Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-12-28

| Wnlle MS wife watched and waited for
him upstairs with strained ears and ieal-
Gus heart.
1t IS here that he has screwed up sufi-
clent moral courage, a quality he lacks.
to dismiss the woman from his presence
for ever and ever, for he is afraid of her.
CHAPTER XIX.
He is standing up, strong and stately.
erect and naughty as a king, when she
enters, and he has never looked handsom-
er In his life, for concentrated feelings
lend deeper blue to his eyes, and give
touch of resolution to the well-cut lips.
that with all their perfection are wanting.
as rule, in nerve.
AND Bella, with her eager, materialistic
soul, her greed for all that panders to the
senses, recognizes the accession of attrac-
ton, and her anger and hatred vanish,
while her love comes back. The cruel,
savage, pitiless love, that would rather
| kill than lose
Il have sent for you to say that in one
| hour from this time the carriage will be
at the door-you will please be ready to
go; your traps will be sent after you:"
He speaks imperiously, roughly, as he
| might speak to a discharged servant. and
| he rails her.
"Go!-go whereof she bursts out vehe-
mently.
NOW, no nonsense and no noise, am
| determined you shall gov'
| She walks across the room, straight up
within pace or so of him, and stares
him full in the face
Are you gone clean mad, Ennisford?"
she says, in a voice of pretended surprise
Don't 'Ennisford' me-" he cries,
wrathfully; 81 am not in the habit of be-
| ing on intimate terms with"
with" she almost whispers; her
| face is very pale now, and her lips per-
| ceptibly tremble.
"a murderess!' he Kisses loudly into
her ear.
| She starts away from him with sharp
cry, then pulls herself together in trice
| and stands firm and defiant.
| You can't prove your words! You
can't prove them! How dare you insinu-
| ate such horrible things?' she asks, inso-
| lently.
II don't want to prove my words, but
| know! Enough Of this, 1 have arranged
with my mother for you to go back to her
| for week or So"
"For week or so! Then you have told
| her your suspicious? she asks, looking at
| him keenly.
81 have" he answers, steadily return
| ing her gaze, with cool, hard look.
| And she realizes at this moment that
. she has with her own hand rolled the
stone to the door of her sepulchre!
"And you are fool enough to think that
| shall go back to that stuffy old house
and let myself suffocate with your father
and mothers pomposity and stupidity!
| No, am not sunk quite so low, Lord En-
nisford, as to eat the bread Of grudging
charity for week or even for a day! So
/ when l leave this I can take care Of my
self. without your assistance; as | have
sown so must reap. But, before go,
| I'll tell your wife how / am cast off,
I'll tell her everypthing everything!
from the beginning to the end of our ac-
| ouaintance; yours and mine, my noble
| lord!"
"You can do what you like, say what
YOU like; only in an hour you leave this
| house!''
( She throws him look-a revengeful.
! impIacable look---and then, turning on her
heels. walks straight up to Lady Ennis
| ford's morning room, and, without the
door.
LADY Ennisford has been sitting for
| two hours, her hands clasped laasely in
| ber Ian. her whole attitude one of utter
| desolation.
The feelings of shame and humiliation
| Of tbe night before are still vivid. Even
/ p;erre,s death, though it shocked her, hor-
rified her by it's suddenness and the man
| ~ al n
| the thoughts of her own misery, of the
| wretched. loyeless future that awaits her.
Il there one thing that she would not
| sacrifice to her love for this thankless,
| oraceless husband of hers2 Yes, just one
| thing-her honor.
| She could have surrendered all-all. she
| had believed; but when the time came
she found she could not yield that. she
could not have helped saying what she
did about Lady Aylmer last night, not
| if she had lost her life.
"Frances, am dismissed-ordered on
the premises in an hour, for good ana
| al" blurts Bella, in her hard, suiien
voice: and Lady Ennisford, looking up IN
ann zament. sees the cruel look In ner
| eves--+he cruel look on her mouth that
| Che had noticed on Lord Ennisfords that
/ dreadful last morning in town.
"Dismissed! who by, Bella! she ASKS
in feeble tone, feeling too utterly nope
less and languid for discussion wren TINS
restless, turbulent spirit.
"By Lord Ennisford, of course! l sup
nose she put him up to it last night, ran
ewing that was pretty well up II ner
tricks and ways. He would drown him
self to please her, believe,
..polIo f-r,1oa en--huSh!,s
Whatever she may think herself, sne
is far too loyal to discuss his shortcom-
ings with an outsider.
| s.Why else should he send me away
"Perhaps you may have displeased him;
it is not always easy to please people,
| even if we wou.dr she says sorrow
| fully. -.
stayY' CO. ,se,s
Lady Ennisford hesitates Sne Isels
sorry for Bella: yet somehow. nef nous