Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-07

The night was balmy, but the great
heat of the day had passed.
'How delightful is this driving about
in open carriages in the evenings"
exclaimed Geraldine. bounding up the
step, eve never drive after dinner in
Scotland. wonder Why"
1.-THE evenings are seldom warm
enough" replied Bellenden, standing
by the door for granny had not yet
come out. "You have not many even
ings like this at Inchmarew.
'But they are warm enough for boat
ing-or, at least we go, whether it is
warm or not" said she, laughing.
''Not clad like this" and ne glanced
at the soft white cambria donned for
her aunt's party, and considered suita-
BILE to end the day in, the while, in his
minds eye, he beheld the toughest:
warmest, thickest of serge frocks over
which even double-folded plaid had
not been unwelcOme. "Don't you re-
member" he added, and as he spoke
he looked her fully and bodily In the
face, don't you remember how cold it
grew, and how you shivered and trem-
bled that night"
Granny care out ere he had an an
swer.
OiStuuv Wdo HACcIoOu WILL ACA
entertainment. The scene altogether
was as novel to her as to Geraldine, for
there had been nothing of the kird in
her young days, and sh> looked and
wondered, and admired, and trotted
hither and thither, and gave herself
up so entirely to the enjoyment OF the
evening, that she, too, once more be-
came the granny of Inchmarew, not
the stately dame Bellenden had found
in Mount Street.
After descending from the tower. the
three proceeded to wander aboat,
sometimes looking at this object, some
times at that, occasionally listening to
| the musicians, now taking seat, now
walking to and fro-all was pleasant,
| and each one was ple2sed,
"But we must really 20 some time, u
| cried the old lady at last. I'VE have
been beguiled into staying much later
| than intended, and our poor coach
man will have wondered what can pos
siblv have happened to us. | had been
growing little fidgety before you
came back just now''-from which it
may be inferred that the chaperon hao
more than once been left for few
minutes to rest herself, while the
others had just stepped round the cor
| ner to see something absolutely i'm
perative to be seen-''we must lose no
time now," she said at last. ''Geral-
dine, your shawl! It is growing quite
cold. I have put on mine some time
ago Now" and she set off briskly,
and either did or would not notice that
it was Belledden who slowly drew the
shawl round her charge, the while he
bent his head to murmur something
which told her that he was thinking
of another darkened sky and deepen
inc chill, when the self-same service
had been turned into close caress.
He parted from them at their car
riage door, saying he would walk
home.
He wished to be alone. and felt that
Geraldine did also.
"She has won me, and [ think I have
won her." he told himself. ''She is a
noble creature, and [ deserved, richly
deserved. that should be despised for
my conduct towards her. But now we
are reconciled-now may say what l
choose, look what [ choose, make any
illusions [ choose. How quick, how
apprehensive she isl How readily she
guesses my meaning and interprets
every sign! She must know all. She
must understand me. l have been
plain enough. [ have said everything
but the one thing, and that shall not
Inger over now. And to- think that
the little girl l left behind on the
Highland loch was to be my fate after
Was he, or was he not, getting on q
little too fast?