Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-21

This man is getting bore thought
Lady Loveday; Il must really evade him
somehow, and with another turn of the
rock she managed to slip away from him.
Candle in hand she managed to follow
group of people in front of her. Presently
one Of the party-the young man whose
back she had seen on the platform-stop
ped, AMI with an action which she re-
cogrized at once, struck match and light
ed a cigarette.
why, it is Dick" she murmered; and
just then he turned and saw her. II
thought you we're in Afghanistan, F." she
w Mt along nurriedly, as he stood gazing
at her.
80 have been, for the last two years
That frontier business took longer than |
thought. And you?"
Lady Loveday blushed and looked down.
Here was an adventure after her own
heart. She was a curious mixture of prac-
teal worldliness and theoretical senti-
mentality She had liked him, handsome,
penniless Captain Branwell, more than
any man she had ever known, and he
well, she was quite aware that ne worship
ped the very ground she trod on. But all
that was three years ago, and in three
4 saw you the other night" he con-
tinued presently; you came in an awful
ly fetching cloak, with a white fluffy
thing around your neck. I've been try
ing to find you ever since, but nobody that
l asked could tell me anything about
Miss Gardner
Lady Loveday smiled. He did not
know of her marriage then? The caprice
took herno to tell him just yet-she want
ed woman-like to see if he had remained
faithful all these years.
'Oh, am such an insignificant person
in the midst of all these big-wigs."
Dick smiled back at her-he had
charming smile-and they wandered along
together, each with tallow dip flicker
ing and suffering and fully lighting up
their young faces She had rot altered
one bit, he said, and she declared he was
as brown as Hindoo and would have to be
scraped white lime fieswhen old friends
meet and nearly an hour had gone before
Dick had told her that he had come down
to the association to read a paper in the
geographical section. Would she CT me
and hear it? Of course, of course she
would. Poor old Dick! He was just as
hard hit, she firmly believed, as ever.
When they at length went back to the
bottom of the shaft there was not a soul to
be seen. The awful truth began to dawn
upon them that they had been left behind
How easily that might be with the five OF
six hundred people who had come with the
excursion they both saw at a glance.
What was to be done? Nothing-abso-
Iutely nothing. Lady Loveday turned a
greenish white as she leaned against a
rock
"Sir James" she moaned-"Sir James
would never let me die like a dog in
hole
'.sir James?'' said Dick, surprised.
You mean the president? Is he a great
friend Of yours?"
HE is-O, my poor Dick!-he is-my
husband!" she faItered, not daring to look
at him now. Captain Bramwell gave a
little whistle and turned away. What a
farce, and how like Lena the whole thing
was! Lady Loveday did not see him
smile.
"Forgive mel" she murmured, stepping
nearer to him and laying a caressing hand
on his arm. She was very fond Of the
drama, and that was always what they
said in plays, when the old lover came
back from India and found the heroine
faithIess.
my poor child, he answered, gravely,
''I'II forgive Won anything-as long as we
ever get out Of this Internal pit.
Lena could hardly conceal her disap-
pointment. Was it possible actually
possible-that he did not care, that he did
not remember? It couldn't be, he had
loved her too we'll! He must be pretend
ing. just to look as if he were Indifferent
They waited long time, and it was 4
O'Clock before the whirr of the bucket
was heard coming to their ~eief An ex-
PLANTATION of Captain Bramwel's equa-
nimity with regard to her marriage was
afforded Lady Loveday on their arrival at
the top of the shaft. Hurryirg toward
the pits mouth was seen Sir James, ac-
companied by a pretty girl in blue, whose
naive delight at seeing Captsi in Bramwell
was obvious to all the bystanGers.
And wNo-who is the exumberant
young woman in blue?'' queried Lena
with not quite a pretty smile.
That, dear Lady Loveday," said
Dick, quietly, as he handed his COM
panion out on to terra frma, "that--is my
wife,