Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-12-09
CHAPTER XVII.

more mOnOtOnOuSly. however ne
managed to get through them by dint
of continued gayeties. There seemed
tC be no end to them. There were
fancy-balls, private theatricals, cha
rade parties, r-parties-hardly
a day passed without something of the
kind; and Rood Abbey soon became as
famous for it's hospitality as it was for
it's natural charms.
The captain lost none Of his popu-
larity as master Of Rood Abbey, and it
was generally agreed that Lady Laura
had done a wise thing in marrying
him; she was just then the most en-
We'd woman in the county.
BY forcing excitement the captain
managed to tolerate his new mode of
existence. Yet, even with all these
consultations, he found it hard, and he
vowed to himself that this state of
things should not occur again. Next
year he would fill the house with his
own friends-men of his own stamp
and women who knew how to be
amusing.
my wife is beautiful and sweet
tempered, but she has not an idea
beyond looking pretty and being adj
mired | should like little less love
and little more wit, he often said to
himself
The plain truth was that in six
months he had completely tired of the
wife whom he had married for money.
He was tired of her fair beauty, tired
Of the sweetness of her manner, tired
OF her unvarying amiability; above
all, he was unutterabIy bored by her
passionate worship Of himself, al
though she had not yet found it out.
1t would have been perfectly useless
to speak to her or warn her. Lady
Wynyard would perhaps have been
happy for few months longer if she
had loved her husband less, or if she
had refrained from showing her pas
sionate worship of him. AS it was,
She as he phrased it to himself, bored
him most horribly. She was never
happy out of his presence; she liked
TO spend every moment of her time
with him; she was jealous and miser-
any one else. No loye-sick girl could
have shown more unmistakable symp-
toms of love-fever than she did.
Autumn and winter were over now.
and Captain Wynyard hailed the
spring with unbounded satisfaction.
Talk of surfeiting a bee with
honey!" he said to himself. q am
surfeited with my wife's beauty and
alteration"
And there rose before him the fair
face of the woman he adored and had
forsaken, the one of whom he never
tired.
Lady Laura had offered some feeble
resistance when the proposal 20 spend
the season in London was first dis
cussed. 1t was at the beginning Of
April and the primroses were all out,
the grass was of the loveliest and
most tender green, the buds were
forming on the trees, the odor Of
sweet violets filled the air.
Rood is SO charming now,' she said
to her husband; 81 wish we were go
ing to spend the spring here
81 should be very sorry" laughed
the captain. Il have had enough Of
rural life to last me for some time"
His wife looked up at him with
something like alteration in ner eyes
Il thought you said, Vance, that all
places were alike to you when you
were with me?"
They are, indeed, my DEAR" he re-
piled, and she was quite content.
The next time the question was dis
Cussed the captain laid down the
law in his own fashion. They would
go to town for the season; they would
go early and remain late In the sum-
mer he intended to go abroad for
short time; and, when they returned
to the Abbey, he should bring party
of friends with him. And her lady
ship yielded without one word of pro
test.
The soft April winds were blowing.
the soft April showers were falling,
when they left Rood. The primroses
CLEANED like gold at the feet of the
budding trees, all nature was donning
its greenest garb.
There will be nothing in London
like this" sighed Angela.
The captain laughed mockingly.
NO." he said, ''but there will be
something thousand times better. l
would rather have one hour in Lon
don than a month in the country:
Better fifty years of Europe
Than a cycle of Cath y.'
81 am not surprised to hear you say
So replied Angela. II can imagine
that London life is more to your taste
than that of the country
Yes confessed the captain, who
was in the highest possible spirits at
the prospect before him; 81 find my
paradise there. Clubs, theaters.
dances are things l delight in
The captain was unusually elated.
so much SO as to be quite genial with
Angela.
Miss Jameson wac NOT going with