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

stillwarm. and through the open French
windows might be seen the four whist
players, prefently reduced to three, as
Blake Trelawny, who loathed cards,
sprang up, vowing he would play no
more.
"Then send Dalrymple in, "cried La
dy Lirriper after him Grossly, but Blake
did nothing of the sort; he only took in a
great breath of fresh, sweet air, as he
looked up at the stars and asked them
why was he ever born and to what end
they supposed he would come.
But they only winked at him in an
swer, as if they Enew lot of things
they did not mean to tell him, and
presently his feet unconsciously took
him awsy from the little house whose
gables were already touched with the
vivid scarlet Of Virginia creeper till lie
found himself outside the castle turrets,
ON the side next the park. Some one
was walking there, and came swiftly to
him as If glad of anything human in
the midst of such loneliness. 1t was
Mamie Her little face looked ghostly
in the half light above her white gown,
and for moment, believing her TO be
miles away, he started, thinking that he
had conjured up her wrath. Il thought
you were dining with Lady Llanaton, !"
he said, his face sterner, darker than
usual in the effort to repress the JOY he
felt at sight of her.
"My head ached," she said, lifting
her hand to her head YEARLY, slim,
girlish shape that somehow looked for
lorn and uncared for, like child alone
in the world, having lost itself and
knowing not where to turn.
"Have you dined?" he asked with
masculine common sense, and OF course
found that she had not-tea is the lnva-
riable panacea of woman in time of
trouble, whereby she more than doubles
her ills.
"Then you'll come round to the cot
tage and get something 70 eat, =" he said,
drawing her hand through his arm, and
though she protested and held back he
| made her come, and entering the house
| by side door established her III the
| dining room, without the whist players
being any the wiser, and went to ind
the butler, bidding him bring wine,
chicken-anything he had got. And
you needn't disturb your mistress, he
had added carelessly.
Then he put cushion behind her
back, stool at her feet, pretended not
to see the misery on her face that pierced
him like a dagger, and when the food
came, with that celebrity which attended
all Blake's behests, he cut 1T up for her
and almost fed her, making her drink
also, so that presently she laughed Ill q
way to make one weep and said:
"Eat the sop sop, Jenny.
Jenny, drink the wine.
Thank you, Robin, kindly
She stopped abruptly and put one
hand to her throat, as II TO hold pecR
Jenny's sweet promise to Robin, ano
Trelawny got up and looked out OF the
window, for a man s tears are blood ano
distilled from his heart.
He had had no idea Of the way things
were tending till tonight. He had moi
seen her in Wills company save wher
others were around, and she was almost
wildly gay. Her kindness to himself hae
gone for nothing. She was simply re
vertine to her old attitude OF trust TO
ward him, and with facile youth hat
already forgotten the stormy interiud'
of his passion for her-forgotten an'
forgiven it,
He was unaware of her jealousy o
Haoar. The two seemed on good term
when they met. For himself he Away
gave that young woman VIDE perrin
as he would any dangerous reptile am
hated to think Of how he had once mao
her his jackal
A servant came in to remove the sup
Der things. When he had gone, biaK
souared his shoulders and came and sa
. down by Mamie.
"You children have been quarreilng'
he said kindly, "and You THINK you
whole world is in ruins, and noth'n
can ever be the same again, and IL
hard. il is bitter, the first quarrel, bu
it has to be got through, my child' ap
You IL come out on the other side VIII
some of the glamour gone, but with NOR
comprehension of each other and moi
mercy for each others faults. That
, where you young people run SO short
in mercy" -.
Mamie sat quite still and siien'
Young as she was she needed no one
teach her that wife must never con
plain of her husband-least or all 10
7 man who has once loved her.
"And so you'll make it up sal
Blake. his vigorous vitality warmin
: her, though she did not know 1t, as Wit
. strong, electric shocks of hope ana coul
age. "He loves no other woman you II
: other man. Why, then, when you nav
. the essentials, quarrel about trifiesf
: He had himself entirely in hand OF
. he was inwardly boiling with rage
! the folly or carelessness that had mac
= will Cassilis bring his month ola WI
y to such a pass as this, and ne iongeu
pick her up in his arms as ne had uul
a hundred times before in her chiiuis
troubles, TO snothe her. be good 20 ne
= do any and every thing to smoc.h o.
II th.t ho,o1oee look of dpspair on the ii