The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-21

walls 60 the furniture aud brocaded
hangings and velvet carpet at her feet,
no color anywhere save in the flowers
that showed their tints royalty in that
white setting.
The door opened quickly behind her,
and the next moment she was in Wills
arms His face was little flushed, his
glance strange, but he took long drink
Of kisses as if he were dying of thirst
and clasped her TO him with all his
earliest passion. why have you been
hiding yourself, little one?" he said.
"Hagar and / looked for you every
where out of doors
$50 1 saw" said Mamie, who had
not returned one Of his kisses. lyon
were hurrying all you knew when l saw
you walking in the garden with her for
the last hour.
Will colored, but looked at his wife
steadily and did not let her bulge an
inch when she tried to free herself.
"You asked me to be kind to her,"
he SAID reproacn1ulIy. ''At one time
you were always quarTeling with ne
because did not like her. "
"And now you like her too much ~
burst out Mamie, who was nothing If
not jealous, and the more odious she felt
the more odicus she longed to appear.
Such is human nature. why didn't
you marry her when you had the chance
and leave me to Blake, who never look
ed at Hagar-wouldn' look ut Venus
herself if were by?"
"Nannier' exclaimed Will in horrcr,
and putting her from him.
Mamie caught a glimpse Of her little
red nose in the glass opposite, and 1t
did not sweeten her temper.
81 mean it, she said, all the more
positively because she did not in the
least, "and you can go and fiirt with
your Gregorias as much as you like.
shall talk to Trelawny."
Suddenly there flashed through Wills
memory the words, eff ever You treat
her i'll, if ever Of her own free will she
| turns to me, without my lifting fin
ger, mind, TO beckon to her, will take
| her, nor man nor devil shall hinder
me-" and pale, distracted, inwardly an
gry with himself for something, hC
scarcely knew what, that had passed be
tween him and Hagar that morning
he stood downcast before Mamie, al
image of apprehension and guilt.
Mamie had heaps of pluck, and sh'
wanted it, too, as she turned away, anc
putting large dab of powder on he
nose because she knew he hated her us
ing it she marched grandly to the door
making, however, an inglorious exit a
Will, recovering himself, made a gra
at her, barely escaping pinched finger
as the f0cr shut smartly i'll his face.
"Con4ound that womanp' cried Viii
Tuning and chatting as he walked owe
to Nannie's silver covered table and III
sently began 10 brush his hair. ''Wha
does she mean-what do / mean, toI,
fooling round with her? Every beat
my heart is Nannies, and yet the won
an is getting some COMPOUNDED influenC
over me, and if l don't fight it foot
ard nail
He sat down, queer nervelessne'
about his attitude, his muscles fiacci
and unstrung.
"Thank God she II be gone soon, " /
|
we'll. Strange that Trelawny seemed I'll
only danger, and now he's behaving ;
we'll as possible, while p In h
mind he dashed Hagar with words I
obloquy, but deep in his man S vanit
and it is to be found in the noble
and best of men-he knew that he fo
gave her for loving him. The gift WI
one of rarity and value from such
woman and had not been thrust upc
him, nay, it had not yet been offere'
, He closed his eyes, he saw the priv
white purity of her skin, the sea biz
of her eyes, the cleft chin that is love
sign manual of temperament, and ye
. and this was the strangest thing OF al
he had been aware of all this a ye
. ago, and it had not moved him one jc
!. With what new forces was she charg'
to make her dangerous to him todayi
They must be resisted. He set b
teeth hard, and with all an honorabl
logged Ehghshman's strength of w
he resolved that they should be, then
rose, and looking out of that windc
which had surely played considerah
part in that days drama saw his Wi
and Trelawny walking together below
Their faces were turned toward ca
other, they looked happy, and memor
by no means kind friend to Will tn
day, supplied him with another signi
cant fragment:
"She has latterly experienced on
nv roughness; she does not know WI
my tenderness could be.
He turned abruptly away, and in ti
moment it seemed to him that the fur
had crossed his threshold and his dres
of happiness was over.
CHAPTER Xxx.
Some passions have to be learn'