The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-03-12
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Dolly.
"1t is very easy to act, too" Re.
turns Marian, 'if you are positively
certain that your plan Of campaign
is going to be successful. :" 81
"How do I know that it will be?ss'#aa. !.
ss"rry it for twenty-four hours, and
see how it works.
E 'But 1don't know what Il am to-
do" IL J. &. s:= s-s..5.ss. s... .t.ss.
'You must be absolutely guided by
me, and not act for one moment ON
your own responsibility
I 81 daresay it will turn out all
wrong" says Dolly ungraciously,
'and then l shall lose him alto
gether." VA. ass : 7 + 81.
"All right" replies Mrs. Dalton,
losing patience and rising from her
seat. ''Do as you like After all,
what on earth does it matter to me
whether you are happy or miserable?
Go your own way J. =ss...s= : >5.ss= zzss.* .s
Dolly springs up and catches her
by the arm. mo, no. Marian, don't
go; don't be angry. I will do what
ever you tell me-" ~. .%~ ...-., =s=z.$
"Then hearken and obey. Dick.
Wyndham is coming tonight: You
know he is rather fond of you. Talk
to him, and to him only, all the eve n
ing. Do not glance in Mr.. Lascelles'
direction. / will keep my eye on him,
and report to you how he takes it.
If he approaches you in the evening,
look bored and distract, and reply to
him By nronosyllables."
II shall never be able to do it,"
groans Dolly. -.
'Not with such big stake to win?"
a. little sarcastically). ...,...~s--
"Ah! you don't know what it is to
love!" cries Dolly. rt.>.s,
''Not as you do, certainly" retorts
Marian, with an infection OF voice
which Dolly is not acute enough to
catch.
Dick Wyndham arrives in time for
dinner. He IS rather fond of Dolly;
he is exceedingly hard up, and wants
her money even more than her sweet
self. He is bright and amusing. has
considerable fund of small talk, is de.
voted to sport, and has not Mr.. Las.
celles' aesthetic taste of lofty manner
OF showing superiority. He has q
genuine contempt for man who
talks art and plays classical music,
as Mr.. Lascelles has for one who
thinks OF nothing but hunting, lawn.
tennis and polo, though herides fairly
straight, and is an average shot him.
self.
Not a little disgusted is Lascelles,
therefore, when Dolly, whose sorrow.
fulness and it's cause have greatly
soothed his, s,complacency for the last
.twenty-fOur hours seems to have eyes
and cars for no one but this half-wit-
edzsnldierat ts dinner She is looking
charming ia q dress Of delicious aprii-
cot tint, which he has not seen before
(he is great connoisseur of dress).
Ii he could only catch her eye he
would beam. on her one of those
glances which would have intoxicated
her maiden soul. But whereas it has
been his wont to meet her tender,
pleading glances every two minutes
heretofore, tonight he might be Ban
quo's ghost, and she one of Macbeth's
guests, for all she seems to see him.
His memory serves him up various
sneering and savage quotations On the
theme OF souvept femme varie. He is
so little con genial to his neighbor at
dinner that she expresses the most
untavorable sentiments regarding him
IN the drawing room later on, causing
Dolly to halt between the desire to de-
fend MIN hotly, and a sense of pleas.
ure that some one else beside herself
had suffered from his coldness. Mrs.
Dalton makes a pretext for calling
Dolly aside.
Excellent, my love'' she cries, in
high good-humor, pressing the girls
arm. "He is enraged ebey ond measure.
He scarcely took his eyes off you. Go
on and prosper:
Thus stimulated. Dolly does go on,
and prospers exceedingly. When Mr..
Lascelles and Dick approach stimuli
taneously she devotes her whole at.
tention to the latter, and has scarcely
word for the former. who presently
retires in tragic dudgeon, and leans
against the wall, looking like Hamlet,
Lord Byron, or any other blighted
being in the sulks.
In reality, Dick is the person most
to be pitied, although his face is
alight with smiles, and his heart
aglow with anticipations of possess
Ing a lovely woman, and satisfying
the debtors who, metaphorically
speaking, takes him by the throat,
crying: "Pay me what thou owestp'
Innocent creature that he is, he sus-
poets no treachery, nor dreams that
milk-white bosom palpitates for the
''infernal young ,'rig' over the way.
Dolly will play billiards and lawn
tennis with him on the morrow; IN
the afternoon they are to ride togeth.
er;; and as he sits smoking after the
ladies have retired, he reflects on the
most approved method Of asking
certain question. s@:
Up to this moment Clement LascelI-
es has not seen any necessity for put.
ting his fate to the touch, because he
had been absolutely certain Of win.
ming; but now that for the first time
he had q rival, a rival who IS progress
ing by leaps and bounds in his>lady,s
favor, he sees that something must be
done. He cannot have been befooled.
She loves him, or-he, the adept at
reading the secrets. of souls, must for
once have been deluded. Perish the
thought! .s.,s )
5 With gloomy brow and stately step
he redires from the smok oking-room and
seeks4the solitude of hiss chamber h1t