The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-08
CAUGHT In A TRAP.

"She's positive angeiF
Charlie Marten threw himself back In
his deep chair, exhaled long sigh min
sled with cigarette smoke and beamed &C.
statically at a blue plate above the frieZe
rail
"Of course she Is, old boy; of course
Ralph Lamont spoke In "A soothing voice.
and then lifting "a long tumbler 10 his lips
cried, And here's to her health. I"
Don't chaff. Lamont, said Charle
restlessly.
"Im not. Never was more serious In
my life Marriage is no joke.
Ralph Lamont's handsome brown lace
clouded heavily as he spoke, but his friend
and bost-for the two were winding up an |
evening In Martens little fiat in Piccadilly |
was too busy looking for wedding rings
among the smoke wreaths to notice him.
Presently Lamont's last remark seemed |
10 strike some line of thought In the an
sorbed lovers brain, for he laughed lightly
and cried in his fresh, boyish voice:
you talk of marriage as though you
knew all about IL, Lamont-you VINO are
the most confirmed old misogynist In
town
"Oldl l like that Why, my dear fellow
I'm not five and thirty yet. But II you
| like III plead to the msogyny, II not To
| the age. It's you who are so young.
"Why do you dislike women and mar
rage and all that kind OF thing, Lamont
| You are one of the best looking fellows IN
| town. My-she-a young lady VINO was
up here the other day spotted your photo
| at once and said you were the handsoihesV
man she'd ever seen You are well on,
move in the best set meet every day in the
wear the prettiest and most delightful wom-
en- and girls, who are all ready To jump
into your arms, and yet you seem to me TO
hate them like poison
II do, dor
Leaning forward in his chair, with his
burnt out cigar between his clinched
| teeth and his sun tanned face SET IKE
| grim mask il was easy TO see that MAYOR
lamont meant what he said-that he hated
| women.
Charlie Marten was too young to be al
WAYS tactful. and he pursued the subject
: 1Did any woman ever behave badly q
vouY" he said, with boyish bluntness.
From an older man Lamont would nav
resented such question as an ioie iinper
| Thence, but he was genuinely iohu
u Charlie Marten, and in vague way II
: rather pitied the boy for having hau III
g | wings singcd SO early In lie liner
would be no harm in telling him the rea
son, and, after all, he need meh'ion
r. names. ne
II "IllI tell YOU why hate women, If yo
lr Hke old bov. and though at this momer
Won are bound to the chariot wheels OF OF
Of the sex the story may help you TO III
~ | derstand me- and other men, too, perhap
for, after ALL l suppose it's an everyda
- occurrence. -.
"The reason I hate women Is TN
There was once a man like yourself, youn
i'll | rich. full of the JOY of living. The wor
- and all that was in 1t were at his feet L
was gentle natured, good hearted al
would have trusted and believed the u'N
himself The gentleman in black did
seek for credence on his own account
the best instrument of torture ana tenn
= tation he could find was woman Doi
look SO shocked, Charlie. No trace
mt horns or hoofs disfigured her exquls
I'd | proportions and If a smell of pflhlsto
w | lurked anywhere among the iolus vi
re simple little muslin frocks a dash oil swe
,r | odorous violets effectually disguised
| She was the loveliest scrap oil mortar
ITO that ever drew a man to perdition. fo
TO glance from her sapphire eyes, Tor SIN
from her delicious baby mouth that III
d. Of whom | speak would have cut on
tie | RIGHT hand But she-dear little lnnoct
he that she was!-wanted no such grewso
IN | nlaythincs as several limbs kather
% abe prefer such pretty trifles as hands
,,v give"
>iy Lamont paused and lit fresh cigar.
ger at beran with flowers and thea
us | tickets She would sit through play w
Ca her starry eyes fixed on the stage ana
to | f,,, b,ossoms-his flowers-held agal
- the wilderness of her girlish breast nj
l. his arms ached to clasp her To him
he always feared to even hint his pass
-. To one so innocent and pure. One uhl
op' met her in the street, and charineu ny
~ childish admiration, bought her SUI
of milky pearls After that the nov
yes dropped off. and brooches that gleai
vas with rubies, rings and bracelets I'll
yir- monds. and strings of gems for the d'
18th inc of her slim white throat showercd
,,o 70 the lap of her frock. And all this Il
s9 while every smile and pout and IN
neu laugh was forging the pitiless band
'hes mad passion round his heart. he had
ung so much ms brushed his lips across her
no tipped fingers.
ope- In his boyish superior knowlcdg
| it 1.-THE sex" Charlie Marten smiled gu
)ing | into his tumbler.
,eal This went on for months TOT
on. girls sake the man tell you Oh CAV
IL | the society where he was popular oes'
sen the friends who would have been tr'
Chi , .le .,',n,',h overvtbing. broke the
eco Of a little quiet, brown eyed thing
had In n country parsonage and sent his
nus | mother sorrowing to her grave L
but when the girl with the big eyes aho
mil tiny mouth had had all-his manhood
gild- fulhiiment OF ms me ne o,yarcI her IN,
:. w thing he had TO give-his name. lie
since tn her one night beggared, Ill, weary
aide asked her to marry him. She laugh'
etter his face. God. how that woman iaugi
lam Lamont dropped his face between
I Of | hands and proancd as the memory @
never past came back To MIN rom pos"oe
nnell hands, In muined ones' "o "'''"''
story
"She dashed him with the cruel te
of contempt and mockery. she crico
no bankrupt in pocket and In IT
ng Is should be her husband, and them
still yirtuous Indignation flashing from
ither feature. she ordered him from her $
these that his very presence would encahg'
{ and good name They never me, aea,n
Park Silence fell Lanoh', Nun wv. o s,01
gain his self control Charlie Marie
V" died awkwar,lly with his cigarette
VIII so rad hv the older man ; emotion Oh
u" cared to show.
pro- Presently Lamont rose tn his feet
D sure Il beg your pardon, " he said very
x the ,, ,,s hand "but
same Won know why hate women.
nieh' IL was on the tip Of Charles tons
from pursue the subject and ask his frien'
q was no tarred all the sex alike, but perhal
il he | ,,ont guessed his PURPOSE, for he