The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-09-02
MONTE CARLO ROMANCE.
sAerssved Has Life and He. rhen Quietly
Proposed.


alton he drew his revolver from his
pocket. Ee-was about to shoot himself
when a womans pleading voice said,
Don't
I woman, beautiful creature, ac-
cording to the New York Morning Jour
nal, and a.stranger to him, gently drew
the loaded revolver from his hand, and
left something of greater value in its
place
We are compatriots," she said. sit
is righc that I should save you" Then
she disappeared.
1t was, in the height of the New York
season when Miss Ferris met and was
introduced to Mr.. Fergus Landeck.
Each recognized in the other the
stranger of Monte Carlo. He accom-.
panied her tc the conservatory.
Fortune has evidently favored you
II since, she said.
/ Yes, fortune has indeed favored me.
Miss Ferris, your gift was like the en-
chanted purses in the childron's fairy
tales--bottomless. it enabled me to
reach the Transvaal gold fields I
worked hard there, and saved a little;
by and by, specialized much. Some
times people grow rich there in month
"a week. was one of them. What
ever touched turned to gold whatever
l did was right. Money came to me by
thousands-tens of thousands-hundreds
even. On the day I sailed from Cape
Town, three weeks ago, I was one of
the richest men in South Africa, and if
it had not been for you'll should be lying
in suicides grave"
Something glistened on her lashes.
She dropped her eyes and toye6 with
the feathers of her fan.
II am glad, SO very glad, that you
have succeeded
His gaze fingered on the subtle out
line of her figure, the curve of her full
white throat and cheek, the brown hair
: with the threads of gold which waved
and curved about her beautiful brow
and neck
'And you'-his voice sank lower still
-"have not married."
mo, as you see. But it is very prob.
I able that l shall loose my freedom
soon"
"Does that mean that you are now
! engaged"
ut means that Lord Hythe proposed
to me by letter this morning, and that
have promised to give him an answer
tonight"
"And is it to be yesr
She laughed lsttle.
do you know that 1t is very strange
: question to put on so short an acouaint-
/ ance, and that our conversation is he.
u coming unusual in the extreme? Mr..
y Landeck, you seem to forget that we
e were introduced only half an hour
e agom
J "You were present at the most solemn
e moment of my eoistence. Let see me a
little behind the scenes of your life, he
urged
eve seem fated to have strange con.
l. fdences, you and l." she said, and
n laughed uncertainty. eff you are very
. curious to know, it is yes shall &C.
e cept him.
"You care for him, of course2n
e An unaccountable impulse moved the
l. woman to dash aside the barrier of con.
y ventionality and give expression to
: what she felt. She raised her eyes ia
{ mis-. They met and the anguish in them
touched him to the heart. She SHOOK
:, her head merely, then turned her face
: away.
!, "Then tell me why you are going to
IS marry him"
I Because he is rich, and my fathers
property is mortgaged. I may as vel
I tell you the reaaon; everybody viii
), know"
!. "You intend to sacrifice yourself
e for your family's sake?"
:, Sacrifice! What an ugly way O
= putting it am going to make mar
rage of convenience. Other womer
are doing the same thing every day.
&c There was silence, save for the drip
e ping of the water among the ferns ant
re grasses in the roekery, and a subdueC
to sound of distant music. They were
In alone.
at In the dim, religious light of the
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