The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-22

WOuiu uOt the ufsJ kecuuess anu lIonu-
ness of love last infinitely longer than
it does. and SO keep us ever on the eager
tiptoe of desire? And he had made
fool of himself with Hagar, not once,
but again last night, not because he
liked her, but because she had some con-
founded influence over him that must
be directly attributable to the devil
He had left his dressing room and
gone into his wife's room early to leave
a note on her dressing table telling her
that he was going away, but giving no
reasons, and he had stepped softly to
the side of the bed and seen her lying
there almost lost in its whiteness, with
the traces of tears lying on her young,
round cheeks.
If only he had staid. If ever Mamie
wanted friend, she wanted her now,
and Will, not knowing, had delivered
her over into the hands of the enemy, TO
be dealt with even as it willed, when
| he drove away early to the station that
morning.
Mamie woke with an overpowerirg
headache and said at once before her
brain could form the thought, II will
send for Hagar." She did so after read
ing Wills letter with indifference, and
| to her own establishment received the
girl warmly, submitted to be sent to
sleep by her as usual, and for the whole
of the time that Will was absent hardly
suffered her out of her sight. She had
forgotten her jealousy, or at most it
was vague memory, and she seemed to
have gone back at bound to the school
days when she was absolutely under
Hagar's sway And they talked of IRE
lawny-always Trelawny. Willis name
was never mentioned between them.
Lady Lirriper raised her brows when
she found herself alone at almost every
meal, for Blake was also away, and she
thanked her stars that the inside OF an
other fortnight would see her at home.
Meanwhile she drove over to see Lord
Straubenzee, and left him wretched,
whereby her own equanimity was con-
siderably restored.
"Good gracious, child" she said to
Mamie after dinner that night, "you
look as if you were walking in your
sleep, and why do you follow Hagal
about like poodle? 1t fidgets me to
see you ~
81 want Blake!" cried out Mamie
sharply and suddenly, and the servants
who were handing coffee stared at her
"Where is he? Send for him. Tell hin
Iwant him." Then muttering and will
her face flushed she fell back asleep OF
the satin pillows of her couch.
| ,Nf oh M in, "
cry limb, when the men had gone, ant
came near and looked down ON the girl
her goddess old face white as chall
through its rouge.
"Has it come out in her, the curse?'
she said hoarsely. 1.-TWO OF my broth
, ers drank themselves to death. Oh, m
, God, she must have been drinking be
! , fore she came here Notwithstanding
and month old bride! Well may sh
call for Blake-he is strong and woul
> have prevented it, but that fool Cas-
silis''- She pulled herself together an
tottered away, grown suddenly into
hapgard. shrunken old woman. IAN
it's Blake she loves now, )" she said wit
terrible eyes, ''and it will be all shame
: dis9race"-
At that moment Will came into ii
room. He had come to decision MOI
!, quickly than be expected==he woul
|, take her abroad at once and see whi
: change would do and so returned une1
: pectedly, but now stopped short, alarme
: at the tableau presented to him.
= "What is it," he cried, then strobe
!, the sofa and lifted Mamie in his arms
a She did not waken-h her face was deel
= ly flushed, and she muttered :Blake
!. in her dreams.
!. "Tipsy," said Lady Lirriper, her fac
h grim and convulsed. lyon have mao
her unhappy and drinks in her bioot
She has flown to it for consolation. 1t
\ your work, and you've got to bear it. ;
"Oh, my God!' cried Will, staggerin
J., like dying man as he laid her dow
!. and would have fallen had not Hags
!, caught him in her arms.