Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-09-04

GLADLY? I'm sure don't know,
mother dear"
Gervis yawned. He was pining 20
get on his Santa Claug trappings. and
to have quiet pipe by himself.
A quarter of an hour later nearly
every soul under the Temple-Dene
roof was echoing Lady James ques-
ton.
Where was the bride?
Not in her own room, not in the
hot, deserted ballroom; she was not
in the upper gallery, where the lights
were already being put out
All sense of fatigue was put to flight
by vague terror of some evil hang
ing over the house OF Temple Dene.
Under the ancient roof only two
persons did not share the terrified ex-
element when it was discovered that
Mrs. Geryis Templeton was nowhere
to be found-its master and the Amer
lean guest.
Geryis himself was petrified. He had
brought all his strength of will TO
bear on nobly doing his duty to the
woman he had-won for his wife. No
one but he would ever know how
hard the fight had been.
And now it was all in vain, for
GLADLY had gone-where, no one knew.
Since the journey on the Canadian
Pacific railway, over the snow-covered
prairies. GLADLY had been a bewilder-
ing puzzle to her husband. Her yagar-
| les had made him secretly wonder at
times II he had married lunatic.
Then again great fear would loom
up that his wife had inherited some
terrible wasting disease, and was about
to slip through his fingers and out OF
life itself.
| But this catastrophe on Christmas
night eelipsed all that he had even
\ dreaded.
GLADLY gone! She who had been the
merriest. gladdest. happiest of all the
''goodly companie!" II was inscrut-
able. horrible, maddening,
Out into the freezing night went
parties of searchers. Not a man I'M
| der Temple-Dene's roof. gentle or
simple. save two-its master and the
| American guest, Paul Ansdell--but
Joined the anxious hunt.
All was in vain!
Nothing more can be done until the
daylight comes" hoarsely said Gervis.
as he strobe into the still gayly lighted
hall, and stamped the hard iced snow
of his boots.
His face was gray, and a strange
look of age had crept owed IL, which
made It startlingly like that of his
mother.
Lady Jane, worn out and spent
crouched down beside the great yule.
log. that cracked and roared, the only
CHEEKY thing around.
she and Gervis gazed blankly at each
other. What had they done, the two
were asking one another silently, tina
this disgrace should have come t
shame them?
Can anybody tell me who saw Of
spoke with my wife last?"
There was a catch in the young
husbands voice as he put the question
to the circle of anxious-eyed searcher
round him.
she said she was going to hide
Don't you remember" Bobby Vane
who had recited, craned his neck for
ward to say.
Then everybody did remember wha
they had forgotten-Gladdy's wild pro
, posal to enact the bride in the "Mistle
toe Bough," and a gasp of relief came
why, she's In the house somewhere
safe and sound, laughing in her Slew
) at us all; and we've teen for the las
hour tearing our clothes and the ski
off our hands in that thicket of holly
| bushes round the pond!"
. Lets go all over the house again,
A suggested somebody else.
;. Perhaps she's crept inside one {
> the suits OF armor." suggested Bobb!
with protruding eyes. What tale
y was going 10 be to carry back
I school!
Another hour was spent in searcl
: but all fruitlessly.
e ITO be Continued.)