Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-02

She looked harder yet at Marion. Then, with Q flash of pride and her hands clasping before her, she drew her self up and added: Am noteworthy to be his wife now? Am not beautiful for a savage?"
 There was no common vanity in the action. It had noble kind of wistful- ness and serenity that entirely re- deemed it. Marion dated her own hap piness from the time when Lali met her accident, for the evening of that disas- trous day she issued to Captain Hume Vidall a commission which he could never, wished never to, resign. Since then she had been at her best-we are all more or less selfish creatures-and had grown gentler, curbing the delicate imperiousness of her nature and frank ly and without the least pique taken q secondary position of interest in the household, occasioned by Lali's popu- larity. She looked Lali up and down with glance in which many feelings met, and then, catching her hands warmly, she lifted them, put them on her own shoulders and said, My dear, beautiful savage, you are fit and worthy to be queen of England, and Frank, when he comes"--
 "Hushr' said the other dreamily, and put finger on Marion's lips. T know what you are going to say, but do not wish to hear it. He did not love me then. He used mel She shuddered, put her hands to her eyes with a pained, trembling motion, then threw her head back with quick sigh. But will not speak of it. Come, prepare for the dance, Marion It is the last tonight Tomorrow She paused, looking straight before her, lost in thought.
 "Yes, tomorrow, Lali?"
 II do not know about tomorrow, Y" was the reply Strange things come to me
 Marion longed to tell her then and there the great news, but she was afraid to do so and was, moreover, withheld by the remembrance that it had been agreed she should not be told. She said nothing
 At II o'clock the rooms were filled. For the flag end of the season people seemed unusually brilliant. The even- ing itself was not so hot as common, and there was an extra array of distin- guished guests. Marion was nervous all the evening, trough she showed little of it, being most prettily employed i'll making people pleased with themselves. Mrs Armour also was not free from ap. prehensiOn.
 In reply to inquiries concerning hel son she said, as she had often said dur ing the season, that he might be back at any time now. Lali had answered al ways in the same fashion and had showr no sign that his continued absence wa! singular. As the evening wore on the probability of Frank appearance seem | ed less, and the Armours began tC ! breathe more freely.
 Frank had, however, arrived. He haC driven straight from Huston to Caven dish square; but, seeing the house light ed up and guests arriving, ho had [ sudden feeling of uncertainty. He or | dered the Cabman to take him to hi club. There he put himself ill evening dress and drove back again to the house He entered quietly. At the moment tn hall was almost deserted; people wer mostly ill the ballroom and suppe room. He paused a moment. biting hi mustache as if ill perplexity. A strang timidity came on him. All his old dasl and self possession seemed to have for saken him. Presently, seeing numbe of people entering the hall, he made fo the staircase and went hastily up. Me chaniCally he went to his own roon and found it lighted. Flowers were SC about. and everything was made read I as for a guest. He sat down, not think