The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-22
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1.-THE two women worked themselves
up into a scene. Ny 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 1t 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 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 Riegelthurm. Some
how I had always been fool enough to
hope we might come together again,
which shows, l suppose, that man
doesn't get wiser as he gets older"
at must be awfully painful for you"
Norton said sympathetically. Were
you very fond Of herr"
"She is the only woman I ever really
cared straw about or ever shall care"
He rose as he spoke, and the two
men strolIed away. The little lady In
the blue domino at the adjoining table
stared intently after them. Then she
whispered something to her compan-
ions, from one of whom she borrowed
a pencil.
"Those people who were at the next
table are following us" Norton pres
entity 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.
when he seized it, and it was soft and
feminine. Its owner wore a blue
domino and wriggled 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 brightly
lighted shop window, he unfolded the
paper and disclosed pink paper disk,
across which was written in pencil the
name mamie"
"By Jove, If it should have been my
wife's hand that l caught in miner
That was his first thought, but the
next moment he recalled the bitter fact
that Mamie was his W life no longer, but
E 4I,o Doronoce DionaIfbY1rY11
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 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
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tears in her pretty dark eyes, sat hand
in hand with Jack Fleming in her sis
ter's drawing room.
"You horrid. proud old thingp' she
was saying "Why didn't you come
and claim me years ago? OF course
| always expected you to. And I've
been SO lonely and miserable some
7 n,.d fol oil l,of
to the man you were with tonight, it
was all could do not to jump iar joy
and kiss you"
There is nothing to prevent you
from kissing me now" Jack Fleming
said.
And Mamie agreed with him.-Main-
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