Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-27

every way, but he had an uneasy con
seriousness that his best was but a poor
attempt. He sent her to school, the
best in Rashleigh, but she learned any
thing and everything except obedience.
She looked out of place even there,
this dark-eyed Spanish girl, among the
pretty pink and white children with
fair hair and blue eyes. She beWil-
dered even the children; they obeyeu
her, and she had the greatest influence
over them. She taught them recita-
| tons and plays, she even fired their
imaginations by wonderful stories; she
was a new, brilliant, wonderful ele-
ment in their lives. Even the school
mistress, meek through the long SUI
fering of years, even she Worshiped
and feared her-the brilliant, tiresOme
girl, who was like flash of light
among the Others She HAD a face SO
grand and voice SO thrilling it was
no unusual thing when me was read
ing aloud in the schoOl-rOOm for the
others to suspend all work, thrilled to
the heart by the sound of her voice.
She soon learned all that the Rash
leigh gOVerness could teach her-she
taught herself even more. She had
little taste for drawing, much for mu-
sic, but her whole heart and soul were
in books.
Young as she was, it was grand to
| hear her trilling out the pretty love
| speeches of Juliet, moaning out the
woes of Desdemona. She had Shakes
peare almost by heart, and she loved
the grand old dramatist.
When she was sixteen her uncle took
her from school, and then the perpleX-
tiles of his honest life began. He
wanted her to take her place as mis-
tress of the house, to superintend the
farm ana the dairy, to take affection
! ate interest in the poultry and birds,
to see that the butter was of a deep,
rich yellow, and the new laid eggs sent
| to market. From the moment he in
| trusted those matters in her hands,
his life became a burden to him, for
they were entirely neglected.
Farmer Noel would go into his
dairy and find everything wrong, the
cream spilled, the butter spoiled; but
when he looked at the dark-eyed
young princess with the Spanish face
he dared not say a word to her.
He would suggest to her meekly that
things might be different. She would
roto1iotn writ ho+
would reduce him to silence for two
days at least. Yet she loved, after a
fashion of her own, this great, stolid
man who admired her with all his
heart, and loved her with his whole
soul.
So time passed until she was seven
teen, anu the quiet farm life was un-
endurable to her.
Uncle she would say, ''le5 me go
out into the world. I want to see it.
[ want something to do. | often
think | must have two lives and two
souls, long SO intensely for more than
[ have to fill them.
He could not understand her. She
had the farm and the dairy.
BE content" he would answer, "be
content, my lady lass, with the home
God has given you.
Il want something to do. If | did
all the work on this and twenty other
farms it would not touch my heart and
soul. They are quite empty. People
say it is battlefield. If it be one, I
am sitting by with folded hanos In
activity means death to me-"
My lady lass, you can find plenty
to do" he answered. solemnly.
But not of the kind I want"
She paced up and down the large
kitchen, where everything was pol
ishen and bright; the freight glowed
on the splendid face and figure
face with it's unutterable beauty, it's
restless longing, it's troubled desires.
Some fear for the future of the beau
tiful, restless, passionate girl came
over the man, who watched her with
anxious eyes. 1t began to dawn upon
him, that if he were to shut a bright
eyed eagle up in cage, it would never
be happy, and it was very much the
Rc%hAS hAAO VI Cu1ASo " 0uuL ILLS lovely,
gifted girl in a quiet farmhouse.
''You will be married soon," he said,
with clumsy attempt at comfort,
land then you will be more content"
She flashed one look of scorn from
those dark, lustrous eyes that should
have annihilated him She stopped
before him, and threw back her head
with the gesture of an injured queen.
May l ask" she said, whom you
suppose will marry?"
He looked rather frightened, for he
began to perceive he had made some
mistake, though he could not tell
what; he thought all young girls liked
to be leased about sweethearts and
marriage; still he came valiantly to
the front.
L mean that you will surely have
a sweetheart some day or other" he
said consolingly, though the fire from
those dark ewes startled him ond how