El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-04

to honeymoon in Europe. London was
too cold, and we came to Cannes for
the carnival One night we left her
mother at the hotel and came out to
/ see the fun
A lady in a blue domino who formed
one of the group of three at the neigh
| boring table turned in her seat and
fixed the gaze of two bright dark eyes,
| shining through Il black velvet mask.
| upon Jack Fleming's face.
Then your wife's mother was with
you?'
THAT was the beginning of the mis-
chief. She insisted upon following us
to Europe in a week. AS | told you,
we left her ut the hotel. and here I'M
der the palms, | felt my shoulder
touched and heard my name called out
of the crowd: Jack, Jack Fleming.
Don't you recognize meT 1t was Ethel
Marlborough, an old sweetheart of
mine. We were engaged once, but she
was such Il fiirt she drove me half
mad. and l broke it off. She was in
mask and domino. but | knew her
voice in Il moment
Il felt Mamie's grasp tighten on my
arm and saw her face change. l don't
know whether Ethel knew I was mar
ried. The whole thing had been very
sudden, and l hope, for her sake, she
didn't. But, just TO plague me, she
hung OH TO my arm and kept on whis
pering about old times, and finally,
after l had broken away. declaring l
did not know her. she slipped scrap
of paper into my pocket and ran away
laughing. Mamie seized il and never
spoke a word until we got to the hotel
Then in the presence of her mother she
opened it. 1t was nothing in the world
but n pink confetti disk, with the name
Ethel written across it. but it cut
short my happiness most effectively.
1.-The two women worked themselves
up into a scene. My explanations were
hardly listened to. Mamie was an i'm
pulsivc, jealous child of IS, and her
mother had always been against the
marriage. The end of il was that they
left Cannes the next morning and re-
turned to the States without me.
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,
was starting in search of Mamie,
paper that the daughter of Commo-
dore GrierSon chat was the name of
Mamie's father had just married Bar
on Ludwig Won Riegelthurm. Some
how 1 had always been fool enough to
hope we might come together again,
which shows. | suppose, that a man
doesn't get wiser as lie gets older"
1T must be awfully painful for you"
Il
you very fond of her.
'She is the only woman l ever really |
cared straw about OF ever shall care"
He rose as he spoke. and the two |
men Strolled away. The little lady in |
the blue domino ut the adjoining table |
stared intcntly after them. Then she |
whispered something To- her compan- |
ions, from one of whom she borrowed |
a pencil.
'Thosc people who were at the next |
table are following" u.s." Norton pres
emily 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.
1t was a very little hand. as he found /
when he seized it. and it was soft and
feminine. Its owner wore n blue /
and wriggled her fingers clear
from his, leaving in his pocket Il twist
ed scrap of paper.
The blood rushed to Fleming's face.
The situation of ten years ago was re-
peating itself. Crossing to n brightly
lighted shop window, he unfolded the
Daper and disclosed a pink paper disk,
across which was written i'm pencil the
name Mamie"
by love. if it should have been my
wife's- hand that I caught i'm mine!"
That was his first thought, but the
next moment he recalled the bitter fact
hat Mamie was his wife no longer, but
he Baroness Riegelthurm.
Nevertheless he looked round for the |
blue domino and caught sight of her
entering an open carriage with her two
Fleming chartered an
,ther and followed the party to the
ioors of the Grand hotel, the hall of
which he entered a few seconds after !
hem.
Are the Baron and Baroness Riegel- |
hurm staying here?' lie inquired of
IN attendant.
Il think they expect you, sir. One
n the ladies asked me whether you
wanted to see the Baroness Riegel-
hurm or her stcpsister, Mrs. John
fleming
Half an hour later the little blue
domino. without her mask and with
ears in her pretty dark eyes. sat hand
q hand with Jack Fleming in her sis
er's drawing room.
You horrid, proud old thing" she
vas saying. '.Why didn't you come
nd claim mo vaarS noo1 nf courSa |