Morris tribune., 1895-10-23
CHAPTER V.

for long time gazing out upon the
blurred and dreary prospect that the ex-
ternal world presented. But perhaps
she never saw it, for her eyes had that
PARKWAY look that denotes the mind to
be engaged in other than it's immediate
surroundings When the trooper had
kissed her hand, she had not attempted
nor indeed did she desire to withdraw
it, She was no prude, and she inter
sensible girl would have interpreted it.
Perhaps, he wever, it might have sent
an extra tinge of color into her cheek.
and shief and gladden. light might
have dawned in her eyes. AS has been
said, they were beautiful eyes at any
time, but there was light in them
now that had not been in them before.
Her spirits gradually rose as a certain
definite plan revealed itself to her She
felt as if she must occupy herself with
something or other, or else her hectic
spirits would break through all restraints
and lead her into some foolishness. She
looked at the books which the trooper
"And / never even said thank you to
him. she said fearfully and with a
dawning sense of recollection. Then
Jeanette came into the room, and away
her quick thoughts flew on a new tack.
sob, Jeanette! By the way" she
said, 81 wonder if the police have got
their own food with them?''
''Sure, sure, honey. They always car
ry everything about with them. An old
police hand can almost cook meal in
the face of blizzard. But even if they
have not, do you think they have al J
call ON you. specially that piglike man
with the little gilt crown on the collar
Of his pretty little red coat? OUT! The
beastp' And old Jeanette vigorously
showed billet of wood into the small
cooking stove, as if it were the inspect
or she were placing there for cremation.
The old lady's very decided animus evil
IDENTIFY am; ed Marie, who continued
But, Jeanette, the others are not
like him; for instance, that nice little
fat man, Pierre, with the black, beady,
twinkling eyes, although perhaps his
waist is no. quite SO slim as one could
wish it to be- And there is that young
policeman-such dear, curly headed
little fellow I declare I've almost u
mind to fall in love with him. or won
der if / could get him to fall in love
with me? And then the sergeant =
Here she stopped abruptly and did not
say anything more about him. But she.
laughed almost gayly as she continued ::
ssThen, Jeanette, let us make some
pancakes-we'v lots Of maple sirup-
and send them into the next room. You
know it might possibly put that dreadful
thing whom you call the 'houkimo' in
to a somewhat better humQr. am sure
that through the stomach is one way Of
reaching that sort of creature anyhow"
And Marie ratified on as if under the in
huence of strong reaction Of spirits.
"By the Blessed Virgin, and what
may be the matter with my honey?'
cried the keen eyed Jeanette, regard
ing Marie wonderingly.
She had never seen the girl IN such
spirits before. She had expected since
the arrival of the police that the girl
would suddenly break down and that
she-Jeannette-wou have to comfort
her and have to advance all sorts of fic-
titious hopes regarding her fathers Ill
innate safety. But here she was labor
ing under all almost hectic flow of spir
its and even proposing to entertain
those who were about to bring disgrace
and misery upon her and hers. Ma fol
1t was strange world. Jeanette, for
all the years she had lived in it, could
hardly understand it.
Jeanette belonged to that lower or
der of beings with whom the luxury Of
nerves and their vagaries is supposed to
be an unknown quantity. She remem-
bered how, in Old Fort Garry, in the
gay old days before the Wolseley expe
dition, when two or three of the head
officials in the Hudson Bay company IS
service had brought up their wives with
them, she had taken service with one of
them. These gay creatures Of 10 beau
monde came from Montres5 Oh Quebec |
and had in their time even VISITED those
almost mythical oversee cities, London
and Paris. Therefore their sranners and
little ways, to the sturdy and simple
children Of the great northwest, passed
all understanding. She could remember
how occasionally-as if to vary the
monotony of their hves-whenever they
happened to have differences of opinion
with their lords and masters or after
laboring under any unusual mental ex-
element, they inevitably resorted to one
potent and unanswerable argument
Mysteries Could Marie unwonted CON
duct be another form Of this reconcile
disease? Jeanette knew that this girls
mother belonged to that superior order
Of beings with whom the possession Of
delicately strung nerves is hereditary
attribute. This she knew just as truly
as that the girls capacity for suiting
herself naturally to such company as
chance threw in her way and still show
ing that she was superior to it was an
other.
Jeanette, therefore, in order to
counterfeit any further development of
the symptoms already referred to, has
tened to humor her young mistress, and
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