Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-06-15

direction. 1 VIII 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 reply to
him By mOnOsyllables."
81 shall never be able to do it."
groans Dolly.
Not with such a big stake to Win2''
Ia little sarcastically)-
"Ah! you don't know what il Is to
IoVel" cries Dolly.
''NOt as YOU do, certainly" retOrts
Marian, with an infection Of voice
which Dolly Is not acute enough to
catch.
Dick Wyndham arrives In time for
dinner. He Is rather fond of Dolly;
he is exceedingly hard up, and wants
her money even more than her sweet
self He is bright and amusing. has
considerable fund OF small talk, is de-
voted to sport, and has not Mr.. Las
celles' aesthetic taste of lofty manner
OF showing superiority. BE has a
genuine contempt for g. man who
talks art and plays classical music,
as Mr.. Lascelles has for one who
thinks Of nothing but hunting lawn
tennis and polo. though he rides fairly
straight, and is an average shot him
self.
Not a little disausted is Lascelles.
therefore. when Dolly, whose sorrow.
fulness 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-Wit-
ted soldier at dinner. She is looking
charming in q dress of delicious april
cot tint, which he has not seen before
The is q great cOnnOlsseur OF dressl-
II he could only catch her eye he
would beam on her one Of those
chances which would have intoxicated
her maiden soul. But whereas it has
been his wont to meet her tender,
pleading glances every two minutes
heretofore, tonight he might be Ban
quO's ghost. and she one OF Macbeth's
guests, for all she seems to see him.
His memory serves him up various
sneerlng 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
unfaVOrahle sentiments regarding him
in the drawing room later on, causing
Dolly to halt between the desire to de-
fend him hO6ly. and a sense OF pleas
ure that some one else beside herself
had suffered from his colduess. Mrs.
Dalton makes a pretext for calling
Dolly aside.
Excellent, my loveP' she cries, in
high good humOr, pressing the girls
arm. ''He is enraged beyond measure.
He scarcely took his eyes of you. Go
on and prosper
Thus stimulated. Dolly does 60 on,
and prOspers exceedingly. When Mr..
Lascelles and Dick approach stimuli
taneOusly she devOtes her whole at
tentiOn to the latter, and has scarcely
a word Tor the former. who presently
retires in tragic dudgeon, and leans
against the wall, looking like Hamlet,
Lord Byron, or any other blighted
being in the sulks-
In reality, Dick Is the person most
to be Ditied, although his face is
alight with smiles, and his heart
/ aglOw with anticipations of possess
ing q lovely woman. and satisfying
the debtors who. metaphOrically
speaking takes him by the throat,
crying: pay me what thou OWest!"
Innocent creature that he is. he sus-
poets no treachery, nor dreams that
milk-white bosom palpitates for the
internal young rig over the way.
Dolly will play billiards and lawn
tennis with him on the morrow; IN
the afternoon they are to ride tOgeth-
er; and as he sits smoking after the
ladies have retired. he reflects on the
most approved method Of asking a
certain question.
Up To TINS moment Clement Lasceu-
es has not seen any necessity for put
ting his fate to the touch, because he
had been absolutely certain of win
ming; but now that for the first time
ne had a rival q rival who is progress
ing by leaps and bounds IN his lady,s
favor, he sees that something must be
done. He cannot have been befOOled-
She loves him, Or-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 he courts repOse.
Marian" cries Dolly. a few hours
later, bursting into her friends room
whilst that lady. no early riser at the
best Of times, still nesties among her
pillows, ''read this!' and she seats
herself on the bed in a state Of great
excitement, whilst Mrs. Dalton Ian
guidly peruses the letter thrust into
her hands.
81 call i6 a great impertinence," she
remarks. returning it TO Dolly.
''Impertinrnce!" with wide-Open
Certainly" And Mrs. Dalton,
taking II back, quotes from it:
'' Though l cannot pretend to offer
you the one great passion of a life
sad passages beyond the ken of other
mOrtals have furnished the pure lus-
ire which once surrounded my soul
as with a halO-yet, IT you will take a
heart weary with the doubts with
which an intimate knowledge OF hue
manity clouds the spirit, take me to
your tender 5re asst. and let me find