Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-11-29

IAS1c were SOIlc S1iSuI III
the domestic circle at Waring Park be-
fore it was decided what form the
wedding was to take. As might be eX-
pected, Mr. and Mrs. Waring in no
way interfered, but kept themselves
carefully aloof from the whole concern.
But not so Dacre.
On hearing of the engagement, he
swooped down on the paternal abode,
all agog TO have his say in the ar
engagements. He was now a budding
warrior, full Of himself and his pro-
fession, and horribly cocksure on all
subjects in heaveQ and on earth. a
good honest affectionate creature of
| conventions, but with "a coarse
thumb which he welded in promis-
cuous style. and often planted sheer
on the quick.
Dacre wanted a wedding that would
have astonished the neighbors, and
that would more than probably have
| been the death of the two rarified be-
ings who had borne him, but Gwen,
backed by Mr. and Mrs. Fellowes.
arranged things quite her own way
The wedding was to be as quiet as
wedding can be. Neither Strange
nor Gwen We're rich in relations, which
simplitied matters. Lady Mary must
come, of course, and the old Waring
/ uncle, and one or two creatures of an
observant and fossilized type, not
worth mentioning, besides few of
Strange's belongings.
AS for friends, when Gwen began to
cast about in her mind on that sub
| iect, she found that for her, putting
aside Mr.. and Mrs. Fellowes, none ex-
listed. Of the girl friends who usually
| flock in the wake of bride, Gwen
hadn't veStige.
She had gone to her room to straight
en- her thoughts after hot encounter
with Dacre, whose carnal mind still
hankered after a proper full-blown
| wedding, and had been making itself
| Objectionable in bumptious youthful
| style. She had lost her cool scornful
! calm at last, and had given him such
glance from her big eyes as had
! quelled the British lion in him, and
had acc Jmpanied it with II lash of her
able tongue.
"Oh, you are anxious to amuse your
self by importing the world and the
/ flesh down here-here! that they may
sheer at two people who, if they have
| brought children into the world for
pure purposes of investigation, are at
any rate too good to make sport for
your friends You can get your world
| and your flesh elsewhere not here
! at my expense"
81 never saw anyone just going to be
married like you beforev' said Dacre,
With a dash of his old astonished ter
ror at her.
probably not, your experience not
being wide"
Strange is a million times too good
for your
70 his establishment he got no imme-
date retort.
| Gwen stood up, getting rather white,
| and went to the door. She stopped in
the shadow of the threshold, and a
gray shade fell on her face and made
| it whittier, but sunbeam caught her
hair and turned it to the orange gold
that Dacre hated.
Fools speak the truth a great deal
, oftener than they have any notion of, ~
! she said, ''it is a pity that being thick
/ headed themselves they can't know
how it hurts"
! Now she was in her room rejecting
| gloomily on things in general.
| 81 never thought" she said, 81
never thought that by any process of
reasoning l should be ashamed of the
fact of having no girl friends-lsused
rather to pique myself on it, but upon
my word I am ashamed, l am degrad-
ingly. abjectly ashamed of it, lit is one
of the symptoms of my disease
| To Be Continued.