The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-17

A ,coman aDas slo,oly descending
brilliancy and softness, black as ink,
but with dangerous topaz lights in them
that babe yous hesitate before lightly
arousing the mans anger.
He was not very tall, but extremely
supple, and, naturally dark, his skin was
turned to color unusual in this climate,
while in his every look and movement
spoke the flawless health and virility
that perhaps had much to say to the liv-
ing force that seemed to dwell III him
like flame in flint.
Hagar smiled as he stood aside for
her to pass, then resumed his logged
watch on the stairs, while she strolled
down the long gallery, so feet long by
90 wide, from whose walls the embassa-
doris, the admirals, the marshals, the
judges and prelates, all the fine flower
of Mamie courtly race, looked down on
this interloper who had all the air OF
being born to her present surroundings,
as with the slight scornfulness of car
riage that went so well with her rare
type of beauty she glanced from one to
another of the great silent company on
the walls, at the heirlooms in the place
they had occupied for scores Of years,
that would be there leg after Mamie
and she were dust.
There were pictures by old masters at
the opposite end of the gallery worth a
kings ransom, and Hagar had come to
know them all by heart, for she loved
pictures, loved he Va1rmth and richness
that they furnish ~ mans dwelling
places, as no suatuary, worries, gold and
silversmith' work or rare old china ever
can, and that are second only to the
glory and loneliness of flowers, OF that
panorama Of nature which man is often
only too content to enjoy through the
prison panes behind which he lives.
Presently she turned into what was
called the ambassadors suit, standing
still in room that was a glowing har
mony of rose color, to look down the
long aisle of antechambers and drawing
rooms through their open doors, and
presently moved down them, pausing to
touch the delicate green and white OF
some brocade hangings as though she
loved them, and sat down at last on enc
of the white MORE chairs upon which
the raised flowers bloomed fresh as when
painted hundred years ago by the Gun
ming French artificers who had been
brought over in their hundreds by that
great ambassador and accomplished fine
gentleman, whose income was prince
" one and who spent it all and more in
making Straubenzee a lordly pleasure
house and entertaining all that was
brightest and most exquisite in the
world within it.
And now, alas, the house that had
cost a gigantic fortune to build and
make beautiful in purely French style,
upon which he had lavished his match
less skill and taste, was almost all that
remained Of the great mans magnifi-
cence, though his gold plate still adorn-
ed the table, emblazoned with the royal
arms, and his picture in court robes
hung in the place Of honor in the seal
ing wax red dining room.
His income of 100000 q year had
dwindled sadly in the hands Of his sue
cessors, 80 bedrooms or so had been
pulled down, but nothing could spoil
the lookout over the deer park where
antlered heads glanced in the bracken,
and by the grace and fleetness of their
movements gave that touch Of living
picturesqueness to the scene that made
| the completeness of its charm.
Hagar was looking out from one of
the windows of the drawing room-that
mystical room which seemed always
made ready against the gay court Of
| Watteaus lords and ladies who never
| came, when Blake Trelawny's hand,
laid urgently on her arm, startled her.
"She won't come down." he said
| harshly. "She must have known was
waiting and has slipped off by one OF
| the other staircases. Can't you find
herY' He shook her arm to emphasize
his words. "And when you have found
her don't leave us. / can always manage
Ecr better when You are there" he
added ungraciously. Whether it's das
Damonische or what, directly your
backs turned my influence wanes.
You'll have tc sit down somewhere out
of sight when make love to her, bat
near enough to make her do as you like.
There, march, You know her baunts
better than do. I"
"And what if / will not?' she cried,
his insolence rousing her to anger as she
shook off his grasp.
Because say you will" he said
grimly. Lord, how can man prefer
little Mamie to such a creature as you
! And yet 1 do All your long. classic,
healthy. beautiful body doesn't weigh
down one lock of Mamie curly hair in
my estimation, and. besides, you love