Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-29
CHAPTER XXI.

There were some slight eruptionS In
the domestic circle at Waring Park be
fore il was decided what form the
Wedding was to take. As might be ex,
pectcd, Mr.. and Mrs. Waring in lie
way interfered but kept themselves
carefully aloof from the whole concern
But not so Dacre.
|. On hearing Of tho engagement, he
, swooped down on the paternal abode,
all agog TO have his say in the ar
rangements. He was now budding
warrior full of himself and his pro.
fession, and horribly cocksure on all
subjects in heaven and on earth, .
good honest affectionate creature OF
conventions. but with "a coarse
, thumb which he welded i'll Il promis
cuous style, and often planted sheer
on the quick.
Dacre wanted wedding that would
have astonishcd the neighbors, and
that would more than probably have
been the death OF the TWO rarliied 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
ii wedding can be. Neither Strange
nor Gwen were rich in relations, which
simplified matters. Lady Mary must
come, of course, and the old Warning
uncle, and one or two creatures of an
observant and fossilized type, not
worth mentioning, besides a few OF
Strange's belongings.
AS for friends, when Gwen began 10
cast about in her mind on that sub.
ject, 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 a bride, Gwen
hadl't vestige.
she had gone to her room to straight
en- her thoughts after a 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 ut last, and had given him such
a glance from her big eyes as had
que!.ed the British lion in him, and
had accompanied 1t with u lash Of her
able tongue.
ooh, you are anxious to amuse your
self by importing the world and the
flesh down here--here! that they may
sneer 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 beforep' said Dacre,
with dash OF his old astoDished ter
ror at her.
probably not, your experience not
being wide"
strange is million times too good
for your
70 his astonishment he got no imme-
diate retort.
TWEEN stood up, getting rather white,
and went to the door She stopped In
the SHnuOW Oh tift luFeSHoihf hhu I"
gray shade fell on her face and made
it whittier, but sunbeam caught her
hair and turned 1t to the orange-gold
that Dacre hated
"Fools speak the truth a great deal
oftener than they have any notion Of,
she said, at Is a pity that being thick.
headed themselves they can't know
how 1t hurts"
Now she was In her room rejecting
gloomily on things In general.
II never thought" she said, u
never thought that by any process Of
reasoning I should be ashamed Of ths
fact Of having no girl friends-lsused
rather to pique myself on It, but upon
my word am ashamed, ! am degrad
ingIy, abjectly ashamed OF it,1l is one
OF the symptoms Of my disease
To Be Continued.
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