Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-01-17

there has been a stimulus others little
dreamed of, spur, a secret incentive,
the bare thought of which had been
sufficient to incite anew had energy for
q moment tagged, or ardor abated.
That spell had been the thought of
Bellenden.
He it was who had persuaded her to
enter those new regions. It had been
to please him that she had agreed to
tread them, and to display to him her
conquests and her triumphs was the
prize she had coveted.
She had piC tured his questioning her
as to this and that. In her minds eye
she had behe]d him scanning her
books, her maps, her records of one
sort and another. For his ear she had
treasured up little histories of difficult
ties encountered and victories OBJ
tanned, and she had fancied, poor little
thing, in her innocent heart, that
when the happy day of meeting should
come at last, she should find him as
eager to hear as she to tell, and as APP
preciative and attentive as she could
De discursive and dramatic.
He had not been expected before the
autumn following his departure. He
had written-a hastv line. but sufficient
FIRST over-crowded days of mourning at
his old home, and he had limited at
writing again, and had hoped to meet
again some day and had assured one
and all that he could never feel CRATE
full enough for all the kindness shown
him at lnchmareW.
For some time after the note had
been received another had / cen eX-
pected; but on young Raymond de-
parture, Mrs. Campbell had felt that
she had probably for the present
heard the last of his pleasant friend
and guest, and that, considering all
that had happened, it was hardly to
be wondered at it it were so.
81 shall ask him here for the twelfth
next year, if you approve Cecil had
observed ana the suggestion having
been received cordially the twelfth"
had gradually come to be considered
IN his young cousins mind as the point
on which to fix hope ana expectancy.
All through the long warm days Of
the following June and July, it had
Been a vision standing brightly out to
view; ana daily at last had the blue
eyes scanned the contents of the post
bag. and marked every envelope which
might be Cecils, and might contain
ScSEiS "OlCtC. sumo illllly, SlSiIi1lUC. SoluC
allusion Or reference even to that great
meeting -but in vain.
Cecil had come himself, and had
neither written nor spoken once about
Beilenden,
Perhaps Geraldiro's grandmother
had a quicker vision than the little
maid gave her credit for: it could
hardly have been sheer forgetfulness
which caused her to let the whole first
evening Of her grandson's arrival pass
without question, considering what
had once been agreed upon; she almost
must have had some reason for waiting
till after Jerry mad gone to bed to make
2er IN Iulries; but she had done all this,
anG Cecil having been equally reti-
cent, the little girl had thought Bel
Ienden forgotten by everyone but her
self.
T. He had not been so. Young Ray
m6nd had been somewhat sore on the
sub ect, to tell the truth, and had not
cared to touch upon it. He, as well as
his grandmother, had seen more than
either chose to take notile of and al
Enough at first Geraldine's open mani
Gest devotion had merely amused the
one and nettied the other, they had
alike ielG that it was as we'll 1t should
quietly pass OF, more especially as 1t
Slad not to any appearance been re-
cipro cated. Bellenoen had made a
fuss about the little helress when there
had been nothing else tor him to do,
and then he had gone OFT, and never
given either her or her guardian an
other thought, No wonder each of
Che Two elders had silently understood
the others suppression of his name.
The next morning, however, Cecil
had casually let fall piece OF :nforma-
ten.
BY the way, guantanamo" he had
SAID you told me [ might invite Bel
lenden to shoot here Jerry heart
thumE ed up ut the words If he should
be our way" continued the speaker,
hunting for something in MS pocket.
Il did drop him a line, and L have his
answer somewhere about me- pulling
out TWO or three crumpleu envelopes.
= Av, here 1t Is, and then he had read
it aloud, and had afterwards, uncon-
sciously, as it were, tossed the scrap
over the table, and Jerry had read it
aor herself,
1t had indeed been a disillusion.
A few bold seutences-a reference to
s'his pleasant remembrance OF Inch
-"hls best regards to Mrs. Campbell
aud bis little friend Geraldine. And
that was ALL His little friend Geral-
dine!'
How her heart had swelled at the
words She had then only been his
e.little friend Geraldine, while he
oh the moonlight nights onwhich she
had lain awake, sleepless and dream
less, thinking about him. Oh, the days
whereiu she had watched and waited.
hardening, as it were. for the faintest
echoes of mis- approa hing football, the
furthest away whisper OF his coming
Scarcely. ii ever. had q single sun
risen and set without there having
been in the interim some association
with him in her thoughts, her efforts,
or her wishes.
And he had not even come this once,
And he had not even cared to pretend
that he had meant 20 come. For Bel
lenden had written hastily, and had let
the simple truth appear. Inchmarew
had never been in his program, and he
had made other arrangements. There
had been no temptation to reconsider