Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-09-24
face on the ground! That is bloodw

lace on the ground! Ihat IS blood!
John Hamburg did not move. He, too,
had seen something was wrong. He, too,
saw the swelling pool Of bright scarlet
blood under the black face Of the negro
now lying at full length. Still he did not
move. He had grown deadly pale and
cold and limp.
Il can't go, Dora. I am not well.
always faint at the sight Of blood" and
he staggered back, dragging her with him
until he leaned against the blank wall Of
Forbes bakery. His legs suddenly bent
under him, and he slipped from her grasp.
At that moment Oscar Leigh stepped
back from his post on the curb, and un-
covered his head, bowed lowly to Dora,
and said: Il beg your pardon. viii you
allow me to assist you?"
In her haste, confusion, anxiety, Dora
glanced but casually at the speaker, say
ing: ut is not l who want assistance, but
he"
II would assist even my rival for your
sake" he said humbly, bowling low and
remaining bent before her. II did not
hope to meet you again so soon. 1 did not
think it would be my good luck to meet
! you once more to-day until l called at
Grimsby street, Miss Grace"
| The girl looked at Hanbury's recum-
bent form with anxiety and dread, and
then in dire perplexity at the hunchback
who had just raised his uncovered head:
"You are mistaken" she said. II never
saw you before. My name is not Grace.
My name is Ashton, and this is Mr.. John
Hamburg. Oh! will no one help me?'
| Leigh seized Hamburg and drew him
away from the wall. 1.-The best thing
we can do is TO lay him Hat. SO! Pray,
forgive and forget what l said, Miss Ash
ton. I was sure you were Miss Grace, a
lady I know, whom l met yesterday and
| this morning. Such a likeness never was
before, but | can see little difference
now; difference now that you look at me
speak" He had placed the young man
fiat on his back, and was gazing up into
the face of the girl with a look half Of
worship, half of fear.
In few seconds Hamburg showed
signs Of life. His eyelids flickered, his
chest heaved, his color began to return,
he sighed and raised his hand. Gradu-
ally he came to himself, and with the
! Joint aid Of Leigh and Dora tottered to
his feet
! Leigh had no thought Of serving Han
bury. If the young man had been alone
he would have left him where he stood
until the convalescent was strong enough
to shift for himself. But he was under
double spell, the spell of the extraordi-
nary likeness between this girl, Miss Ash
ton, and that other girl, Miss Grace, and
the spell Of Miss Ashton's beauty. AS
a rule, his thought was clean, and sharp,
and particular; now it was misty, dim,
glorious, vague. Edith Grace had, at
first sight, wrought charm upon him
such as he had never known before; Dora
Ashton renewed and heightened the
charm and carried it to an intolerable
yearning and rapture. He was beside
himself as he hurried away to get cab
he had promised to bring.
"Dora," SAID Hamburg, after a little
while and much thought, twill you prom
Use me one thing? Say nothing to a soul
about my fainting. You will not tell
your father or mother or my mother? l
will be able to keep the other occasions
quiet. If this got about I should have to
clear out of Chicago. I'd be the laugh
ing stock Of the clubs. That man need
not know more than he has SEEN"
"But he will return with the cab. You
can ask him not to say anything about
it,
"Come, Dora" he said, With sudden and
feverish energy, "let US so. feel hor-
rible repugnance to this place."
She took his proffered arm with a view
to giving, not receiving, aid, and he hur-
ried her along Chetwynd street until he
met the first cross road leading north;
into this he fastened, casting a quick
glance behind, and finding to his great
lxaelief that he was not followed.
I NJ wonder, said the girl, looking up
|
in print connected with this miserable af-
fair and place, and that negro and you?"
He stopped short, dropped her arm and
looked at her with an expression of alarm
and apology. "Dora, Dora, beg your
pardon. | most sincerely beg your par
don. There is something wrong with me
to-day I never thought of that. You
would not, Dora, be very much put out if
you saw your name connected with mine
in print? Our engagement is not public,
but there is no reason it should not be-
| 1t was in accordance with Dora's
wishes the engagement between them had
not been announced. She was intensely
independent Why should the world know
they were pledged to one another? It was
no affair of the worlds. But to have
her name bracketed with his in news
papers and then their engagement an
nounced would be hideous, unbearable to
her.
There's n cab at the end of the street."
she said.
$50 there is He started at her voice
and then called the cab. 81 cannot tell
you how much 1 am ashamed Of myself,
for the third time to-day" he said to her
''Of faintingy" she asked, coldly, chilli
~.
81 could not help it then, but should
have taken precautions against anything
of the kind by familiarizing myself with
unpleasant and trying sights. No man
ought to be a.
Woman" she said, finishing the SEN
tence for him with an icy laugh. His
want Of consideration had exasperated
| her.
YES" he said gravely. mo man ought
| to be woman"
At this moment the cab drew up Han