The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
HER N ER0R,

lnG BltCuJIg GHhtu HtESRihhtty F
would make them burn and gIlmmer
with radiant glory at its first powerful
awakening.
Small wonder that mon whose pulses
quivered az another's approach should
quicken as she drew near: that hearts
which beat so coolly and steadily year
after year throbbed wnh n sudden I'M
deinable feeling when she passed by.
Wherever she moved, Ethel BurCome
seemed TO shed some subtle influence
~impregnatinc every masculine heart
with it's strange Intoxicating magnetism.
Wearied with the triumph3 Of :he win
ter she had come TO this little seaside
retreat, 10 the home Of a former school
mate named Vernon.
"Here at least ! can rest" she said
one day as she lay swinging in the pref
tv hammock Mr.. Vernon had fastened
up between the rocks, within iayorite
shelter by the sea.
81 ana not SO sure Of that" laughed
Miss Vernon, glancing up from a rather
shapeless mass Of crewel work she was
idly e~ndeayering to disentangle.
"Why 50, dear Nell?" surely YOU
wouldn't expect one to conform to the
fashionable seaside custom of three tot
let's a day simply because that miserable
brother oi yours has threatened to visit
us, and may drop down from the sky or
the station any hour within the next
twenty-four?."
"Ah, but lido, Ethel. don't want
to be ashamed of you. That old wrap
per will do very we'll for Dick and my
self, but would look horribly dowdy to
welcome a visitor in"
But what if | don't intend to well
come him-to see him, or have ANYTHING
to do with him?"
Il can't see how you will avoid it,
with such a contrary servant as | have
now no three meals a day will be car
ried to anybody's room-of that l am
certain. And unless Elliot will take his
breakfast before you are up, his lunch
Ia the pantry, and his dinner out Of
doors, / don't see how you can avoid
meeting him at meal times, not to men,
ton other hours OF the day when you
will be sure 10 stumble on each other"
The discussion grew so animated that
the whistle of the afternoon train was
unheedeG. Ethel insisted on the nec-
essity Of packing up Immediately; Mrs. |
Vernon as strongly Insisted upon her
remaining.
Don't be foolish, dear; I was only
joking. Probably Elliot is such a con-
frmed bachelor that he never gives a
W0man's toilet an instant's consideration
HoW. He IS not so f0rmidable-only six
feet two III his stockings. You needn't
be so terribly alarmed az the thought of
him, when the sight Of him didn't !
trouble YOU very much once I fancy.n |
"A faint fiush came over the proud,
handsome face; the eyelids dropped for
very shame that the woman opposite,
though her very best and sincerest
friend, should know her secret. Years
before they had met, but she imagined
thatfew knew oftiGdt meeting. Eagerly, |
-ashly, Internationally he had sur
rendered, ana Ethel-wrapped in
dreams Of conquest such as had never
entered the head Of a female Alexander
disdained this easy victory, and east the
the yaHqRiEaed from her.
Now ne was coming OF his own accord
as hTm IL his consciousness OF power
and strength IS she had once been in
hers; coming when he knew that the |
OIL act or his first and only passion was
an inmate Of tie home he had chosen
for his summer abode. If he could thus
venture updismayed into the presence
of one who formerly welded such a
Subtle spell over his love-dimmed senses,
wby did her heart-Whose b~eatings
hereto fore had neve caused her the
slighteEt LOGS Of appetite, or q moments
sleep at midnight-commence to beat so
unanimously that she glanced timidly
down to see if the snowy rufles on her
bosom were vel so lightly stirred by
the newly-felt emotions within.
III I ge, she thought, she viii be vain
enough q think ! cared 50 much for him
Resented of what | said
Well said Mrs. Vernon, giving up
all hope Of strengthening out the obsti-
nate crewel work, you'll remain. /
guess. You needn't dress for dinner if
you don't choose to-do just exactly as
you ike
You may be sure of thattv exclaimed
the girl, in such g sharp, petulant tone
thai Mrs. Vernon, in the large amount
Of experience which she managed to &C
emulate during twenty years social con-
flict with the world, OWNED at once how
the land laid,
She wisely restrained her inclination
to torment her guest on the sudden
change Of position which the couple had
suddenly assumed, and, taking Etheps
aeul. slowly lei the way to the house.
Mr.. Vernon met them at the gate.
- suppose you know Elliot's here??s
he began.
skWhv. no. when did hn enma2ss asLssd
Mrs. Vernon, feeling q very perceptible
tremor creep along the arm on which
her hand was still resting.
Game on the three o'clock train
didn't ~youIhear1it? No fault offhe whistle
ifyou didn't. Blew loud enough to wake
me out Of the best nap I've had for I
don't knew how long,