Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-01-06


Lena rose haughtily from her seat, and
said, apparently with the utmost indiffer-
ence:
every well, mamma, do just as you
please. It's all the same to me- And
she passed upstairs to her own room.
CHAPTER XVII.
Three hours later Lena and her maid
were speeding down to Dover. The infat-
uated woman had decided that she must
speak to Captain Dorsay before he left
England, and no consideration of shame
or propriety deferred her. She instinc-
lively felt that he would put up at the
best hotel in the town. Jack Dorsay new
er catered so well for anything as his own
comfort and convenience, so, on arrival,
she ordered her cabman to drive to the
second best, where she ordered a meal,
for the sake of appearances for her SER
want and herself. When it was over she
put on a thick veil and went out for a
walk She ordered the maid to await her
| return in the hotel. She had no intention
of being either watched or followed.
| When Lena was clear of the premises she
walked rapidly in the direction of the
! principal hotel, and asked if Captain Dor
say was staying there Captain Dorsay,
who had only arrived few minutes be-
| fore, and was in the smoking room en-
| joying a cigar, was astonished to hear
| that lady wished to speak to him.
"A lady! Impossible! What's her
| nameg
''She didn't give any name, sir I've
shown her into Il private room"
! Jack Dorsay's first idea-a very wild
one-was that Rosie's gratitude to him
| had developed itself in following him to
Dover. He threw down his cigar and
went quickly to the room indicated by the
waiter. What was his disgust at recog-
/ nizing in his mysterious visitor the won-
an he thought he had SO successfully elud-
| ed
"You here, Lady Ewell!' he exclaimed,
with most uncomplimentary emphasis.
| what on earth has brought you down
to Dover?"
'You have, Jack" she answered, "you
only. Oh! what made you write that
cruel note? 1t has nearly driven me out
of my senses"
Il think it must have driven you quite
out of them. if it induced you to follow
me here! Good heavens! Do you know
the risk you are running? Suppose your
/ mother or your husband got wind of such
an escapade, you would ruin yourself for
nothing. III heavens name, Lena, let
me entreat you to go back at once to
/ town.
| "And you would drive me forth again
without q single word of kindness! You
would leave England without even bid
ding me farewell Oh, you are cruelty,
cruelty changedn'
Il am changed, and you know it, and
ought to rejoice at the improvement. You
have reproached me bitterly for not keep
ing up my former intimacy with you.
| What! have you so little sense of honor
as to wish me to make love to the wife
while | take the hand of her husband!
| Lena laughed harshly.
Honor! honor For heavens sake,
/ Jack, call things by their right names.
Say you don't love me any longer, that
you are sick of me, or you have found
some woman who pleases you better, but
don't try to defend your own ickieness on
the charge of honor
Perhaps you are right" said Dorsay
quietly. Perhaps between people like
YOU and me the simple truth is the best.
| Well, then, Lena-ungallant as it may
seem to say SOL an tired of you. Tired
of your scheming, your duplicity, your
heartlessness. And, whatever you may
do or say, we two shall never again be to
one another what we have been"
Il will not go honae!' she exclaimed
passionately Il will go with you-only
with you! What do care for my family
or society? Let them take care of them
selves. Is my whole life to be wrecked
and made miserable for the sake of a few
| :,
! "Then if you are deaf to any claims OF
morality or affection, Lena, tell you
plainly that YOU shall not go with me-
..Take me abroad with you, make me
! your wife when the storm has blown over,
and will place every penny possess IN
/ conditionally in your hands. 10 a man Of
! your proclivities could give no greater
i proof of my attachment
| MAKE you my wife! Never! Not if
were free ten times over. But / am not
free! Mary Dorsay still lives, and will
! live long after / have sunk into an I'M
hallowed grave
| Lady Ewell trembled with agitation
your wife still lives? Lady Beau
| champ assured me she was dead"
"A mere report. She is madden than
ever, and stronger than ever. The two
always so together. But We're she dead
in truth, Lena, it would make no differ
ence to YOU"
You despise me- then?'
II do despise you-heartily! Listen to
me. There was time when you saw
that my whole soul was becoming alb
sorbed-Wrongly, I confess. but still abb
sorbed-in the fresh, simple affection Of
an innocent, pure minded child. Had you
come to me then, as a friend, and warned
me, privately, against the ruin that
might bring upon myself and her, / should
have been stayed in my downward path,
and should have honored you for your
interference. But you chose another meth
od-one from which every honorable
minded woman would have shrunk. In