The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-24
SHE URtBUNE.
A SENSATIONAL SKETCH.


yasour's attentions. and people are be-
ginning to remark the intimacy. You
must put stop to it. y
Whicb-people talking, or Mr.. Va
vasour's attentions ?" asked Zoe de-
murely.
EFFECT a stoppage of the latter, and
there'll be no room for the other" re-
turned Miss Murray, with asperity.
Its mortal wrong to hirt with every
gentleman in the house, as you have been
doing"
"Oh, auntie, cried Zoe. with merry
twinkle in her black eye, which contra
dicted the grave expression of her long
drawn countenance, you kno10 | have
scarcely spoken to Jonas Ferringtor; and
Tn sure you haven't had eyes for any
one else, except, as it seems. your favorite,
Henry vavasour.
Zoe executed a pirouette about the
room and disappeared within her own
door quite unconscious that Vavasour
passed beneath the window, and had
heard all the conversation. He Tipped
the ashes from his cigar and walked on
with meditative frown contracted on his
brow.
Vavasour was lady-killer. and in his
own way faultless. His broadcloth was
of the finest, his linen the whitest, his
boots and gloves tiny, unwrinkled and
perfect. He was tall and stylish, his COM
plexion scarlet and white, his teeth daz-
zling, his hair wavy, silken and brown.
Yet despite all these projections, his
whole expression was marred by the IN
decided culver of his full mouth, and
the shifting, selfish light in his blue
eyes.
The wrinkle in his forehead smoothed
itself gradually out, and he bit the end of
cigar with a complacent smile.
''Cnly a Irritation. eb ?'' he soliloqui-
zed "Well, all the better for that; but
what an artful mink she is Why,I was
actually experiencing compunctious
qualms, and debating pro or con if ]
should turn over new leaf toward her.
Rather hard on a fellows selfesteem to
find himself beaten at his own game
but, considering the circumstances, I'm
quite reeoncied this time. Now, can
enjoy my little amusement without mis-
givings, during my fortnight of proba-
ton And then, my dear Zoe, I must
yeald to superior claims.
Zoe tripped down to the terrace of the
seaside hotel, where he awaited her q
couple of hours later. She had trim
little figure and a dainty foot; and the
pufiings and loopipgs of her white organ
die walking dress.just disclosed the but
toned boot beneath, were something won
derful to behold.
There was a brighter flush upon her
cheek, and softer light in her wide
black eyes, that dropped SHY as she met
him.
Finished little coquette !" mentally
commented Vavasour.
And Zoe, with her glove finger tips
upon his arm, felt her heart culver and
thrill with rapturous sensation. which
was something new in her life exper-
fence
All, Zoe, little enchantess, who has
walked over half score of hearts in your
one season out, was your bravado then
only the vaunt of spirit unwilling to
acknowledge It's enthrallment until YER
bally compromised Auntie left behind
in the fume of discomfort, and Vavasour
beside her, self-assured by the CONVEX
sation he had overheard were ignorant
alike of the strong passion budding into
life in the girls intense and undisciplined
nature.
Words SO meaninglessly sweet MUIR
INJURED in Vayasour' s tone, tender glances
SO falsely expressive resting on her ra-
diant face, nurtured the germ into active
life, and for the time satisfied Zoe new
~ awakened craving for-his love.
She was lost in maze of sweet delight
exploring unknown paths. where every
turn was drawing her closer, closer to the
goal of life and love and happiness, or
humiliation and despair, bitter, blank and
baneful. And she was so sure of the
heaven on earth she had traced on the
..z-..- or .bo f,t,,o - srob 1louipo
colors!
She kept no reckoning of the days and
hours as they foated past, while she was
lost in the sweetness of the heeting
dream Yet she walked and talked, ate,
drank, and slept, much in the ordinary
way, except that she breathed in an
eestatic atmosphere which, to her own
senses, seemed to change her into re-
fined and etherialized transmogriication
of herself.
Miss Murray was too thoroughly en-
crossed in her wedding outfit and her
prospective bridegroom to interest herself
in Zoe's proceedings. She came to
realization of her charge once in a while,
long enough to deliver an expostuIation
spiced by medicum of advice, and gen.
orally winding up by taking Zoe's opinion
regarding some minutia pertaining to the
trouSseau.
In every grade 0, social life there are
always some persons more observant of
their neighbors acts, than careful of their
own, and these began to whisper that
Zoe was wearing her heart upon her
sleeve.
Vavasour himself wavered now and
then. He could not always distrust the
sweet young face, with its flashing orbs
grown Iiari2 and deep at his approach.
He had his good traits beneath the crust
of selfish worldliness which prevailed
and the shallow depths were stirred
sometimes by mingling of remorse and
longing that he crushed out again with
the cruel blindness of a will that would
not be convinced.
The blow fell upon Zoe with only the