Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-01
CHAPTER VII-(Continued)

Lie colO- on t1anDury race deepeneu
His eyes flashed. 1t was intolerable that
this low, ill-shapen creature should re-
fer to Dora, to Dora-to whom he was
engaged, who was to be his wife, as "a
woman in the case" Anyway, there was
nothing for it but to try to muzzle Leigh.
He forced himself to say calmly: THE
lady who was with me is
Miss Ashton"
Eyes. She told me she gave you her
name and mine. Well, Mr.. Leigh, you
me as a speaker. I am seriously think
ing Of adopting public career. l could
not, for a time at all events, appear on
any platform Of disputed principles if this
unfortunate fainting Of mine got into the
papers. Some opponent would be certain
to throw it in my face. Will you do me
the very great personal favor of keeping
the matter to YOURSELF!
"A personal favor from me to you. On
what grounds do you put the request?'
ION any honorable grounds you please
You said you were not rich"
Il did not say | was corrupt" His
manner was quick, abrupt, final. His
face darkened His eyes glttered. "Mr.
Hamburg, you are rich man.
Not rich, surely"
"You are rich, compared with any man
In this street. You are rich man. You
got your money without work or risk.
You are young and clever, and tall and
straight, and healthy and good-looking,
and eloquent and dear to the most beau"
tiful lady L ever laid eyes Oh"
Course him. thought Hamburg, but he
held his peace, remained without move
ment Of limb or feature.
Rich, good-looking, sound, beloved, elo-
quent, young. Look ut me. Poor, ILL
favored, married and MANNED, loathed, I'M
gifted in speech, middle-aged. Do not
stop me. l have no chance if | allow you,
a gentleman Of your eloquence, to speak
against me. Think Of it ALL and then
work out little calculation for me, and
tell me the result. Will you do SO can
didly, fairly, honestly"
''Yes, indeed, l will
every well. You who are gifted. as l
nave said, come to me who am afflicted,
as l have said, and ask me to do you a
favor, ask me to sell you favor Sup
pose the favor you ask me to do cost me
ten, at how much do you estimate its
value to your
"a hundred. Anything you like"
81 am not thinking of money"
''Nor am l. Anything tenfold returned
to you l will freely give"
''Wait a moment. Let me think a
while"
Leigh sat with his chin sunken deeply
on his chest, and his eyes fixed on the
floor Then he spoke in a low tone, a
tone half of reverie:
Mature deals in wonders, and I am
one of them. And l, in turn, deal in Won
ders, and there are many Of them. Ii l
chose l could show you the most wonder
full clock in all the world, and l could
show you the most wonderful gold in all
the world, more wonderful thousand
times than mystery gold But l will not
show you these things now. l will show
YOU q more wonderful thing still. WIZ
you come with me little way"
"Yes, but you have not set me that
question in arithmetic yet"
81 cannot do so until you have come a
little way with me. l want to show you
the most wonderful thing you ever saw"
"May I ask what it is!'
"You need not be afraid"
s'Why need not be afraid?"
Because you are not hump-ba cked
and chicken-breasted and lop-sided and
dwarfed and hideous.'
But what are you taking me to seeT'
something more wonderful and more
nrecious than any mystery gold, than my
own miracle gold or my clock, and yet Of
q kind common enough.
"WhatY'
ga woman.
"But why should l go:'
"Come, and if you ask me that when
Won have seen, L will ask nothing for my
silence"
"Only woman:'
"Only woman
They descended the stairs.
CHAPTER Will
That morning when Edith Grace fell
Al I'll II.