Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-03-04

worse scamp in all Europe. That's my
opinion of Damer Lawrence, at any rate,
and he knows it,"
CHAPTER XVIII.
Everybody sat silent and uncomforta-
BILE for the moment or two that followed
Mrs. Seymour's speech. She followed it
up by another piece of information.
''John Denzil Lawrence is a very diff
ferent man or else I should not have ac-
cepted him for my daughter. He is en-
gagged to her. They have been engaged
these three years"
Some civil reply was murmured in re-
turn, and then the door opened.
'It is my daughter" said Mrs. Sey-
mour Jelly. "Come in, Clare"
Icily she might speak, but oh! how her
face softened. The color suddenly leaped
into her withcred cheeks, the fire into
her pale eyes. Looking from the mother
to the daughter at that moment, Anne
caught glimpse of what Adela Seymour
had been before her bloom had faded and
her features grown stern and cold. 1t
was easy for her afterward to believe
what she was told-that thirty years be-
fore this little gaunt, gray woman had
been the belle of every ballroom in her
daughter Glare was NOW.
A very slight dainty little figure, a COM
plexion of porcelain pink and white; large
blue eyes and cloud of golden hair.
Miss Seymour leaned back in her chair,
and looked utterly uninterested in either
visitors or conversation. Mrs. Dumaresq
was rather anxious to go, but found that
she could not do so until tea had been
brought in.
Presently Mrs. Seymour referred once
more to her nephews. did I understand
you to say" she asked, fixing her eyes
deliberately on Anne, "that Mr.. Damer
Lawrence had gone to Venice to find us ~
EYES," said Anne, feeling her color rise.
GLOW long has he been here?'
Mrs. Dumaresq interposed. "He came
here first in November. Perhaps you did
not hear of his accident in December? He
broke his leg, and was unable to move for
some time"
"Yes; Mrs Dumaresq nursed him most
carefully" said Mrs. Burton. HE stayed
at Mrs. Dumaresq's house for two
months.
GAS relation of his, am much obliged
to- Mrs. Dumaresq," said Mrs. Seymour,
with a stiff bend of her head. 'He did
not inform me of the circumstance. But
indeed l have not corresponded with him
for some years. My nephew, Denzil, who
must have been here about the same
time, did not mention it, either"
Mrs. DumaresQ was at a loss. She had
not heard Of the other nephew. She did
not know whether he had been in Alex
andria or not. She turned to Anne rather
awkwardly for information-Mrs Sey-
mour had a knack of making everybody
do awkward things-and Mrs Seymour's
eyes followed her, and fixed themselves
once more upon Anne's face.
MIR. Lawrence told us that he was going
to do so"
But by this time Anne was perfectly
tranquil She did not color beneath Mrs.
Seymour's strange hard looks; she re-
piled simply and naturally to her aunt's
question.
"Mr. Damer Lawrence mentioned his
cousin two or three times to me. He said
that they were always being mistaken
one for the other, because one was called
John Damer Lawrence and the other
John DenZil Lawrence"
Il told you so, mamma" Miss Glare
broke in, with visible pout. Il will not
call him Denzil; will call him Jack, and
then people will perhaps learn to distin-
guish him from Damer Lawrence
Call him what you like said her
mother dryly. HE never signs himself
anything but Denzil.'
81 always address his letters John D.
Lawrence and l always will" murmur-
cd the daughter with some sulkiness.
The visitors were little astonished by
this outburst. But Mrs. Seymour contin-
ued. without trace of disconposure:
81 know that mistakes often arise. And
did Mr.. Damer Lawrence mention his
Cousins VISIT"
Anne thought for moment. II think
he said one day either that his cousin had
been here or was coming. l cannot quite
remember"
.Ah! Well, Mr.. Denzil Lawrence did
not stay long in Alexandria," said Mrs.
Seymour. HE went to Cairo almost i'm
mediately, | believe, and up the Nile. l
cannot say that he has given us a very
full account of his proceedings. He is
up the Nile now, l think. We shall wait
here until he comes back"
(To be continued.)