The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-08
DAN CUPID.
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Sometimes too hot the eyes of heaven
shines. To-day proves Il. Terrible In the
strength Of the rays that Old Sol is fling
ing broadcast upon The simmerinG earth.
The tennis players have given i'm to ii,
confessinR themselves vanquished, and
have flung their racqucts To the winds
and themselves into garden chairs, or
else prone upon the shaven lawn under
the acacias, according to their sex.
Two of them, however, have wandered
rather far from the acacias and the tea
tables and the tent where better things
than ten can he had for the asking. They
have wandered down to the house-boat OH
the river, shut out from the noisy world by
rows of beech trees. II In "a little dream of
a place, entered by one opening only, and
that through the beeches.
"A sort of Arcadia, isn't it?" says Mr..
Brooke" glancing mp at his companion
from his lounginR position upon the beach
at her feet.
..No,- says she. with n little frown. She
makes q charming picture, standing here
under the awning next the old sun-dial,
with her hat lying on the ground beside
her and the glinting rays from the glow
ing heavens throwing golding lights into
her fine brown hair. Her eyes are blue,
and just at this u little an3ry the
mouth, too, 40 prone to laughter, AS "a rule,
has grown mutinots. Half child, half
woman, she has not yet learned the more
delicate shades OF society's colors and
lets her thoughts lie openly upon her
"You are hard tn please says he. his
eyes ON hers. As IN rule his eyes are sell
aWeii, you are not," returns she
From afar the thrum, thrum, thr,um of a
banjo came To them, breaking the still
mess that is almost oppressive.
.Thns's the %nkinde-s cut Of aiir say:
Miss MorIaild, too. isn't il? 1 presume
you allude tn my engagement tn her."
"Iou prcsume very wrongly then. l
ought to please. She is rich. young.
handsome"
Erich; yes"
Ps,is;S!! Juno' loo perfect Juno per
"You shouldn', sheer at her, says the
s'..ii fs' That. and that's why I do it,,
ton, and 20 do wrong things il always so
pleasant" He is talking idly, scarcely
knowing. what he says, his mind full OF
her-her only, and with an the passion OF
his nature, and that he In engaged to be
married 10 another
A handsome woman, the auQht and
heiress OF q cotton Observation-Disclosures her
own class would call a .'flne girl ~ tall,
s GnsS Ins nnt Ssrs sha s Hsn's Sad hn ME-, at Gso %ls.
Brooke some months Aga at the house OF
u mutual friend, and, being filled with q
8tfOLl8 ueS1re I'd I'll Out OK IGf COytOn sur
ro~undines, had given him very clearly To
understand that she was willing tn accept
him, should he choose to accept her for
tune, which WAS enorInoUs, i'm
for the old title that must come To him ON
the death of his uncle, Lord Farnham. A
beggariy title-no penny OF money COM
ing with IL, as the uncle let the nephew
There had been had blood ctwccn Lord
Brooie's father. and Fa1nHam was not a
man to forget. He swore he would visit
the sin OF tho father upon the son. and
George he would leave il To a hospital. As
IL, let il go to the devil. Young George
should prove u barren honor to him.
George took no steps to assuage his
uncie'. wrath. but he Thought a good deal
ham, with only $500 a year tn back his
title: He had shirked the idea of marry
with her undeniabie charms, flung herself
the question with himself. Many "a fellow,
was a fair exchange. His title for her
money! He was heartwhole. He would
not do her or amy other woman any wrong
II ! hesitated-and finally was lost.
Miss Morland accepted him calmly.
be known Tint she Thought Il a pity that
the present Lord Farnham WINS i'm such
remarkably robust health for 80 old n man
~ enso hhS OaAk tIo lhAe to IN ulliArGta
until the coming autumn IL was then
November. George, glad OF "a respite, did
not press Tor an earlier day, a circuin-
stance the heiress membc He bore
up under his new chains with a marvellous
courage. He was not in love with anyone
no they did not gall him. Then came N
day when both he and Miss Morland were
asked down To stay for n month at the
Shirley's and there he met Dorothy Dene
A little slender Maiden. with big gray
eyes and hair that rippled all over her
white forehead. A rather out-at-elbowt
little maiden, whose hest froGk was a
muslin, and whose only ornaments wers
roses. The S~hirleys-a young couple
adored her, and would have her stay with
them AZ often as ever the old squire, hel
father, would let her come to them. She has
been ake forciblc Possession of by then
from the month that SAW George Brook.
there and his flancee-withr the most dis
astrous results George Brooke fell madl.
i'm love with her. and she loved him.
. IL has gone I'D far with them, indeed
that though no word has been spoken
each knows the others heart, and sitting
here to-day, i'm this dangerously lone n
treat, q sense of passionate protest agains
the fate that is dividing them il thrilling
through every tone.
1--WE ought to 20 back: says Mis-
Dene presently, i'm a rather ang tone
She had been q little perhaps
by the frivolity of his answer.
"Oh! not yet, surely. We have beel
here 80 short n time; and To get ava