The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-21
ABSOLUTELY PURE


both, alas, so very, very young and
lacking entirely in sound common sense.
If Mamie would only lay her head ON
Wills breast and talk it out with him
what the trouble was, but barrier had
been raised between them, and now try
as he would he could not grope his way
through it. Every day he went out with
his gun-sometimes with "a neighbor,
sometimes alone-but Mamie never
came out with the luncheon now, and
the keepers and servants looked askance
at him and for once were really sorry
for the trouble that had evidently be-
fallen their betters.
If that old heather, Lady Lirriper,
had been a woman of the right sort, she
could have put things right in trice,
but the follies, not the virtues, of man
kind furnished her amusements, and she
was only maiciously glad that every
thing was turning out precisely as she
had foretold.
"Only it's so indecently soon" she
said one day TO her maid. who was her
| bosom friend and entirely after her
own heart, "and / do hope the fools
won't make a scandal--at lcnst while
am here. Malleablel T D. Why, my
niece is perfect little C. }, and, as 20
that old sarcophagus stack up on end
among his books, he won t see anything
| till he's told. and then he'll have to sit
up and no mistake.
"Well don't hold with unmarried
ladies carrying on with married gentle
men, =" said Josephine as she deity APP
piled a touch Of rns-.sa TO her mistress
cheek at breaks III the home, and 1
call il shame, ny lady, with plenty
OF single men about as there are here.
And it's my belief Sir William don't
care fig for Miss Gregorias and is
Just eaten up with love for his wife,
and La ly Anna don't care for Milford
Trelawny, only she wants to take leaf
out of her husbands book"
"Talk about what you understand"
said Lady Lirriper tartly as Josephine
laced her into her dinner gown; lyon We
got to be civil TO the Gregorias, mind, In
town; she'll wake me up and bring men
around and be new sensation, and
can't do without her.
Josephine, buxom, unprincipled, but
still human, shifted, for every servant
in the house hated the woman whose
position was so anomalous, and put
, upon her those impalpable but very real
| Sights and snubs with which servants
: SO well know how to serve an interloper
: and make her feel hundred times day
how unwelcome and despised creature
5 she is.
D Didn't / hear some one arrive:
Quick, the chrysoprases, stupid don
wear emeralds with peach color. Is
!, that You, EsgGr? Go down and talk to
r Dalrymple till come.
J. Hagar, who wore black gauze, against
t which her neck and arms showed like
j. alabaster. and who carried a great clus
f ter of orange colored roses at her breast
i nodded and retired both the women
a looking after her with that slight In
b drawing of breath which betokers as
constituent.
IS "Aud look at that" said Lady Lir'
d ripper, nodding at her own enameled
cleverly painted face, land at her age
q made more hearts beat in a week thar
is she will in year "
g Down stairs in the little chintzy
Is drawing room Dalrymple was saying
is urgently:
# "For Gods sake, give me some sor
y of answer tonight! Do You mean t.
st play with me forever?"
= But when Lady Lirriper came in h'
Is was saying hurriedly:
a Heard such a joke today. Had t
N punish man for drunk, and what d.
l. Won think his excuse was? That he hat
st got drunk on port winel How do yo'
10 do, Lady Lirriperf Tallant's awful.
IS sorry he can't come. Wired for to III
{, governor, who is mortal bad.
j, "We are an odd number, then" sal
ar Lady Lirriper, "for l expect Trelawn
{. and the vicar-not the wears wife, O
ID course He plays a capital rubber
Trelawny hates cards. so I'll send roun
is a line to the curate to come in by an
e, by. The Cassilises can't come. The
III have a duty dinner at a distance. Ugh
ne They forgot the dinners when they dc
W cided to honeymoon at home. ="
le For, as if to make them more misel
fe able still, the county was dining tn
:. young pair with vengeance, and tn
.h hardest part to both of them was tn
Y, long drive to and from the mockery
at baked meats to which they were oio
fl den.
They conversed, Of course, for Nanni
" had developed an unexpected amount
at courage in dealing with the situation
but only of outside things, never b
al word or look seeking to bridge ov'
es that gulf which, in the height OF the
IN happiness, had suddenly yawned b
tween them.
Will firmly believed she love
Trelawny and had entirely mistake
u. her feelings toward himself. She W;
nj equally certain that he adored hag'
"a and only bitterly regretted the has
~ that had put her out of his reach, al
'ei both were too proud to thrash the ma
OK ter diligently out, and with the finaii
by of youth regarded life as done with, a