Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-09-08

les, repeats her ADVISER. by ailOW-
ing him, l don't mean throwing yourself
at his head, and showing him that you
adore him, but by making him doubt your
love aud his Own capacity for pleasing
you. Different men want different treat
ment. There is nothing SO delightful to
some as to see and know that a woman
cares for them; it adds ten fold to their
devotion for her; but l am bound to say
these men are in the minority. Most of
them are far more stimulated by doubts
and fears, the woman becomes more dear
as she seems more distant, and, as n rule,
when man Is literally crazy about one of
our Sex it is because she has worried, and
tormented, and kept him on perpetual
balance between hope and fear. Now, you
and others like you, have SO hung upon
Clement Lascelles' looks and words, have
so positively shown him that he is great
being, q lofty intellect q rival to Apollo,
that it is not likely he is coming off his
pedestal to worship his worshipers. Your
only chance, my dear, is to abandon your
worship, to counterfeit Indifference as
best you may, and to let a gradual and
startling conviction come over him that
you were not really in earnest, after all. "
1T Ia very easy to talk, pouts Dolly.
1T is very easy to act, too, returns
Marian. IF you are positively certain
that your plan of campaign is going to be
successful"
How do | know that it will be?"
Try it for twenty four hours and see
how 1t works"
But | don't know what I am to do.
You must be absolutely guided by me,
and not act for one moment on your own
esponsibility.'
Il dare say it will turn out all wrong"
says Dolly, ungraciously, "and then l
shall lose him altogether"
"All right, replies Mrs. Dalton, losing
patience and rising from her seat. DO
as you like. After all, what on earth
does it matter to rue whether you are
happy or miserable? Go your own way"
Dolly springs up and catches her by the
arm. mo. no, Marian, don't go; don't
be angry. l will do whatever you tell
me-"
Then hearken and obey. Dick Wynd-
ham is coming tonight. You know he is
rather fond of you. Talk to him, and to
in Mr.. Lascelles' direction. l will keep
my eye on him. and report to you how he
takes it. If he approaches you in the
evening LOOK bored and distract, and re-
ply to him by monosyllables.
Il shall never be able to do it,, groans
Dolly.
Not with such big stake to VIM" "a
little sarcastically).
All! you don't know what it is to love!"
cries Dolly.
Not as you do, certainly" retorts Ma
rian, with an infection of voice Dolly is
not acute enough to catch.
Dick Wyndham arrives in time for din
ner. He is rather fond of Dolly; he is ex-
ceedingly hard up, and wants her money
even more than her sweet self. He is
bright and amusing, has considerable
fund of small talk is devoted to sport and
has not Mr. LaScelles' aesthetic taste or
lofty manner of showing superiority He
has genuine contempt for a man who
talks art and plays classical music, as Mr..
Lascelles has for one who thinks of moth
ing but hunting, lawn tents, and polo,
though he rides fairly straight, and is an
average shot himself.
Not little disguised is Lascelles,
therefore, when Dolly, whose sorrowful-
ness and its cause have greatly soothed
his complacency for the last twenty -four
hours, seems to have eyes and ears for no
one but this half witted soldier at dinner.
She is looking charming in dress of
del cious apricot tint, which he has not
seen before Che is great connoisseur of
dress). If he could only catch her eye
he would beam ON her one of those glances
which would hive intoxicated her maiden
soul. But whereas it has been his wont to
meet her tender, pleading Chances every
two minutes heretofore, tonight he might
be Banquo's ghost, and she one of Mac
beths guests, for all she seems to seq
him. His memory serves him up several
sneering and savage quotations on the
theme of solvent femme varie. He is so
little congenial to his neighbor at dinner
that she expresses the most unfayorable
sentiments regarding him in the drawing
room later on, causing Dolly to halt be-
tween the desire to defend him holly and
a sense of pleasure that some one else be-
side herself has suffered from his cold
ness. Mrs. Dalton makes a pretext for
calling Dolly aside.
Excellent my love!" she cries, in high
good humor, pressing the girls arm. He
is enra9ed beyond measure. He scarcely
took his eyes off you. Go ON and pros
per.
Thus stimulated, Dolly does go ON and
prospers exceedingly. When Mr.. Las
celles and Dick approach simultaneously
she devotes her whole attention to the
latter, and has scarcely word for the
former, who presently retires in tragic
dudgeon and leans against the wall, look
ing like Hamlet, Lord Byron, or any othe4
blighted being in the sulks
In reality Dick is the person most to be
pitied, although his face is alight with
smiles, and his heart aglow with anticipa-
tons of possessing lovely woman, and
satisfying the debtors who, metaphoric-
ally speaking, take him by the throat,
CRYING: PAY me what thou owest!" In
nocent creature that he is, he suspects nc
treachery, nor dreams that milk white
bosom palpitates for the internal young
prig" over the way. Dolly will play bill
iards and lawn tennis with him ON the
morrow; in the afternoon they are to ride
together; and as he sits smoking after tho
ladies have retired, he reflects on the
most approved method of asking certain
question.
Up to this moment Clement Lascelles
has not seen any necessity for putting his
fate to the touch, because he has been alb
solutely certain of winning; but now that
for the first time he has rival, a rival
who is progressing by leaps and bounds
in his lady's favor, he sees that something
must be done. He cannot have been be-
fooled. She loves him, orr he, the
adept at reading the secrets of souls,
must for once have been deluded. Perish
the thought!
With gloomy brow and stately step he
retires from the smoking room and seeks
the solitude of his chamber, but not his
couch. The dawn has long broken ere no
courts repose.
Marian" cries Dolly, few hours
later. bursting into her friends room,