The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-03-06

vest moon rose flaming disc in the
east and the many-stringed orchestra
hidden in the palms of the great YER
anda wooed concord, they sat in
peace under the soft influences of
moon and star, and were content.
Here Marguerite, the desolate, found
her cavalier. He was a student at the
University of Minnesota, boy of 20,
just through his junior year, working
his way to education by the labor of
his own hands. At the big summer
hotel he served as an amateur guide,
boatman, equerry, escort, to those who
needed him. 1t was Henry who best
knew where lurked the biggest bass,
and to what bait they would rise. He
could sail a single sticker with the in
trepidity and assurance Of cup chal-
| Ienger. He could row for hours with
out fatigue. He rode like life guards
man and knew the secret pockets of
| the woods like trapper. In addition,
Henry Lestrange was as handsome
as the young Antinous, student who
| bade fair to become a scholar gen.
tleman by instinct, and within his as
piring breast dwelt a soul whose young
ambition had raised a ladder whose
| higher rungs were hidden in the SYM
pathetic skies.
This was the attendant who had
been placed wholly at the service Of
Miss Carroll's party-which meant at
| the pleasure of Miss Carroll herself
She viewed him languidly at first, as
she might have viewed any other
| domesticated creature assigned to do
her bidding. On the second day she
became aware that he was good to
look upon. Then she adroitiy delyed
in the depths of his sophisticated
mind and found its native keenness
and its alloy of innocence mine of
strange gems she had never looked
upon. The task of breaking a heart
so simple, so ingenious, so unsuilied,
so limpid in its virginia. simplicity,
seemed TO her a languorous pastime
quite in harmony with her intention
of rcstfulness. 1t would be neither
difficult nor too exciting but it would
While the Minnetonkan hours. She
undertook it. armed with the softly
insidiuus wiles deep experience had
begotten.
But it was not long before Marguer'
tie perceived the random fire of her
ambushed batteries was Intellectual &c
disturb this unconscious opposing
force. Henry was studious,y polite
unquenchably good humored. No pet
ulance annoyed him, no labor fatigued
Yet when his hand touched hers a he
steadied her step into a rocking boat
or assisted her to the sad@'a, or he,peC
her through a ferny bog seeking fol
wood treasures, she could feel Nc
tremor, could see no mant,iGg of ho
blood to his unmoyed cheek. Initial,
this pleased her. If the quarry wer,
Shy, more sport and glory for th'
hunter. The game promised rare,
interest than she had hoped
The week Miss Carroll had marked
for her sojourn passed. She reen
gagged her apartments, indefinitely
Minnetonka had far more entrance
ments than she had known, she said
She released her chaperon from at
tendance. and defantly upon Ion!
excursions with Lestrange alone
They walked together in the woods
rode in the dusk, rowed in the moon
light, now growing faint. He re
NAMED uures poHsiye, not cold, but nm
conscious, uuapprcciatiyc Of his con
quest. One night she cried herseIft
sleep, she, Marguerite Carroll, VII
had thrown over princes and disdainc
ministers, and awule to know that h
was hope.esSly in love. Her bosoy
; ragged between a glowing scorn Of he
own weakness and a deep new-learne
tenderness for the man shc loved. Tn
situation became cruelty unendurabl,
> She determined to end it, to crus
, her pride with fierce fingers. to Oar
Hand by one master stroke to gain al
I'VE are going away tomorrow, Nj
Lsstrange," she said, on the evenin
this resolution had been formed. e
have telegram from uncle which +,
calls us at once to Washington"
They were sitting alone upon tn
veranda. whittier she had adroitly sun
,, moned him. The young man had a
tended. as matter Of course. Mr.
Beaumont and Cousin Julia wer
watching the dancers in the broa
clearing of the dining-room. He stag
ed sharply. Marguerite felt her hear
leap hopefully.
! THE news is sudden, isn't it?'' h
faltered
at is sudden, indeed" she answered
inclining her gracious body to him III
til her hair almost brushed his fac
and speaking softly in her voice {
music, land | am sorry. It has bee
pleasant here, and all Of us are Loaf
> to go, But no one else will care, S
what does ii matter?"
. "But ! care" he cried, with dee
embarrassm "Probably | shoul
have told you before, Miss Carroll,
> am in love"
, She smiled inefrably, and her vote
= sounded like a caress as she answere,
"Yet, to be in love is not a Grim
Henry. !, at least, could forgive II
= | ot,iV, inn Al Tnpfnug h.