Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-10-10

think 4 am your late
And / laughed aloud. She trembled
a little. but o laughed also.
II know / am very absurd" she said,
perhaps / am a little nervous and I'M
strung; l have Lad too much excite
meut lately. Tell me more about the
jewels. When win you take me 10
see themT'
Tomorrow night" I answered.
while the ball Is going on. you and I
will slip away together-we shall re-
turn before any Of our friends can
! miss us. You viii come with me-"
"of course I WILL" she replied read,
I ily. 'only We must not be long alb
sent, because my maid will have to
pack my wedding dress, and then
/ there will be the jewels also to put
In my strong box. Let me see! We
stay the night at the hotel, and leave
for Rome and Paris the first thing in
the morning. do we not?"
THAT Is the arrangement, certainly"
l said with a cold smile.
The little place where you have
hidden your jewels, you droll Cesare,
is quite near them she asked.
"Quite near" / assented, watching
] her closely. =
She laughed and clapped her hands.
"Oh, / must have them" she ex-
claimed. at would be ridiculous to -
10 Paris without them. But why will
you no get them yourself, Cesare,
and bring them here to me-"
'They are SO many" ! returned
| quietly. .and / do not know which
you would prefer. Some are more val
liable than others. And ii will give
me a special satisfaction-one that l
have long waited for-to see you max
ing your w choice"
She smiled half shyly, half Gun
ningly.
Perhaps l will make no choice"
she whispered: perhaps l will take
them all, Cesare. What will you say
them"
THAT you are perfectly welcome to
them" l replied.
She looked slightly surprised.
You are really too good to me, caro-
mio,' she said; you spoil me-"
Can you be spoilt?" / asked half
jestingIy. Good women are like bril-
| liantS-the more richly they are set
the more they shine"
She stroked my hand caressingly.
w bLe ever lidht SbNn pretty
| speeches 10 me as you do" she muir
INJURED.
Not even Guido Ferrori?" / suggest
| ed ironically.
She drew herself up with an inimit-
ably well acted gesture Of lofty dis
dain.
Guido Ferrari.' she exclaimed. He
dared not address me save with the
greatest respect, / was as a queen TO
| him. 1t was only lately that he began
10 presume on the trust left him by
my husband, and then he became too
familiar. a mistake on his part, for
which you punished him-as he de-
served"
/ ross from my seat beside her. /
| could not answer for my w compo-
sure while sitting so close TO the
actual murderess Of my friend and her
lover. Had she forgotten her own
familiar treatment or the dead man:
the thousand nameleSs wiles and
witcheries n tricks of her trade, by
which she had beguiled his sou and
ruined his honor.
II am glad you are satisfied with
my action in that affair" l said coldly
and steadily. II myself regret the
death OF the unfortunate young man
and shall continue u do 50. My ma
turp, unhappily, is an over-sensitiye
one. and is apt to be affected by
tritles. But now, mia bella, farewell
until to-morTow-happy tomorrow
when l shall call you mine indeed
A warm flush tinted her cheeks: she
came to me where | stood and leaned
against me.
Shall / not sec you again till we
meet in the church, she inquired.
with a becoming b~ashfulness.
mo. l will leave you the last day
of your brief widowhood alone. II Is
not well that 1 should obtrude myself
upon your thoughts or prayers. Stayl"
and 1 caught her hand that toyed with
the flower in my 5uttonhole. Il see
you still wear your former wedding
ring. May / take ii OFF,"
Certainly" And she smiled while
I deftly drew off the plain gold cir
clet l had placed there nearly four
years since.
"Wnl you let me keep it?"
IF you like. l would rather not see
II again"
You shall not" I answered. as |
SAAtBNu A. INV ny Hothtis ~ VIII bt
replaced by a new one to morrow-onp
that ! hope may be the symbyl Of
more JOY TO you than this has been"
And as her Eyes turned to my face
in all their melting, %perfidious Ian
guor, / conquered my hatred of her by
a strong effort, and stopped and kissed
her. Had / yielded TO my real i'm
pulses / would have crushed her
cruelty in my arms, and bruised her
delicate flesh with brutal ferocity of
caresses born of bitterest loathing. not
love. But no sign OF my aversion es-
capped me. ali she saw was her ell
DERBY locking adGirer, with his calmly
courteous demeanor. chill smile and
almost parental tenderness; and she
judged him merely as an influential
gentleman OF good position and unlim-
tied income, who was about To make
her one of the most envied woman in
all Italy.
The fugitive resemblance she traced
In me to her dead" husband was GER
tainly attributed by her to be n purely
accidental likeness common to many
persons in the world, where every
man, they say, has his double, and Tor
that matter every woman also. Who
does not remember the touching sur
prise of Heinrich Ifelpe, when on Wis