The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-10-30

passionate hopes In his heart, and
mentally called himself q fool to be
thrilled SO by the coquettish arts of
this woman.
She was making the most of herlast
days of freedom-that was very evil
dent.
Well, since she desired a Irritation,
why should he not crafty her, and in
dulge this mad desire of his for COM
partnership with the whom he
had struggled SO yainly to forget?
Surely, a more intimate knowledge
OF her folly and weakness would work
a radical cure of his passion.
Ii Kate Chamberlain was surprised
and puzzled by his manner, she was
also fascinated by it.
He seemed to have grown as vari-
able as the wind; at times tenderly
gallant In his treatment other, al times
bitter and sarcastic.
And Kate's meekness was q wonder
to behold.
To be sure she quarreled with him,
but much as q naughty child would
quarrel with its lawful guardians.
The tiercest never seemed to keep them
apart.
Wherever Kate was, the young au-
thor was sure to appear in his shabby
coat, sometimes smiling and debonair,
sometimes with a coldly, careless ex-
preston, which made him doubiy
handsome.
Matchmaking mammas whose
daughters were attracted by his fine
face and figure, were wont to say of
him:
"a handsome young man, but so
very poor, you know, In spite of his
talents"
1t mattered little to him. He had
eyes and ears for but one woman. He
denounced himself a hundred times q
a week for beinga contemplate fool, If
not q knave, for lingering about this
woman whom rumor had betrothedto
Lord R., yet night after night found
him in her presence at ball, at opera,
hiding his pain and passion under a
careless exterior.
But the end was near.
Lord R-was expected in Paris soon
and Hates aunt's had been
showering reproaches upon the
girl for her reckless disregard of
appearances in flirting so desperately
with chat poverty-stricken scribbler,
who hadn't adecent coattoh his back"
and Kate was quite desperate.
Lord R. returns next week, and
what will he think ofyou?" pursued her
irate relative.
at matters little to me what Lord
R-thinks," replied Kate, very calmly,
though there was a glitter in her dark
eyes.
Mrs. Chamberlain, who affected Par
islam manners, uttered little shrek.
'fAnd you are as good as engaged to
him! What can you be thinking of?
/ am sure he is coming here topropose
to you. People consider it a settled
affair already, and you are the envy of
half the women in Paris-you strange,
perverse creature"
"Aunt Louise" said Kate very de-
cidedly, Lord R. is not coming
here on my account, / think he
understands that / shall never
marry him. You have been kind to
me, and have shown me many favors,
for which / am truly gra~teful-there-
fore / regret to disappoint you, but
honesty compels me to confess that /
shall consider myself ahappy woman,
when Alvin Sutton asks me to be his
| wife,"
And she swept away, leaving Mrs.
Chamberlain in q condition bordering
on frenzy.
Kate was so sure that Alvin Sutton
loved her. Had they not vowed eter-
nal constancy in the old days? Had
she not kept his image pure and UNI
defiled in her heart, while she waited,
waited for fate to bring them together
once more.
She lau.led, with blissful tears in
her eyes, thinking over the old days
and their more recent intercourse, dur
ing which he had not scrupled to con-
denim her frivolous life. She would
show him some day how dress and
fashion had not quite spoiled her!
How she would keep his house, and
get up delicious dinners for him out Of
nothing, and economic in any wayso
that she was with him his happy, low
ing wife!
That very evening, at the Russian
minister's reception, she met him.
He led her into the conservatory,
presently, where the music of the band,
softened by the distance, mingled with
the splashing of a fountain. She look
ed like a bride, in her dead-white silk,
with creamy roses in her hair and
bosom.
Alvin's eyes chung half sadly to her
smiling face, as he said, slowly:
81 suppose / must congratulate
YOU"
Upon what?" queried Kate look
ing up in surprise.
He laughed bitterly.
"How innocent you are! / have
learned to-day that your f~iancee, Lord
r. returns next week. / must, of