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

photo somewhere there, III evening wv
and some flowers In her hand, muttefed
Charlie wrestling desperately win an on z
stinatc bottle Of soda.
Rolnb L.amont's fingers seemed by In
stinct 10 pick out the picutrc of Miss Dull
verton
LOVELY face--diyine eyes, hasn't sheS"
easped Charlie. coming up painting but
triumphant with his guests drink In his
hand :
Lamont took long look at the photo :
Uraph. which was a vision of soft curls,
wide, sweet eyes, tremulous rosepuu
mouth and glorious throat and bust
Miss Dulverton must be very Deauu-
ful he said, laying the portrait down
again GOOD night We shall meet III
the park tomorrow, as usual
Glow queer dear old Lamont was to-
nightp" thought Charlie Il wonder wheth-
er he's quite right I've always heard that
there was something wrong with his broth
| or Jerry He shot himself or something,
| but Lannon'S always been as steady as
| Father Time
| A week later smart society had new
| sensation. and as usual a man and wom-
| an were at the bottom of IT, The woman
| An question was the lovely Oreacia DulVer-
ton the bride elect of the rich young
| H.
would never cease-was Major Lamont, |
whom all the women had been trying to |
| subiugate for years in vain, and who-and
| here came in the spice of the whole affair
| was known to be Charlie Martens
greatest friend.
AT first, whether in the park, or at Hur-
| bingham, or the lawn at Ascot, or In the
bathrooms of Mayfair the party was al
, ways a trois But as the days and nights
| of the London season whirled by watchiul
| ewes noted that Miss Dulverton's soitest
: chances crossed her lover 5 lowering face TO
, | lose themselves in Lamonts eyes; that he
! waltzed with her twice to Charles once;
| that he piloted her across the Row and
4 | pulled his chair beneath the shadow OF her
sunshade on the hot afternoons In the
i park
For a fortnight society wondered and
n | WHISPERED and then began TO talk aloud
Major Lamont and Miss Dulverton had
a | been recognized punting alone ut Maiden
p head They had been seen lunching In a
If tender tete-a-tetc at Richmond, and then,
,e emboldened by success, rumor shrleHeu
is about box at the Empire and supper at
re the Savoy.
A. II was this last cutlery that reused Char
NJ lie Narten to action and one afternoon IN
the club he cut Lamont before 20 men. lie
m was too Young and too chivalrous to carry
M | Islander and doubt into the sacred presence
ne | of his lady love, but the bitterness mus
n. have vent and IL fell on Lamonts broad
IS shoulders.
az Sicl, mt heart and furious with himself
Charlie went straight from his club TO M
Is: rooms He felt as though all the world
o. which only the other day had seemed to'
Id desirable and sweet, were out OF joint.
He Nothing but Oreacia and music-he wa
nd | TO take her TO the opera that nlght-Woui'
vii soothe his ruflled feelings
lot | As he stepped, dressed for the evening
,ut into his brougham an urchin tossed
ID. twisted scrap of paper into the carriage
Mt Private room No 3, Cafe Royal; Il
of night, ll;30.
lite The words were in penciled capitals
me and he scarcely glanced at them befoi
her tearing the slip across and tossing II iroi
ct the window.
it "Cafe Royall Rubbish he mutteret
ity why, I'm going TO take Oreacia To Lac
II a Bedales ball after the opera.
Tile But in that plan he was disappointe'
IAN | Oreacia Dulverton had never looked
his lovely. Every ripple of her sun kiss'
ent | hair. every fold of lace about her bosom
me enhanced her beauty, and her glorious ey
did | outshonc the big diamonds in her ear
can | Vet she vowed she had "a shocking hea
ache that could brook neither late hou
nor noise. Indeed, so i'll was she that eve
,ter as the intermezzo in the "Cavalleria Ru
nth ticana" sobbed through the opera hou
the she Slipped her cloak about her. ana almo
inst before Charlie grasped the fact had GID
ntil quietly from the box
But What "a nuisance" he muttered as
sion few minutes later, he lit u cigarette unV
Y he | the portico. shall l go To inc be0'l
her or mott Suppose l must Oreacia wal
ring Lady b. to present her next season u
yrrs it's so early vet Better go To the clut
mrd no Lamont will he there-l don't want
dia see him again. Why not stroll up To
eek. Cafe Royal and see if that scrap of pal
| in. was n Joke or intended for some one els
inc. He nodded to the doorkeepcr of the c
erry AZ he strolled in and leisurely noun
Is ol the marble staircase Equally slowly
not paced up the narrower stairs, so dlscree
pink carpcted. and, pushing through the sW
doors, entered the corridor leading to
e of private rooms.
ictly No q was fast closed as he ncared 1t,
AS he faced the door waiter emerged
this on the watt of food and champagne u
-e up a woman's light laugh.
erted ..You here and with lamont
ne to From Ralph Lannon'S encircling NJ
heart Oreaoia Dulvcrton stared impudcntl.
away | the man who was TO he her husband
own Caught she said, with little iau
Then | and turning her head as though she W.
A the have kissed the man by her side.
A. the But Lamont. his dark eyes fam
honey started to his feet ana SHOOK inc ciins
= last woman from him as though she had
went | a snake
f, and THANK God, Charlie, that you're
ed in an time" he cried. stretching his hi
hedr' across the table to where the younger
n his | stood, pale as stone Here to see
4 the woman you would have made your VIII
IN his her true colors. -
d the "Orcacia Dulverton is the woman
under the guise of purity and innoce
pnpue wrecked the life of my most unhi
4 that brother Jerry You have seen for you
ricnds | what manner OF woman she Is tna'
with fell so easily into the trap baited FOL
every | with handful of gold and lew 81
aging kisses Pah, their very memory sic
er her | met
" Tossing some money on 10 the TAP
face, took up his coat and hat
to re- Come, Charlie, my boy, let us 60
en fd- | leave the past here amid the gilt
more raudy velvet, the untasted food ana
nan he wine of "a private supper room.
Then he put his arms gently roun'
boy and led him from the room. :
quiet change.
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