The Red Cloud chief., 1898-02-25

" NRN W and Dick was all
>N%"T the world to his
~TY-tS During W OF
S these months they
remained abroad, living in the smaller
towns on the Riviera. seeking no ID
terests beyond themselves, but ieauihs
a quiet, peaceful life Of love. OF which
neither had become the least weary
when Dicks leave was up anu IL was
time for him TO go back TO his duty
Now, as the Add were still quartereu
81 Colchester, it became a question Oh
Some Importance for them TO decioe
where Dorothy should take up her
aboGe after this. Colchester or It's M
mediate n~eighborhood was, OF course
an im~possibility, as her Whereabouts
might at any momeu be discovered
! iand also Dicks real name. DICK suB-
gested that she might go to Cheims-
FORD and take rooms there LOT t"c
time. but Dorothy had stayed more
II a once in that sleepy little
and 1t was therefore almost as m
possible as Colchester itself. SO final
ly they agreed that there was no place
in the world like London in which TO
hide oneself and have a good time all
the same. INT therefore they came
back to town during the last week or
Dicks leave. and they took a little fiat
in Kensington, just where Dorothy II
Barbara could get on very comfortably
without any servant, and yet could be
near to good shops and a tolerably
lively street.
I'm afraid you'll be awfully dull.
darling" he said to her when they
lad taken possession. and his last
evening had come. because. of course.
you won't know any one. and you are
not at all likely to get to know people,
II shall have Barbara" said Doro-
thy. smiling bravely.
Yes, you'll have Barbara. but Bar
bara won't be much company for you,
he answered. Il do hate all this con-
cealment. / hate leaving you at all.
and | hate having to live. az it were.
on the sly. and I'm afraid always that
some one you know or one of the fell
lows will be seeing you. and that they
may get hold Of a wrong idea alto
gether, and-and-I sometimes feel as
If | should like to kill that old savage
at Aylmer's Field"
But, Dick dear, nobody will see me,
and if they do they will think | am
Dorothy Strobe still. Remember. !
don't know many people in all the
world, and none Of your officers know
me at all, and IL they happened to see
me with you they wouldn't think any
thing Of 1t. Really, | wouldn't worry
about that IL l were you. dearest. and
as for my being dull-why, am never
dull. / never have been used to hav-
ing more than N person at a time
Auntie all my life. and now you. l
shall get on %splendidly with Barbara,
and | shall always be able to look for
ward to the days when you will be
coming home"
and I shall csme like a bird when
ever l get the ghost Of a chance he
cried, tenderly.
And l." cried Dorothy, Jam going
to make a study of gowns. / have al
ways been used to making my ordinary
gowns, and | shall have lots of time,
and l am going to begin as soon as
you are gone. | am going to make
myself some beautiful tea-gowns; they
will make me look married and dig
nifed-they will make you respect
me, sir"
But you don't want to look married
and dignifed." he cried, half alarmed.
Suppose you meet some one you
know, and"
81 shall not be wearing a tea-gown,
Dick" cried Dorothy, with a gay
laugh.
"Ah! no, no, of course not" he an
swered, relieved. "All the same.
though, did you not tell me the other
day that you had a cousin somewhere
or other?'
ooh, Esther! Yes, but She" care
lessly, "she is in Egypt
But. my dear child, she won't be
in Egypt always" he rejoined; land
if she comes back to London, which
she is sure to do
"By no means, Dick" interrupted
Dorothy, quietly. Esther Is just as
likely to go off for the summer to New
Zealand or Finland as to come to Lon
don. And she would not specially
hunt me up II she did come here. She
ia beautiful and rich and very indie
pendent in her mind, but she Is six
years older than l am and thinks very
little of family ties. In any case, sup
posing that l met her in London to-
morrow, she would certainly not try
to pry into my affairs, and even II
had your leave to tell her part OF the
truth she is perfectly safe. assure
you that you need never worry your
self for a single moment about M
t- U-.thn