Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-01

handed her out, escorted her in and vanished.
She came hurrying 90 her boy
lover with both little hands out
stretched, with face deeply flushed
and words OF pleading and distress rushing
from ber lips. Indeed l could not help 1t,
| Gov" she cried. 81 told him OF my engage
ment and said we must not go so far, but
away at the north end something happened,
| l don't know what, wheel was bent and
the harness wrenched by too short a turn
on a stone post at corner. Something
had to be repaired. They said It wouldn't
take ten minutes, and he led me out and up
to the piazza OF that big hotel--you know,
we saw 1t the day / drove with you" che
was a blackguard to take you therel" burst
| in Prime, the blood boiling in his veins }
! Then we waited and waited and he went
to hurry them, and then he came back and
/ said they had found more serious damages
that 1t would take an hour, and meantime
dinner had been ordered aud was served.
He had telephoned to you and the butler
had answered all right" Hes double
| dyed liarl" raved Gov" furiously. And
so what could 1 do, Gov? The dinner was
delicious but l couldn't eat a mouthful."
(This time 1t wasn't Cashton who lied.) 81
was worrying about you, and-and-about
myself, too, Gov. had set my heart on
going with you. 1t was to be almost our
last evening. Oh, IL you only didn't have
/ to sail Saturday, and could be here next
week, you dear boy, you should have no
cause for complaint! Won't you try to
forgive me?"
And, actually, tears stood in her eyes, as
| again she held out both hands. They were
the only people in the parlor, and in an
instant with quick, sudden Irresistible
action he had clasped and drawn her to his
breast, and though she hid her face and
struggled, passionate kisses were printed on
her disheveled hair. 1t was the first time he
had dared
And then he did not sail Saturday Prime
senior was held by most important busi-
ness. They gave up the Saturday Cunarder
and took the midweek White Star, and
those four additional days riveted poor
Cows chains and left her well nigh breath
less with excitement. The strain had been
intense. 1t was all she could do to make
the boy try to behave in rational way In
the presence OF others. When alone with
her he raved. A fearful lead was lifted from
her spare little shoulders when the Teutonic
sailed. Even Nita had worried and
had seen her sisters worry. Then no sooner
did Gov reach Europe than he began
writing impassioned letters by every
steamer, but that wasn't SO bad. She had
several masculine correspondents, some Of
whom wrote as often as Frank, but none OF
whom, to do her justice, got letters as often
as he did, which, however, was saying lit
tie, for she hated writing. Gov was to
have stayed abroad three months plotting
the pater and sister about the scenes SO
familiar to him, but they saw how nervous
and unhappy he was. They knew he was
writing constantly to some one. Mildred
had long since OWNED that there was girl
at the bottom of 1t all and longed and
strove to find out who she was. Through !
the last Of June and all through July he
resolutely stood to his promise and did his !
best to be loving and brotherly to a loving |
and devoted sister and dutiful to a most !
indulgent father. But he grew white and |
worn and haggard, he who had been such a |
picture Of rugged health, and, in her utter |
innocence and ignorance as to the being on |
whom her brother had lavished the wealth |
of his love, Mildred began to ask herself !
should she not urge her father to let Gov |
return to America. At last one sweet July |
evening, late In the month, the brother and |
sister were wandering along the lovely shore
of Lucerne He had been unusually ftful,
restless and moody all day. No letter had
reached him in over a fortnight, and he was
miserably unhappy. They stopped at a
grassy bank that ran down to the ripping
waters edge, and she seated herself on a
stone ledge, while in reckless abandonment
he threw himself full length on the dewy
grass. Instantly the last doubt vanished.
Bending over him, her soft hand caressing
his hair, she whispered: Gov, dear boy, is
it so very hard? Would you like to go to
her at once?'
And the boy buried his face In her lap,
twined his arms about her slender waist, and
almost groaned aloud as he answered: For
PHYS sake help me If you can, Mildred, Pm
almost mad"
Early in August the swiftest steamer of
the line was splitting the Atlantic surges
and driving hard for home, with Gov
cursing her for canal boat. The day after
he reached New York he had traced and
followed the White sisters to West Point,
and Margaret Garrison stared in mingled
delight, triumph and dismay at the card in
her hand. Delight that she could show
these exclusive Pointers that the heir to
one of the oldest and best names in
Gotham's four hundred was a slave to her
beck and call. Dismay to think of the
scene that might occur through his jealousy
when he saw the devoted attentions she
IooClScu liOn SO ueu-OmCeTS CIVIL
ians and cadets Old Cashton came UP as
regularly as Saturday night came around
and there were others. Margaret Garrison
was more talked about than any woman
In Orange county, yet who could report
anything of her beyond that she was a uni
versal favorlte, and danced, walked, possibly
firted with dozen different cavaliers every
day of her life? There were ssme few among
her accusers, demure and most proper
even prudsh-women, OF whom, were the
truth to be told, so little could not be said.
Gov Prime took the only kind of
room to be had in the house. so full was
it-a little seven by ten box on the office
floor. He would have slept in the coal bin
rather than leave her. He saw her go off to
the hop looking radiant, glancing back over
her shoulder and smiling sweetly at him.
He rushed to his trunk, dragged out his
evening clothes and stood at the wall look
ing on until the last note OF the last dance
-he noted german leader In the younger
set and the best dancer OF his years in
Gotham. Not SO much as a single spin had
he, and ne longed to show those tight
wasted button -bestrewed fellows in gray
and white how little they really knew about