The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-05-11


/ last resort. 4 came to tals place
go work: that is obvious. Do
not prevaricate further, Mr.. Chap
man. with scornful accent upon
the title. III makes no difference to
me what You say, for will not be-
Elieve YOU. | tell gold by its glitter.
You have served to am e me IN
my idle hours, and for THAI thank
YOU but ] now see ] was wrong to
/ be so familiar with ore below my
station of life. ] cast you from my
mind as 10 this glove, and will
I forget you as Soon Without an
other word she left him
Chapman watched her till she
gained the house, world Of misery
Shining in his eyes. Then be me-
chemically stopped and recovered
/ the glove from its hidinr place IN
! the grass, and placed it pocket
next to his heart,
Vhe following day Miss Caaneii
land hlr mother departed for New
York.
A brilliant evening reception WAS
lin programe at Mrs. Goidrim's
fashionable mansion on Fifth ave-
lnue. 4 throng Of beautiful women
and distinguished men surged up
and down the spacious drawing
rooms A dazzling light from the
crystal chandeliers fell upon the gay
crowd, and the dreamy notes OF
Iserenade by Schubert stole softly
Into the rooms from thc oyerhang-
ling conservatory where the musl-
clans were concealed.
Prominent among the galaxy OF
lbeauty shone Christine Cannells
| fair face and bewitching eyes. She
was leaning upon the arm Of a man
who was conceded even by the jeal-
Gus masculinity, to be the lion Of
the occasion.
He bad just returned from four
wears sojourn in Europe, where he
had achieved fame as n pungent and
. witty correspondent o. -rcral prom
inent Journals in London and New
York. Unlike the ordinary Jour
nalist, he was reputed to be I'M
mensely rich; therefore, it had not
been fortune but fame that induced
him to take up his pen.
Since his return to New York he
; had been markedly devoted in his
attentions to Miss Cannell.
, lie had met her two months pre-
vious at a fashionable watering-place,
! and it was rumored that the erst-
while adamantine heart of the beau
tiful woman clinging to his arm had
succumbed TO his manifold attrac-
tons Of person and mind. Envious
gossips would have it that his purse
was the subtle influence that bad
metamorphosed Christine Cdnnell
!, from the cold, imperyious being of
old into the gracious, almost Iowa
ble, woman Of the present.
4 keen observer would certainly
;. have declared, seeeing Cheistine at
this moment, that her heart was
aroused : that a warmer feeling
| than that of selfish interest had at
last been awakened in her breast.
As they slowly threaded their way
through the crush she was talking
to her companion in that magnetic
voice that had hitherto been her
greatest weapon, but was now her
greatest friend.
He seemed entirely absorbed in
/ her sparkling conversation, and a
smile fingered now and then on his
usually compressed lips as she en-
tertained him with sparkling bon
mots or INDUCED in caustic repair
tee.
He had said but little. When he
did speak, however, the lovely wo-
man seemed to listen to his words
with her soul in her ears.
"By Jovei7 said an important
looking youth, who with a compan-
ion of his own set had been glued
to the wall by the great crash, there
goes that fellow Chapman again,
with Christine Cannell | am de-
cidedly glad she has met her match
az last. If she amt gone on that
newspaper chap I'll 90 without my
coat the rest of the winter. You
ought to have seen how she froze
me last summer at the Grand Union.
| made casual remark to her on
the piazza one evening about the
stars, and by thunder, the way she
just turned those eyes on me
simply looked at me, you know
made the chills carom all over my
yerterbra. / can feel 'em yet. See
the way she is looking at that prig
now. 1t beats me out of sight.
) And young Hatstraw squared his
shoulders and looked in:o his i'm
maculate shirt front with ridicU-
lous air of ruiiled complacency.
Mrs. Grundy also waved her fan
perplexedly, and society in general
wondered what was going to hap
pen.
Mrs. Goldrim was giving one Of
her famous fetes champetre at her
magnificent country seat on the
, Hudson. Chinese lanterns and ele-
CANT transparencies cleaned out
from among the trees upon the lawn !;
and through the low, open windows
of the villa a gay throng whirling
hither and thither in the intricacies
of the dance were visable.
Outside, in secluded hooks under
the trees were various couples en-
gagged in all stages Of that highly
, mysterious occupation-flirting.
In a rustic summer house on that
side of the grounds, overlooking the
majestic river, a lady and gentleman
had just seated themselves.
l Apparently they were the best of
friends, for the lady placed her
4 hand familiarly upon her compan-
ions arm and called bis attention
to the lovely scene, fairly lighted bg
the rising moon, spread out before
them.
For a moment the gentleman
said nothing, but looked straight be-
fore him, with a gloomy expression
e on his face. Suddenly he turned TO