Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-03

was too daring 1lgQI OF fancy IOr any
one but Relton. With children, how
ever, Camion was completely at home,
and he would spend hours of uproarous
happiness in a nursery, tumbling his
gigantic frame about on the floor amid
the screams of delight of the small peo-
pie. He treated them with ardent rev.
srence and abject forbearance, and they
led him unresisting captive.
Our class day came at last-the long
est and loYeliest day of summer-with
its spreads" in the mems rooms, its
Examinations in the evening, and It's
various other diversions. Miss Capel
was there, and beyond doubt she was,
in appearance at least, nearly all that
my own part, while recognizing the be-
witching brilliancy of her face and
manner, I found her slender lips too
satirical and her clear brown eyes too
unsympathetic to command my entire
realty. She was one of those women
who, as a bare return for condescend-
ing to exist in the presence Of a man,
demand from him a devotion scarcely
distinguishable from slavery. She was
witty, rapid, at once subtle and daring.
There was in her, [ fancied. more of
Intellectual appreciation Of passion
than Of passion itself. She seemed to
think that the proper place for her
arched foot was on the neck of the rest
of humanity. She had never been Op-
posed, much less rebufed or humili-
ated; she expected that your eye should
fall before hers. Her figure was tall
i
graceful, erect, and alert. But | was
brutal enough to think that some nf the
ear-boxings which she had doubtless
administered to her slaves at home
might have been wholesomely returned
to her own defiant head. Fred Bolton.
on the other hand, considered her "di-
vine," and squirrel her about most in
veterately, she accepting his homage
in good part, and laughing with him,
or at him, quite afably. For several
hours he was a general object of envy.
At length, catching sight of Camlion,
he whispered a few words to his beau
full companion, who glanced at our
serene Hercules, and nodded her head.
A moment later he had been brought
up and presented.
Harvard hail." said Bolton, and was off,
chuckling to me, "We've cooked old
Camlion's goose for him this time, at
all events"
Perhaps he had, though not in the
way he imagined. What induced Miss
Rosalind absolutely to lay herself out
to captivate Camlion of all men
Was it from subtle feminine percep-
ton that no woman had yet won him,
when he was worth winning? Was it,
perhaps, that she was really impressed
by something in the mans noble, sim
= pie nature that revealed to her posi-
bilities she hau never till then suspect
ed? Or was it mere whim, because
she was weary Of being worshipped
and wanted to have the novel sensa-
ton Of finding herself on the soliciting
: side? [ cannot say; but, at ali events,
she did it-how effectively and lasting
no one knew until years afterward
Meanwhile, it may be remarked that
she and Camlion did not make their
appearance at Harvard hall, where
Fred waited for them until his pa
tience was exhausted. On the con
trary, they kept together by them
selves all the rest of the day and even
!, ing; and it was not until the illumina-
tions were over, and most of the merry
makers had dispersed, that Bolton
came across them, wandering arm-in-
arm under the trees at the outskirts OF
the college grounds They met his
rather discounted greeting very com
posedly,
II thought you two must have de-
camped for good p he exclaimed,
with a reproachful look at the lady.
"Iou know, Miss Capel, you were en-
gagged to dance the first waltz with me
at the hall, and afterward to come to
my spread, and"
II found better employment" inter
rupted Miss Capel, with glance of
superb insolence.
Her white hands, which Bolton no
ticed were ungloved, were clasped over
Camion's mighty arm, and now and
then she looked up at him, in the
bright moonlight, and what seemed to
Bolton an expression of secret inteIli-
gence. Camlion bent towards her and
said something, but in so low a tone
that Bolton did not catch it. Miss Cap
el then turned to the latter and de-
manded brusquely whether he knew
where her brother was.
81 came to escort you to him." was
Belton's reply.
She allowed her hands lingeripgly to
leave Camiion's arm; they confronted
each other for a moment, their eyes
meeting.
Don't forget" she said to him at
length, almost in whisper.
II shall be there" he answered, lift
ing his hat as he spoke.
After another pause she turned away
from him slowly and began to move TO-
ward the college, quite ignoring Bolton,
who nevertheless walked beside her
He addressed several remarks to her,
to which she vouchsafed no answer
whatever. At last, being piqued he
said:
"Well, Miss Capel, l hope you've en-
Logged your visit to Harvard and the
men you've met here"
"I have met only one man here"
she replied facing him imperiously
And this was all he got from her that
evening.
Next morning Camlion was not at
breakfast; but some hints Of his ad-
venture of the previous evening had
leaked out, and Bolton had to sustain q
good deal of chaf about the manner in
which he had been "cut out" AS for
Miss Capel, it was known that she was
staying with her brother and father at
the fremont hoI1Se in BOSTON fter