The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
CHAPTER VI.

Mrs. and Miss Hiram had put on their
most gorgeous gowns in honor Of or in oppo-
sition to- the newcomer, yet their jeweled bril-
nance was quite over Swallowed by the latter's
goWr of black silk, which was so closely
studoled with cut jet points that it glitteFed
like cloth of diamonds .lrf-g
Harriet Yamm the only child of a sis
ter OF Lady Fanshawe, who had married a
very wealthy American, and settled in New
York :"
AS her father and mother were dead and
she was some years past her majority, she
was absolute mistress of both her movements
and her fortune ga
There was a good deal Of the Fanshawe
breeding in both her face and carriage; but
underneath Miss Yamm took after her
Iather rather than her mother, carrying
American impress in speech and manner and
having much of the purse-proudness of the
noureau richie.
she spent her time in visiting or travelling
with, different friends, and certainly had
rarely been housed in any such humble home
as this Redwall Square one
She evidently meant to enjoy herself
though. 7stF'
Her face, she sat at the long, heliotrope-
adorned table between her cousins, was the
picture of affability-and very handsome in
its cold, reposeful way
But Decima was not jealous of her tonight
no matter how handsome she was or how
attentive John Fanshawe was to her; and the
exquisite roses that came so rarely to her
cheeks deepened she felt the latter's eyes
devouring her face from time to time
She was conscious that Griffith kept look
ing at her. too, from the other side of the
table.
He had quite recovered his self possession
and, except that he was a little more anil
mated than usual chatted and laughed and
bantered with Miss Hiram as of old
The thought of him did not at all trouble
Decima.
She was too full Of her own affairs: too
full of a. painful longing for and, a. more
painful shrinking FROM the words she felt
sure John Fanshawe would find an oppor-
tun1ty of saying to her
Her emotions intensified with each elimpsa
she caught of her lovers handsome head
with every minute that brought the consum-
nating moment nearer; and, by the time the
meal was over, and the men had Joined the
ladies in the musc-I DOM, her excitement had
risen to pitch that made her feel as If the
very air she breathed was charged with cleo
tricity.
It proved, however, that she might have
spared herself this excitement
Incredible as it seemed song followed
song, duet duet, Miss Hiram recited twice
couple strayed into the moonlit garden, yet
never an attempt did John Fanshawe make
to speak to her at all, much less alone
He kept by his cousins side the whole
evening and his Goodnight spoken in pre-
clsely the same way as usual, was the sole
word he addressed to her that evening
Decima went to bed completely mystifed
and it spoke we'll for her unselfishness that
she did not silence Rose when the latter who
slept with her, kept her from sitting down
to race situation that was, to her, hurnil-
iatlng to the last degree by the incessant
prattle that accompanied her undressing
The younger girl was radiantly happy and
she has something to tell, and will not sleen
till she has told it," was the idea that pushed
Decima to blunt question
HAS he proposed?" she asked after 1iStan
ing tn long account of Monsieur de Ia Mon
neraye's French home, of which the count
had evidently been giving Rose a minnie
description that eve1ing-he had come in AZ
ter dinner
oh, no-no!" Rose cried, the rosy blood
dyeing her cheeks at the suggestion. which
however it might seem to her in her own
mind. sounded stupendous when spoken nv
someone else. Whatever has made vo,,
think Of such a thiIg?"
Nothing, except that I don't know whv
he comes here, if he doesn't mean to do So
sooner or later" Decima replied, practically.
and there is always something suggestive
about young men telling young women all
about their homes. 1 suppose he didn't ask
whether you had any taste for PLAYING tho
part of chatelaine in a French chateau pr
AS a matter of fact he had said something
of the sort-whence Roses radiance-and the
latter was asleep before Decima had cot over
the ideas that the admission suggested
Though she had not been blind to ,h4
wa; going on, she had never faced the posi-
bility of marriage between Rose and ~
handsome Frenchman and the more she nov,
thought of it, the more she became certo;
that they were not really suited to aaot
other.
Like everyone else in the house. and In
deed, like everyone at the Mentone HoteI sha
admired and liked Monsieur de la Monnera1-o
very much, but she could not helm faalipn -
that Rose was too English, too sweetIv childs
ish, to ever, so to speak, mix with the count
He was too much of man of the world for
baby Rose
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