Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-06-22
,>n0AY come in!
b6AWI The curtains from be-
HuH hind which the musical

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,.,rod shook little. but no one
wrs issteu SA''
sppeared' tho ease, nainted away
i lrns+riously putting in sunset sky
p psb strong, even strokes.
WV whon our forefathers signed the
,aretion of Independence 12O years
..,-," he began.
please
, face made its appearance at the
lima Of the curtains, a face framed
'I dark wayy hair, with big, shining
y. made soft by long curling lashes,
W W . red. red mouth, just now droop-
=, nItifully at the corners.
" srbev made all men free and equal, ;"
,oopded the man, never once look
nn "and since then a lot of ladies
+tb abbreviated hair and petticoats
,ra been struggling to make their sex
~. independent-and with considera-
neNccess'
~ ~nnt be horrid," pleaded the red
r,nth seconded by the shining eyes.
J. therefore. | was about to say" he
rot On. calmly, 81 don't see how l
an hope to prevent you from coming
# YOU choose to do So"
She stepped inside, but did not ad-
uDce into the room.
q know you're going to be horrid, :"
she said, plaintively.
Hp laid down his brush, land, turning
At last, surveyed her deliberately as
bp stood, her slender shape outlined
miDst the curtains They were bur-
curtains, which she had painted a
hill brick red C'Pompeian red," she
allied it, and which she had Orna-
nented with a Greek border in yellow
hss and hung in the doorway, herself,
spite of his SOOTHING and ribald pro-
tests.
They were pretty bad, those curtains,
but whatever their limitations from an
gthetic point of view, they certainly
made an effective background for the
Fhite-robed figure, and his eye lin
vpred approvingly on the picture mo-
nent before he said, severely:
What have you been doing?"
WHY. the idesw she exclaimed, In
dignantly drawing her figure up to its
full height and flashing a protesting
glance at him from under her long
hSheS
Il notice that you generally take it
for granted that I'm going to be horrid
when you've been particularly horrid
gOursef," he observed blandly.
She did not reply to this daring re-
mark, but, crossing the room to the
mantel, carefully selected an especial
lyugly bulldog pipe from the collection
1t contained. This she filed, with
practiced fingers, from a battered to
bacco jar that stood near, and then,
crossing to the easel, offered it to the
man with a most bewitching little air
of coaxing humility.
My dear young woman" he cried,
waving the offering away sternly, do
look like man who would accept a
Orlbe? Do my features bear the i'm
print Of vulnerable virtue, that you
should thus seek to gain my favorable
Judgment for your nefarious goings-o1
by such palpable-"
He said no more, for just then the
stem of the pipe was deXterously in
serted between his teeth, and, deity
striking match on the broad sole of
his shoe. conveniently presented to her
by the careless attitude of it's owner,
the girl applied it to the tobacco in the
pipe bowl.
In spite of himself, he closed his
teeth or the stem and drew a long
breath, and as the first cloud of arc
matte vapor rose to his nostrils his
features relaxed.
Well, who is it," he asked, as the
girl seated herself on a hassock and
nxed her eyes on him appealingly.
Ts-it's-Hinsdale," she replied
dolefuIy.
HlnSdale. Why l thought we dis,
posed of Hinsdale three weeks age,
and since then-let me see-there was
smith and Devereux and how many
others"
On, never mind the Others" she
CLled' petulantly It's Hinsdale now
we dld dispose of him-or at least, ]
1ousht we had-and I'm sure that let
Ter wrote
Al dld You write to him, too!' he
''Aeo' putting big cloud of smoke
V'eF MS sunset and watching the eff.
.ee' OF Its vivid hues shining through
ne clouds of grayish vapor with an ar
s"slS dehghted appreciation Of color
On well-the letter you wrote
, saen, she said. Though I'm sure you
" ~, do 1t all; YOU only helped me-
Oh, yes" he answered indolently
Dut HiDSdale-he's broken out
again"
= les Worse than ever" and she
= 'sueo diSmally, and l want you to
:, "a NE write him another letter-one
. .-'' VIII Tx it so he'll understand
1e.e no hope-no possibility NEAR
,31 III! ever being anything more tC
n ,,I here she foundered and broke
40ite down.
can't do it to-day" he said. decid