Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-04-18
$50 As By Fire. !"
By Z, c. MARTIN.

,k sat contemplating MolPs letter
m dsuayed eyes and contracted
nys The pen dropped from his
vraless grasp as he exclaimed:
BY Jove, this is unanswerable!
lint 20 to New York and consult
$EMiner."
While he is writing out this pre-
xNiOn for himself, a telegram to his
hn Mortimer, let us glance over
ID document that has driven him to
mk this consultation.
oh. my lost Jack, while my eyes
he irenched in rivers of tears, you
m doubtless with Madam Won Win
lii, contemplating the moon at the
Md the veranda, and holding on to
bat ever slipping off wrap of hers.
Little did | dream when, one short
alth ago. she darkened the porch,
bat she would eclipse me in your
Sile affections. The transit of Venus!
lnply to my remark about her hair,
nth what dear Indifference you re-
Nlded Too red to be imitation.
hiyet in those glittering meshes you
mnow caught
Erelieves me to sit here and write
U woes, just as if | meant to send
the letter. | shall address it, and
M II in my desk drawer, and then
AaleSS myself to sleep, imagining
Y Litter is on its way to you. Be
as, writing prevents me from tax
RPeeps out of my window to see il
ID IND any moonlight between your
@aldeTS and madam's at the end OF
Be Teranda.
Il was but yesterday that with
SH back to me, on the straw side,
WI We're counting her rings, and !
aaa not move away, because you
we sitting on my sash. I tried to
nc comfort from the old song
'aen pretty women show their rings,
NAat can poor man do?'
'lF last word l caught, as your NOV.
= closer to her released me, was
.s4 LIE Elvienne,' in that serpent
we u hers. All, she is a false Vivi
~p' indeed, as l trust it may be my
wv fortune to prove to you; for in
s"' u all these gathering clouds
", w ~ not quite dead within me.
opened my little text book sud
Guy and the very first words / saw
w let so as by fire. They seemed
@a'e meaning, a reference to the
through which am passing
~ asao~ have drawn a vague com
Hon them. Besides, she wears
~0'h feathers in one of her hats
'Ga luck for her,
0isSs You, Jack, wherever YOU may
:. could hardly have said that had
peeped out and found the veran
s .sSeF1ed, Goodnight! 1 kiss the
DECK "'e ne' "ni.e ds mel
Tour all foriorn Mo1L.
n was the letter that sent Jack
.aange of air. to New York. How
a,I.I ' INTO his possession is easily
ae ~" Our heroine forgot tt
Hs, u IN her desk. Kitty, her maid
lssoi. sDe came with hot water to hel
M, sns mistress. quietly took il
sS a. as IN the happy days gone by
Conn.,, andy wish that it might prove
ID 'ao aver charm to the willy wildly
IT,, I ~ Mol realized Kitty's mistake
IN a,lns forty fits" to use hel
ND. O'uS, she Gained down, ant
Hi, T.. fate. What nexty"
e,ss.s absence. day after day
sl.s % say, frightened her. Pal.
Id ls0 sah to play around her lips
estss Sp once more visited her tired
.hao 1t was misery, of a kind, no
tpr h', ' gallant Jack every day ant
sara th ~. 1t was comparative bliss t.
lscka misery with her rival.
bend Mortimer was as true as an,
s,u 5c co could be who was SO sympa
aoN u 70 be secretly in love Will
hck ne ne never told his love" t,
asucs 'eins from the first he had n,
d eoO NJ and for the pity that is aki,
But WHY p' ne had no craving.
saOo,oaue Jack was seized with thi,
heh Has S insanity, and allowed tn,
De him sI's IN the widows eyes t,
ssfs ba, rom Moll, then did Morti
'teice h rejoice, and alas for tn,
H. neg ne gave his friend. -
ass on tsul' of it was that when Mol
isf ria,. me mail, as she often did
hset II - Z Tour miles on her bicycl
hasds,.l II was her cruel duty to han,
NlVlenne Won Winkie q lei