The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-19

"Try it for twenty-four hours and see how it works"
 "But I don't know what I am to do."
 "You must be absolutely guided by me, and not act for one moment on your own responsibility"
 I dare say it will turn out all wrong," says Dolly ungraciously "and that 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 me whether you are happy or miserable! Go your own way"
 Dolly springs up and catches her by the arm.
 "No, no, Marian, don't go; don't be angry; I will do whatever you tell me-"
 "Then hearken and obey. Dick Wyndham is coming tonight. You know he is rather fond of you. Talk to him, and to him only, all the even- ing. Do not glance in MT. Lascelles direction. I will keep my eyes on him and report to you how he takes it. Ii he approaches you in the evening, look bored and dastraite, and reply to him in monosyllables."
 "I shall never be able to do it., groans Dolly.
 "Not with such big stake to win?' Ca little sarcastically.)
 "Ah you don't know what it is to love?" 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 a considerable fund of small talk, is de- voted to sport and has not Mr. Las celles' aesthetic taste or lofty manners of showing superiority. He has a genuine contempt for man who talks art and plays classical music, as MT. Lascelles has for one who thinks of nothing but hunting, lawn-t tennis and polo, though he rides fairly straight and is an average shot himself.
 Not little disgusted is Lascelles, therefore, when Dolly, whose sorrow fitness and it's 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 a dress of delicious 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 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 BdnQuo's ghost and she one of Mdc6eth's guests, for all she seems to see of him. His memory serves him up various sneering and savage quota tions on the theme of sourent femme vdrte. He is so little congenial to his neighbor at dinner that she expresses the most unfavorable sentiments re- garding him in the drawing room later on, causing Dolly to halt between the desire to defend him hotly and a sense of pleasure that some one besides herself has suffered from his coldness. Mrs. Dalton makes a rretext for calling Dolly aside.
 "Excellent, my love!" she cries, in high, good humor, pressing the girls arm. "He is enraged beyond measure. He scarcely took his eyes off you. Go on and prosper"
 Thus stimulated, Dolly goes on and prospers exceedingly. When Mir. Lascelles and Dick approach simulta- neously she devotes her whole atten- tion to the latter, and has scarcely a word for 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 pitied, although his face is alight with smiles and his heart aglow with anticipations of possessing a lovely woman, and satisfying the debtors who, metaphorically speak ing, take him by the throat, crying "Pay me what thou owest." Inno- cent creature that he is, he suspects no treachery, nor dreams that milk white bosom palpltates for the s'infernal young prig" over the way. Dolly will play billiards and lawn tennis with him on the morrow; in the af- ternoon they are to ride together and, as he sits smoking after the la dies have retired, he reflects on the most approved method of asking & certain question.
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