Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-03
SHE SET HIM RIGHT.

Geraldine Banner: Bertram Lamar
sat on the arm of chair III the hall of
the hotel at Scarboro and idly swung
his foot.
Mr.. Larmar was bored. An extended
acquaintance with this young man
forces me to confess that he is not of
ten afflicted in that way.
Any one could see that he belonged
to the best people, that he was used TO
the best people, that only the best peo
pie would be bearable to him. But
now he was genuinely bored.
Ladies passed-old ones, who swept
up the dust with trains and who creak-
ed rs they moved, as if they wanted
oiling; young ones in light frocks and
wide lowered hats that cast shadow
over the cleareSt eyes.
He never glanced at them. But they
did at him-swiftly, obliQuely-from
under the hat brim out of the shadow
He looked away with raised chin and
indolently dropped eyelids.
There was one girl-She kept going to
and fro-and as he looked on the ground
he could see the hem OF her dress and
her feet. They wore prtty feet in yell
low shoes, small and pointed. Mr.. La
mar found himself Illuminating.
suppose the head is as pretty as the
feet But it never is There's a law of
compensation which prevents that The
head which belongs to those feet is
30
And he looked up. The head match
ed feet to perfection. Mr.. Larmar felt
that he didn't look bored any longer
Rather, however than sacrifice this
dearly bought and enviable condition of
being, he turned his back on that ell
chanting head, and santered into an
adjoining room. There would be no
one 10 look at there.
The room was empty, cool, and dim.
1t had oak chairs and tables and writing
desks, sea- green walls and Il great Win
dow opening on the balcony.
Outside there were ladies of uninter
esting ages under forest of parasols
Beyond were yelyery sweeps OF close
cropped turf, dappled with short
shadows shrinking to the uee-roots.
Mr.. Lamar felt that he might gaze upon
this prospect for an intinitude of time
and remain bored.
But fate WiIIed otherwise AS he
entered the room he saw something on
the floor near the table. He picked it
UP. 1t was Il band about an inch and
4 half wide, covered with puckered
yellow ribbon, and with one end run
through clasp of dull silver, showing
4 monogram III small diamonds.
There was 4 bunch of narrower vel
low ribbon beside the clasp, each end
finished with little tongueleSS silver
bell. 1t appeared to Lamar from some
hanging hlament Of thread that the two
ends had once been stitched together.
lie looked curiouSly at his find
Lamar first thought that lie would
take 1t TO the office. But curiosity inn
PEELED him to study it. 1t might be
worn around the neck, but no, it was
not long enough.
He drew the several ends together
and held it off from him, eying it dub
iously and rehecCiyely pulling his small
mustache.
Oh, yes, of course. Now he saw.
How dense he'd been? A bracelet.
Holding it together he pushed his hand
through it and it swung ON his wrist.
Il don't think l ever saw Il bracelet
just like that before" he thought moy-
ing it round and looking AT it, with his
head on one side.
And then as he looked at it, came
sudden flash OF Weakening light, aud for
= moment he stood staring at it i'll
stupetied horror as it hung over his
wrist.
With the return of consciousness he
crumDled it up and crushed it into his
pocket. What should he do with q.
Ii he took it to the office the owner
would never dare to claim it. If he
found out who she was he would never
dare to offer it,
Just then he heard Il step outside-a
feminine step. With a guilty start he
retreated from the table, fell into a
chair and seized the morning paper, i'll
which he buried his head. Any one
noting this fact would, of course,
imagine that he slumbered, and feel
themselves safe from eSpial
1T is She thought Bertram. seized
with guilty tremors. "She has come
to hunt for it, and he remained mo-
tionleSS
SO did she. There was not the slight
est vibrating rustic from her silent
figure. Bertram ratified the paper, stab
bed little hole through it with his
finger and peeped at her.
She was standing in the doorway
peeping about the room. and she was
the young lady with the yellow shoes.
She was slowly sweeping the room
with along glance, only her head NOV,
ing, her figure firmly erect, her right
thumb in her belt and her left hand
hanging by her side and lightly clasp