Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-12-04
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FLORENCE WARDEN


when he had to leave like that, but
he was silly fellow, and he shouldn't
have pretended to care for me when
all the time he was crazy about some
body else"
L think you were rather hard upon
him. Why should you think he wasn't
sincere?"
Because, though I'm not at all d
brilliant person, | have a little sense
and | know quite well that / may be
the sort of girl a man would like for
a sister, but I'm not the sort of girl
he'd care to have for Wife"
This was so exactly Armathwaites
own impression of her, that an in,
voluntary twinkle of appreciation Ill
his face caught her sharp eyes.
so | though that I'd better put
you on your guard" she continued
brightly, "and if you don't want to
have me flung at your head from
morning TIL night, you will, if you
haven't got one already, invent a
fiancee to whom you are madly at
tached, with whom you correspond
regularly, and whom you are only
waiting for favorable opportunity
to install here as your bride"
At this fiction they both laughed
heartily; and with extravagant sug
gestions as to the devices to which
they would be driven if Mrs. Peele
should insist on inviting the fancee
to stay at Branksome, they cementec
their friendship and closed a firm al
lance. Mrs. Peele, when she joined
them little later, had evidently re
ceived full instructions from her hus
band, and was majestically cordial
while the friendly relations establish
ed between the newcomer and hel
daughter, to the mischievous amuse
ment of both, gave her undisguised
i pleasure. Armathwaite did not see
/ the doctor again that night; but wher
he retired to the prim and neat little
room which had been prepared fol
him, after an evening of pleasant
sympathetic talk, which to sisterless
man was full of charm, he felt that II
he had spent days in imagining al
ideal career, he could not have formed
an opening more entirely to his taste
than that which had sprung up under
his feet by what seemed a series oil
miracles. AS for the difficulties and
dangers spoken of by DR.. Peele, il
was natural enough that to a young
man they should appear merely as
! fresh interests; and knowing as he
did that the promised secrets con
cerned the two beautiful women who
had filled his thoughts so entirely
since he first saw them, he was madly
eager for the doctors disclosures, and
hoped that he might be sent for by
the invalid early on the following
morning. But this hope was dispelled
by an unexpected circumstance
which caused him to begin his profess
sional duties with less delay than he
had foreseen.
Next morning, breakfast was scarce
ly over, and Mrs. Peele, having bullied
her visitor numerically for not eating
marmalade, had only just marched
from the room, armed with a clanking
bunch of keys, to attend to her house
hold duties, when small groom drove
up to the house in dogcart and de-
liyered a note for DR.. Peele. This note
was sent down by the doctor to Arma-
thwaite to read. 1t was from Lady
kildonan, and contained only few
lines to say that one of the house
maids had cut her hand badly. and if
hA ha
was 10 sent DR. Armathwaite. The
young man read this, and his face
flushed with dozen different
emotions. Millie, who was filling the
seed.trough for her canary, looked at
him furtively as he glanced through
the note, which she herself had
brought down to him.
Have you read it?" he asked.
Yes. Papa read it to me-"
And what did he say?"
HE said he supposed you must go"
And what did you say?"
Il didn't say anything, but
"What?"
THAT she was beginning pretty
soon"
Armathwaite burst out laughing.
"Oh, you ill-natured little thing!
shouldn't have thought it of you
DIR. Armathwaite, it is not i'll
nature for plain woman not to sec
the faults in a handsome one. 1t re,
lieves my feelings, and makes no
difference to yours. Lady Kildonan is
a born coquette, fond of excitement
dying of ennui because her husband
makes her live in the country. She
looks upon every stranger that comes
to the neighborhood as her legitimate
prey; she even condescended to turn
sistant. who couldn't hear her name