Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-10
Belle of Bear
City y ~ u "
Nv WIN. PERRY BROWN.
Icogyright 1901, by Authors syndioats.'
HTwo YEARS without sight of

hTfNU Ears NlAhbui olHhb VI
woman? What a life! If on'
.,1ia have two years without sigh
NJ man, now
she glanced at Sterling meditativel.
,..m The hammock. as he swung ont
opr leg over the arm Of his chair an'
tg5dled a raw gold nugget doing du
b.o1s duty as a watch charm.
could you imagine such horror
be quizzed.
Ut would be heavenly. Men grow
vsarlsome when they fancy them
selves in love
IAN Of them-o, most sweet sati
ey?'
.N-m-tell me about your life VI
there" she said, briskly "0f cours,
the cold must have been terrific, anC
with no news, no papers, no women
p5-er-"
NO anything desirable, you NIGH
add. except the grub, the fires, the
g5ld dust and-yes, there was one
thing else which became TO me, al
least more satisfactory than all tht
rest Of our meager comforts"
This last with a steady, admiring
stare that caused Miss Lamar TO slow
" droop her eyelids, as II the long
hshes might veil the faint blush that
seemed 70 ripple beneath the white
down Of the rounded cheeks below.
"And what was this eminently desir'
sbe thiug?" she continued, imperi-
ousIv.
I've called her the Belle Of Bear
City Fun" he chuekled 20 himself.
"l0u would have thought IL dizzily alb
surd could YOU have seen us line up ev-
cry morning and make our bows. We
even reserved our smartest small talk
for her-seemed as IL she could hear,
You know"
"Why not, unless she was 'dizzily'
deaf? So the most desirable thing
turns ont 70 be feminine after all. !
might have guessed Il. IL there was a
get-at-able woman inside the arctic
circle. What was she-some Esqui-
maug This last as a sort Of debative
challenge.
Not on your life. Neither was she a
sjwash, Chilcak nor any other Alas
Kan monstrosity. Ali how we did
adore that grit"
well, really!" Here Miss Lamar
eVnced sundry digniiied symptoms of
rising. How do you reconcile this
Wihyour staying two years in that hor-
I'D hole without seeing a woman
1T is a solemn, lugubrious fact" he
grarely asserted, "that we did"
Wit is one thing, Mr. Sterling" said
che, adding hauteur to dignity. Men
clc.ty is quite another. Even actress
IS are supposed TO know that"
She rose, darting at him a final
glance, neither meditative nor deba-
live, Had he not seen her look that
very way at the unsuccessful sutton in
Hearts Are Trumps." her latest stage
success? Was she really going? Ap-
la.ed lest he had offended. yet thrilled
iA1einably that anything he might say
could oe Of more than zephyrlike i'm
Foriance to move her. Sterling timidly
put out OBTAINING hand.
Please don't GO" he ventured. Il
laa no idea Of of-you see. II was
N. picture, after al"
Miss Lamar paused tentatively, with
neF hand on his chair back
lou seem overburdened with conun-
drums today" She commented. "Why
4ol solve them yourself?"
Bus, do you not understand"
am a poor hand at guessing. Be
SIDES, it is too much trouble" This
with a sort Of dry WEAKNESS which,
however, seemed to impel her to forge
1sF previous intention and sink Ian.
sl.ely backin the hammock.
%. Sterling grasped his opportunity by
.-Aing his hands together around one
eIaNn-np knee and gazing sleepily into
vacancy, as II stiIl mesmerized by the
n memory Of the elusive Belle OF
Bear City.
iherewere seven of us fellows Gagged
N one large cabin that winter. Most
vi us, being college bred, we herded
y,.seiher-birds of feather, YOU know
:. was a dreary time. No sun at al
ayr three months. the mercury so de-
s'ses below OF worse, with an ever
moving surf grinding the mush ice
gong shore, and not a scrap of news
~, ,of woman nearer than Nome City
4ay miles away"
p Always excepting the mysterious
Dele Of Bear City" she interpolated
sr rPpFessing a strictly artificial yawn
'ooF thingl Alone among all those
5 ,.-...-what did you say was the popu
-id not say. but there must have
hundred showed in under the
., -l4fa Bluffs, and every mothers son
~. - man" He grinned feebly.
ways except" she began again
- as eyes caused her to relent.