€" | mouth, although it was a long pull by road. _| And before she was sixteen, Fenella had _| bowled over the whole garrison. _ I believe the local chemist expected a wholesale order for prussic acid the day her engageâ€" ment to Frank Onslow was announced," said his fat little lordship, chuckling at his own wit. «*Where did she meet him "At a garrison ball in Portsmouth. It was supposed to be a case of love at first sight Regular Romeo and Juliet busiâ€" ness, don‘t you know?" "Oh! she loved him?" said Jacynth, beâ€" tween his set teeth. {‘God knows! she said she did, any way; and made him believe it. As for him, he was desperately mashed." *And soâ€"and so they married, but didn‘t live happy ever after." ‘‘No, by George! It didn‘t last long. For the first year or two it was all billing and cooing. They took a little place in Surrey, and gave themselves up to rurality and domestic affection.. Old Ffrench used to spend half his time there with ‘em. And when Fenella‘s boy was born, they had a story that the colonel was seen wheeling a perambulator about the garden, and administering a feedingâ€"bottle. 1t did seem as though Fenella had begun to put a good deal of water in her wine, as the Italians say. . They hadn‘t been marâ€" ried three years when Colonel Ffrench died sudden‘> / ‘I was\not in England at the time. . l was in a very Tow stateâ€"atff to pieces! / In fact, Sir Able Adamson has since confessed that he thought my nervouns systemâ€"however, that will probably not interest you. _ I set off on a long sea voyage, which they said . was my best chance. _ And, in point of fact, I prowled about for more than a year and a half. 1t wasin Japan that I got hold ofan old Times with th8 announcement of Ffrench‘s Geath, Oho! thought 1 to myself. _ My Lady Francig Onslow will come in for a nice little pile. She had something when she married, And, of course, Ffrench left her everything he had in the world. _ * "Then Lord Francis OnsSlow hadu‘t made a bad thing of it ?" _ y ¢ "A very good thing of it !â€"from the financial point of view, that. is. He was a | duke‘s son ; but I needn‘t tell you that a |â€" duke‘s fifth sonâ€"â€"" ‘‘Poor _ mankind !" â€" sneered Jacynth, drawing down the corners of his mouth. ‘‘My dear fellow," she began when she was in short frocks. *‘I‘ve no doubt the man where she bought her hoops and dolls was in love with her. . And when she beâ€" gan to grow up it was a general massacre." *‘Not of the innocents, however," mutâ€" tered Jacynth. > «‘Iâ€"upon my soul, I think they miy be all sammed up in one wordâ€"flirtation !â€" Of all the outrageous, audacious, insatiable little flirts that ever were boin for the botheration of mankind, I suppose Fenella Firench is about the completest specimen." *‘What things ?" growled Jacynth, flash ing a dark side glance at his companion‘ round rubicund face. \ ‘ ; 1 knows that story‘s true," continued Castle:on. . â€""Old Lord Furzeby,« who was Master at that time, and had been hunt. ing the country for twenty years, told it bimself ; and said\. he‘d never seen any. thing like it. However, he called next d y on her father, and then Ffrench did pu a stop to the hunting. _ He wou‘d»‘t quite stand that,." *Well? said Jacynth, after a nause. Sutt Woell, that‘s just a specimen of the way she was brought up. â€" But there were worse things than the hunting, a «cuced sight." ; A_viston of the slight, .straight, fearl ss young creature, â€"with a wave of tawny hair floating behind. her, the wondérful hazel eyes shining, and the delicate cheeks glowâ€" ing like roses, came vividly before Mr. Jacyuth‘s mind as he listened. 1"5‘I knows that story‘s true," continued of that ! A chld not fitteen riaing to nowras quite alone, for the old gloom who used 1o trot about atter her could nomore keep up with her than if he‘d been mounted on a tortoise." es hi s very young, too, like a couple of sed to squabble, up like children, least suspicion of it !â€"from the is. He was a tell you that a having said Ja,. she is A no man rank Z may play cricket. 1 want you to come and play with me and Grandison. _ But I s‘pose you can‘t if you‘re packing your elothes. Aint they in a jolly mess "" "Hulloa !‘ cried Ronny, surveying the portmanteau and the litter of clothes on the floor, "are you going away ?" E**Yes, old boy." "Is Grandison going too ?" _"No ; not Grandison. _ Whit do you want, Ronny ? "I want you not to go away !" "Anything else * ‘Yes. Why can‘t you come with us, if you are going away ?" «fleme with you ? Where ?" "With me and Mummy. Mummy says we shall go to a nicer place than this. And _ At this moment a little childish footstep was heard tramping up the stairs . tapâ€" tapâ€"tapâ€"tap, clim»ing up with much exâ€" ertion, but with much eager baste,and then & sweet little childish voice said, "*Mr. Jacyinf, Mr. Jacymf, are you there ?" Jacynth opened the door with a wildly beating heart. _ Could ‘she have sent him a message ? _ ‘"What is it, Ronny, my man * he said, looking down upon the chid‘s curly, tawny hbair and bright, innocent, hazel eyes that were so like his mother‘s. "And that," said Jacyanth, walking away by himself, ‘"is what Castleton calls telling _me ‘all about that woman! I don‘t know whom she loves, nor whether she loves anyâ€" one at the present â€" moment. Bu:t that there are depths otf reeiing in [that girl of _which . old Castietoi is about as well able to judge as a mole of the solar systemâ€"but what‘s the good of it! I have played my stake and lost it. â€" Iâ€"I must get out of this place if I‘m to keep any hold over myself at all. How eould a raw lad like Frank Onslow value her or understand her! Of course, he was selfish and unreasonable and du}l to all the finer part of her nature, like a boy he isâ€"or was, atbany rate, when he married h«r!‘ He went to his room and dragged out a poriâ€" manteau. He must get away. There was go use in parleying or delay. Flight, instant ight, was the only thing for him. But whenr he had opened the portmanteau, and dragged out a few clothes from the chest of drawers, he sat down by the bedside and buried his face in the pillow. "I love her ! Ilove her!" he moaned. And then he bhated himse‘f for his folly. At this moment‘a little echm‘dish fontreraw, wretched tfellow into a desperate state about her, and then to VUurn him off with an imâ€" pudent little assuMption of innocence, and declare she mMeant nothing. People said there was more in that affair of the military attache, than her nsual coquetries.â€" But I don‘t know. I don‘t believe she has it in her power to care for any man. However, very few of those who saw the little drama being acted before their eyes take a lenient view o&"f‘enella.’s conduct, I felt bound to open your eyes, Jacynth. The woinan is as dangerous 48 & rattlesnake. Of course she‘s gone and made a hideous hash of her own jife; but she has done worse than that ty pther people‘s lives, and she‘il go on doing it. I saw her just now sitting up on the boxseat Of the coach beside her husband | andâ€"" ‘ *‘*Beside whom?" *‘‘Beside her husband, Frank Onslow. There‘s is nothing she hasn‘t impudence enough for! It wouldn‘t surprise me it they were to come together again ." cares up the deed of separation ; and there is poor F_I‘Q-n;k‘ with a wife and no wife, and the boyâ€"he was devoted to the little chap â€"taken away from him, at any rate for some years." j ‘‘And there is Lady Francis Onslow with a husband and no husband." «‘Upon MY soul I believe she‘s happier withous him, UPon my soul I do! All she ‘My dead friend, the idea of talking of ‘letting‘ or not letting Fenella Onslow do anything she had set her will on is refreshâ€" ingly naif. She threatened them that if they did not consent to an amicable arâ€" rangement she would bring legal proceedâ€" ings (on Account of the Mongolian fascinaâ€" tor !) and make a scandal. â€" Well, the Onslows hate the name of a scandal as a mad dog hates water." "Or as a burnt child dreads the fire," put in Jacyvnth. go ‘‘Butshe carried her point? She left him? How was it possible that he let her ’ "‘Ohâ€"wellâ€"you knowâ€"oh, I dare say Frank had| to some extent, been making an ass of himself. _ But, of course, the case was totally different." "Oh, of course." ©‘Feneti@wfiked like a wild Inaian, you know. t couldn‘t be supposed that beâ€" cause Lord Francis Onslow kicked up his heels rather more than was exactly pretty, Lady Francis Onslow was to be allowed to follow suit, He had taken exception to a certain manâ€"military attache to one of the Embassiesâ€"and forbade Fenella to dance with himor receive him in her drawingâ€" room. â€" Needless to say that Fenella made a point of waltzing with him the next night, and of giving him a standing invitaâ€" tion to five o‘clock ter. _ More rows. Family consultations. Aunt Grizel volunâ€" teering as peaceâ€"maker; I think‘ that was the last straw. Fei®lla insisted on a separation; she was as obstinate as possible. She would take her boy and leave him. As to the money, he might keep it all. _ And that sort of wild nonsense." "All her‘fodi_fish fancy, of course!" said Jacynth, suddenly looking at the other man with a penetrating gaze from beneath his frowning black brows. ; "Exactly P‘ exclaimed Jacynth, with a nod of the head. â€". ‘"Well, whether his aunt, old . Lady Grizel, P‘(}i‘r\into his head, or whether he saw something for himself that he didn‘t likeâ€"thefop is, Frank made a scene one ~night whap they came home from a ball at the Austitign Embassy, and Fenellaâ€"who is the Tattar‘s own daughter when she‘s roused, I tan tell you, dynamite iso‘t in it ! â€"flared Up tremendously, and there was, in short, thed{zvi] to pay. _ Fenella, it seeins, had. been cretly bottling up a little priâ€" vate Jealou$ on her own part: There was a certain Mad{a.meâ€"‘â€"her name don‘t matter : and she has returned to Mongolia or wherever she came from long agoâ€"a cerâ€" tain woman, pretty near old enough to be Frank‘s mother, but a fascinating sort of Jezebel, whom you met about every where that season.. And Fenella turned round and declared that Frank had been: making her misetable by his goingsâ€"on with that vile woman !". \ "At any rate, among them jealounsy @boug ner, thougn. _ Neverâ€"un tilâ€"_â€"*" m PH ;’/jnr life To be Continucd. fii’ to flirt; tordecaivflsofime little childish footstep they cobbled Choice Liquors and Cigars always stable in connection. 188 and 140 King street east, a few doors east of Uatharine street Parcels, delivered points on : Busleaving Grimspy daily for Grimsby Park, Beamsville and Smithville. ® rassengers taking this line will make close connection at Hamilton with the H. & D. R R. for Dundas, and the G.T.R for Caledonia, Hagersville, Pt Dover, Brantfoad and all points on B. & G. and Air Line divisions, and the north tratns for Milton, Georgetown and all points north, + _ _ _ LUravyma Hamtror â€" 8.30, 10.15, 11,30 a,m , 1.15, 3.00, 4.30, 5.30, 7.15, 8.30) 10.30 p. m. 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