Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-06
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on a Sketcnlng-tOur. he would nave
no valet, no servant; he left all
ceremony and formality behind him.
He dropped even his name and title
for time; he wantedto realize to its
fullest extent the freedom and charm
of an artists life. 1t was his whim,
his fancy, his last real glimpse of
!, liberty before he entered in upon
public life. No one can say that he
was to blame. While he was on this
sketehing- he Mind, my dear
Miss Beaton, you are letting my
locket fall" for the treasure had
slipped from the white trembling
| hands.
Miss MARI raised it, and touched it
with her lips.
Noting her companions action,
Violet's face flushed with anger. Her
husband had kissed her face a thou
sand times with passionate kisses,
and her heart had not been stirred
she had taken them very much as her
right; but now, as the beautiful lips
of Miss MARI touched her husbands
pictured face, something rushed
through both heart and brain, leaving
her faint and bewildered.
The heiress put the portrait into
her hand, and went on.
4 During the sketching-tour he met
some beautiful country-girl, quite I'M
educated, l believe. He fell in love
with her. Neither his name nor his
rank did he disclose. He wooed her
as poor artist. Lady RIVERS does
not seem to think that she cared very
much for him; but 1 do not believe
that Why, in that case, did she
marry him? If one does not marry
for money, it must be for love.
should think this young girl married
Lord RIVERS, believing him to be an
artist working for his daily bread.
The strangest part of the story is
that she is what you seldom find so
young girl to be, real democrat.
She was brought up, it seems, to de-
test and condemn all aristocrats; and
Randolph, who understood this, knew
well that she would never marry him
if she knew his name and position.
He kept both secrets from her. Lady
RIVERS at first suspected that she
knew it, and had entrapped her son;
now it seems quite certain she was
ignorant of every fact connected with
him, except that he was on artist.
He managed to keep his secret for
some time. In the end she found it
out. Lady RIVERS says that she
never liked him afterward."
at was a gross deception" cried
Violet, suddenly.
at was nothing of the kind" said
the heiress, with flashing eyes.
Look at his face there; it is open
as the day, No man with face like
that could be deceitful. 1t shows-it
shows" she continued, wringing her
jewelled hands, that no one under
stands him as l do, no one in all the
wide world. Deceit never entered
his soul: it could not, even as dark
spirit cannot enter heaven. II was
MOI deceit. will tell you what it was
the graceful poetical fancy of an
artist, the within of man who wanted
to be loved for himself and married
for himself; and say, let who will de-
clare to the contrary, that there was
no harm in it, no shadow of guilt or
deceit. What do you candidly think
yourself?"
And Miss MARI fixed her eyes on
the pale, agitated face, and waited
for an answer.
What do you candidly think your
self?" she repeated.
1t was crucial question, a trying
moment. For the first time since she
had found out her husbands secret.
she felt she had judged him too hard
ly, and had not given sufficient con-
sideration to the motives which actu-
ated him.
1T matters little what | think"
said Violet. The girl looked at it
from her point of view, the man from
his"
''The girl wanted shaking!" de-
clared Miss Mari.
For a few minutes Violet was
quelled by the heiress' sudden out
burst. Hitherto she had felt that the
wrong and injury were all. on her side.
She had taken no tolerant view of her
husbands conduct. But to be told
that she wanted shaking" was a
shock to her which brought flush of
color to her fair face and light to
her eyes.
"Why do you say that" she asked,
coldly.
why, any one could answer that
question" declared Miss Mari.
Here is girl living in the country,
without expectations of any kind, and
a gentleman falls in love with her.
He does not love and ride away, as
many men would have done: he does
not play fast and loose with her. He
marries her, he gives her the richest
dover that king could give to a
queen, the first, best and truest love
of his heart. What more royal dover
can man give to woman than that?
He gives her one of the Oldest names
in the land and one OF the most stain.
less. He gives her wealth, luxury.
every comfort and delight that any
woman could desire. / maintain that
she ought to be grateful to him.
should have been. 7 only wish to