Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-04
CHAPTER XXXVI.
After Three Years.


'The question is, said Lord
Chandos, shall we go Or not? Please
yourself, Marion, and them" he added,
with an air of WEAKNESS, you will be
sure to please me-
II should like to go, certainly, if you
really have no other engagement,
Lance" said Lady Chandos.
MY engagements always give place
to your pleasure replied the young
husband eff you really desire to see
this new star we will 60 will see
about it at once"
Still Lady Chandos seemed irreso-
lutte.
''It is quite true" she said, that all
London has gone mad about her, just
as Paris, Vienna, and st. Petersburg
did,
London is always going mad about
something or other, but the madness
never lasts long.
81 have read many things con
tinued his wife calmly, but | have
never read anything like the descrip-
ton of the scene at the opera-house
last evening; it really made me long TO
see her"
''Then let the longing be gratif1ed, by
all means" said Lord Chandos. owe
will go this evening. Consider it set
tied, Marion, and do not think OF
changing your plans"
It was breakfast time and the hus-
band and wife were discussing the ad-
vent of a new actress and slnger-one
who was setting the world On fire
Madame Vanira. LORD and Lady
Chandos always took breakfast to-
gether; it was one of the established
rules, never broken; it was the only
time in the day when they were quite
sure of seeing each other.
It was three years since they were
married, and time had not worked any
great change in either. Lady Chandos
was even more beautiful than in her
maiden days. She had the same sweet
repose of manner, the same high-bred
elegance and grace, the same soft, low
voice, but the beauty of her face had
grown deeper.
There was more light in the blue
eyes, a deeper sheen on the golden hair.
a. richer tint on the fair face; there
was more OF life, animation, and inter
est, than she had displayed in those
days when she seemed to glide through
life like a spirit, rather than battle
through it like a human being. Per-
haps for her the battle had to come.
In figure she had developed, she looked
taller and more stately, but the same
beautiful lines and gracious curves
were there. AS she sits in her morn
ing-dress, the palest blue, trimmed
with the most delicate cream color, a
pretty, coquettish cap on her golden
head. the bloom and freshness of early
youth on her face, she looks the love-
Hest picture of lovely and blooming
womanhood, the perfection of elegance,
the type of patrician Her white
hands are covered with shining gems
Lady Chandos has a taste for rings.
She is altogether a proper wife for a
man to have to trust, to place his life
and honor in her, a wife to be es-
teemed, appreciated and revered, but
not worshiped with a mad passion. In
the serene, pure atmosphere in which
she had lived no passion could come, no
madness; she did not understand them
she never went out of the common
grooves of life, but she was most ami
able and sweet in them
Nor had Lord Chandos altered much
in these three years; he had grown
handsomer, more manly; the strong,
graceful figure, the erect, easy carriage,
were just the same; his face had
bronzed with travel, and the NOUS
tache that shaded his beautiful lips was
darker in hue.
To be continued.