The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-19

situation. ana directing her eyes full up
ON Mamie kept them there for some
seconds. then passed on. In the very act
OF calling out to her Mamie wavered,
trembled, her head sank, and in another
moment, beckoned by those passionate,
imperious eyes, she would have been in
TrelawDy's arms, when, with u supreme
effort, she pulled herself together, and
falling back before him shrieked ont:
my God! If you touch Inc, will kill
myselfr'
And the man who could have crushed
with one hand this slender girl through
whose veins quivering thrills Of horror
leaped knew that she would do it, ard
for one mad moment had almost snatch
ed her, taken his fill of kisses, staid
the hunger of his soul, then left her to
carry out her threat, and SO be neither
his nor Willie's nor any other mans
wife at all, when with sudden revul-
sion of feeling he threw himself into
broken chair and casting his head down
on table signed fiercely TO her to go.
Noiselessly she stepped past him, the
door closed, and cursing himself for his
scruples he leaped up and dashed in
pursuit, but she had escaped, and lock-
ing herself into her room sat trembling
in every limb
How was it to end, this sinister in
fluence that Trelawny exercised over
her, an influence backed and strength
apad IN, soma ,,,fapUib1a xvaxy NV Houor
for it was only when the latter was
close at hand that all power of self pro-
lection seemed to desert her? She could
not, she dared not, tell Willie of this
mornings scene, and yet how many
more might there not be before he took
her absolutely under his protection
Might she not indeed be coerced into
deeds against which her soul revolted,
even into being Blake Trelawny's wife?
She shudde1ed as she sat on her little
bed and tried TO think what she would
do She bad no woman friend to go to,
for she no longer implicitly trusted
Hagar, and her nearest female relative,
Lady Lirriper, would laugh in her face
and bid her marry Trelawny and think
herself lucky. so there was no help
! there. Her father-he would not IN
derstand, for there is ever great gulf
between father and daughter in matters
Of love.
There was only Willie, and she could
not beg him to marry her out Of hand
and take her away, as she would have
liked to do, and now Willie himself
was knocking at the door and whisper
ing superlatives through the keyholt
and entreating her to come out.
Darling, where are your" he was
saying. Il have been searching the
whole place over for you, and it is JUS
luncheon time.
"I'm coming" she cried out, ther
smoothed her hair, put Oh fresh rib
bon and tried to look just as usual. Blu
before they had reached the end Of TIT
corridor Willie, whose brows were knit
ted, had during his search for her come
to a momentous decision, and unde.
cover of friendly recess stopped to tel
her so.
81 don't know what that brute Tre
lawny says or does to upset you, littl
one," he said, "but though can't kicl
him out Of Your fathers house and La
dy Lirriper cap't bear MIN out of he
sight l can kick him ont of mine, an
1 don't choose you to be subjected
at least three weeks more of his polit
bullying and being chivied round b
him, so 1 give you fair notice that II
going up to town tomorrow to buy
wedding license, and l mean to ru
away with you the night of the ball
2 next Thursday night-so there u
Mamie did not faint or weep or blus
or do anything she ought to have dor
under the shock of this announcement
What she really did was to clasp III
soft arms round her lovers neck, with
soul that rose above trousseaux and
sigh of the deepest bliss, and say, "Ol
how lovely, Willie"
And SO it was settled.