Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-08


 suppose, meet again before start If not. please remember that my friends cen always find me oa Sunday afternoon. Yours very truly.
 ISABEL Bc.-ruEEToN.
 Kerdsl's hand closed tightly oyer the nota. Then he put it carefully back into its enve- lope, and walked away with his hands behind him and the note i'll them, to stare out of window nt the red roofs opposite
 "That is like her," he murmured to himself; "I wound and hurt her; she guesses shall suffer for it, and, by way of setting up the friendly bond again, next day, without a word, she asks me to do her a kindness. could any ychins be moro delicate, more era- cious!"
 Kendall never had greater difficulty ill fix ing his thoughts to his work than that ss:oru ing, and at last, in despair, he pushed his book aside, and wrcto an answer to Miss Breth- erton, and, when that was accomplished, a long letter to his sister. The first took him longer than it's brevity seemed to justify. It contained uo reference to anything, b'It her request He felt q compulsion upon him to treat the situation exactly as she had done, but, given this limitation, how mach cordi- ality and respect could two sides of letter paper be made to carry with due regard to decorum and grammar
 When he next met Wallace, that horcful, bright tempered person had entirely recov- cred his ckeerfulness. Miss Bretherton, he reported, had attacked the subject of Elvira with him, but so lightly that he had 10 op- portunity for saying any of tho s,lllful things he had prepared
 "She evidently did not want tho question seriously orenei,n he said, ''So 1 followed your advice a@d let it alone and since then she has been charming both to Agnes and me. feel myself as much of b,'uto es ever. but I see that the only thing can do is to hold my tongue about it." To which Kendall heartily agreed.
 A few days afterwards the newspapers gave n prominent place to reports of Miss Brethertons farewell performance. It had been eseat social event. Half the distin- g4ished people in London were present, led by royalty. London, iu fact, could hardly bear to part with its favorite, and compl- menrs. flowers and farewells showered upon her Kendall, who had not meant to go at the time when tickets were to be had, tried about the middle of the week after the Ox- ford Sunday to get a seat but found it ut terly impossible He might have managed 1t by applying to her through Edward Wal lace. but that he was unwilling to do for various reasons. He told himself that, after all, it was better to let her little note and his answer close his relations with her for the
 
 she might still regard him as Ter friend; but there they could not but be antagonistic in some degree one to another, and not even in tellectually did Kendall wish just now to meet her on a footing of antasonism.
 So when Saturday night came he passed the hours of Miss Bretherton's triumph at a ministerial evening party, whero it seemed to him that the air was full of her name, and that half tho guests were there as pis-aller, because the Calliope could no. receive them And yet he thought he noticed ill tho com- mon talk about her that criticism of her as an actress was good deal more general than 1t had been at the beginning of the season. The little knot of persons with an opinion and reasons for it had gradually influenced the larger public Nevertheless there was no abatement whatever of the popular desire to zee her, whether on the stage or in society. The engouement for her personally, for her beauty, and her fresh, pure womauEness, showed 10 signs of yielding, and would hold | out, Kendall thought, for some time, against a much stronger current of depreciation on the intellectual side than had as yet set in. He laid down the Monday paper with a smile of self scorn and muttered: 1T should | Ike to know how much she remembers by the time of the prig who lectured to her in 1 Nupeham woods a week ago!" In the even-
  Brethertou had crossed the channel that morning, en route for Paris and Venice He fell to calculating the weeks which must | elapse before his sister would be in Venice, l and before he could hear of any meeting be- | tween Tor and the Brethertou party, and 1 wound up his calculations by deciding that London was already hot and would soon be | empty, and that, as soon as he could gather | together certain books he was in want of, he would carry them and his proofs down into | Surrey, refuse all invitations to country houses, and devote himself to his work.
 Before he left he paid farewell call to Mrs. Stuart, who gave him full and enthusi- astic accounts of Isabel Bretherton's last night, and informed him that her brother talked of following the Brethertons to Venice some timo in August.
 Albert" she said, speaking of her bus band, declares that be cannot get away for moro than three weeks, and that he must have some walking; so that what we propose at present is to pick up Edward at Venice at the end of August and move up altogether into the mountains afterward. Oh, Mr. Ken dal," she went on, 0 little nervously, as if not quite knowing whether to attack the subject or not, lit was devoted of you to throw yourself into the breach for Edward as you did at Oxford. 1 am afraid it must have l 0ScA >SA] oAo~6A CSaOA0s Ook-A Io OU Auu VO her. When Edward told me of it next morn 1 ing 1t made me cold to think of 1t. I made up my mind that our friendship-yours and ours-with her was over. But do you know she came to call on me that very afternoon how she made time don't know, but she did. Naturally, was very uncomfortable, but she began to talk of it in the calmest way while we were having tea 'Mr. Kendall was prob ably quite right she said, in thinking the part unsuited to me. Anyhow, asked him for his opinion, and should be poor crea- ture to mind his giving It. And then she laughed and said that must ask Edward to keep his eyes open for anything that would | do better for her in the autumn. And since then she has behaved as if she had forgotten all about it. I never knew any one with less snallness about her."
 "No; she is fine creature" said Kendall, almost mechanically. How little Mrs. Stuart knew-or, rather, how entirely remote she was from feeling-what had happenedl Ii seemed to him that the emotion of that scene was still thrilling through all his pulses, yet to what ordinary little proportions had it been reduced in Mrs. Stuarts mind! He alone had seen the veil lifted, had come close to the energetic reality of the girls nature. That | Isabella Bretherton could feel so could look