The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-06
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or the bench beside her.
II see. And you have already made
the fashion department. your own?"
Entirely, and I've at last decided
on the style of the new gown that
father brought me from Paris, and
that / never would have made up.
Awfully nice, isn't it?"
reading so interestedly?
"The opening chapters-you won't.
laugh ut me, I'm sure-the opening
chapters of o new serial novel by NAL
com Graeme, whoever he may be-"
@And you like it?"
Better than Rob Roy, with dasling
Di Vernon, my favorite heroine"
3Tell me something about it, please"
@Gladys Rowland, the heroine, is a
beautiful young lady with hosts of adj
mirers. She likes them all, but has
no idea of tying herself to. any one of
them"
"What did you say her name WASP"
sGladys Rowland. Why?"
II thought it might have been Viola
Vane."
"You have the hardihood to fiatter
me, have you?"
Nothing could have been further
from my thoughts. I had the unfor-
tunate admirers in mind"
"Then you call me q coquette? 2"
The eyes of the little maiden were
swapping with a suggestion of anger
now.
"By no means. The fair GLADYS is
that, I trust?"
aN-n.o. She's exactly my ideal of a
girl"
"And has she no preference"
"Yts. She likes the artist the best
of all, but will never marry him."
sAnd why not?"
Because he is so persistent"
"Then you-I mean she-lon't ad-
Mire constancy?"
Eyes, we do, both of us, until it be-
comes obstinacy."
Gean Arnott WINGED q little at this
reply, which was emphasized a lit
tie by a toss of the fair head of the
speaker.
Gean was a young lawyer with a
small practice, but q fine education,
sterling common sense, and a determi-
nation to rise in his profession.
He had loved Viola Vane as long rs
he had known her, plus the twenty
minutes lie had been obliged to wait
for an introduction. This had been
over a year now, and all that time he
had been a most ardent .suitor for her
hand.
More than once she had refused him,
but always in a way that left him
!: some. ground to hope for ultimate sue
cess.
In this he was encouraged by the
knowledge that, though he had twenty
rivals, Of least, no one of them was
more favored than himself.
@Then You think she will not wed
the artist?" queried he, after a mo-
mentary silence.
"I'm sure of it. She has too much
character to marry any one."
aBut this is n novel, and the princi-
pal attraction Of that department Of
fiction is the mystery surrounding the
den0uement."
.True; but the author, who, not.
withstanding the masculine nom de
plume, mrstEbe q lady, writes so ar.
~tistically, so absolutely true to nature.
that the ending you suggest is simply
impossible She might cause her hero
inc to enters convent, commit suicide,
or EVEN go on the stage, but. as fol
marrying"
.-.Voigtde Viola Vane broke off sud
denly. and completed the sentence
With q light. laugh and an incredulous
shake Of the head calculated to settle
kle point, and ring down the curtain
Rpon the entire subject.
Will You do mo q great favor9'
asked Gean.
.Glsdly, provided It is NOT too gres'
zone.