Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-01-31

solemnity and profundity now took a
different turn; and, as rising young
man, and an embryo politician, and a
bachelor who had his own rooms and
had his name down for several good
clubs, and who conld leave his card at
q fair number of good houses, he was
now ready to treat an requirement of a
certain amount of fashionable knowl-
edge with all the gravity he had for
merly bestowed upon his Oxonian life.
Accordingly he did not allow the
present excellent opportunity for i'm
| proving his cousins mind to pass with
out exerting himself to take advantage
of it, and presently he expressed his
very good beginning, Geraldine. You
have been lucky in your day. 1t is not
every day that brings out so many of
the right sort of people. I don't know
when | have seen the place fuller"
looking round complacently.
Yes. think it is delightful" ex-
claimed she, with animation. cit is
delightful altogether. The sunlight
and the shade, and the people and the
| horses. I am afraid 1 shall want to
come here every day, though,
| Cecil"
well, of course; that is what people
do. 1t is the correct thing to do that.
! To come only now and then Is nonsense.
You don't get seen, nor known, nor
anything. You will soon begin to
notice the most part of the riders who
are here now you will get to know
them all by sight they come regularly.
1t is quite the thing to do"
'How glad | am | have got my beau
tiful Sir Lanceiot" patting his neck.
GAY, he is quite the right horse to
have. | dare say he has been very much
admired. Your horse is scarcely less
looked at than yourself in the Row."
81 should hope great deal more"
said Geraldine, laughing, 'if Sir Ian
celot is only to be less looked at -"
and then she stopped suddenly, and
| lily arranging the bunch OF flowerets in
her hutton-hole to proceed further.
There is Bellcnden over there"
observed Cecil. all unconsciously,
"shall we ride up to him? | dare say
he is come to have n look at you.
"Not likely. And he is speaking to
| other people. [ do not think he has
seen us, so we need not trouble about
him, and ] am tired of the corner"
goth his companion, turning her
horses head round; Il should like to
take another turn up and down, Cecil,
| if you do not mind. Let us go the
whole length Of the ride once moro
just once more before we go in to
luncheon Come" and she had set off
ere he replied.
Nothing loath, Cecil followed.
He had been willing to speak to Bel
lenden, it was true, as he always was
willing to be seen in company with q
Well-known prescntahle acquaintance
! but he was more than pleased that
Geraldine should not care about it, and
should prefer ''another turn up and
down" with himself. They walked
past Sir ederick-tolerably close
past, too chatting gaily together, rs
though neither perceived him: and
presently he could see their horses
break into canter, and the two fig
ures disappear an on9 the other riders.
He almost felt as il he had been in
suited.
He had come there, as Cecil had
said, to see Geraldine.
He did not frequent the ride &C that
hour, for the scene had long ago palled
upon him, and he had not his horses in
town: but he haa felu he should like to
behold the little horsewoman OF Inch
marew mounted once more. Why
should he not?
She had been quite civil to him, and
there was no possible reason why tho
two should not bo good friends, or, Ut
any rate, polite, sociable acquaintance
in future.
1t was not to be expected that she
should be rs demOnStratlVe and open
hearted as when she was chlld-nay,
it was hardly perhaps to be expected
Al II, /, IL. IA T. Of hi
even in her secret soul as she had once
cared not to hide that she had done;
but he did not think he had himself
altered, or, at least. so altered as that
Geraldine should withdraw from him
all ordinary liking.
She had certainly not been warm in
her greeting the day before, but
neither had she been frigid. Had she
been one or other he would have
known what to make Of it. But, as 1t
was, he had thanks to Cecil been
ba1ed; and the only solution OF the
problem which had at first occurred to
him had been too disagreeable to have
been long contemplated. But it row
REQUIRED with renewed force.
Her Indifference could mean nothing
else than that he was now poWerleSS
either to attract or to repel: and
WnGbnCr Inab pOWcflcSSlGSS were VIC
result of any change in himself, or
whether it proceeded from the ascend
ency of rival, it did not greatly sig
Nifty. Either way was bad enough.
That he had been seen and marked
as he stood there in the bright May
sunlight. he felt on instant conviction.
He had himself been watching the pair
for some little time previously, and had
known the exact moment when each
had almost simultaneously discovered
him When Geraldine had turned her
horses head he had tancled her about
to approach and renew his acqnain-
tanceship and had responded to the
movement instantly and then the two
had walked slowly by, 10 all appear
anee taken up solely with each othsr.
1t had been done deliberately; it
must have been of set purpose.
Had he shown - But he hal
shown nothing. He did not think that
any regret or piQue, or annoyance
either with himself, or with them, had
been visible the previous afternoon,
ood +barafore 10 mass him bv so nak-