The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-18
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blue eyes, "and if you had not met Will
Cassilis you might be supremely happy
as Lady Trelawny. No one will ever
love you as we'll. Not Will or any 9TH
en-"
"And yet you hate him - said Nan
ME, with one OF those flashes of intui-
tion that OCCASIONALLY startled Hagar,
as proving how little she understood
the girl. "You can't keep it out of your
face and voice. try as you will, and yet
you would have me marry him'
Hagar was silent.
Yes, she hated him. We may flagel-
late our sins with every savage word of
obloquy we can command in our private
thoughts, but the obvious contempt of
others is hard to bear, especially when
in this especial instance we have done
nothing TO deserve it.
"And feel, )" said Mamie, her heart
beating very fast, but with courage
astonishing to herself, THAT, much as
/ love you, / do not understand you,
Hagar, as You understand me. You can
make me believe black is white, butt
explain yourself" said Hagar, sit
ting erect and speaking with the pride
Of Lucifer.
gardens when you begged and prayed
for something She paused. The
men servants had come to take the coffee
cups away.
The room, with its colored lights of
different shades, its French furniture
and exotics, looked like some hinge ex-
quisitely tinted rose and was feast to
the eye, but its beauty was far from the
thoughts of either of its occupants just
then.
4, Because l begged and prayed of
him not to give himself up, not to drag
me through all tho horror of accusing
and delivering him over TO shameful
DEATH" said Hagar calmly when they
were once more alone, land you blame
me because aid not bind him down
the man who had given me freedom. "
Mamie was silent. An ineffaceable
impression had been left on her mind
of Hagar importuning for herself, and
though thrust on one side it persistently
REQUIRED now that her friend had joined
a conspiracy to make her forget Willie.
And in many things you are strange,
Hagar,' she said. "Do you remember
how often.you used to go up to the moor
and would always stop beside an old
disused well and stare down into it?
asked you one day why it held such in
terest for you, and you said because
you. hoped all your sins lay buried
there But how can you have had any,"
Hagar turned, and with sudden,
fierce gesture snatched Mamie to her
arms. The soft, yielding, little body
trembled and sickened through and
through ut q thought it had been held
last against Trelawny's breast.
Mamie, said her friend tenderly
and laying her cheek against the fair,
curly head, "can't you trust me? Only
love me, and such, thoughts will be i'm
possible to you. Will Cassilis returns to-
night. No one can come between You.
1t is Blake Trelawny and l, like my
>namesake, who will 60 out into the
desert and suffer.
II am a little beast" said Mamie,
feeling great stone rolled away from
her heart, "but have got so nervous
waiting for Willie-and that summer
house. Oh, never, never can face him u
she added, despair rushing back upon
her. NJ ss4
Forget il, - said Hagar resolutely.
"You did no wrong, and you must new
er tell Will. 80
) Mamie drew herself out of Hagar's
arms, her brown eyes shining
81 must. l can't go to Will ON false
pretenses. "
''Do you want murder done?" cried
Hagar. There is bad enough blood be-
tween the two men now, and to rouse
Trelawny's passions is to create an in
ferno, in which Will, not himself, will
be sacrificed. You have no earthly thing
with which to reproach yourself, and II
your lover has remembered You with
the scrupulous faithfulness you have
shown him there won't be a happier
pair Of lovers OH earth than you at this
time tomorrow night. on
"Ifi' said Mamie gravely, her
thoughts going off ON new track. "Of
course women must like him, he is so
lovable, and I think he is very hand
some, don't you, Hagar?" she added.
blushing. So
"He is straight and tall and strong,
and he has nice ways with women,
said Hagar slowly, "and that's enough
II men only knew how thoroughly we
women appreciated them when they are
nice. they would never be nasty q"
"Blake isn't nasty" said Mamie,
"but lie is not Will. /" She put her band
suddenly to her head. r.,
cit aches" she said.
LET me send you TO sleep for han
an hour, /" said Hagar. II will talk to
your father when he comes in. 90
She leaned over and smOothed' the