Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-05
The TWO LOVERS.

yo,, have no right to talk to me
HAT" said Mabel Courthope, in
Iantlv. 'Just because we have
Ern each other so long is not the
reoson in the world why you
! ID presume to dictate to me as to
Eriendship. It's mean of you"
|t,m sorry. Mabel" replied Jim
h bumbiy, "but I was only think
Ii YOU, and I don't like Reginald
Eer, and
h. cut him short with a scornful
laugh.
/ likes and your dislikes, but if
1 does not object to my knowing
Bulwer, [ don't see why you
! i'd take me to task"
No." replied Jim YEARLY, " I
\ know why [ should; only not so
lone ago you never used to snub
srhen I yentured an opinion upon
Subject, even upon your acquaint-
I, i seems things have altered. "
label Courthope made no reply to
Remark. and after glancing once
her face, Jim babe her good
/. and refusing the half-hearted
lotion to him to ''come in for half
our, as papa would be so glad to
You, made his way to his solitary
ling.
Kings had changed considerably,
effected, in the past six months
much he had scarcely realized
! this very evening. And it was
wing to an individual Of whose
kence he had been entirely una
until some time after Christmas.
had been happy in the love that
grown up within him from the
when he had first met Mabel
fthope. He could have sworn
it had been reciprocated until
nald Bulwer appeared on the
e. Then things changed. Unfor-
. tely, he admitted there was only
much reason for the change.
fer was everything he was not.
Ier was rich, handsome and an
pcrat. Jim was poor, plain and
beian, and when he reckoned up
dvantages which lay in his rival,
Todd groaned in spirit, but it was
until the week before Henley
they were finally shattered.
had called in the hope of persu-
Mabel to 60 with him to Henley
e final day of the regatta, and
been met with the information
she had already accepted an invi-
to spend a week there with a
of Bulwer's friends on house
It was the bitterness of the
pointed hope which made him
the dislike which he felt in
lively for Bulwer, and led to the
fel-the first quarrel he had ever
ed himself to be drawn into with
Courthope. 1t only added to
election to perceive in the last
ward glance he cast toward the
nat she already seemed to have
tten him. Another had occupied
ost he had vacated; and Mabel,
leaned over the fence, was too
to to give him another look.
Mabel Courthope was not alto
at ease with herself. She liked
immensely, and, until the adven
slAatd Bulwer, had fancied her
love with him. But when Bull
ppeared, jim was eclipsed COM
Y: 1t battered the girls vanity
eve the attentions of the dark,
EOme man. None of her girl
y could boast such a sutton, and
Ie pleasure she found in his So
was Que to the envious chances
lemlnlne acquaintance. Be-
Ut the most, Jim would be able
ner a suburban home, while
t"Iu HE would have undreamed-
SSIoiltes. She was so sick of
l'ufos, she told herself, and the
ifeer life of Mayfair seemed to
ssains Its doors to her. She ac-
inIpheltly all Bulwer had It'd
.ue society which seemed so far
Ion brlxton, and his position
'Snu OF promise. She wondered
s. name tremulous with delight at
r':erles, when he told her that
AS queens there was none to
WIN her when he limited at
r mat he soon might venture
tb W accept her right position
lem' Yet when she turned
f E.snes Tor while from the daz-
lure OF her dream something
Gnd 'esret was apt to crop up in
va.,. jim was not brilliant, but
Of ~ tender. He had no great
atbs a.'s y: friends, but he
ns;n die than give her a mo-
pa;r IN, Like most girls of 90
bund1 VI lovers, she was VERT
onsr e OF indecision. She had
The r excepted an invitation to
Ossa week es at Henley under the
ths aes o OF lady friend of Bull
ay vb sue began to regret that
ed !, ~: she knew she would
4'lm's company. However,