The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-17

out TO count mp your own or any other |
persons blessings. Providence has got |
mean way Of overhearing the counting
process and docking you of half of them. |
There's an ugly cross in Nannie's hand, |
and perhaps long after we've settled |
down to our potty little lives, quite |
happy in them, she II come to envy us. |
Don't you suppose that other women
will try TO get her adored Willie away |
from her? He wouldn't have caught |
Mamie if he hadn' caught lots of other
women too.
Hagar raised her brows.
"What have you been reading" she
said, ''or hearing, since newspapers are
forbidden here?"
She had risen and now stood confess
ed in all her magnifcence of feet 8
above the lounging, commonplace fig
ures around, and as she put up her
hands to smooth the plaits that coiled
heavily into the nape of her neck a sud-
den premonition, a fear. seized upon
Martha Cane.
Il wish you weren't going home
with Mamie, she said slowly. "You
have far too much influence over her,
and you may use it for harm yet Sup
posing you fall in love with Will Cas-
silis yourself?"
Hagar paused, door handle in hand.
"Or he with me?" she said and passed
out.
''I hate her, cried Martha, sitting
erect as the door closed. "It can't be
right for her to get every one, body and
soul, under her thumb that she chooses.
I'm the only one who has stood up
against her, and she can't forgive me-
never will. F"
"Whoever marries Mamie marries
Hagar Gregorias, said the quiet voice
at distance, "but / am by no means
sure that man will be Will Cassilis.
Les absens ont ,toujours tort, and Blake
Trelawny is great deal more in evil
dence than the banished one. Do you
remember how Mamie used to hate
him, and now his portrait is in her
room?"
"Ther room, put in Martha. "Hers
and the jregorias'. That's not Nannie's
DOING
"And she positively smiled when
she saw him in church last Sunday. A
year ago she would have got under the
seat rather than look at him, and this
is Hagar's doing. l wonder what her
little game is? But with such over
towering influence as hers over Mamie
it should be the easiest thing in the
world to marry her to any man her
steamship pleases. 4"
"Ahr" cried Martha. $50 you agree
with me. You don't believe the infiu-
ence is exactly holy one that she exer-
cises over MANNER" Cup to certain
point, ;" said the quiet voice, cit will do
no harm. For instance, those headaches
that Mamie always suffered from and
which Hagar can soothe away almost
with a touch-to be saved those hours
of suffering is distinct gain, and must
honestly say that 1 have never seen that
: influence exercised for evil. Still, if il
) comes to parting Of the ways, if, fol-
!. instance, both fall i'll love with the same
man, Mamie, not Hagar, will go to the
; wall -
; Therefore she is no true friend
said Martha. Tomorrow they both re-
turn to Straubenzee, and Will Cassilis
exile is not up till Sept. ], which gives
four clear weeks to Blake Trelawny.
She will see him every day, just as she
met him at balls, at her fathers hunt
breakfasts, at dinner, everywhere, il
short, during the Christmas holidays
and she will have the Gregorias to ait
and abet him in every possible way
I and shouldn't like to bet ON the re-
suit"
mamie is the stanchest, dearest lit
tie soul in the world" cried out one Of
the girls stoutly. Horses wouldn { drae
her away from her Willie. Don't you be
lieve ity That's her charm-that She
so true hearted. And she is only civil tt
Trelawny to please Hagar.
"a man might we'll be civil to hin
for his own sake" said the quiet voice
drawing deep breath. There's mar
for you if you like When look at him
feel a. il all the other men are pin
! cushions or walking sticks. Trelawny'I
= alive, and let's you know it.. +"
l "Well," said Martha" confess
like that sort Of man, anything that rep
resents, movement. life, motive power
man who makes you realize something
/, Of the forces that rule the world, and Il
always moving, living, fighting. achiev
; ing, never standing still and rustinl
: like students and women.
"I'm not sure that like such an in
carnate potentiality as Trelawny," sait
the quiet voice. There is such thini
E as being too aggressively masculine, jus
as the overdose of femininity in on
grandmothers has produced the mon
. strous creature from whom men nov
fee en- masse. must belong primaril.
!, to myself. Blake Trelawny would regart
q woman as belonging solely to him. "
! "Odd he never fell in love with TIN
Gregorias, said Martha. THAT typ
Of man is usually mad about beauty
and Mamie is just a sweet little whit
violet beside rare, wonderful fiowe
that blooms once in century. Hagar j
! Greek reincarnated, and I'm Away
expecting her to drop into the Phpni