Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21

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.
Il beg your 'pardon; think you have
dropped this paper"
The young lady with the violet eyes and
red-brown hair was offering him paper.
Lawrence took it hastily and with a
certain air of CONSERVATION.
i am very much obliged to you," he
said, the color slightly rising in his face.
1T would have Inconvenience me very
much to lose this letter. owe you many
thanks. So now we are quits" he went
on to himself, as he strolled down the
dusty road. 'She has thanked me, and
l have thanked her. Of the two, it is
she who has done the greater service.
thought l had put that part of my letter
into the envelope. 1t seems / did not,
and SO my letter has gone without it's
conclusion. What did / say in the first
sheet, l wonder? / believe I left my de-
cisive answer unwritten till the last"
He opened the folded sheet of foreign
paper and ran his eyes over the words
it contained. They were not many. "As
regards your plan of wintering in Egypt
because l do, think it is Gf you will
allow me to say so) absurd and imprac-
ticable Glare is not in the state of
health to take a long journey. She had
much better go tos Mentone, if she goes
abroad at all. Tell her so from me with
my love. l will write to her next mail
Your affectionate nephew, j. D. L.
Lawrence meditated. Ct posted my
letter yesterday" he said. "Saall I
write another? No, I'll wait and write
to Glare when I'm on board and post it
at Alexandria. There's plenty of time
OF course they would not leave England,
even for Mentone, without my permission
After all, Glare will be much better at
home this winter than wandering about
in trains and steamboats,. They should
have made change earlier in the year"
He crushed the letter in his hand, and
began to tear it into small fragments,
which he strewed along the road as he
went. II shall feel anxious till see
their next letters now, suppose" he re-
f1ected, as if with q sense of injury. 81
shall get them at Alexandria, and I
must wait there for news Of their move
ments. l almost wish that girl hadn't
picked up the paper. / should have felt
much more free if [ had thought that
they would get my decision by that mail
Even if l write again to-day, there will
be an interval of day or &two between
the letters. Shall l telegraph to them
not to leave Queens Holt?'
Thus debating with himself he walked
back to the town, and entered the hotel,
and when he embarked on board the
Syria that Afternoon, neither letter nor
telegram had been dispatched After
he had arranged his luggage in his cabin,
he came on deck for smoke before din
ner. And the first person that he saw
upon the deck, seated in a low bamboo
chair, and wrapped in a feecy white
shawl, was the lady with the violet eyes
whose acquaintance he had made that
day in the church of the Capuchins, near
Valetta.
''Kismetw said Lawrence to himself,
with a half-amused smile. what SER
vice shall we do each other next, I won
der? One might venture great deal for
woman with such glorious pair Of
eyesv'