Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-06-13

= ler-Brown wrote that nervous pros
! tration and diplomatic complication,
: with China and the Philippines might
4 go to the deueel She was more i'm
portant to him than both; had long
& ago bought his obedience, and now
she wanted him. Miss Orada Wabash,
the millionaire belle, had arrived; the
, chance of his life might be lost: be
! must join the house party at once!
Reggy packed his suit case dream
lily. A pair of blue eyes and a pair
of black Knocked him from knee
bulges in the trousers he folded
away Yes; those two village girls
haunted him. Neither had yielded to
him quite as others had before;
neither had really confessed anv-
thing; and hanged if he could tell
which of the pair he really cared
most for.
Was he really in love this time?
Boshl he, the victor of a hundred
Tits! No; that pain in his side was
from sitting on damp grass.
Mrs. Schuyler Brown welcomed her
elegant grandson with effusion on
the piazza. Later they had heart
to-heart talk in her sacred boudoir.
and there Reginald received his
mothers ultimatum. He must win
the western heiress for wife. under
penalty of disinheritance. Thus 1t
happened that the pride of the Wash
ington german became, as a Ienten
pennance, the veritable shadow Of
the handsome, cold and bored Miss
Orada Wabash. The girl had read. |
travelled and seen life; and she had |
brains as well as millions. The |
woods, the penitential season and /
the thick stupidity Of the house par
~ were all in his favor; but for davs
the western heiress let him make
wild love to her with no more re-
spouse than Nishnu gives to his NUT
brown worshiper Fire and Ice cam
not mingle unless one melts or the
other goes out. The man at length
grew piqued. lie put on an extra
sprint and made time over the scnti-
mental track that smashed even his
own record. But Miss Wabash re-
manned proyodngly cold.
Then old Checltmar, the widower
bore OF the house party. began to
pace him. Rich and in the set he {
was; but his money was a mite in
the girls eyes, and his devotion evil {
IDENTIFY bored her. So again the pride a
81 the practical sprinter nerved the '
racing Reggy; and one day, in the
lamp and unreasonable but quite re- q
note summer house, he felt that he /
rad Tapped the leader and was at b
east running neck and neck. I
Rebellious thought. however, would
iy TO Grassville; a pair of black ewes b
md a pair Of blue peered at him v
'ver Miss 0rada's polished shoulders. b
nd he longed for the touch of two l
anished hands and the sound of two Y
oices distance-stilled. Did Daisy love Q
i'm? Doubtless, he believed; ana 4
laYmye, also. But which the most O.
nd, more to the point, for which did
e care most? o.
But, then, Miss Wabash was of the NJ
et, her fortune vast, and that morn "
lg had showed she was not all ice. 4
by Joye! I'll make a test of all p
lree,' he said aloud. There's time 81
y Saturday, and I'll stand the spin rc
the roulette ball"
An hour later he reread two long. :,
'rvent and beseeching epistles. They =
ere identical in thought and word -
nd dotted ], save that in one each Z.
nder adjective prefixed the name &,
Daisy, and in the other the tender i,
tile Maymye Then, with nervous -,
md, he dashed off two superscrip- -
ons, enveloped both epistles and
ent to bed
After the late mail of Saturday n,
iss Wabash sat on the sunny end
the piazza, absorbed in a bulky
ickage it had brought. A little later
e strolled slowly down the path to .
e late neglected summer house. sal
An hour later-only a little while to
fore the dressing hour-BHette eli
und her alone in the library. ira
Nemesis sat waiting to
'ove. The vast. black gulf Of debt I'M
d lifelong poverty yawned before raj
N, and the society Curtius was cal
allied and mounted for the plunge. cor
Rapidly brokenly, almost abrupt for
he told her Of his love, his hopes. I
literally trembled before the tan. ma
OIL well-poised girl as be waited her !"
swer. 1t came softly: enc
As much as l regret this. Mr.. BIZ not
re, ! am more surprised" raj
surprised he echoed. "After an int,
Mt has passed between us! After dov
ose days in the summer" sto
Stop, sir" She was the icicle
ain. "You are forgetting your hol
ual tact," anp
And you refuse?" he Numbered on. of
'klessly after all that has passed. bio,
u decline toto marry?" Gee
Not necessarily" She was SIN Zul