The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-06-23
NEIHART. MONTANA. JUNE %. 1900.

It to the States and fell in love with
her and married and brought her over
to honeymoon in Europe. London was
too cold and we came to Cannes for
the carnival. One night we left her
mother at the hotel and came out to
see the fun
A lady In blue domino who formed
one of the group of three at the neigh
boring table turned in her seat and
fixed the gaze of two bright dark eyes,
shining through black velvet mask,
upon Jack Flemings face
''Then your wIfes mother was with
you?'
'That was the beginning of the mis-
chief. She insisted upon following us
to Europe in a week. AS | told you,
we left her at the hotel, and here. un.
der the palms, | felt my shoulder
touched and heard my name called out
of the crowd: Jack! Jack Fleming!
Don't you recognize mcT 1t was Ethel
Marlborough, an old sweetheart of
mine. We were engaged once, but she
was such n tiirt she drove me half
mad, and | broke it OFF She was in
mask and domino, but | knew her
voice in a moment.
Il felt Mamie's grasp tighten on my
arm and saw her face change. | don't
know whether Ethel knew | was mar
| ried. The whole thing had been very
sudden, and | hope, for her sake, she
didn't. But, just to plague me, she
hung on to my arm and kept on whis-
| pering about old times, and finally,
| after | had broken away. declaring |
| did not know her, She slipped IA scrap
Of paper into my pocket and ran away
| laughing. Mamie seized 1t and never
| spoke word until we got to the hotel
Then In the presence of her mother she
opened it, 1t was nothing in the world
| but pink confetti disk, with the name
Ethel written across 1t, but 1t cut
short my happiness most effectively.
The two women worked themselves
up into scene. My explanations were
hardly listened to. Mamie was an i'm
| pulsive, jealous child of Is, and her
mother had always been against the
marriage The end of it was that they
left Cannes the next morning and re-
turned to the States without me.
had put it to Mamie that she must
| choose between her mother and me,
| and she chose her mother
'You know the rest. Three years
| ago, hearing that her mother was dead,
| | was starting in search Of Mamie,
when l read by chance in an American
| paper that the daughter of Commo-
dore Grierson Chat was the name Of
Mamie's father had just married Bar
on Ludwig Won Riegclthurm Some
| how | had always been fool enough to
hope we might come together again,
which shows, suppose. that "A man
| doesn't get wiser as he gets older"
| 'It must be awfully painful for you"
Norton said sympHthciicaliy. "Wrre
you very fond of her."
"She Is the only woman ever really
cared Il straw about or ever shall care"
He rose as he spoke and the two
men strolled away. The little lady in
| the blue domino ut the adjoining table
stared intently after them. Then she
whispered something to her compan-
ions, from one of whom she borrowed
pencil
"'rhose people who were at the next
table are following u.s." Norton pres
emily observed to his companion.
''They're going to pelt us with CON
fetti no doubt" Fleming returned in
differently.
AS he spoke he distinctly felt hand
thrust into the pocket OF his Overcoat,
1t was a very little hand, as he found
when he seized it, and it was soft and
feminine Its owner wore blue
domino and wrlggled her fingers clear
from his, leaving In his pocket twist,
ed scrap of paper.
The blood rushed to Fleming's face.
The situation of ten years ago was re-
peating itself. Crossing to a brightly
lighted shop window, he unfolded the
paper and disclosed a pink paper disk,
across which was written in pencil til
name mamie"
by Jove, If it should have been my
wife's hand that caught in minew
That was his first thought, but the
next moment he recalled the bitter fact
the Baroness Riegelthurm.
Nevertheless he looked round for the
blue domino and caught sight Of her
entering an open carriage with her two
companions. Fleming chartered an
other and followed the party to the
doors Of the Grand hotel, the hall of
which he entered a few seconds after
them.
Are the Baron and Baroness Riegel.
thurm staying hereY he inquired of
an attendant.
Il think they expect you, sir. One
Of the ladies asked me whether you
wanted to see the Baroness Riegel-
thurm or her stepsister, Mrs. John
| Fleming"
Half an hour later the little blue
domino, without her mask and with
tears in her pretty dark eyes, sat hand
in hand with Jack Fleming in her sis
ter's drawing room.
You horrid, proud old thing" she
was saying. "Why didn't you come
and claim me years ago? OF course,
l always expected you to- And I've
been so lonely and miserable some
times. When heard you tell all that
to the man yOu We're with tonight, 1t
was all | could do not to jump for joy
and kiss you"
There Is nothing to prevent you
from kissing me now" Jack Fleming
said
And Mamie agreed with him.-Main.