Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-01-28

self. and suggest some way of breaking II
TO her.
If it is quite impossible for you to
discuss Victoria's prospects except in
such proyokingly funeral Tone" observ-
ed Genevieye, pray don't discuss them
at all with anybody
But if YOU tell mother without prep
arati0n-''
How terrible it would ber' put in Miss
Foster, with her supercilious smile. ''Vic-
toria has chosen her own husband and
married him without bridesmaids or cake:
oh. poor Willough' to have to break
this terrible, oveI lining news TO his
poor mother
You put it kinuiy, | must sayv' Will
answered. angrily. No wonder dread
your telling mother, if that is how YOU
look at it."
''Then how do you look at it:' she
asked, in a soothing tone; but her face
grew trife paler as she spoke.
How d look at it," echoed Will, in
dignantly. why, as anyoRe who has
grain of feeling in him, or of honor, must
look at it. She knew RICH 1I0m wrong,
and truth from falsehood. If she didn't
at first know a gentleman from a sneak,
she must aow have kno-,f one from an
unbelieYer and liar. Anu if she did not
know how to act as a lady, she might at
any rate have behaved with ordinary
womanly reserve. To think that my faith
er's daughter should have Joined that
villain and married him. knowing what
she must have Known
If it has been an unwise STEP" OBJ
served Miss Foster, Jelly, she viii suf-
fer, not you
Il declare said VIII, his subdued
voice full of rage, I'm tempted TO think
you have no heart at all. For PHYS sake
leave it to me to tell NJ, mother this mis-
cradle news! | detained you here to beg
for your help and advice. l don't want
either now"
Then | have done you good" smiled
Gena. IF you considered that you need
ed help in disclosing the fact of your
sisters marriage to DR.. Armstrong, you
must have been rather weak or out of
sorts. | am glad you feel no longer So"
If DIR. Armstrong had courted htF
openly and honorably, and she had chos-
en- to be such an idiot as to accept him.
even knowing all | know now" fumed
VIII, Il would not have made any trou-
bit for her by putting difficulties in the
way. But to do as she has done; TO let
him show himself as the liar he is, to &C.
cept the burned-out ashes of his regard:
to fly at his call; to marry him in secret,
and voluntarily share his shameful and
degraded reputation! Gcnevieve, how
can you know it ALL and yet be so in
moved?
Il see it a little differently" she an
swered, with slow distinctness. Tory
had allowed DR.. Armstrong to win her
affection, even while, perhaps, he was
tempted to pay court to Nora ST.
Georges fortune. And. now that the law
has made good use of peculiar phase Of
his belief, and meanly turned it to ae-
count against him. she gives him the re-
gard he has successfully sought, and full
fills an old promise to marry him"
"Genevieve," whispered her brother, IL
real surprise, and even pain, "can you
really look at this disgrace as you are
pretending to do? Or do you say this
only in your pride? Do not fear. am
not going to seek pity from anyone. And
I'm sure, if you are afraid of Nora's
fancying you are Illuminated"
What has Nora to do with me at ala"
cried Miss Foster. rising quickly, with
cold, unmirthful smile. Don't drag her
name so constantly into your converse
ton, please. You have no idea how
wearying it is. But l do not ask so i'm
possible a favor as you think, so don't
look crestfallen. | am going away in
day or two. | am going TO Paris, to an
old school friend of mine, and | shall not
hurry back. You shall take your turn
now as the recipient of mammals advice
and sympathy, and-and senseless praise
OF other girls. Pray give her plenty of
Nora's society, and Celia Pennington's,
and she will be content, and not at al!
sorry for my absence"
"Oh, Gena, how unjust you are!' cried
Will but she was strolling on now, and
by sign she bid him leave her.
How miserable it isl he unused, as
he slowly turned. "But-yes, l dare say
she will be different when she comes
back from Paris. Poor mother"
With the utterance of his mothers
name in his thoughts came the remem-
brance of what only he must tell her; and
with a sigh he went on to seek her-slow-
ly, very slowly, while he wondered how
he could tighten the blow for her. His
eyes wandered longingly to Nora where
she still stood looking far away, so abb
sently and dreamily. The young figure
seemed very tall and slight in its morn
ing dress, but the short, pretty face was
no longer white as the white fur that
muf1ed it, but had regained a little of its
old, soft rose tint
Ito be continued)