Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14
CHAPTER XVII.

CHAPTER XVII.
YOU ARE A PATIENT MAN, SIR FRED
ERICK.
Ii Geraldine had only known what
was passing in the young mans breast!
She fancied, as people have done,
and Will do to the end of time, that
Whatever might be her own doubts,
ana fears, emotions and agitations,
they were safely hidden in the inner
most recesses OF her heart, secure from
every ones ken but her own. 1t was
her one comfort that no one-not
even her poor dear-dreamed of those
nightly musings and the daily strug-
gle; and that Cecil, Cecil of ali people,
Cecil, to whom she had so long been
after her manner, sub .ect, of whose
opinion she still had cold dread, and
Tor whom she still entertained a GER
tain uneasy respect, that Cecil should
have made the tumultuous upheaval of
her soul the subject for his calm, dis
passionate dissection, would have been
sufficient to let us see what it did do
when the trightful truth burst upon
her.
All that DAY Cecil was on the watch.
His hand was the one on which she
had to depend for support, as she
stopped ashore upon the green bank,
so well known at Henley, where the
favored few are permitted to excite
the envy of the multitude, where they
can feast spaciously and luxuriously,
IN the long, cool grass beneath the
shade, unehcumb9ered by the vllgT,
and where they can at ease promehade
presently, un. .ostled by the clamorous.
h SC ir3c a.,
the spo g' wh hy s09 Xuns SzsDs we
trained servants had already almost
completed their tempting arrenge-
ments, where the lamb, and chicken,
and lobster, and salad, the salmon and
cucumber, the pie and the pate were
repeated up and down the s1oWy table
cloth, and where the champagne bot
ties were Id to their necks in the ice
pals behind the tree.
Geraldine's place was selected in the
shadiest corner behind which there
was a niche: not yet to be filled up. but
into which some one would by-and by
insert himself; some one who was so
openly and palpably her cavalier for
the nOnce, that none of the other
young men of the party burst so much
as offer her piece of bread, although
! there was more than one present who
would fain have done so.
Did she want to go on the river,
luncheon being over? Cecils own lit
tie c~shioned boat was lying ready and
he would be too proud to take her.
No? Would she prefer the Guards
inclosure? The ''Isthmian' inclosure:'
The Hungarians were playing in the
her. as Cecil had passes for both.
1npIOS11Pn
that inclosed her, and excluded him!
Hardly.
Would she then see the next race
rowed? If so, he would show her the
right place, the point from which a
fine open view, unencumbered by
| house boats, might be obtained?
Oh, she was too tired to walk.
Would she take seat? There were
seats in abundance. among the trees;
and to be sure there was a glare on the
| RIVER. it would he cooler and pleas
anter t. get among the trees even as
he spoke, she had tined away from
him with an exclamation. She had
fancied she saw Bellenden.
Previously, no idea of the extent and
MAGNITUDE of the festival had entered
into her mind, and she had supposed
that. once there, she would have had
no difficulty in being found by one
minded to find her. A regatta was not
a racecourse, she had argued; and she
! had been at regattas before having
witnessed a few dali yachts cruising
about in the Firth of Clyde, and stood
among a few hundred spectators to see
them come in = (which Ghey never did, }
/ but of the great regratta Of the south,
OF the crowd, the din, the confusion
! 20 hn1 Of
difficulty CT movement, and the almost
impossibility OF meeting without pre-
! yious app ointment, she had had no
sort OF conception, while Bellenden
had been equally ignorant. Had he
/ ever been at Henley Regatta before he
/ would have known, indeed, to contlne
his search within certain limits; but
he had not learned his lesson, AMI had
some how picked up vague impress
sion that the ladies quarter was near
the bridge, on a large and thronged
platform, an finding none of the hay
inonds there had somewhat dlscon-
ccrted him. He had, however, pro-
7 ceeded with his search, secured the
water. assailed the inclosure peered
over the decks of households, ana
7 been everywhere and looked every
where but in the one place where MS
dove had hidden herself, and IN conse,
ouence he had of course searched ana
secured in vain
Finally he had given it up, and gone
homo in disgust, but meaning to have
compensation in Mount street pres
! emily.
Geraldine had evidently been kept
from him by the Raymonds and 81;
Georges in collusion; either r, she n9 mao mao
had been kept out Of sight on purpose:
in either of which cases there would
be no sort of use in his going down at's !,
again on the second day. ,., The 1t tran tha
ticket office, and the scramble Tor a
saat something to shuduer at, the
whole affair a noisy, vulgar, u ! 1sing
nerative day. He had not seen thing
n io hod scarcely met q person he knew,
he he had never endured four hours OF
greater martyrdom. hra
And, after all. very little would . nave
! been obtained, even il he had iouno