SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 273, 17 November 1902, Page 8

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS.

Miss Dolores Latimer, the daughter of in English vicar, In rather straitened circumstances, lying la the grass in the little graveyard adjoining the church, is an Vnlntentional party at a meeting of her brother and Lord Guy J&endale, a friend, ffoung Latimer is called away for a minute, but before going &sks Guy to tea fit the vicarage.

His companion comes across the girl In the grass, who feigns sleep, and the young man, drawn by an irresistible Impulse, leans down and kisses her. Lord Guy Is asked to tea at the vicarage, and Is startled when Dolores conies, somewhat late to the meal, and discovers she is the jfirl he had caressed in the churchyard. ■He is relieved when she displays no sign of ever having seen him before.

CHAPTER ll.—During the evening Lorrie shows some petulance, and: sitting «.t the piano she makes a rather rasa statement to her sister Greta that she posinveb hates their visitor. Lord Guy, whose admiration is patent, does not spend a very happy evening. Wnen ne gets b£.ck to the barracks he finds tnat fco has missed a visitor in the person or air Seymour Melford, and he peruses a letter from his father which urges upon toim the necessity oi early marrying money, and more particularly paying attention to Miss Melford. ' He regMrds the idea with a distaste which he nab to acknowledge was not there earlier in the day. Chapter 111.-Old Melford, who is reportfed fabulously rich, is a self-made man, iwlth a son and daughter. While the latter are cultured, and the girl exceeding^ fceautiful in addition, the old man Is decidedly a rough diamond. The ambition of the two younger Melfords is purely social, and Diana is as determined to marry young Lord Kendale as the latter's father Is that he shall espouse money. Chapter IV.—Lord Kendale and a party from the vicarage, from which Dolores absents herself, dine at the Melfords'. Lord Guv is evidently disappointed at the absence of Dolores, and falls to muster up any great amount of cordiality towards the Melfords. He leaves as early as decency permits, extending, however, before he goes an Invitation to both the Melfords and Vicarage party for the local races the following Thursday. Passing the vicarage ob his return to barracks he notices Doiores in the garden, and during a short Interview she rather plays with him, giving on parting what he fondly imagines is A photograph of herself, but which when tie opens it on arrival home he discovers to hJa disgust to be a black African bishop.