Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-03-23
"Do." says the c,aer lady, cncr.y,,ca,.

DO" says the c,dcr lady. cncrse,,cai-
ly. ut will he original aud attract att
tcntion. Not that you could we'll he
more stared at then than you arc"
Vera smiles aud does not answer.
Mrs. Hazcldinc goes on with her task.
"Thcre. that's DONE She cries at last,
getting up from the table. and piliny her
notes up in IL heap on one side of it.
Now. l am at your ORDERS"
Shit comes forward into the roon-a
pretty, darli-eycd. oval faced woman,
with u figure in which her drcssm"kcr has
understood how to supplement all that
nature has but impcrlectl; carried out.
y woman with restless movements and an
cvcr-reidy %tonsue-a thorough daughter
of the London world she lives i'll.
Vera leans her head back in her chair.
and looks at her. 'Cissy," She says. II
must really so home. 1 have been with
you Il month to-day
Go home! certainly not. my dear.
Don't you know that / have sworn To
lind yol Il husband before the season is
out? | must really get you married,
Vera. l have half II mind" she adds,
reilectivcly, as she sinootls down hcr
shining brown hair ut the glass and con.
templates. not i'll satisfied, her image
tlicrc--''l have really half IL mind To lot
you have the boy if l could manage 20
spare him
"Do you think he would make IL dcvot
ed lusband?" asks Vera, with IL lazy
smile.
My dear child, don't he Il fool. What
is the use OF devotion in Il husband: All
one wants is IL good fellow, who will let
one alone. After all. the boy might not
answer, L am afraid, Vera" turning
round suddenly upon her. Il am very
much afraid that boy is i'll love with you;
it's liorrid of you to take him from me,
because he is so useful. and l really can't
we'll do without him. l am going to pay
him out tonight. though; he is To sit op
positc you ut dinner; he will only be able
10 gaze at you.'
Half an hour later Mrs. Hazcidinc and
Miss Ncvill are To bc found upon two
chairs on the broad and shady side of
the Row, where IL small crowd Of men is
already gathered around them.
Vera, coming up a stranger, and self.
vitcd to the house of her old acquaintance
a few weeks ago. had already created D
sensation in London. Her rare beauty.
the strange charm of her quiet. l~istlcss
manner the shade of melancholy which
had of late impcrccptibly crept over her.
aroused IL keen admiration md interest in
her. even in that city, which more than
all others is satiatcd with its manifold
types of beautiful women.
Just at first there had been a daily ter.
ror upon her, that of meeting Sir John
Kynaston or his brother; but London is
a large place, and you may go out to
different houses for many nights run
ming without ever coming across the
friend or the foe whom o desire or
dread most to encounter. After IL little
while she forgot to glance hurricdly and
fcarfully around her every time she on
tered Il ball room, OF to look up shudder-
ingly each time the door was opened and
Il fresh guest announced at Il dinner par
ty. She never met either of them, ror
did the name of Kynaston ever strike up
on her ear.
She looks happy enough now MS she sits
Ivy her friends side in the park, with a
little knot of admirers apout her; not talk
ing very much trouble to talk to them.
indeed, but smiling scrcncly from one to
the other. letting herself he talked to and
amused. with just Il word here and there.
To show them she is listening 10 what
they say.
Behind her. with his hand on the back
of her chair. Stands a young fellow of
about two or three and twenty: he does
not speak to her much. nor join in the
merry. empty chatter that is going on
around her: but it is easy to see ny the
way he looks down at her, by the fashion
in which he watches her slightest move
ment. that Vera exercises no ordinary
influence over him.
He is n tall. Slight-tigurcd boy. with
very fair yellow hair and dclicatc fca-
lures: his blue eyes are frank and pleas
ant. but his mouth is Il trilic weak and
vacillating. and the lips are too sensitive
ly cut for strength of character, while
his chest is too narrow for strength of
body.
Suddenly Denis Wilde felt 81 sudden
movement of the chair beneath his hand.
Vera had started violently.
"IIcrc comes Sir .Iohn Kynaston." the
man before her was saying to his conn
palion. 'VVhat Il time it is since he has
shown himself; he looks as il lie had had
Il bad Illness"
Some woman Tilted him. I've heard"
answered the other man: '.somc girl down
i'll the country. People say. Miss Nevlll.
lie is going to die of that old-fashioned
complaint, which you certainly will not
believe in, a broken heart! Poor old boy.
he looks as if he had becn buried. and
had come up again for Il breath of air"
ITO be %continued.D
NAPOLEON AND LOUISIANA.