The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-09-13
"Anj friend?" l added.
and friend" she repeated.


And FRIEND" she repeated.
For the next few days | waited with
some mpatience for Miss Oliyier's prom
Used letter. 1t came at last, and put II
into my pocket to read when was alone
why, | could scarcely have explained
TO myself. 1t ran thus;
Dear Or. Martini have no little
commission to trouble you with. Tardif
tells me 1t was quite mistake, his moth
er taking sovereign from me each week.
She does not understand English money;
and he says | have paid quite sufficient
to stay with them a whole year longer
without paying any more. | am quite
content about that now. Tardif says. too,
that he has q friend In Southampton who
will buy my hair, and give more than
anybody in Guernsey. So | need not
trouble you about 1t, though | am sure
you would have done 1t for me.
Good by, my good doctor, | am try
Ing to do everything you told me exact
ly. and [ am getting well again fast. L
do not believe | shall be lame; you are
too clever for that. Your patient,
OLIVIA"
Olivia! looked at the word again to
make sure of it. Then 1t was not her
surname that was Olivier and was still
ignorant Of that. saw In moment
how the mistake had arisen, and how
innocent she was Of any deception in the
matter. She would tell Tardif that her
name was Olivia, and he thought only
Of the Olliviers he knew Il was a mis-
take that had been of use In checking
curiosity, and did not feel bound to put
1t right, Ny mother and Julia appeared
to have forgotten my patient In Sark al
| together.
Olivia! thought 1t very pretty
name, and repeated 1t to myself with its
abbreyiations. Olive Livy. 1t was diff
cult to abbreviate Julia; Ju, had called
her in my rudest schoolboy days | WON
dered how high Olivia would stand be-
side me; for | had never seen her on her
feet. Julia was not two inches shorter
than myself; a tall, stiff figure, neither
slender enough to be lissome, nor we'll
proportioned enough to be majestic. But
she was very good, and her price was faf
above rubies.
visited Sark again in about ten days,
to set Olivia free from my embargo upon
her walking. ] allowed her to walk lit.
tie way along a smooth meadow path,
leaning on my arm; and found that she
was head lower than myself-a beau
tiful height for a woman That time
Captain Carey had set me down at the
Havre Gosselin, appointing to meet at
the Creux harbor, which was exactly on
the opposite side OF the island. In cross
ing over to it-a distance Of rather more
than mile-I encountered Julia's
friends, Emma and Maria Brouard.
"You here again, Martini exclaimed
Emma.
Yes" | answered; Captain Carey set
me down at the Havre Gosselin, and Is
gone round to meet me at the Creux.0
You have been to see that young per
son Z" asked Maria.
YES" replied.
"She Is a very singular young woman,
she continued; I'VE think her stupid. We
cannot make anything Of her. But there
is no soubt Peer Tardlf means TO marry
her"
Nonsense" calculated hotly; II bes
your pardon. Maria, but | give Tardii
credit for sense enough to know his own
position"
had half an hour to wait In the little
harbor, Its great cliffs rising all about
me, with only a tunnel bored through
them to form an entrance to the green
island within. Ny rage had partly fun.
ed itself away before the yacht came In
sight.
TO be ccnt.aued.)