The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-19
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executioner.
mime o'clock. Most of them have to
drive long distances, he added, $50 / |
fixed an early hour"
"And they'll wear the frocks they
had ON when they came out of the ark"
said Lady Lirriper, who was herself at
tired quatres epingles in silver gray
and green CONNECTION of the latest mode,
with superb orchids in her corsage,
while her exquisitely dressed and art
fully dyed head was something to won
der at. Pretty girls drug in the mar
ket, of course-always are in Devon
half of 'em ought to have been stran-
gled in their cradles; it's women, wom-
en- everywhere now till ones positively
ashamed of being a female.
but they do lots of brilliant things
nowadays" put in Will Cassilis protest
ingly.
"Of course they do. BY the law CT
averages some of 'em are bound to hit
the bullseye. When there are so few
men and such hordes of women, the lat
ter are bound to tell. But when the
fools take 10 footballing-ugh / could
forgive 'em if they were built different
ly, but they amt What was talking
about? Oh, the people who are coming
here tonight. Then there will be a
crowd of male pumpkins, less odious
than the town men who happen to be
| honoring the neighborhood for the shoot
ing, and the bald headedmammas and
the fox hunting squires-I know 'em
all"
This was not strictly true, as Lady
Lirriper had not been born at Strauben-
zee, to which her brother had succeed
ed ON the death of his uncle, the direct
line of succession being the exception
and not the rule in that family.
"Thank heaven, Blake's coming"
she concluded as they rose to leave the
table. "We will sit in corner and
quiz the people, and the supper is all
right I've taken care of that.
Mamie and Will slid few steps on
the polished floor together in pure light
heartedness and with seemingly endless
space before them, for all the furniture
save couches had been removed, and
only the great splendid audience on the
walls seemed to await in stately silence
the arrival of those much less interest
ing people who presently would be en-
gagged in strutting out their little lives
below
omorrow-tomorrowl" whispered
Will Cassilis in her ear. They had
scarcely dared to look at each other at
dinner lest their eyes should shout their
secret to those around.
For it was to be tomorrow, not to-
night. They had altered the programme
after much consideration, and Mamie
was TO walk out next morning TO a
neighboring village where the young
rector, who was beholden for his living
to Will, would marry them safe and
fast, and then they were going to tell
Lord Straubenzee, and afterward-so
simple was the whole thing-go home
to Cassilis castle and there remain.
"Ive only just come home, darling,
Will had said. "For year, you know,
have been banished man, and the
estate wants me, and we can be as hap
by there as bros and hide when peopi'
: come to look US up. But if you reall.
want 70 Sd abroad we will 60 "
l And Mamie, with strong misgivini
D and an intense desire TO escape alto
Q pether out of Trelawny's orbit, hat
yielded to Wills wishes, the more espe
cially as Will had announced his deter
a mination not to receive Blake at an
q price in his house.
"Let the county say what it likes,
he had said resolutely, "but my doc
b he does not darken, and if he want
Q reasons he shall have them.
!. Whereupon Mamie had drawn dee
r breath and rejoiced-all too soon.
q She did not feel that she was dom
a disobedient, unfilial act in marryin
i Will unknown to her father thus. Sh
had felt very keenly and bitterly tina
her father had done cruel and unJus
thing in separating her from the ma
she loved, and it was not his fault tina
g her life had not been entirely ruined b
% the influence Blake Trelawny ha
!, known how to establish over her.
y That influence might at any momer
q prove beyond her strength to resist, an
y Mamie in her mortal fear would hay
70 run greater risks than this to place hel
y self out of his reach forever. Even no.
n she trembled to think that she woul
see him tonight, that she would hay
II to dance with him. hear whatever /
d chose to say, but it would be for the la
n time, and as she ran up stairs to feto
10 her gloves and bouquet she told herse
4 she was the happiest girl in the who
l. world.
D. At 8 o'clock Lady Lirriper swept il
~ to the library, where she found N
7, brother with a shaded lamp at his
a bow, absorbed in Lubbock's "Pleasur
IL Of Life. M
I'd At all times the sight Of Straubenz
&c sitting calm and happy among his bool
IN was as red rag to bull, for solitu'
lg and her own or any written though
K she detested, but tonight she was esp
~ cially irritated and repeated the tit
o. of his book with profound contempt.
IN 1.-the Pleasures of Lifef " she sal
ne "Pray what do you know of 'en