The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-23

anu, lttllHp iHuIc NOIilIltllCb WlUH MIN,
she is once again dancing as gayly as
the best
"Your foot is plainly 'on your native
heath, ," says Molly, though your name
may not be 'McGregor.' What on earth
were you saying to that old woman for
the last four hOurs?n
1T was only twenty minutes" says
Mona.
Twenty minutes BY Jove! she
must be more interesting than we
thought says Mr.. Darling, "if you can
put it at that time. | thought She was
going ia eat you, she looked so pleased
with you. And no wonder, toom with
loud and hearty sigh
"She was very nice to me- saws Mo-
ma, and is, | think, a very pleasant old
lady, She asked me TO go and see her
next Thursday
Bless my stars!" says Molly, "you
hare been going it. That is the day on
which she will receive no one but her
chief pets. The duchess, when she
comes down here, reyerses the order of
things. The rest have an at home day.
She has Il not at home day."
Where are the people when they are
not at home?N asks Mona, simply.
That's the eighth wonder of the
world, says Mr.. Darling, mysteriously
1T has never yet been discovered.
Don't seek to pry too closely into it;
you might meet with rebuff
"llow sad Nicholas looks.' says Mo-
ma, suddenly.
sin doorway, somewhat out of the
crush, Sir Nicholas is standing. His
eyes are fixed on Dorothy, WHO'S laugh
ing and chatting with gay and gallant
plunger in the distance. lie is looking
depressed and melancholy; a shadow
seems to have fallen into his dark eyes.
"Now he is thinking of that horrid
lawsuit again, says Molly, regretfully,
who is really good sort all round.
Let us 90 to him.
Yes; let me go to him." says Mona,
quickly; II shall know what TO say bet
ter than you.
After a little while she succeeds in
partially lifting the cloud that has fallen
on her brother. He has grown strange
ly fond of her. and finds comfort in her
gentle eyes and sympathetic mouth
Like all the rest. he has gone down be-
fore Mona, and found place for her in
his heart He is laughing at some alb
surdity of hers. and Is feeling Drawer.
more hopeful, when little chill seems
TO pass over him. and, turning, he con-
fronts tall, dark, young man who has
come leisurelv-but with purpose-to
where he and Mona are standing.
1t is Paul Rodney.
Sir Nicholas, Just moving his glass
from one eye to the other, says, Good
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courteously, nay very civilly, though
without touch or suspicion of friend
illness. He does not put out his hand,
however, and Paul Rodney, having ac-
knowledged his salutation by "A bow
colder and infinitely more distant than
his own, turns to Mona.
you have not quite forgotten me,
hope, Mrs. Rodney, You will give me
one dancer
His eyes, black and family savage,
seem to burn into hers.
NO, | have not forgotten you says
Mona, shrinking away from him. AS
she speaks she looks neryously at Mich
olas
go and dance, my dear" he says,
quickly in tone that decides her 1t
is to please him, for his sake, she must
do this thing; and so, without any awk-
ward hesitation, vet without undue
haste, she turns and lays her hand on
the Australians arm. A few minutes
later she is floating round the room in
his arms, and, passing by Godfrey,
though she sees him not, is seen by him.
Nicholas. what is the meaning Of
this?' says Godfrey, few moments
later, coming up with darkening brow
to where Nicholas is leaning against
wall, What has possessed Mona to
give that fellow dancer She was with
you: why did you not prevent it,"
MY dear fellow says Nicholas, lit
was | induced Mona to dance with that
fellow as YOU call him. Forgive me,
if you count it as an injury"
II don't understand YOU says Geof-
frey, hotly; 'if he claims her for anoth-
er dance I'll
mo, you won't, says Nicholas. Gle
is not my enemy, and wanted Mona to
dance with him because it shows the
room that he is not altogether tabOoed
by us. Doatie will not dance with him,
and Violet he never asks, and ! fell
back on the woman who has so little
| malice in her heart that she could not
be ungracious to any one"
At this Geotirey says something I'M
der his breath about Paul Rodney that
he ought not to say, looking the while
at Nicholas with a certain light in his
| blue eyes that means not only admira-
ton but affection.
Meanwhile Paul has led Mona TO a
small conservatory, where he begins
Have they taught you to hate me al.
ready;' he asks, in low, compressed
tone, that makes her nerves assert
themselves
II have been taught nothing" she
SAYS, with most successful grasp at
dignity They do not speak of you at
the Towers, at least not unkindly. y
She looks at him as she says this, but
lowers her eyes as she meets his. This
dark, vehement young man almost
frightens her.
yet, in spite of what you say, you
turn from me, you despise me-" ex-
claims he, with some growing excite
ment.
why should / despise you?" asks
She, slowly, opening her eyes
The simple query Confounds him
more than might "A more elaborate one
put by a clever wording. Why, in
deed?
IL was thinking about this impending
lawsuit" he stammers, uneaSily. You
know Of it, Of courseY Yet why should
| be blamedY"
mo one blames YOU" saws Mona;
"yet it Is hard that Nicholas should be