Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-03-05

monk, then walked to the door, and stood
for one moment looking on the hot white.
ness of the landscape without. A foot.
step and voice behind him made him look
round.
II beg your pardon: l think you have
dropped this paper"
The young lady with the violet eyes and
rcd-brown hair was offering him Il paper.
Lawrence took it hastily, and with u
certain mir of CONSERVATION.
II. am very much obliged to you," he
said. the color slightly rising in his face.
ut would have Inconvenience me very
much to lose this letter. l owe you many
thanks. So now we are quits" he went
on To himself. as he strollcd down the
dusty road. "Shc has thanked me, and
have thanked her. OF the two, it is
she who has done the greater service. l
thought l had put that part of my letter
into the envelope. 1t seems l did not,
and so my letter has gone without it's
conclusion. What did | say in the first
sheet. | wonder! l believe ! left my de-
ci>ivc answer unwrittcn till the last"
He opened the folded sheet of foreign
paper and ran his eyes ovcr the words
it contained. They were not many. LAS
regards Your plan of wintcring in Egypt
because | do, l think it is (if You will
allow me to say sol absurd and imprac-
ticahlc. Clare is not in the state of
health To take Il long journey. She had
much better go to Mcntone. if she goes
abroad at all. Tell her so from mic with
my love. l will write to her next mail.
Your affectionatc nephew. J.. u. L."
Lawrence mrditated. ~ posted my
letter yesterday" he said. "Shall /
write another? No. I'll wait and write
to Clare when I'm OH board and post it
at Alexandria. There's plenty of time.
OF course they would not leave England,
even for Mcntone. without M permission.
After all, Clare will be much better Mt
home his winter than wandering about
i'll trains and steamboats,. They should
nave made Il change earlier in the year,
lie crushed the letter i'm his hand, and
brgan tn tear it into small fragments,
which III" strcwed along the road as he
went. II shall feel anxious till | see
their next letters now. l SUPPOSE he re-
1ected. as If with Il sense of injury. 81
shall get them at Alexandria, and l
must wait there for new of their move
inents. 1 almost wish that girl hadn't
picked mp the paper. l should have felt
much more free ii I had thought that
they would get my decision by that mail.
Even if write again to-day. there will
he an interval of IL day or two between
the letters. Shall l telegraph to them
not to leave Queens Holly"
Thus debating with himself he walked
back L" the town. and entered the hotel,
and when hr embarked on board the
Syria that Afternoon. neither letter nor
telegram had been dispatched. After
he had arranged his luggage in his cabin,
hr came on deck for II smoke before din
lcr. Aal the first person that he saw
upon th" deck. seated i'm a low bamboo
chair. and wrapped liz II i!ccry whi,..
shawl. WAS the lady with the violet eyes
whose acquaintance he had made that
day i'm the church of tho capurhils. near
Nllrttn.
"KiSmci..' said Lawrence lo himself
with Il half-inuSrd smile. What ser
vice shall! WE do rarh other next. | WON
der: One might venture IL great dcnl fo,.
Il woman with such u glorious pai,. of
eyes,