Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-14

is the slightest bit of the chaperone and
match maker. 1t is the last way of reyiyinc
the past
She consented and Carmen De Haro conid
not well refuse.
! The ladies' found the "Blue Mass mills very
much as Thatcher had previously delivered
/ it TO them, 70 tliae rough and mannish. y
But be made over to them the one tenement
reserved for himself and slept with his men.
/ or more likely under the trees. At first Mrs.
Plodgitt missed gas and running water, and
+ these several convenience of civilization.
among which fear may be mentioned sheets
! and pillow cases but the balsaln Of tie
I mountain air sootled her neuralgia and her
temper AS for Carmen, she rioted in the
/ unlimited license of her absolute freedom
i from conventional restraint and the indul-
4 gellce of her ehild-lke impulses. She secured
+ the lodges far and wide alone; she dipped
/ into dark copses and scrambled over the
+ sterile patches of chemisal, and came back
laden with the spoil Of buckeye blossoms.
/ manzanita berries and laurel But she wfmid
not make sketch Of the aBlue Mass com
pany's' mills on Mercators projection
something that could be afterwards Iitho-
/ G lphed or chromoed, with the mills turn
/ ing cut tons of quicksilver through the ener-
gies q q happy and picturesque assemblage
/ Of minerg-even ia please her padrone Don
Royal Thatcher. On the contrary, she made
a study az the ruins Of the crumbled and de-
cayed red rock furnace, with the block
mountain above it, and the light of q dying
camp fire shining upon it, and the duh red
excavations in the ledge But even this did
not satisfy her until she had made some
alterations, and when she finally brought her
1 finished study to Don Royal, she looked at
him a little defantly. Thatcher admired
honestly, and then criticised little humer-
ousty and dishonesty "But coklan't xc,ti,
for Il consideration, put up sign board on
that rock with the inscription, "Road to the
Blue Mass eompany's new mills to the
right, and combine business with art! That's
:
blanketed figure doing here, lying before the
furnaee2 You never saw one of my miners
there-and Mexican, too, by his serape. ,
That" quoth Mistress Carmen, coolly,' was
put in to fill MP tho foreground wanted
something there to balance the picture. y
But continued Thatcher, dropping into un-
conscious admiration again, cts drawn to
{ gH,I TIL, T,
The MD and counsel Of Mrs. Plodgitt who Is
my hated rival, and your lay figure and
model.a ooh" said Carmen, with a little
sigh, Its only poor Concho" "And where
is Concho'a IA little impatiently.) 9Hes dead,
Don Royaln "Dead" "Of a verity-very
dead-mudered by your ccuntryrnen." Il
see-and you know himH "Ho was my
friend
HOh!"
Truly
"Butn lwickedly), isn't this rather
ghastly adyertisement-outs of an illus
trated newspapcr-of my property
"Ghastly, Don Royal Look you he sleeps"
'Ay' I'M Spanish, aas the dead
Carmen terossing herself hastily, "After
Tia fashion of the dead
They were bcsh feeling uncomfortable.
Carmen was shivering. Bat, being woman,
and tactful, she recovered her head first. at
Is Study FOR myself, Don Royal; 1 shall
make you another
Aud She slipped away, as she thought, out
Of the subject and his presence.
But She was mistaken in the evening he
n2nowed The conversation. Carmen began to
f9nee, NOS FROM c6Uardice or deceit; q; the
tnasctlita reader 49etld tetldit infer, but
from some wonderful feminine instinct that
told her to be cautious. But he got from her
tho fact, 10 him before unknown, that she
was the niece Of his mean antagonist. and, be
ing gentleman, so redoubled his attentions
and his courtesy that Mrs. Plodgitt made up
her Eind that it Yves a foregone conclusion,
and seriatislv reflected lis to what sbe should
wear on The monientous occasion But that
night poor Carmen cried herself 10 sleep, re-
solving Jlat she would hereafter cast aside
her wicked uncle for this good-hearted
Americana, yet never once connected her in
nocent pcnmanahip with the deadly feud be
tween thein Wcmen--the best Of them-are
strong as to collateral facts, swift Of deduc-
tom brt vague ns children are 70 the exact
statement or recognition OF premises 1t is
hardly necessary to say that Carmen had
never thought Of connecting any act Of hers
With iho claims Of her uncle and the circum-
stance If the signature she had totally for
gotten
The masculine reader win now understand
Garments confusion and bushes, and believe
himself an ass to have thought them con-
fesson OF original affection. The feminine
reader win, BY this time, become satisfied
that The dcceitful mink s sole idea was to gain
the affections bf Thatcher And really l
don't know who Is right.
Nevertheless, She painted sketch for
Thatcher-whch now ado11ls the company's
Office in san Francisco, in which the property
is laid out ii pleasing geometrical lines, and
the rosy promise Of the future instinct in
every touch Of the brush. Then, having
earned her wage" as she believed, she be
came somewhat cold and shy to Thatcher.
Whcrcat that gentleman redoubled his atten-
tons, seeing only in her presence certain
meprise, which concerned her more than him
self Tho niece Of his enemy meant nothing
more to him than an interesting girl-to be
protected always--to BE feared, never. But
even suspicion may be insidiously placed in
nobia minds.
Mistress Plodgitt, thus early stopped of
matchmaking, OF course put the blame on her
own sex, and went over to the stronger side
the mans
It's q great pity gals should be SO curious,
She said, sotto voce, to Thatcher, when Car
men was in one of her sunen moods. yet
s'poae its III Ter blood. Them Spaniards Is
always revougoful-lilo the Eyetalians."
Thatcher honestly looked his surprise.
@Why don't you see, she's thinking how all
these lands might have been her uncles but
for you. And instead of trying to be sweet
and here she stopped to cough
@Good Cody said Thatcher, in great con
Germ, u never thought of that lie stopped
for a moment, and then added with decision;
I can't believ It; it isn't like her"
BIrs. P. was piq,led She walked away, de
iivering, however, this Parthan arrow
@Well, hope taia't nothing aeorse."
Thatcher chuckled, then felt uneasy. When
he next met Carmen she found his gray eyes
fixod on hers with a curious, half-inquisi-
tolial look She had never noticed before. This
only added fuel to the fire. Forgetting then
relations Of host and guest, she was ALSO
lutey rude Thatcher was quiet but watch,
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