Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-11-10
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4 reese and think nothing OF II: YOU
Miy, never given me one in Your life.
Welt. YOU have one now. anyway.
sac rvlortca. with Il careless smile
"Nnly think that ii had wanted 10
acorn my coat should have chosen 4
fresh one.
Il suppose YOU won't believe tha, |
want ii simply because You have worn
il: Ii is the truth. Wear the other.
Judith put ii back into your waist
lyI, or 1T Your throat"
"Rubbish.' she calculated.
Laughing al her pcrver>ity. Captain
Herbert took the rose ont of her hand
and placed it in her hair. lingering
over his task. as if he loved il. And
upon this little tahleau Elsie looked.
unseen. unseen by them as she
en-, rgrl from the house.
Size stared incredulnuSly for Il mo-
..unr at the captains very lnvcr-like
attitude. and turned pale with envy
a'll Jealousy. Trembling With anger
against her sister. she advanced to-
wards them. the blushing smile judith
greeted her With and Captain Her
hellS GOODNESS in no wise abatirw her
wrath.
Judith" she said. collly. "Clanlc
wants some assistance with his let
1e->. and l thought YOU would not
mind giving it,
With pleasure replied Judith;
and. with Il laughing glance at the cap
tain. she took the rose out of her hair.
Don't be too long" he whispered.
plcadingly up into her face as she
passed him.
Elsie waited until Judith had passed
out of hearing. when. sinking into a
chair beside him. she remarked. with
an arch little laugh:
You need not expect Judith to put
Claude out Of the way for your con-
venience. Can't you see that she still
considers him before all people?''
Captain Herbert turned and looked
at her wonderingly.
'''Still considers him before all peo-
ple?" he repeated. slowly. II don't
understand.
"Oh, it's very nice of you to pretend
to be oblivious of Juditil's Weakness;
but''-with Il nervous siGh-"it is very
painful to me to realize that her infat-
uation for my husband is not. rs it
should be by this time, a thing of the
past
The smiling happiness vanished
from the captains face. leaving it
white. hard and stern, and his eyes
were fixed upon Elsies treachnrous
face in gaze that frightened her.
''She-she loved Claude before he
saw me-" she faltered; "but-but he
preferred me-"
Then ensued a dead silence. Cap
tain Herbert did not doubt in the least
what he had heard. aUI was only
stunned because the new hope he had
cherished made Mrs. Townshend's
revelation the more bitter to bear.
In the few minutes that he sat there
it seemed an age to the Jealous wo-
man beside l.inl-he told himself that
he could understand everything now.
Judiths Indifference to himself. her
anxiety on Claude's account on the
night she had quilted the ball room in
such haste: her affectionate consider
alton and regard for him all the time;
the loving caresses she lavished upon
his child-because it was his child
We're all to be accounted for. At last
he knew what he had long desired to
know. and he ought to be able to pun
ish her as he had always intended.
But how:
Laying her hand upon his arm. Elsie
said:
You seem hurt by what I have tod
YOU What is Judith to you:"
He looked at her kacu]y. reading
easily the jealousy and anger in her
fair face.
Hurt. hurt:" he calculated, with
short laugh. why should be hurt?
Judith is nothing to me. What put
that idea into your head. Mrs. Towns
hend!'
You were looking at her very ten
derby just now. and you are wearing
the rose she has given YOU
lis that all? Look And, rising, he
tore the rose out of his buttonhole and
trampled it underfoot. 'As to looking
tenderly at her-have 1 not looked ten
derby at you hundreds of times?"
"YOu used to do So" she whispered,
smiling and blushing. and letting him
read in her eyes the love and delight
his query had caused her
He looked at her for moment, re-
calling what she had lately said Of
Judith, and realizing how he could re-
yenge himself, he said, meaningly:
IL used. when l knew you cared for
me; have no right now, though you
loved me once
"Once? Oh, Fred" she cried, casting
prudence to the winds, II always loved
you-always shall You know it,"
II hoped it," he corrected her, with a
strange smile. But we must not for
get that you are Townshend's wife.
You have made me very happy, and it
will be some comfort to remember
that, though Townshend robbed me of
yourself, he did not rob me Of your
love. But must go, as / have an ap-
pointment with my colonel at five"
| And, wishing her "Good-bye' with q
discontinue that she attributed to her
own influence over him, he strobe
away.
'Iretty. frivolous fool"' he muttered
to himself, with Il cruel smile. IF
cannot make Judith suffer on her low
er's account and through you, my
name is not Frederick Burton Her.
| BERT
judith hardly realised how the gold
ell pleasure and delight that her visit
to Galley Park afforded her at the
commencement suddenly became
cloud-caSt. Captain Hcrbcrts unnc
cOuntablc alteration Of behavior did
not trouble her until she became awAr,
| that he had transferred his lOvcrlikt