The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-29
Ths ddha Daily EAGLE Saturday oriug sepember a. 1884,

was 10 near. I had confidently Gale,
lated mat # he Were in league wit
Beatrix to confound me he would D.
tray himself by the joy he would ts.
tify at meeting Amy. But nothing G
the sort. He was manifestly discor
certed and annoyed at her coming
Shook hands stifiy, asked low sh
did in the coolest manner and es
pressed such surprise at her coming a
all as covered the poor child wit
bushes and confusion. 1 was in
furious passion at receiving such evi
uence of his ENHANCEMENT with Bea
trix- How could any man in his sobe
senses prefer a woman old enough t.
be his mother to this lovely creature
What could Beatrix see to like in thi
almost heartless jackanapes of Rex
| Why, If she must totment me with hel
Irritation, could she not have chosen
a man of at least her own years?
81 wish you hadn't sent for me, I'm
Gle Nye," began Amy in disconsolate
tone. Rex is angry with me for com
ing. Why is he displeased at my com
ing?"
He is flirting with somebody else,
Amy; that's what's the matter. He's
carrying on an abominable Irritation
with-with well, woman that don't
care snap of her finger for him. She's
somebody's else's wife, too, for aught
he knows" burst out
'Oh, no, uncle; not married woman.
Trn'< he i T.
ried woman" cried poor Amy.
He don't know she is married She
passes for widow"
Then you ought to tell him. All.
why haven't you told him, Uncle Nve?"
How Beatrix would have laughed to
have heard her. I could have bitten
off my tongue for saying it Beatrix q
wife indeed!
hushed Amy up quite sternIy and
sent her away to her chamber to dress
for dinner. took her down myself.
Rex never come near. He was with
b. atrix Warburton.
| admired Amy's spirit She took
matters so coolly, and ate her dinner
with what seemed a really fine appe-
tite. ] was too angry to eat, and with
my usual stupidity let everybody see
that was annoyed and what ANNOYED
me.
That evening the glittering circlet
which Beatrix had worn on her mar
riage finger, and which she had SO
often and ostentatiously flashed in my
eyes, had disappeared, and in its place
WAS a LARGE diamond
Beatrix showed it to me herself. Her
face was hard and cold, her eyes de-
fant.
You can not marry Rex" said In
a low voice.
''Not?" she said without lowering
her eyes. and setting her teeth; You
will see."
He is engaged TO that girl you saw
with me at dinner"
He is not-now," glancing at her
solitaire.
You are not so reckless as Won |
would have me think" said, coldlv,
Reckless of what-you2 What are
you to me?"
"You will marry Rex?"
She nodded, smiling and blushing.
You dare not"
"You know dare"
You shall not"
"Who will hinder me?"
81 l will tell i'm the whole shame
a. story"
Her cheek whitened, whether with
ear or anger l could not tell.
lie will not believe you," she said,
Iuietly.
And, sure enough, he would not. He
egarded me even pityingly and shook
Us head over the story, as though he
QUILTED my sanity.
1t is altogether too improbable,
Incle Nye," he said, sagely; lust look
Z the acts of the case yourself. Here
beautiful and accomplished
'oman, toward whom you have evinced
'om the first most singular hostility.
aylng tried every other means to
my mind against her match
'ssness, you come finally and tell me ,
lat somewhere about two years ago
ou met Mrs Warburton and were .
arrled to her yourself. Don't inter-
apt me. You say, furthermore, that
ou have the best of proof that she did
DIT care straw for you, that she ma
euvered for you solely because of
our money; that your marriage hav- !,
e been strictly private, the clergy
an who officiated having lost his life
e next day by singular fatality, the
rtlhcate not having been recorded, ,
id other circumstances being favora- |
e, you having accused and quarreled |,
it'll your wife, to punish her deserted |,
n, refusing to acknowledge any mar /
al relation as existing between YOU L
ID her. You represent yourself as
wing met her now during these few
eeks for the first time since this Il
ocryphaI marriage, You denounce {,
r at this late hour, and you ask me Ii
believe that you are in your senses.
beg your pardon, uncle, but Won =
lst think me a remarka bly, bright
ung man to swallow such q con-
lndedly ridiculous yarn as that"
That was ali the reason l could Y
que into Rex Dusseldorf He even
lred at the marriage certifcat,
len produced it, with "poohr'-and y
shaw" Anybody could get up such o,
hing as that. be said. /.
must say that I was confoundedl /
What to do next? q
There was but one thing that could -
done. That was to gulp down nv
de the best way I could; seek
atrix and confess what an i'll
npered, laundering. besotted old
had been and ask her to forgive
and wear my marriage ring again. 7,
did Il. i