Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-16

manage it for me, can you not,
Stephanie?''
Eyes, madamoiselle,' was the brief
reply.
'.Tell Jean to make as little noise as
possible, lest madame should hear the
sound of wheels"
It takes a great deal to surprise a
French waiting-maid Of the type of
Stephanie If her young mistress
had asked to be driven to some house
where she might have met a lover.
there would have been spice of fun
and intrigue in it; but visit to a
lady and that the most drreproach-
able of widows was fiat and tame
Half an hour afterward, Lola was
driving toward Deeping Hurst, her
heart torn with pain, love, and jeal-
ousy, her brain filled with schemes of
VENGEANCE, her whole soul in hot re-
bellion against her fate. She had
no settled plan of action; but the
look that was in her face and the
light that was in her eyes evidently
meant mischief.
sI told her." she muttered, that any
one coming between Sir Karl and my
self should beware Let her beware.
| cannot take her life, but if I could
mar her beauty-the beauty that has
won him-I would If I knew how to
torture her so that never again in her
life should there come one moment of
peace or rest, I would do it. Let her
beWare!"
She never needed the brilliant colors
that made the evening sky so fair;
she took no notice of the song of the
birds; all the fair beauty of earth and
sky were lost on her.
LET her beware!" she repeated to
herself, when the carriage stopped.
'Wait for me, JEAN she said to the
groom. II may be one hour, or may
be three. Do not take the horses to
the stable, and do not leave the car
riage. | shall expect to find you here
when | return.
She rang the hall bell, and was told
by the servant who answered it that
Lady Rhysworth was at home and
alone; that she could see her at once;
her ladyship was in her boudoir.
You need not announce me- Lola
said to the man. 81 will go myself"
The servants were so accustomed to
her coming to the house at all times
that there seemed nothing unusual to
her request. Lady Rhysworth's friends
had access to her at all times.
Let her beware!" Lola murmured
to herself as she went through the
long corridor and up the wide stair
case. Whatever her fate, she has
drawn it on herself"
She knew the way to Lady Rhys-
worth's boudoir She had spent many
hours in it. Without knocking, with
out speaking, she opened the door and
went in.
Dolores, who was sitting in low
chair near the window, looked up with
startled glance as Lola entered, and
uttered little cry as she saw the
lull GApI CGSlOA vi tuC DOdOClLuA law
"Lola!" she said, frightened more
than she would have cared to own.
No answer came from the French
girl, who walked up to her with a
naughty air. She let her dark travel
ing cloak fall from her shoulders, re-
moved her hat from her head, and
them standing erect before Dolores
she said
LET me speak. have come to ask
you a question. Is it true what hear?
Is it true that you have stolen my
lover from me?"
Il have stolen no ones lover" an
swered Dolores.
She had grown very pale; she was
really afraid of the girl who stood be-
fore her with such glittering eyes.
'You have stolen mine. Sir Karl
was mine. You are false friend
and false woman! You have stolen
him, knowing that he was mine!"
HE was never yours, Lola When
you say that, you speak falsely. He
was kind to you; he has been, /
know, true and staunch friend to
you; but he was never your lover
and you know it."
81 repeat that he was mine, and
mine only, but that you have come be-
tween us-you, with your pale, sickly
face and yellow hair thinking your
self no doubt, irresistible; you l say,
| have come between us"
81 have not replied Dolores. "Sir
Karl has never been your lover and
never will be-"
"He was learning to love me-" con-
tinued Lola. 81 loved him with my
whole heart, and my love had touched
him. He was beginning to care for
me when you came between us and
stole him from me. It was rank
treachery. Can you deny that you
knew I loved him? I had opened my
heart to you I had told you that he
was mine!"