Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-04-18
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ter addressed in Jacks reckless hara,
Madam read the sprawlv it,.
nauntingly. before Moll's indiena,t
eyes. and passed to her, in pretty for.
elgn fashion, re compliments of Mon.
sieur Chack." Had she explained ~ > :.
the letter was chiefly about matching
embroidery silks, Moll need not have
gone down into such depths; as it was
she rushed madly to her room. and de-
manded wildly of her canary:
What more can Gomez"
More did come, to wit. Jack the
very next day. After witnessing Wi.
v1ennes offer of her two hands. as he
jumped from his wheel, Moll would
see no more. She darkened her room
and lay down, refusing to be comfort.
ed, though Kitty produced a tempting
box OF "Huyler's' mysteriously fresh
from New York. Somewhat appeased
Moll said:
Let him give his old candies to his
horrid widow!"
Had she opened the box all would
have been deepest gloom again, for
the card in it was Mortimer's .fay-
ored" by Jack.
1t might have been that the fire in
Moll's veins communicated itself to
the building; be that as it may, a lit
tie after midnight there was a great
cry heard in the hotel:
Fire! Fire!"
Mol, the sleepless, was in a mo-
ment all animation. Hastily dressing,
she took peep from the usual agony
spot, toward the veranda. There,
sure enough, stood Jack, lowering un-
certainly between her end of the house
and that of the golden haired siren.
Moll ground her teeth and stamped
her foot. muttering "Faithless!" She
would fain have stayed to see which
way the scale might turn, but realizing
that the fire would not wait his leis-
ure, she seized coil of rope kept
ready in case of fire, and glided softly
behind him, unseen, for his face was
toward her rivals bower
Blessing the good year she had
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the rope, lasso fashion, around Jack.
Her observation and experience
among the cowboys now stood her in
good stead.
The astonished captive found him
self whirled along the veranda, away
from Vivienne's bower. He was COM
PEELED to use his feet, otherwise Mol
would have literally wiped up the
veranda with him. Her feelings O.
exultation were past description.
Sweet revenge-punishme nt-deliver-
-triumph-f1lled her with COM
pound ecstasy.
Our fair fireman had been wide
enough awake to feel sure she was
pulling Jack away from the direction
of the fire-of both fires!
"She few and she few down the
long veranda and steps, away out on
the lawn, with hreathless Jack at her
heels. Miscalculating distance and
direction in her fierce joy, she went
plump into the pond, carrying her
prize with her. Then Jack took the
saving business in hand, and present
ly they were shivering on the brink
high, but by no means dry.
Luckily it was a warm August night
Moll looked up comically at her vic
tim, saying:
THANK you for saving me from the
water. We are quits, since rescued
you from the fire.
IN tho direct ion
of the hotel. and observing that the
slight flame at one corner had almost
died out. muttered, "A false alarm,
feeling very much inclined to let his
anger burn toward Moll for leading
him such dance, though he could not
exactly command words to state MS
| grievance.
Moll. meantime, had been using her
ewes like a detective Figures were
fitting confusedly here and there, 1or
an alarm of fire, even when there is
little more than smoke, is rouslng
thing at summer hotel.
Suddenly satisfied light CLEANED
in her eyes. She seized his hand as
of old, saying:
Come will take you to your Vi
Vienne."
Jack objected
Mol walked straight to summer
house into which she had seen the
terrified madam rush. 1t was dark,
b,,t Moll knew all the buttons, and
| soon an electric searchlight shed ITS
r.vS on yiyienne's diminished head
The glory had departed. IL was as
though the fire had passed over II anu
left it stubble! Madam, IKE tue
ostrich. seemed anxious to get her un.
lucky head into bush. She "ouio
not look at them.
Jack meekly followed Mol out into
the darkness, suggesting that tney
might as we'll go and get dried. MOI,
saucilv lifted a couplet from an olo