Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-12-12
The Sergeant, unconscious that they

The Sergeant, unconscious that they
had an'on-looker, went on:
II am glad that managed to arrive
in time. Suppose had come just as the
marriage was over, what a dreadful
blow it would have been!'
Still the girl did not answer. SIZE
wanted him to say straight out what he
expected of her; then she could better
realize the extent of her misfortune.
'sYet / am not fit to come in here, all
like an angel, Jenny timidly touching
a fold of her white gown-''will you wear
such pretty things for me?"
Give me time to think" she pleaded.
"In any case there will be no wedding
to-day, and you can come again
And with this promise he was salts
fed, and left her.
1t seemed hours to her; but in reality
only twenty minutes elapsed from the
time that she saw her father ride away
to the time he came back with Colonel
Prinsep. Then she heard the latter tell
her father not to follow, and second
later he strobe in alone to where she was
waiting for him. She went toward him
with little cry of relief, and laid her
head upon his breast For awhile she
rested there, content to be folded in his
arms and comforted by his very prox-
unity, though the next moment she
should be constrained to leave his side
forever. AT last she poured out all her
story-how her mother had deceived
them both in making them believe that
Jacob Lynn had given her up-how he
had come back an hour before and claim
ed her still.
When she ended her recital, Stephen
Prinsep made no comment; and looking
up anXiously to discover what he thought.
Jane saw in his face an all-pervading
sadness that was Indicative of neither
horror nor surprise. Could it be possible
that this was no new story to him? A
terrible suspicion crossed her mind that
ne must have been cognizant of the plot
to deceive her from the first.
You knew it before, Stephen-before
to-day?" she cried, in a tone of conyic-
ton.
And he did not attempt a self-defense.
His only mode of justification was by
shielding himself behind her mother, and
that was a meanness to which he could
not descend Rather than that she must
believe the very worst.
he asked her earnestly, and the sudden
flash that crimsoned the fair young face
was sufficient answer to the question.
For better, for worse, she had given him
her heart, and had no power to repos-
sess herself of the willing gift. 'Then
won't you try to forgive me?" he went
on, in the same low, impressive tones,
advancing little nearer to her side and
bending his head so that he might hear
her faintest whispered word
She gave a frightened upward glance.
He was very white, but his expression
was impenetrable, his manner quite COM
posed. She had not thought that he
could look like that, and grew alarmed
at the serious look which her words had
brought into his eyes. She threw out
her HANDS with an imploring gesture,
which he either did not see, or would not
heed. He had drawn out from his waist
coat-pocket a plain gold ring, and laid
it on the table before her.
He did not wish to figure as bride
groom without a bride, subject for
divided sneers and pity. His sole idea
now was to get away as far as possible
from the scene of his discontinue.
But, in spite Of wrath and disappoint-
ment, his expression involuntarily grew
softer as he went toward her, and took
her small, cold fingers in his own.
"Do not let us part in anger, Jenny.
Say good-by."
James wedding day ended in rain-and
tears.
Go be continued)