Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-03

Like the old woman who. when she
first beheld the sea, said that at last she
sew what was enough for everybody,
said Mamie as she tried to remove the
mold marks from her white gown.
Willie, aren't you hungry:
'Frightfully," said Willie, and NOV
ed her heart to pity by the relation of
how he had rcamed the park and OBJ
Irrigated her window blind in vain.
Poor toy!' she said, then danced
step or two, and said:
you'll come in to breakfast, Of
fcoarse:" And beth burst out laughing.
| And to break the shock, said Will,
Offering his arm with exaggerated re-
spect, 1--WE will take q public walk
round the premises, selecting for pref
erence those portions where your father
is sure to see and admire us. :"
And they did And Lord Straubenzee,
shaving himself close to window, and
happening to look out, cut his chin in
his extravagant delight and executed q
sort of dance that simply appalled, Cole
man, who entered while it was pro-
crossing, and thought his master had
suddenly gone mad.
| But a glance ont of the window ex-
planned the situation, and, all class dis
tinctions forgotten, the two old boys
literally beamed on one another.
| II always did like Sir William" said
| Coleman in the servants hall later,
while the love story up stairs was caus-
ing many a flutter under neat cotton
| frocks, "but it's good job he's back
a very good job, for accidents will hap
PEN" And he nodded with profound
sagaci.y that scorned to explain itself
to the numbering wits around him.
And in the sealing wax red dining
room Will had come up to Miss Gregg
rias as she entered, and in the manifest,
incest way told her how glad he was to
see her again, and looking so well, too.
and his warm handshake had thrilled
through her whole body, and the pride
in her had triumphantly asserted his
right to be loved, and with no shame to
herself, SO strong was he, SO dear, SO
kind.
Il can't, Iwon harm you, she said
to herself then, but later in the day,
when she had incautiously wandered
rather far afield, Blake Trelawny swoop-
ed GOWN Oh ana pulled ner.
"Stop those FOOLS" he said, his black
eyes with their topaz lights cleaning
dangerously. Il don't know how you
do it, but do it you can, if you choose /;
yen brought her into my arms yester-
day, but not long enough" He Rugged
them on his breast as if he still felt
her there. "They're billing and cooing
like two sick turtledOves out yonder-
caliow idiots-and not one Of them can
even teach the other what love means.
81 will not" said Hagar, setting her
back to the great boie OF tho beech tree
under which they stood. 'They are On
gagged, they will be married.
"Pah! And your influence with herr"
lis as nothing i'll the balance with
mis-. Go your way, Blake Trelawny,
and set your heart where you have a
chance to win
II never look back" he said, land l
never change. Hank ye! There is some
thing i'll your past that you dread to
have revealed. 1 will rip that past up
from end to end, and shame you before
the whole world, if you will not DO my
bidding in this thing"
Hagar laughed.
"You Cornish gentlemen" she said
with an accent on the last word, "do
not you, who profess to be so wise in
love, know that you may drag a wom-
an body to your arms, but you cannot
compel the spirit within her to drink
of love? And something more than the
husk, the shell, would be needed to con-
tent such man as you
II will take the husk, the shell, so
long as it be Mamie" he said Now
listen. The day you Put her hand in
mine will make you a rich woman, SO
that you shall want for nothing to your
dying day. You shall not need to take
your disdainful beauty into the mar
riago market. You may-who knows?-
marry Will Cassilis in the end. But if
you will not help me in this by fair
means or foul will separate those two.
will stick at nothing to gain my ends
no violence, no crime, shall be too
black for me. Now!''
Il refuse.
"Then on your own head be y" And
looking like an incarnate force of calam-
ity and evil he strobe furiously away in
the direction Of the house.