Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-12-13

nristaking the real nature of the trial
through which he had passed. So real
was it, that it never seemed to occur to
him that there was anything unusual in
his expressing such intense interest in the
affairs OF g young lady with whom he was
outwardly, al any rate, on the terms of
mereSt acquaintance.
''It was very kind of you TO think so
much about me-" said Augusta, gently.
81 had no idea that you would call again,
or would have left word where l was
going"
"Weu, thank God. you are safe and
sound, at any rate" answered Eustace;
and then, with a sudden burst Of anxiety,
"you are not going back to New Zealand
just yet, are you?"
man who is capable of Standing to stare at
house in Hanover Square is, she thought
evidently capable of anything.
81 was so surprised to see you yesterday"
she said tHow did you know that we
were coming?"
Eustace told her that he had seen it in
the Globe. 81 am sure you cannot have
been so surprised as l was,'' he went ON;
81 had made sure that you were drowned.
went up to Birmingham to call on you
had vanished and left no address The
maid servant declared that you had sailed
in ship called the 'Conger EeI'-which 1
afterward found out was the Kangaroo.
And then she went down; and after long
time they published a full list Of the pas
| sengers and your name was not among
them, and I thought that after all you
| might have got off the ship or something
Hay of I'd faJa
graph from Albany, il Australia, giving
the names Of Lady Holmhurst and the
| others who were saved, and especially
mentioning Miss Smithers, the novelist,
and Lord HOlmhurst as being among the
| drowned, and that is how the dreadful
suspense came to an end. 1t was awful, I
! can tell you"
| ST don't knew. am rather sick Of the
sea just now"
mo, indeed, she is not" said Lady
Holmhurst; ''she is going to stop with nee
and Dick. Miss Smithers saved Dicks
life, you know, when the nurse, poor
thing, had run away And now, dear,
you had better cell Mr.. Aeeson about the
will"
''The will! What WIFI" asked Enstace.
S'Listen, and you VIII hear"
And Eustace did listen with open eyes
and ears while Augusta, getting over her
| shyness as best she might, told the whole
story of his uncle's DEATH and of the way
In which he had communicated his tesla
| mentary wishes
And 60 you mean to tell me-" said
Enstace, astouEded, that you allowed
| him to lave his COMPOUNDED will tattooed
| szpon your shoUiders?"
/ "YeS, +" answered Augusta, ST did; and
! what IS more, Nh Meeson, I think that
/ you ought to be very muchtobiged to me-
] for dare sag that shall often be sorry
I for it,
/ Tam 'UeTy much Obliged" answered
i EusCace; 81 had no right9to expect such 6
thing, and, IN short, do not know what
to>say. I>S3lould never Eave thought thai
any woman was capab1esof such sacrifoe
fo7-for a'comparative stranger"
| Then came another awkward pause.
-''Well, Mr.. Meeson," said Augusta, at
lest rising brusquely from her chair, 'ttGhe
document belongs &c. you, and so sup
pose that you had better see it. Not that
/ think tnat it WAL beef much use to you
showeveT, as I see that probate had been
Isallowe3 to issue, whatsoever that may mean
leof Mr.. Nelson's other will"
i 81 dc not know that that VIII MISTER,
said Eustace, las heard friend of mine
/ Mr.. Short, who is a sbarrister, talk about
! some case the Gdher,Efay, in which prob
4 was revoked Gle the aproductiGn of % sub
1 sequeGG WILL
4 ':TndeedI'' answered Augusta, '"I an
1 very glad to hear that Then, perhaps,
| afterGll | have been tattooe0 to Some pur-
pose. Well, Esuppose you had better SEE
/ it, land with e, gestU1-e that was half Shy
and half defiant she Grew the lace shaw
from Iher shoulders, >and turned her baesI
1 toward him SO Idlat!iae might see what 1yGe
inscribed across it's waliteness.
E7Rstace stared atrthe broad lire of Ist
tiers which with the-signaturses written un-
deNseath might mean a nS2tter of two
millions of money tie him, and then Xxx
istaesd at the beSutfful shoulders. eal which
4 thew ords we've indeIibly impressed.
/ 'FEaank y0u,7 .he,Said at isst, .ssEld, ta4sZ
/ ing UP the Lace shawl, he thnsw ite0verslts
again.
+tf you wEll,eN3useme for few,DiuUtes
Mr.. Meesoa." interrupted Lady ,Hola2-
hurst at this point; 81 have TO SO to sec
about the dinner" S,esnd before Augusta
could interfere she ha& left the room.
+! fEksGtace closed 'thetl0 behind her, &Ed
J; turged, feeling ;izstinctively that O great
/ crisis in his S0rtunes had conlsa There are
some men who rise to an emergency and
/ ,eneeis, that difference 0etween him whc
succeeds and him who fails in life, and III
all tl2at makes life worth living.
! E0s5ace belonged to the class that rises
and n0t to that which ,Shrinks