The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-22
CHE n20id Of maiden Zane.
BY AMELIA E. BARR
PART II. fcapyaght. $780, BY Amelia e. sarr1

Van Heemskirk spending d whole aft
ernoon so near to her and never
even,' as she said to her father, turn
ing her head this way" fer Arenta
had dunk a rather long Graught of
popular interest, and she could not bear
to believe it was declining. Was she
not the American heroine of 1873? 1t
was almost a want of patriotism in
Madame Van Heemskirk TO neglect her.
After week had elapsed Cornel-a
went over one morning to her friend
but by this time Arenta knew everything
Her brother Rem had been with her and
confessed all to his sister 1t had net
been a pleasant meeting by any means
She heard the story with Indignation but
contrived TO feel that somehow Rem was
not SO much to blame as Cornelia and
other people
You are right served" she said to
her brother, for meddling with for
eigners. and especially for mixing your
love affairs up with an English girl.
Proud, naughty creatures, all of them.
and you are very fool to tell any
woman such a-crine. Yes, it is a
crime; l won't say less. That girl over
the way nearly died. and YOU would
have let her die 1t was a shame.
don't love Cornelia-but it was a shame
The letter was addressed to me, Aren-
ta."
''Fiddlesticks You knew it was not
yours You knew it was Hyde's. Where
is it now"
She asked the question in her usual
dominant way and Rem did not feel able
to resist it. He looked for a moment at
the angry woman and was subdued by
her air of authority He opened his
pocketbook, and from a receptacle in it
took the fateful letter She seized and
read it, and then without word or a
moments hesitation threw it into the
fire.
Rem clustered and fumed. and she
stood smiling defiantly at him you
are like all criminals she sad. You
must keep something to accuse yourse lf
with. love you too well to permit you
to carry that bit of paper about you. 1t
has worked you harm enough. What
are you going to do? Is Miss Damer's
refusal quite fnal?"
Quite. 1t was even scornful."
Plenty of nice girls in Boston"
- can not so back to Boston
why, then?'
Because Mary's cousin has told the
'Nonsense!"
'She has, L know it, Men whom had
been friendly with got out of my way.
Women excused themselves at their
home and did not see me on the street.
of the affair."
''Then come back to New York. New
Workers attend strictly to their own
love affairs Father Will stand by Won,
and I will"
Father will not He called me a
scoundrei when 1 told him last night,
and advised me to go to the frontier.
Joris Van Heemskirk will not talk, but
Madame will chatter for him, and |
PNnln IN
for Captain Jacobus, he would invent
new words and oaths to abuse me with,
and Aunt Angelica would, of course
say amen to al he says-and there are
Others
Yes, there is Lord Hyde"
Curse him!' But 1 intended to give
him his letter. Now you have burnt it,
You intended nothing of the kind,
Rem. Go away as soon as you can.
don't want to know where you go
Just yet. New York is impossible.
Boston is impossible. Father says go
to the frontier. 1 say go South. What
you have done, You. have done. and it
can not be -undone SO dent carry it
about with you. And I would let women
| alone-they are beyond you-go in for
politics.
That day, KEN fingered with his sis
ter, seeing no one else, and in the even
ing shadows he slipped quietly away.
He was very wretched. for he really low
ed Mary DaIner, sand his disappointment
was bitterly keen and humiliating.-B
sides which he felt that his business eff
forts for two or three years were for
feited, and that he had the world to
begin over again. Without a friend to
wish him Godspeed. the wretched man
went on board the Southern packet and
in her dim. lonely cabin, sat silent and
Respondent While she plod her way
through swaying currents of rain to the
open sea. is great complaining came
up through the darkness to him, and it
seemed to be the very voice of the mis-
cradle circumstances that had separated
and estranged his life from all he loved
and desired.
The sudden destruction of all her
hopes for her brother distressed Arenta.
Her own marriage had been a most un-
/ fortunate one, but it's misfortune had
the Importance of a national tragedy
She had even plucked honor to herself
from the bloody tumbril and guillotins
Rut Rem's matrimonial failure had not
one redeemlng quality; it was together
a shameful and well deserved retribufion.
| And she had boosted to her friends not
| a~HttIe Of the great marriage her broth
| er was soon to make, and even spoke of
! ! MISS Dafner as II a sisterly affection
| already existed between them. She could
anticipate, very we'll the smiles and
| shrugs, the EXPLANATIONS and condol-
e!lces she might have to encounter. and
{ she Was not pleased with her brother
ior putting her in a position Likely 10
! make her diSagreeable to paoDIe
| But the heart of her anger was Cor
! neha-"bUt for that girl Rem would
| have married Mary Damer, and his home
/ III boston might have been full of op-
| portunities for her. as we'll as a elesirtI-
| Bile change when she wearied for New
| York. Altogether it was hard thing
i for Rem, that she could not think If
/. Cornelia without anger. Just fer her .
she kept saying, as she dressed herself
WITH elaborate simplicity. lust for heri'
| Very much she intruded herself into nv
affairs, my marriage was her opporrIi-
! nlty with Lord Hyde, and now all Size
! can DO is to break up poor Rem's mar
TO be concluded next weekN