The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-03
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over by both parties If they desire the rest
OF their lives to go with the current. In
the case of the Cusack-Bremmils this re-
action did not set in till the third year
after The wedding. Bremmil was hard to
hold at tho best of times; but he was a
beautiful husband until the baby died, and
Mrs. Bremmil wore black and grew thin,
and mourned as IL the bottom of the uni
verse had fallen out. Perhaps Bremmil
ought TO have comforted her. He tried to
do SO, l think; but the more he comforted
the more Mrs. Bremmil grieved, and con-
sequently the more uncomfortable
Bremmil grew. The fact was they both
needed a tonic. And they got il. Mrs.
Bremmil can afford To laugh now, but il
was no laughing matter To her at the time.
You see, Mrs. Hauksbee appeared on
the horizon; and where she existed was
fair chance of trouble. At Simla her bye
name was the "Stormy Petrol" She had
won the title five times at my own certain
knowledge. She was a little, brown, thin,
almost skinny, Woman with big, rolling,
violet-blue eyes and the sweetest manner
in the world. You had only to mention
her name at afternoon teas for every
woman TO rise up and call her-weIl-not
blessed. She was clever, witty, brilliant
and sparkling beyond most of her kind;
but possessed of many devils of malice
and mi~schievousness. She could be nice,
though even to her own sex. But that is
another story.
Bremmil went off at score after the ba-
by's death and the general discomfort that
followed, and Mrs. Hauksbec annexed him.
She took no pleasure in hiding her zap
tiyes. She annexed him publicly and saw
that the public saw il. He rode with her,
and walked with her, and talked with her
and ~picnicked with her.and tifiined at Pc
lita's with hertz people put up their eye
brows and SAID .'shocking!' Mrs. Brem-
mil stayed at home turning over the dead
baby's frocks and crying into the empty
cradle. She did not care to do anything
else. But some eight dear, affectionate
lady friends explained the situation at
length to her in case she should miss the
cream of il. Mrs. Bremmill listened
quietly, and thanked them for their good
Offices. She was not as clever as Mrs.
Hauksbee. but she was no fool. She kept
her own counsel, and did not speak TO
Bremmil of what she had heard. This is
worth remembering. Speaking To, or
p crying over, a husband never did any
good yet.
When Bremmil was at home, which was
not often, he was more atfectionate than
usual, and that showed his hand. The af-
lection was forced, partly to soothe his
own conscience and partly TO soothe Mrs.
Bremmil. Ii failed in both regards.
Then ''the Ado. in waiting vas COM
manded by their excellencies Lord and
Lady Lytton to invite Mr.. and Mrs. Gu
sack-Breumhil to Peterhoif on July 26. at
$3.50 y. m" "Dancing' in the bottom left
hand corner.
~ can't CO." said Mrs. Bremmil; ait is
too soon after poor Florrie . . . but il
need not stop you, Tom
She meant what she said then, and Brem-
mil said hat he would go just Ia put in an
appearance. Here he spoke the thing
which was not, and Mrs. Bremmil knew
il. h g~uesscd-a woman guess is
much more accurate than n mans GER
tainty-that he had meant To go from the
first, and with Mrs. Hauksbee. She sat
down To think, and the outcome of her
thoughts was that the memory of a dead
child was worth considerably less than the
affections of a living husband. She made
her plan and staked her all upon il. In
that hour she discovered that she knew
Tom Bremmil thoroughly, and this know
ledge she acted on.
.Tom," said she, al shall be dining out
at the L~ongInores' on the evening of the
18th. You'd better dine at the club
This saved Bremmil from an excuse to
get away and dine with Mrs. Hauksbce,s so
he was grateful, and felt small u mean
at the same time-which wal wholesome.
Bremmil left the house at 5 for a ride.
About 8 40 in the evening a large leather
~ ~ -"
Mrs. Bremmil. She was a woman who
knew how to dress, M she had not
spent a week on designing that dress and
having il gored and hemmed and her
ring-boned and tucked and rucked Tor
whatever the terms areJ for nothing. IL
was a gorgeous dress-slight mourning. i
CAM describe IL, but il Is the Queen
calls a ''creation"-a thing that hit you
straight between the eyes and made you
gasp. She had not much heart for what
ahn u.aa svntpV a. sa hint M sha IL fnanl Mt
thel long mirror she had the satisfaction
of knowing hat she had never looked SO
well in her life. She was a large blonde,
and when she choose carried herself SUI
perbly.
After the dinner at the Longmores, she
went to the dance-a little late. and en-
countered Bremmil with Mrs. Hauksbee
on his arm. n made her flush, and as
the men crowded around her for dances
b looked magnificent. She filled up all
her dances except three. n those she
left blank. Mrs. Hauksbee caught her
eye once; and b knew il was war-real
war-between them. She started handi-
capped i'm the struggle, for she had or
dered Bremmil abou just the least little
bit in the world too much; and he was he.
ginning TO resent il. Moreover. he had
never seen his wife look so lovely. He
stared at her from doorways, and glanced
at her from passages as she went about
with her partners: and the more he stared
the more taken was he. He could scarcely
believe that this was the woman with the
red eyes and the black stuff gown who
used TO weep over the eggs AT breakfast.
Mrs. Hauksbee did her best to hold hin
i'm play, but after two dances. he crossed
over 10 his wife and asked for a dance.
I'm afraid you've come too late,
Mister Br, mmil." she said, with her eyes
~twinkling.
Then he begged her to give him a
dance, and, as a great favor. she allowed
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