Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

confessed, meeting his anxious gaze; II
wrenched my foot when / fell out, and
my arm"
She broke off with faint cry as she
tried to move it.
Eve must get you home at once"
said Colonel Prinsep, promptly. "But
your pony-did you see in what direction
he made of?
'The syce took him home to bring back
help. They will be SO anxious when they
see him without me-"
'Then we will start at once"
He almost lifted her into his dog-cart,
| and drew the rug round her gently, fas-
| tening his own overcoat loosely round her
neck, while she neither deprecated his at
| tentions nor evaded them.
| He had seated himself beside her, and
| gathered up the rens.
! care you ready?" he asked her, gently.
She nodded assent, and they drove on
| quickly through the chill, fresh air.
The next morning, in spite of the doc
! tors injunctions and her mothers
| alarmed entreaties, Jane insisted upon
| being dressed in loose tea-gown, so that
| she might lie on the drawing-room sofa;
| may be an indefinite idea of missing the
[ Colonel if he called had something to do
| with her unwillingness to play the in
| valid.
Though scarcely conscious that it had
| gone so far, she made no secret of her
| liking for him. He was too far above her
| for her to be ashamed of the feeling. She
| would as soon have thought of blushing
over her love for a favorite poet or cele-
| brated painter. She could worship this
''bright, particular STAR without any ul-
4. terror intention.
1t was one o'clock-the fashionable time
for calling in India-when she heard
| voices in the adjoining room. and pres
| emily the curtain was lifted, and Mrs.
Knox came in.
"Do you think you are we'll enough to
see any one?" she asked, doubtfully.
ooh, yes" answered Jane, eagerly, but
her countenance fell as she saw the WIS.,
itor who followed swiftly on her words
was Sergeant Lynn.
"You did not expect me?" said the
young man, quickly, his wits sharpened
by jealousy and pain.
''It-it was very good of you to come"
''Of course l came directly I heard Of
the accident. Does it hurt you much ?'-
pointing to the bandaged arm.
zone does not generally break limb
without suffering from it," put in Mrs.
Knox, tartily.
''She did not seem to suffer much last
night"
did you see me?"
Eyes, l saw you and the Colonel /
thought he was never going; and you
stood looking at him as though-as
! though"
| The young fellow stopped, at a loss for
words, and Mrs. Knox looked keenly at
her daughter to see if there was any
meaning in what he had limited.
| But there was more of scorn than con-
! fusion expressed in James face; and the
half-formed suspicion that for a moment
made her heart beat with excitement and
hope was strangled in it's birth.
II will leave you two to fight it out, !"
| Mrs Knox said, and went from the room.
! ''Jacob, how could you?' flashed out
Jane, as she heard the inner door close
behind her mother.
But the Sergeant stood erect and I'M
moved by her anger, which perhaps he
took as confession of guilt.
! "You blush now, but you did not think
it worth while to blush when the Colonels
! arm was round your waist" he sneered
| in reply.
''He did it to support me, that my arm
| might not pain me as we jolted over the
rough roads,
| The blush had faded from her face,
and she spoke hesitatingly, as though
afraid to say too much; but he was not
slow to see her displeasure at the coarse
ness of his allusion, though he would not
Immediately give in.
''The roads are good enough" he NUT
tered gruffly.
eve came from Brountra," said Jane,
| with dignity. II remember you said
yourself that the road was disgrace to
| the cantonment."
| The next moment he was at her feet
! protesting that he had never doubted her;
it was only the cruelty of his position that
had tortured him beyond endurance. It
was too hard that any jackanapes who
could call himself gentleman might ap-
proach her when he pleased while he
must stand aside
Jane found the apology more distasteful
| than the fault it was meant to condone.
| sLet us talk of something else" she
said at last, YEARLY.
s.And you have quite forgiven met"
She nodded her head.
Ito be continued.)