Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-22
CHAPTER TX.
"Not At Home For The Future When
Captain Ayrton Calls.


Captain Ayrton Calls.
The opportunity Captain Ayrton
asked for did not come. Sir Rupert
heard so much of the great beauty of
the "Amy Robsart" tableau that he
was anxious and uneasy-not for her,
''the stainless lily he longed to wear in
his bosom and call his own" but re-
marks were made in his hearing that
he did not like. People laughed and
spoke of Captain Ayrton as though he
were irresistible. He resolved that
while Sybil remained at Ling she
should not be seen with the handsome
young soldier again.
All that long day Sir Rupert remain
ed near her, and in the dusk of the
evening the ladies were to return to
Glynn. In vain Captain Ayrton beg
ged permission to ride with them,
knowing, of all other times, the sweet
autumn night was most fitting for tell
ing a love-story Sir Rupert said cold
ly that, as he was going to Glynn,
there was no need of any other escort
Nor could he find one moment in
which to whisper any of the sweet,
persuasive words he had always found
efficacious.
He was obliged to part from her
without having told her his story, and
in his secret heart he cursed Rupert
Dacre for his constant, careful watch.
He did one thing: he contrived to
get possession of SYPHILIS pretty jewel
ed pencil-case under some idle pre-
text, and he kept it, knowing that
would give him an excuse for going
over to Glynn the next day to see her.
She was not disappointed At that
part of her life, Sybil Jocelyn never
realized an hour or day that passed.
Nothing around her seemed real. She
never saw but one thing, and that was
Lyster Ayrton's fair, handsome face.
She heard only one thing, and that
was the sound of his clear, rich voice.
Both were with her all day and all
night; she wanted nothing more; she
would have been content to sit alone
all day thinking of him. When others
spoke to her, the voices seemed to
quiet, in deep, unutterable content
The squire had much to say of the
tableaus. They had been very grand
something quite unusual-quite OUT Of
his way. He had enjoyed seeing his
darling dressed like beautiful pict-
ure; but he was not quite sure whether
such things were right or not. He
talked, he argued pro and con, he SO
licited opinions from Irene, and Violet
and Sir Rupert; and all the time Sybil
sat on little stool at his feet, her hair
lying in golden shower on his knee
her thoughts with the fair-browed
soldier at Ling.
He so quick to see any change, did
not notice the usual silence He
thought she was very attentive to
all he said, never dreaming that Sybi]
| had not heard one word.
| He could think no wrong, for the
| face she raised to his, when she wish
! ed him goodnight" was bright and
happy; the sweet lips that kissed him
| SO tenderly were warm and loving
| Was he to know that his child's heart
| had gone from him, and was to rest in
| his love never-never more?
There seemed to her little difference
between night and day; all night she
was with him in her dreams, in the
day she spoke to him. She knew nj
night save the time of his absence;
the very fever and unrest of love was
upon her-longing that nothing satisf
| ed, wishes that nothing fulfilled; JOY
| that in it's very intensity was pain;
i pain that in it's sweetness was joy.
Again, the next day; still the oppor
tunity came not, Captain Lyster Ayr
ton called, and found the squire al
home. He stayed to luncheon, hoping
| she would go out among the flowers
! where he could follow her
To be Continued.