The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-08
LOVES WISDOM.

81 have a surprise for you Gerald.
Whom would you most like to be our
guest for the recess? You know we have
:. vacant room since Lydia wrote to say
.,ne could not come. Guess with whom
/ have filled it,
Pretty little Mrs. Onslow, with
graceful, clinging gesture. locked two
H'hite hands about her husbands arm as
i.e stood before the open window, and
looking up in. his face, with an express
sion which needed no words to tell him
&c absolute hero worship she gave him,
awaited his reply.
The two had been married but one
Hnort year-a year to Clare Onslow of
namixed happiness. Not that she could
tcall so many acts on her husbands
..ssrt to make it SO, but that she was
'5oman who poured out her love SO I'M
stintingly that she did not pause to no.
tice whether it was passively received or
actively reciprocated.
Very nonchalantly now the gentleman
continued to emit clouds of fragrant
smoke from the cigarette he held be-
tween his lips, and very languidly he ans
wered her:
'<Really, Glare, do you think in n mo-
ment / can single out any one of our dear
five hundred friends for whom my soul
particularly yearns? You know, my
dear, this having the house full at
Whitsuntide is to me rather a bore in its
best aspect, but if you think this new ar
rival will mitigate rather than make
matters worse, do satisfy my Unsuitable
curiosity at once"
Sarcastic Gerald, as usual, even with
your poor little wife! Well, am sure it
will heap Goals of fire on your head GAIL
of which hope will alight on that one
cynically developed bump when / tell
you our roll is filled with the name of
Muriel Valance
'.Muriel Vallancer'
He could do no more than. frame the
single utterance of the one amazed ejacu-
lation. His handsome face grew very
pale, and the white, even teeth met in
his cigarette.
You are amazed, Gerald. are Won
not, deara You did not know I knew
her forgot to tell you / met her, one
day last week, at Lady Rodney's dinner
party, while you were out shooting, /
quite fell in love with her. She looked
like some beautiful princess that night,
and after dinner some people were talk
ing of her. and do you know, Gerald, as
] approached them heard them speak
of her as an old sweetheart of yours? /
1augIiGDIy ECpedtou the remark 10 ucTs
and absolutely, dear, she b1ushed."
- Your husband and were old and
dear friends, Mrs. Onslow.' said. You
viii still let us be SO, am quite sure
g Yes said, if you will take me
in and make it trio
stShe kissed me then, and / lost my
heart at once. Later in the evening,
someone else said TO me
- You have never met Miss Valance
before. Mrs. Glare OnslowP That is
strange-is it not? considering that
she aud your husband were such old
friends
For little minute. Gerald, was
tempted to be vexed, and perhaps a tiny
bit Jealous that you had never mention
ed to me even her name; but when, the
day following. received your Cousin
Helen's regrets for our party, / pro1nis-
ed myself to give you this surprise.
declare you look yexed, rather than
charmed thought you would be SO
delighted.
s.And so | an. of course. little WIFE,
But must be going now
why did she aeceptaa he pondered.
And in this ease the personal pronoun
referred TO Muriel Valance.
Mrs. Onslow was bitterly disappoint-