The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-26

give me- forgive mo!Oh, ! dldn mean !
L, Erica, didn't indeed"
A canary swinging in his gilded cage !
burst into grand brayura
Erica rose suddenly
How shrilly that bird singsl' she
exclaimed. at is deafening, She
went out of the room and Bertha sat
quite still where she had left her Her
head lay within the hollow of her arm,
which rested on the elbow of herocker.
Louder and more piercing came the
song from the bird-cagc.
stop, Dickm she cried irritably.
She caught the late September rose
from her bosom and flung it at him.
and laughed at herself for being so fool
ish. all in one breath.
Robert Sutherland came up that even
inc. He was man Of Is or there
abouts, with a smooth, clean.shaven
face. absolutely colorless. His nose and
chin we're of type long and pronounc-
ed, his eyes were light-blue, his hair
lightyelow
| The Braithwoods we're all gathered
together in the parlor when he entered.
| Rick Law full length on the sofa, deep
in the perusal of seductive French
novel, Dot and Dora drummed a duet
on the asthmatic piano in distant
corner the younger children clustered
round the story-tellero OF the family, who
lust then was RECALLING them with a
thrilling description Of fight with IN
juns.
"Come in, Bobln cordially invited
Rick, who had he ever had the honor OF
presentation to the late Prince Con-
sort would have called him "Al on
their second encounter,
Erica, busy with the homely task Of
patching Willie'S coat, looked up with
a swift compression of her lips and held
him out her hand. Bertha rose half
eagerly, half shyly from her chair and
came a little forward to meet her lover.
She was looking very graceful, and
slender, and stately in her picturesque
dress of duh Venetian red, with the
quaint brooch of tawny gold at her
throat.
"Sit down. Have a cigar-the girls
don't mind, murmured Rick in genial
abstraction his thoughts still with Celes-
tine,
They were not CermOnious at the
BraithwoOds. The twins paused a mo-
ment to stare al the newcomer, and then
resumed their Interrupted performance
with an energy which threatened TO
shake every petal from the LAST Rose
of Summer" The sensational narrator
adown the room suspended his recital
in the middle of startling sentence,
And the toma---, waiting long
enough to run the curiosity of his listen
ers up to feYer-heat before he conclud-
ed, "hawk fell!
Thanks, nor Sunderland replied,
II don't smoke Let me move that
lamp for YOU, Miss Braithwood--so.
Well excuse you, with Il nod to Rick,
"go on with your book | am going to
talk TO Bertha. "
Thus liberated from conversational
thraldom, Rick went back to Ceestine
Erica sewed on with brown, bent head;
under it's merciless manipulators the pr
ano groaped agonizing crescendi and
sobbed gasping tortissimi. Once or
twice Erica lifted her eyes and looked
across the room 10 where Robert Suth-
= erand leant above her sisters chair.
] He always talking in his slow, absorb
ed, nervous fashion, she listening, her
face luminous
"Wbat does she see in himP' she ask
ed herself desperately and fell toplying
her needle more rapidly than before, as
though to stitch out an answer TO her
question.
THAT will do, Dot Goodnight,
! Doral" she said at last 10 the relentless
! musicians They ceased Immediately.
Andion the sudden silence came distinct
a " from the distant corner the blood
> curdling words, land Tiger Tommy,
pulling out his revolver, exclaimed
Q There was quick, spontaneous shout
r. of laughter from the elder people, break
at ing the thin veneer OF ice which haC
,n coated their intercourse
Ell Tiger Tommy 90 to bed" chimeC
r in Bertha, gayly Looking rather shame
ly faced, the Youngsters scrambled up
IN Robert Sutherland rose, too
s. "Whatl going BobP Where's tn
en- hurry? Oh, hang it, you don't, yo
r. knowl expostuated Rick, droppin!
a Ceestinc and her sorrows ignominious
'le ly on the carpet
IS ooh, must didn't tell YOU Bertha
r. did |, that have to leave town tC
in night?n
OF The girls dark, velvety eyes dilatet
ed No" she said slowly, you did nc
es tell me
He looked up at her with smile.
in 1T was such hard luck for me, m
e. darling; such difficult news for me {
a tell, naturally deferred It's mention q
long as possible received Il TELEGRAM
'r- to-day containing information Of ii
nd death OF my uncle in Paris An unc
ks only by marriage, native-born Par
r. ian, he, lmnst 90 over 10 protect m
ed cousin inheritance from the deyaStatin
grasp Of those rapacious Gallo lawyers
ha OF what duration my absence will be
mt can form no conjecture, however fain
ii This only know, However brief, hrie
in work and loving homeward though
ed can make it, II shall be because of
cir Bertha.
A hot rosy tide came flooding BE
tha's pale cheek, But closer aroul
Erica's heart cold fingers clutched in