Connecticut western news., 1900-06-07

uIuu |. Dur, Just to plaguNs me, sne hung on to my arm and kept on whis- pering about old times, and finally, after I had broken away, declaring l did not know her, she slipped scrap of paper into my pocket and ran away laughing Mamie seized 1t and never spoke a word until we got to the hotel. Then in the presence of her mother she opened 1t. It was nothing in the world
 Ethel written across it, but 1t cut short my happiness most effectively.
 "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 that they left Cannes the next morning and re- turned to the States without me. 1 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,
 I was starting in search of Mamie,
 when read by chance in an American paper that the daughter of Commo- dore Grierson (that was the name of Mamie's father) had just married Bar on Ludwig von Riegelthurm. Some how had always been fool enough to
 hope we might come together again,
 which shows, 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 herr'
 "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 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 ently 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. It was very little hand, as he found 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- beating itself. Crossing to a brightly lighted shop window, he unfolded the paper and disclosed pink paper disk, across which was written in pencil the name Mamie"
 aBy love, if 1t should have been my wife's hand that caught in minew That was his first thought, but the | that Mamie was his wife no longer, but | the Baroness Riegelthurm. 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 a few seconds after | them.
 Are the Baron and Baroness Riegel.
 thurm staying hereT' he inquired of an attendant.
 'T 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 | domino, without her mask and with
 tears in her pretty dark eyes, sat hand in hand with Jack Fleming in her sis ! ter's drawing room.
 | You horrid, proud old thing~ 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 times! When I heard you tell all that to the man you were with tonight il
 was all I could do not to jump for joy
 and kiss you"
 "There is nothing to prevent you from kissing me now," Jack Fleming
 said.
 And Mamie agreed with him.-Main | ly About People.