The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-15
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And yet, despite all the life and color,
there was something fictitious and unreal
in the brilliant gayety Of the picturesque
scene, just rs there was an undertone OF
passionate pain In the sweet music of the
waltz which rang through the room, an
undertone which seemed strangely out of
harmony with the superficial enjoyment
of the crowd
Or was 1t only the look I'm a girls face
that was out OF keeping and seemed al
once to give the lie To all the hollow pre-
tense OF pleasure around herr To one un-
observed spectator this idea suddenly oc.
Cured with the force OF conviction.
1t was beautiful face, beautiful alike
I'm regularity Of feature and exquisite deli
cacy of coloring. But the smile on the
sweet mouth was forced and full Of unnat.
ural gayety, while the great gray eyes had
a haunting look of WEAKNESS which gavo
them an indiscribable pathos The girl
was tall and slight, and the white dress
she wore, graceful though it was, seemed
almost too rich and elaborate for her slen-
der figure. She was young-soarcely ono
and twenty-and looked even younger
than her years, and the man who was
watching her drew yet farther back into
the shadow of the heavily curtained door
way as a flood Of memories rushed over
him-memorios held In check till now by
an iron will, but released In n moment by
the sight of the beautiful, sad face that
was all the world to him. though for four
long years 1t had passed out of his life.
How he had missed her Surely he had
never fully realized it till now.
chance remark arrested his attention.
Two men near were talking together,
commenting audibly enough on the scene
before them.
"How charming Maud Carruthers is
looking tonight! That girl grows prettier
every time SEQ herl'
"Is 1t true that she is engaged to young
Melbourne'"
Wants confirmation, / should say.
He's hard hit, and her people approve of
him naturally He's well connected and
fabulously wealthy, but as the fair Maud
herself-if she is engaged to him she might
look a little more cheerful over 1t.
Eyes: l shouldn't feel fiattered in his
place." the younger man assented "She's
not bit like the other girls one meets
about; don't know why, but she seems out
of II somehow.
"Well, her story is rather an odd one,
you know"
"But don't know more. Whore does
the oddness come inS Her people are con.
ventional enough.
Eyes, but she mover saw them till she
was 10 or II, for her mother married be.
meath her and was cut In consequence.
The marriage turned out badly, l believe,
and Mrs. Carruthers died in Australia,
where the child was brought up by the
people with whom she was staying at the
time-rather rough and ready bringing
up, fancy
"Then how does she como 10 be here and
forgiven'"
"Oh, it all came out somehow. Car
ruthers died, and then inquiries were
made as TO the child's whereabouts, and
she was transplanted over here. Rather
change from her experiences I'm the BUSH"
can agreeable one, should think. 4"
IN, that depends on how you look at
It'll Now, from her point of view wc may
be little tame and commonplace. don't
know anything about it, mind you. but
it's just possible she may prefer primitive
nature To our enervating and overdone
nineteenth century civilization To my
mind the girl looks bored. F"
Then If she marries Melbourne''--
1T will merely be to escape from the
present position. Since her grandfather's
death, year ago, she has found it more
wearisome than ever, or I'm much mis-
taken. She was really fond of poor old
Draycourt, but for the rest of them--'pon
my soul, I'm sorry for the girlr'
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 decked corridor.
Al IL
place in the tleep shadow of the curtains
and watched, with eager eyes, to SEQ that
tall, white robed figure pass through the
doorway.
But he watched in vain. He had lost
sight of her just before the 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 he soon saw that Maud Carruthers
was no longer there
And tonight no hold every moment
wasted In which she was out of his sight.
and already the precious moments were
slipping rapidly away
He must find her again, even though in
order to do so he must risk discovery and |
him after four years, and In such widely
different surroundings His dress, too,
with its heavy cloak and broad, somber
hat, would surely be sufficient disguise
II she should still change to retain slight |
recollection of her old friend and would be /
man under whose roof all her |
happy childhood had been passed
And even IL she did know him, what /
then?
He was surely capable of keeping his |
secret still, as he had kept 1t In the old /
lays. She was little likely to guess IL now |
IN all the pride Of her triumphant youth 1
md beauty; now, when so many younger,
richer men were ut her feet. Oh, no knew /
mis- placol And he smiled grimly to him.
elf Had not her self complacent rela-
ions been cateful to point II out to him
most CONSIDERABLY, no doubt-four years
gop Certainly there was little likelihood
( his forgetting now. No; there could he
10 real risk In tho meeting should they
hance to meet No possible risk for her,
nd, for himself, he would gladly give the
en- best years of his life just to hear her
dice again; just to meet her gray eyes
nee more with the old frank smile In
hem that no knew so well. No possible
isk-no. He had been n fool and coward
yer to think of IL. and his resolution to
eep out of her way-the resolution that
20 had thought so wise and 10 good-was
ntirely foolish and unnecessary. She
iced never know the reason of his brief
isit "homs." Wig should not he have