The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-20
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1 ~ was tho bikktSb Dtli VI iDt stithOI anu
tho assembly room of tho fashionable wa
toring place was looking its gayest and
| brightest, thanks To lavish decoration and
| tho Kaleidoscope effect produced by the
| throngs of brilliantly dressed dancers as
they whrled round in all the infinite va
riety and picturesque incongruity of fancy
| costume.
And yet, despite all the life and color,
there was something fictitious and unreal
In the brilliant gaycty CT tho picturesque
scene, just Gs there was an undertone Of
passionate pain in tho sweet music Of the
waltz which rang through tho room, an
undertore which seemed strangely out Of
harmony with the superficial enjoyment
Of the crowd.
Or was 1t only the look In girls face
that was out of keeping and seemed at
once to give the lie to all the hollow pre-
tense of pleasure around hori To one I'M
observed spectator this idea suddenly &C.
CURED with the force of u conviction.
1t was beautiful face, beautiful alike
In regularity of feature and exquisite del
icacy of coloring. But the smile on the
sweet mouth was forced and full of unnat-
ural gayety, while the great gray eyes had
u haunting look of WEAKNESS which gave
them an indescribablo pathos. The girl
was tall and slight, and the white dress
she wore, graceful though 1t was, seemed
almost too rich and elaborate for her slen-
der figure.
She was young scarcely one and twenty
and looked even younger than her years,
and tho man who was watching her drew
yet further back into the shadow of the
heavily curtninod doorway as "a food of
memories rushed over hlm-memorics
held in check till now by an iron will, but
released in n moment by the sight of tho
beautiful, sad face that was all the world
10 him, though for four long years it had
passed cut CT his life How he had missed
herl Surely Eo had never fully realized it
till now.
A chance remark arrested his attention.
Two mon near were talking together, COM
menting audibly enough on the scene be-
foro them.
GLOW charming Maud Carruthers is
looking tonight That girl grows prettier
every timo 1 SEQ her!"
sis 1t true that she's engaged to young
Melbourne?"
Wants confirmation, should say. He's
hard hit, and her people approve of him
naturally. He's well connected and fabu-
lousy wealthy, but as to the fair Maud
herself-if she is engaged to him, she
might look little more cheerful over it..
Eyes, l shouldn't feel flattered in his
place" the younger man assonted. "Shes
not bit like the other girls ono meets
about; don't know why, but she seems
out of 1t somehow"
"Well, her story is rather an odd one,
you know"
"But don't know moro. Where does
the oddness como in. Her people are con-
vcntional enough"
YES, but she never saw them till she
was 10 or IL, for her mother married be-
meath her and was cut In consequence
The marriage turned out badly, believe,
and Mrs. Carruthers died in Australia,
whore her child was brought up by the
people with whom she was staying at the
timo; rather u rough and ready bringing
up fancy"
"Then how does she cor'e to be here and
forgiven?"
"Oh, it all came out somehow. Car
ruthors died and then inquiries were made
as to the child's whereabouts and she was
transplanted over here; rather change
from her experiences In tho bush"
"An agreeable one, should think"
Him, that depends on how you look at
ANOW iIoih hSi Poihe Va Wv" wv ii'"y
be q little tame and commonplace. don't
know anything about 1t, mino you, but
it's just possible she may, prefer primitive
nature to our oncryating and ovcrdone
nineteenth century civilization To my
mind tho girl looks borcd,'
"Then IL she marries Melbourne
at will merely DO cscapefrom Tho pres
ent position. Since her grandfather S death
a year ago she has found IL more weari-
somo than ever, or I'm much mistaken.
She was really fond Of poor old Dray court,
but for the rest of them 'Pon my soul,
I'm sorry for the girl''
The music ceased and the speakers
moved away as the long procession Of
dancers began to pace out into the cooler
air of the long, flower decSod- corridor.
But the man near them still kept his
place in the deep shadow .of the curtains
and watched with eager eyes to see that
tall, white robcd figure pass through the
doorway.
But he watched in vainf He had lost
sight of her just before {he dance ended
and she had no doubt left the ballroom by
some other door. From the station he had
chosen he could command the whole room,
and no soon saw that Maud Carruthers
was no longer there.
And tonight no held every moment
wasted in which she was out of his sight
Tor tho last time-it was for the last time
and already tho precious moments were
slipping rapidly away
lilo must find her again, even though In
order to do SO he must risk discovery and
recognition.
Little risk that she would recognize hin,
inter four years and In such widely differ
ent SURROUNDINGS His dress, too, with its
heavy cloak and broad, sonNber hat, would
surely be q sufficient disguise II she should
still chance 10 retain slight recollection Of
her old friend and would DO bro her. the
man under whose roof all her happy child
hood had boon passed.
And oven " she did know him, what
theny
He was surely capable of keeping his
secret still, as he had kept IL In the old
days She was Iittlo likely to guess IL nov
IN all tho pride Of her triumphant youth
and beauty-now when so many younger,
rich or men were Mt her foot. Oh, no know
his place.! And no smiled grimly to him
self.
Had not her self compliment relations
been careful to point IL out to him--most
CONSIDERABLY, no doubt-four years ngof
Certainly there was little likelihood Of his
forgetting now. No. there could be no
real risk in the meeting should they
chance to meet No possible risk for her,
and for himself--he would gladly give the
ten best years Of his life just to hear her
voice again, just TO meet her. gray eyes
once more with the old frank smile In
them that no knew so well. -
No possible risk-no: he had been fool