The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-09

| the hardihood to present him to m;
| daughter. The quarrel between US M r
| Cnrewe broke off for a moment, nj
| hands clinching the arms of his chair
| while he swallowed with difficulty, as
| though he choked upon sorle acrid bolus
| and he was SO strongly agitated by his
| own mention OF his enemy that he con-
| trolled himself by a painful effort OF his
| will. THE quarrel between us is politl-
| cal-alld personal. You will remember.
II shall remember" she answered In
| rather frightened voice.
1t was long before she fell asleep. II
alone must hover about the gates or
| steal into your garden like thief" the
1ncroyable had said. 1.-THE last time
| spoke to him 1t was to tell him that IL
| he ever set foot on ground OF mine, d
| shoot him down." had been her fathers
! declaration. And Mr.. Carewe had spoken
| with the most undeniable air Of mean
| ing what he said, Yet she knew that the
| Incroyable would come again
Also, with hot cheeks pressed into her
| pillow, Miss Betty had Identified the
! young man in the white hat, that dark
person whose hand she had far too i'm
petuously seized In both OF hers Aha!
1t was this gentleman who looked into
peoples eyes and stammered so Sin
cerely over pretty speech that you al
most believed him, 1t was he who was to
marry Fanchon Bareatd-'If he remen,-
hers" No wonder Fanchon had been in
such hurry to get him away. If he re-
members!' Such was that young mans
character was It? Miss Carewe laughed
aloud to her pillow for. was one to
guess the reason, also. of his not having
come to her ball? Had the poor man been
commanded to be "out OF town.
Then. Remembering the piquant and gen
erous face of Fanchon, Betty clinched
her fingers tightly and crushed the imp
VINO suggested the unworthy thought,
crushed him to a 4retched pulp and
threw him out OF the open window. He
Immediately sneaked In by the back way,
Tor. In spite OF her victory. she still felt a
little sorry for poor Fanchon.
CHAPTER w.
But STARE ,,I TogR coUNTRY's
If 1t be true that love is the great In
centive to the useless arts, the number
OF gentlemen who. became poets for the
sake of Miss Betty Carewe need not be
considered extraordinary. or all that
was written Of her dancing Tom Van
reveis lines. II Danced with Her Be-
meath the Lights" (Which he certainly
mad not done when he wrote them) Were
perhaps, next to Crailey Gray's in merit
though Tom burned his rhymes after
reading them to Crailey Other trouba-
dours were not SO modest, and the Roue1,
Journal found no lack Of tuneful offer
ing that spring, generously printing all OF
IT, even at the period when it became epi-
demic. The public had little difficulty in
recognizing the work of Mr.. Francis
Chenoweth In an anonymous Sonnet
(of twenty-three lines), which appeared
IN the issue following Miss Carewe's de-
h fY. y, ., -,.l,tl Ia,
dancing the mazonrka with q Lovely
Being, the sweetest feelings of his soul,
In celestial stream. bore him away be-
yond control in seraphic dream: and
he untruthfully stated that at the same
time he saw her wipe the silent tear,
emitting, however. to venture any expla-
ma ton OF the cause of her emotion. Old
General Trumble boldly signed his poem
In full. 1t was called IAN Ode upon Miss
C-s WALKING" and 1t began:
when Bettina found fair Rouen's shore,
And her aged father to lis bore
Her from the cloister neat,
She waltzed upon the ball room floor.
And lightly twirled upon her feet"
Mr.. Carcwe was rightfuly indignant,
salutation at their next meeting: Trum-
BILE was fifteen years older than he
AS Crailey Gray never danced with Miss
Carewe, 1t Is somewhat singular that she
should have hoen the insnira tiOn of his
swinging verses IN waltz measura
"Heart-strinrs on n, Violin" the sense
Of which vas that when q violin had
nlaved for her dancing the ,netrument
Should be shattered as wine-elasses are
. fter a great toast However M one
excent the author himself knew that
Rettv was the suhiect. fnr r.rallev Ger
tainIv did not mentio,, Il to',Tiss Rarea,Id
nor 10 his hest friend vanrevel
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