KATHARINE LAUDERDALE [Illustration: colophone] [Illustration: “She was very white as she turned her face to him.”--Vol. II., p. 314.] KATHARINE LAUDERDALE BY F. MARION CRAWFORD AUTHOR OF “SARACINESCA,” “PIETRO GHISLERI,” ETC. VOL. II WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALFRED BRENNAN New York MACMILLAN AND CO. AND LONDON 1894 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY F. MARION CRAWFORD. Norwood Press: J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER XVI. 1 CHAPTER XVII. 23 CHAPTER XVIII. 45 CHAPTER XIX. 67 CHAPTER XX. 89 CHAPTER XXI. 114 CHAPTER XXII. 135 CHAPTER XXIII. 157 CHAPTER XXIV. 178 CHAPTER XXV. 202 CHAPTER XXVI. 225 CHAPTER XXVII. 247 CHAPTER XXVIII. 269 CHAPTER XXIX. 291 CHAPTER XXX. 315 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOL. II. PAGE “‘I’m glad to see you, my dear child!’ he said warmly” 3 “Before he could even raise his head, Ralston was out of the door and in the street” 57 “She knew that life could never be the same again, if she could not believe her son” 142 “‘That’s good, Crowdie,’ he said thoughtfully. ‘It’s distinctly good’” 189 “She was very white as she turned her face to him” 314 KATHARINE LAUDERDALE. CHAPTER XVI. Katharine let Ralston accompany her within a block of Robert Lauderdale’s house and then sent him away. “It’s getting late,” she said. “It must be nearly ten o’clock, isn’t it? Yes. People are all going out at this hour in the morning, and it’s of no especial use to be seen about together. There’s the Assembly ball to-night, and of course you’ll come and talk to me, but I shall see you--or no--I’ll write you a note, with a special delivery stamp, and post it at the District Post-Office. You’ll get it in less than an hour, and then you’ll know what uncle Robert says.” “I know already what he’ll say,” answered Ralston. “But why mayn’t I wait for you here?” “Now, Jack! Don’t be so ridiculously hopeless about things. And I don’t want you to wait, for I haven’t the least idea how long it may last, and as I said, there’s no object in our being seen to meet, away up here by the Park, at this hour. Good-bye.