The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-10

ostly as .I,tl. nail mad! do write such d
la hand, An thau am going tl get M
water oors and go ont on tie ro,as.
,hl'n't ito Eu IA ssot hing; every man in th.
kOIse VIII . down on those rocks Then
am coming up to rad with you-tna'
means cot mp, AMI then lunch. An
after that drive with iIr. onde bust, and
later sai. with Nr. hilgorc, and then IL
dnae,, and then talking and promenadin+
on the pa "a. an then the concert and
dancing and supper That's 'Well, then.
! And % morrow there's tn archery and tn.
! licn., to the Wells AMI the yachting out tc
ted Reef hight
For grdcioui sake, b tty, day after day,
it viii kiIl yod'
You calt stop You havo to keep il
! up stay to rest, and you're like the dead
man IN uatt.e tae Others walk over your
boIy.
! "lo-s il pay You really, Bettie.'
1t will pay. Don't you know how love
! ease. beauty, splendor, luxury, tine houses
! eluipaSes gardens, pi tlro', laces, jewes,
! bank accounts: Well, that is what pay
| for Ny little pittlnce would board M il
Il country town. | ha rather die. SO
! th'ow it all al one to,s heads | win, tails
| You lose | shall have not basket OF or
chidS, but an orchid house. | was made for
il all perish in any other atmosphere.
Il ism I like n girl that wants money mercy
Tor the sake o, money. | want it Tor the
sake OF living living M own life
1t W., Mr. Dun orin with whom Bette
was promenadmg the plaza That eyenin :
inter dinner, ana before tho conc TT and the
dancing. ii WASH dancing man; he was
only millionaire well torn and edu ated,
a quiet, middle as9I gentleman Of unaAum
iHg manners. she aasaed ne n glance rs
she passe that mi hit put out the evening
star He sat beside her at the concert he
went with Ter next morning to III ar hery;
he rode beside her all the way TO the Wells;
he sat bes de he. Il, they sailed to tho Red
Reef hight He walsed wi IA her the ne st
day aft dinner tut this time they stepped
down and away from the lighted plaza,
down the leObly walk, down tho rocNs and
out on the sands and aong the bea il the
starlight Wh.n Bette came in Sue was
dyenchel with dew. IN, she loOkol devlnely
happy too div.nely happy to notice the
dark disapproya! on the brows OF al tn
mammls,
And the next morning NJ. Duprobm was
gone he AMI his trun,s AMI his horses al
hi, yacht and his man. II was lit
NeilOW wreck OF ptllIf lIdI ti'Ii' iuto my
room and threw herself face down, on the
lounge and soSbeJ out the story.
Well said soothinsiy, feeling it no
time for n homi'y, AMI plying tae little
wretch TO. all "thera ara plenty left.
There's nobody she cried There's no.
body III Just as LIEF you knew it as not
ii love him, And oh, the worst of this is,
deserve Il: But can't 1t thee people
\ tb..g I ,,,,t
a little rouge Oh. My hearts broken. l m
dead. dead, dea l. de III. | shall look in the
glass while I'm doin it though, and say to
myself, And, BETTE, give this cheei
touch Of red, one need not, sure, look
ugly, though one dead But let me hide
here this morning. | can't see anybody this
morning. Have yon got any rouge"
Nobody would hav, dreamed that Bette
was disappointed, bgoken-hearted, dead, or
ANYTHING ot the sort that nj ut. She was
reck.essly, desperately gay. Dancing on
the elge OF the volcano, she called it. And
SO she was til, neXy night, and the next, and
Tor week rum n, til all the chaperons in
the house were getting wild out h r and
expostulating with me-and that was thu
way learned thai | was supposed 10 be
her chapcron and cou dnt think where
sick for a couple of days and | said to my
self that this WAS the en-! anyway. And
then one morning, when | thought she was
in bed still, and was just getting ready to
20 and see her, She burst into my roo u,
radiant. rosy as u peach, fresh as n new
blown flower. and caught me, and covered
my Old face with caresse> sob, | must
kiss somebody" erie shp. And he int
L. nj I fal lgt
anybody $50 it, tua.ly Sc 1t, Is too
precious"
And it wa a lett from Mr. Dnro0il;
and in it he told hr frankly that he had
run away from h5r, if sho chose to call it
So. b,clu.o he felt there would b. NJ happi
ness 10, him, or her either, in marriage
with such diheronca in age and taste and
temperament And now h. had discovtle
here could be no happiness without it. And
he " coming back 10 earn hi, fate.
ooh sh, criod, bursting into tears, it's
perfectly drea ia til t III so wicked. I'm
nos fit for him | dout deserve him! ]
olyht to be punis le | shall be-oh,
shall be, shall tell him eyerything.
shall tell him ut how | mau uyrei and
schemed and plo.ts an ~
BETTE. it will Tin sh everything
at ought to can't help it if it does.
woa't let him take me believing I'm all I'm
not II there's a1o.her world, he woul MT
know M, in it. AM oh, I'm afrail hs
wouldn't want to- Oh isn't it too ia /
should be so wicGe when | love him SO,
when I'd die t. 10 him cool! Aud perhaps
the best good can 10 him is to die, ~
But when that night came she came in
from thu Leach, dripping with dew again,
and hanging on Mr.. Durobins arm, her
face pale an shining as a star, she stoppe
an bent over me, facing a line Of angry
mammas AMI kissed my forehead.
well, what di he say, Bette whis
pered
"He loves me: he azores M, murmured
Bette. He said-he "a d he didn't care. -
| Harriet Prescott Spoford in Harper's
| Bazaar.
The manager of the Fort Wayne, Ind e,
gazette, Mr.. b. NJ. Holman, says he has
often read of the wonderful cures affected
by ST, Jacobs Oil. Recently he spraired
his ankle, and invested in a cane and -
hottie of ~. Jacobs Oil The latter proved