Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-30

She had obeyed him. The soft,
cl!nging gown of crepe-de-chine with
the low-cut bodice was simply made
and suited her beauty perfectly. The
fair smooth threat was unadorned, as
were likewise the soft arms, only one
ring was upon the tapering finger,
that. huge fire-opal She had re-
fused even to wear the engagement
token. and her betrothed had found in
past contests that remonstrances were
useless. She hoped that the mad
Englishman would claim her first-she
felt that she wanted to come to him
free from any others touch.
BY some strange magnetism she
must have communicated this thought
for he came hesitantly forward as the
music commenced. Il suppose you
prefer Don Felice?" he half-questioned.
But the look in her eyes answered
him: thrilled through him as the
touch of an electric battery. The
stately quadrille played by those
Spanish musicians lost somewhat of
its English style and gained more
dangerous movement. Even the two
step shared the same fate. They did
not dance together constantly. there
were too many young men for that
privilege, and she forced herself to
seem gay when dancing with her be-
trothed. 1t was after midnight when
the band struck I'D ''Sobre las Olas."
The plaintive minor key vibrated
mournfully. He came toward her, she
placed her hand in his and they moved
in unison to the soft music. Gradually
crescendo and faster it grew. He felt
the beating of her heart against his
arm, her head was hardly level with
his shoulders. The strange, sad wall
ing notes stirred him: her soft hair
was waited by the incoming breeze
against his face as he bent forward.
Her eyes looked up into his with such
her. He elasped her closer, the touch
of her soft yielding form was both
pleasure and pain. He realized that
he loved her. 1;
The music throbbed on. 1t was like
mortal pain--the thought that he was
to lose her Just when he had found
he loved her. He bent his head lower
-"Reina, Reina mia" it was only a
breath-hardly articulate sound. She
shivered and leaned more heavily
against him. The others were dizzily
whirling about Outside the shaded
veranda looked invitingly cool, they
were near the door. A sudden impulse
carried him through it and out beyond
down into the dark garden. They had
ceased dancing, she lay passive in his
arms, for he had lifted her in going
down the steps. He did not bend his
steps to the ceiba tree, but to his own
den among the piled up rocks some
little way nearer the house, yet sc
we'll screened that none but he knew
of its existence.
There in a grass-hammock he sal
down with her still in his arms. She
lay silent with closed eyes, seeming
hardly to breathe. but he felt she was
trembling. One ray of moonlight
quivered through the palm-leaveS and
lay across her face. From the house
came the sad Spanish music, rendered
softer and sadder by the distance
Her face lay against his shoulder with
in reach of his lips. He bent and
laid his lips to hers; there was no
responding kiss.
Darling" he whispered clasninp
her tighter and raising her so that her
face was almost level with his own,
Cant you kiss me? Say some word,
dear-do you hear me?"
Her eyes opened and such a world
of love shone in them that again he
wondered how he had gained it.
Speak, sweetheart! say some
thing"