Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-06-01

she had lonSed Win Intense luhSAh@
for the ball room from which she had
been so thankful to escape. For the last
hour she had repeatedly put up her
hand to draw aside the curtain and re-
veal herself, but each time had hest
tated and been lost. All because or
single remark which had reached her
ears a moment after she hurried away
from the clash and light and scurrted !
in here, as voices family reached her,
In order that she might escape more at
tention and inane tiattery.
She had wanted not to think but TO
remember; not to reproach herself or
another but to so over in a.dream the
old days which she thought dead, but
which at the sight of well remem-
bered face had sent ghost from their
grave to haunt her
At first she had doubted her eyes.
Had it really been he whom she had
seen? Or was it only remarkable
likeness. Perhaps, she thought, with
an emotion in which the congratula-
tory almost drowned all pangs, 1t was
not even the latter, but that she had
forgotten. Her dreams and memories
could not have been all happy ones,
for on the huge. fragrant blossom in
which her nose was buried drop
cleaned in the moonlight. 1t could
hardly have been dew, unless the
sprites of the moonlight, plying the
poor plant blooming so sweetly under
roof where heavens drops could not
reach il, had brought one, swiftly and
silently, and laid it there in remem-
brance.
But a voice. raised somewhat, as in
argument, broke suddenly upon her
reyerles and left no room for doubt.
Mistaken? Oh, no. Greyson; | could
not forget so soon. 1t is but two years.
Gle is not changed at all. should
know her among a thousand"
why did you not seek her out? Per-
haps she has not found it so easy to
forget as she declared it would be You
might have been the happiest man in
the world at this moment if you only
had pocketed your pride long enough
to go to her and demand an explana-
ton"
stop right there, | shall never ex-
change one word with her again. Ii she
came to me tomorrow helpless, l
would assist her as | might the yeriest
stranger-and leave her like one when
| had performed what service could. -
She heard a match struck, and the
odor of a cigarette crept out between
the edges of the curtain. She longed
to be at liberty. She yearned for free
| dom, but, most of ALL she wished for
the moral courage to step out, haugh-
| tily excuse herself and walk away. She
| wondered what effect such course
would have on the two men. Probably
| her old friend would look thunder
struck at first. Then she, imagined she
heard the faint contempt in his tone
as he nodded to his friend and said:
Eavesdropping, it seems.
She wondered what effect it would
have on his friend, and then, wonder
grew in her mind as to what this friend
might be like.
Then in the darkness inside the cur
tain another match was struck, and the
strangers voice remarked:
only Ills. You hardly dare ven
ture out again unless you want to meet
her face to face l wonder where her
party are stopping? Take my advice
and"
The curtain swept aside like whirl-
wind. A slight figure with wild eyes
and bare shoulders, clad in resplend-
ent dancing gown, stood before them
No thought now Of the contempt with
which they might think of her Only
a startled cry:
Fifteen minutes past eleven,
Oh-h-h-h! The boat will be gone"
AS swiftly as Cinderella fed from
the palace of the prince on the stroke
of the magic hour, so rapidly Milli-
cent rushed down the steps of the hotel
and away beneath the trees Of the sur
rounding garden to the waters edge.
Slowly, maiestically, in the moonlight
a great steamer was putting out to sea.
The moonlight sparkled on the waves
in her wake. On shore a girl stood
wringing her hands or stretching them
supplicatingly toward the departing
| vessel.
"Oh, what shall l do? What shall |
do" she walled upon the air. "The
boat is gone; papa and mamma must
be asleep and never missed me-"
The two men who had followed her
looked at one another helplessly. Then
Greyson spoke. It was to place him
self entirely at her Disposal.
She scarcely realized herself how
much she encouraged Mr. Greyson in
her efforts to ignore her older friend,
nor how great execution some of her
glances at the latter did. But on the
day previous to the arrival of the next
hOmeward bound vessel, Greyson took
his friend into the garden of the hotel
and said, savagely:
Say, see here. You can't play dog
in-the-manger any longer II you de-
clare yourself out of the race for Miss
Millicent's hand, I'm going to try my
luck. My fate must be decided before
tomorrow morning"
Jack looked meditatively at his