Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07

with the name Ethel written across it,
but it cut short my happiness most eff
fectively. ~
THE two women worked themselves
up into a scene; my explanations were
hardly listened to. Mamie was an im-'
pulsive. Jealous child of IS. and her.
mother had always been against the
marriage. The end of it was thai they,
left Cannes the next morning and re-
turned to the states without me. l had
put it to Mamie that she must choose.
between her mother and me, and she
chose her mother.
You know the rest.Y Three years
ago. hearing that her mother was dead,
l was starting in search of Mamie. wherG
| read by chance in an American paper
that the daughter of Commodore Grier-
SON Chat was the name of Mamie's
father had just married Baron Ludwig
Won Riegelthurm. somehow l had all
ways been fool enough to hope that we
might come together ~again-which
shows. I suppose, that a man doesn't get
wiser as he gets older"
"It must be awfully painful for you"
Norton said. sympathetically. "Were you
very fond of her?"
She is the only woman I ever really
cared a straw about. or ever shall care"
He rose as he spoke and the two men
strolled way.
The little lady i'm the blue domino at
the adjoining table stared intently after
them. Then she whispered something to
her companions. from one of whom she
borrowed a pencil.
"Those people who were at the next
table are following u.s." Norton presently
observed to his companion.
They're going to pelt us with COM
fetti, no. doubt" Fleming returned. in
differently.
AS he spoke he distinctly felt a 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 femi-
nine. Its owner wore a blue domino,
and wriggled her fingers clear from his.
leaving in his pocket a twisted scrap of
paper.
The blood rushed to Fleming's face.
The situation of ten years G was re-
p~eating itself.
Crossing to a brightly lighted shop
window, he unfolded the paper. and dis
closed a pink paper disc, across which
was written in pencil the name Mamie"
by Jove! If it should have been my
wife's hand that l caught in mime"
That was his first thought, but the
next moment he recalled the bitter fact
that Mamie was his wife no longer, hut
the Baroness Riegelthurm.
Nevertheless he looked round for the
blue domino and caught sight of her en-
tering an open carriage with her two
m Mons.
Fleming chartered another and fol-
lowed the party to the doors of the
Grand hotel. the hall of which he en-
tered a few seconds after them.
Are the Baron and Baroness Riegel-
thurm staying here?" he inquired of an
attendant.
II think they expect you, sir. One OF
the ladies asked me whether you wanted
to see the Baroness Riegelthurm or her
stepsister, Mrs. John Fleming"
Half an hour later the little blue ON
mo, without her mask, and with tears in
her pretty dark eyes. sat hand in hand
with Jack Fleming in her sisters draw
ing room.
"You horrid, proud old thing!' she vas
saying. why didn't you come and
claim me years ago? Of course. | al
ways expected you to. And I've been so
lonely and miserable sometimes! When
I heard you tell all that to the man you
were with tonight it was all l could do
mot to jump for joy and kiss YOU
'There is nothing to prevent you from
, kissing me now" Jack Fleming said.
And Marie agreed with him.-MalnlY
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