The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-01-12


countess handed them TO her
He means fair play this time. My
4 silence has frightened him, as you thought
/ it would, = she said, with q weary smile.
Dora congratulated her, and kissed and
/ petted her, but Adele was too III with
4 nervous anxiety and feverlsh cold to be
either hopeful or at rest, The next morn
+ ing she was not fit to 60 out; but she
] dressed nevertheless, and would not listen
! to Doras expostulations until she found
herself nearly fainting under the fntigus
and weakness.
ssYou shall lie down. Dora said, au-
thoritatively. 81 will 60 myself
! The countess refused to permit her; but
Dora insisted, and her companion was too
/ dizzy and sick to think fairly.
Itcan do no harm, Dora urged "Any-
body may go to O Photographic gallery.
/ You have the check signed by your law
] yer. I'll exchange it with that fiend for
the letters. | shall know them, and will
be careful they are all there
Adele had been able to recall the times
1 when theepistles were written, and knew
! the exact number OF them; silly. girlish
! journal she kept had luckily not been de-
! stroyed, and she had allowed Dora to read
/ it. So Dora was as well up in the case as
/ herself.
~ ~ %hNNt saS 4OliF9 LAG SVtl<tSSo
was able, but at length she had to lay her
aching head back on her pillow and allow
Dora to have her own way.
/ go to sleep, the girl said. 'I'll be
back in an hour"
She started on her errand brave1y
enough, too angry with the miserable man
and too full of sympathy for Adele to
think of any unpleasant consequences to
herself; though if she had the thought
would not have deferred her. She entered
the gallery. There was nobody visible
that she knew; passed on toward the
! front, and there, lounging in a window
seat, was the chevalier He rose to greet
her with elaborate compliments, never
dreaming her appearance other than ac-
cidental; but she speedily set him right
Monsieur said She in as pretty
! French as he could have uttered himself
II come on behalf of Nine. de SCISSORS
I You have some letters of hers. l have
check for you in return. Let as make an
exchange and be donei'
/ He was fairly taken abaek and tried to
take refuge in smiling menaces and as
! sertions that he must see the countess.
''She will not see you, . replied Dora,
/ quietly. This is your last opportunity
i TO settle the matter. If You want the
money, here it is; If you prefer revenge,
take it. Make the letters public today,
and tomorrow we shall have the pleasure
! of knowing that good friend has shot
4 you through the head. -
These dreadful American girls! De
Riviere was frightened out Of his petty
senses by her coolness and the sweet way
/ In which she explained that If he refused
to fight a duel he must be branded as
coward whose word would meet with no
credence. He futtered--he stammered.
/ At last, hardly knowing what he did, he
/ gave up the letters. Dora counted them,
looked at the date on each, made sure
they were ali there, and handed him the
check.
''If I could explain, BIademoiselle, . he
began, but she cut him short.
Good morning. she said; ''I would
advise you to sail for South America at
once. l doubt if the air here will agree
/ with YOU
She turned away, and was hiding the
i letters in her pocket, when she heard her
! name pronounced; looked up and saw
Clifford Stuyyesant, and very white,
angry man he was.
! ''Allow me to offer you my arm, he
said, aad swept her down stairs before
she could speak. "Did you walk?' he
! asked.
/ She pointed 80 the hired carriage in
which she had comes he assisted her In
/ without word.
Come with ne,n she found voice to
say.
''Shall tell the man to drive You
| homer he questioned.
! She bowed her head; he gave the order
and turned without speaking again; the
carriage drove off TIL she reached the
! house Dora was so confused and frightened
fA of f,,;,. AZ
trouble that had overtaken her. But once
safe in her room she did. She had prom
ised Clifford never TO speak to the mar
had said she had u very slight acquaint-
ance with him--and now her lovers eyes
had seen her part from him; had seen, too,
| that package of letters She could not
defend herself without betraying Adele,
and she felt that the woman would al
most rather the whole world should know
than Clifford.
But she left her own trouble to console
her friend-gaye her the letters-toid the
story, and behaved SO naturally the count
ess did not perceive there was anything
amiss. 1t was a long day to Dora Adele
had fallen asleep; Lily was out; Clifford
did not come. She was frightened and
troubled, but he would believe her. She
could not explain; she would tell him
| frankly that she had done what was right;
he could not doubt her.
In the dark of the evening she was
down in the library Clifford had not APP
peared. Adele was in her room; Lily sent
word that she was going to dine with a
friend, but would be back in time to dress
and take Dora to the ball of that evening;
so Dora ordered dinner away, and took
refuge among the shadows.
Clifford Stuyvesant found her there,
coming in only the more angry after those
hours Of reflection. The bitter experience
/ of his youth had made him sceptical where
women were concerned, and now he found
that he had a second time been deceived
/ even this frank, sunny faced girl proved
untruthful and false.
~ have been waiting for you all day."
! Dora said.
''And what have you to say to me now
that i am here"' he asked.
ooh Cliffordr' she exclaimed, with
| pathetic reproach in her voice that oaly
! irritated him.
81 thought had found one woman who
could keep her word,' he said. quickly;
tone woman who could be truthful; but
| was mistaken.
81 seem to have acted tlnceitfully y she