The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-05

whispers hurrfedly. Am | to take my hnal no
nowE He has turned very pale.
No" says the girl, quickly. Then the alb
surdity of her answer striking her, a faint smile
creeps into her eyes. THAT is she stammers,
lit is no no. l mean, only"
3" No nog Why. that is yes in any decent
English, he exckaiIns eagerly.
well, take it," she says in low tone and
with glance that is half shy, half tender. But
with nervous haste there is first something
must tell you. Tomorrow, if you will come to
me at 4 o'clock, r.
AT this moment a tall man, dark and hand
some, pushed his way, somewhat eavahery
through the groups, makes for where she Is
standing His face is agitated, his eyes are
alight. He holds out to her a hand that positive
ly trembles and after hesitation, so faint as to
be almost impreceptible, Vera lays hers with
in it,
Yet the hesitation to a lovers eyes has been
visible; to Dgby it is now quite clear what 1t IS
she has got to tell him on the morrow.
Come, Vera says Lady Vynor, rustling up
to her. Vera makes movement as if to go to
her, but Stainer holds to her hand fast
Il must see you; L must explain he says,
with white lips. Give me time; place.
Tomorrow" says Vera, very gently. She is
almost tender with him. So softly her glance
rests upon him that Digby's faithful heart loses
courage, and he forbids himself to dwell upon
the hope that a few minutes since had made his
pulses throb with only half-concealed delight
Park lane Vera is mu1lnuring in "A low
voice She is still somewhat lost in wonder at
this change that has come over her. Only yes
terday She had believed in her love for this man.
who, now holding her hand in a close clasp and
looking into her eyes with imprisoned gaze
fails to wake in her the poorest spark of feeling
Come tomorrow at 3 she says-a suspicion of
pity in her lingering glance
At o'clock the next day Major Stainer puts
in an appearance in the charming drawing room
in Park lane that calls Lady Nynor mistress
He finds there awaiting him not only Vera
Wriothesly, but the former pretty little lady
likewise
To her cousin, on her return from the opera
last night, Vera had confded all her story-con-
ceallng nothing-and confessing TO feeling dis
agreeable amount of nervousness about the in
terview impending between her and her former
lover.
Go to bed and don't let that trouble you, "
said Lady Nynor. Il have not come to my age,
| hope, without being able to outwit "a man.
There: leave all that to me-"
Now seated in her favorite loungng-chair
wreathed in smiles Laura Vynor betrays fine
determination to Outsit her visitor-with a smil-
ing obtuseness to any desire for her departure
beyond all praise
She is almost effusively amiable to Stainer
welcoming him as an old friend of Veras And
so he has been at Berlin for whole year, How
delightful! He can now tell her what she has
been all her life so longing to know whether
KAISER Wilhelm Is as popular as one has been led
to believe. And so on
Stainer, bending in sulky silence. answers all
her questions somewhat at random. His eyes
are fixed upon the perfect profile of the girl sit
ting half inside the lace curtains of the window
and his mind Is wandering to days-now past and
gone--when her love had been his own beyond
all doubt. Her eyes never once seek the room
but are tuIno upon the busy world Of carriages
outside. D hand IS lying idle in her lap, the
other Is lazly turning andufurlng huge black
ran. The curtains so far conceal her tAat Stain
er cannot see her expression and so is unable to
judge whether she is or is not as anxious to be
ria OF her laxative cousin as ne IS.
me moments stealing all to swiftly by, tell
that even an old friend must not inhict him
sell upon anybody for more than an hour at a
tlne'
He has consigned Lady Vyncr to regions i'm
polite and has half risen 70 take his departure
when an interruption occurs that compels Lady
Nynor, bon gre, mai gre, to leave him alone with
Vera. me mission on which the servant sum
mons her ADMITS OF no delay.
When ne mas closed tae door behind her he
goes qulcklE TO WH mere vera mas oeeh sitting
she mas come out from the curtains, however
ana IS now advancing toward nm:
AZ l I' can Speak 10 you alone, ne says
Wlth 4 passion III ms HQice she hau never heard
there III Ola days w nat torJures have been
enduring ever SINCE UhaJ moment, last night;
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