The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17

her cheeks burned with a rose flush of ex-
element, and her di1ated eyes were large
and dark as violets.~ Waverly was even
more in love than he had been when he
had seen her last in England, and thought
it rather hard lines that Sir Peter had
cody advised him, If he wanted the girl,i
not to "rush things - =
Next morning there was an expedition
into Tangier, for sightseeing and shop
ping. Lady Drayton had been spending
most Of the winter at the largest hotel in
the picturesque eastern town, and her
brother had come out to join her several
weeks ago, so that there were no novel
ties left behind them, but Waverly prom
ised himself pleasure IN watching Ewes
delight. AS the yachts boat came dan {
cling over. the bright green water, towards
the quay, another boat, somewhat larger,
shot out from the jetty. Several English
people were on board, and among them
sat white-draped, yelled figure, at sight
| of which Eve Markham gave a little stifed
cry. s@'-5't 80 - 80 r -.sr go
What is 1t Ever" asked her father.
Anyone we know in the boat?'
| ''No-o, the girl hesitated; ut was only
Il thought recognized that Moorish
woman wfoscaIne no board the Lily Maid
with Lady Drayton and Lord Waverlsy
Hast night" - Z. - j. Z. Z.
Mot very likely said waverley. ''shs
Iiwouldn't be going to Gib.''
|, ., fAIS Lis peOplo. III .8Oln0
there?'s Eve inquired; hiding eagerness.
|, Yes; they're being taken out to the
Sultana, a little trading boat that plies
back and forth twice a week. Perhaps you
noticed her anchored not far from the
Lily Maid this morning 70.
Eve managed to reply that she had not.
though she was SO preoccupied that she
could not have told afterwards whether
Eshe. said yes or no" - -
L So he woman WAS aetna 11v R-Hfy14 IN
lGibraltar, and evidently meant to keep
| her word! Eve would have given almost
lanything to know what would really pass
Ibetween tho fortune teller and Dick
|Knight; what he would think Of the let
ter, whether he would countenance the
topaz gazing, and whether anything In
teresting would be prophesied to him. The
lveiled woman had said that she could put
Thin in the path Of fortune; and the way
Eshe had described Dick Knight, and told
the exact circumstances which detained
Ihim in Gibraltar, did seem wonderful. Eve
was very young, very childlike in some
respects even for her 18 years, and she
Ibid not realize how easy it is to believe
what one ardently desires to believe. She
I!would have insisted, in repeating what
had happened last night between her and
! the fortune teller, that she had said moth
ling to put the woman on the right track;
whereas not a statement had been made
which might not have been suggested by
a change of expression on Ewes face, q
slisigh, a quick drawn breath, a look OF
anxiety, an inadvertent word. or broken
isentence.
i They landed and walked up through the
marrow streets to the Sok, cor market
. place Eve conducted by Waverley, while
Sir Peter and Lady Drayton followed
lleisurely on behind 1T was market-day.
and the great square was crowded with
4 with dark-faced men. selling fruit and
vegetables heaped in bright-colored piles
i on the low stands before which they
! ,sauatted, or displayed strange garments
for sale; beads. red and yellow; worsted In
: huge hanks; formidable looking knives;
!. glass bracelets; flat, sugared cakes, and .
q thousand md one things over which yelled
{ women, tiny brown children. and tall.
4 thin legged men cIoaked with sacking,
chartered, and bargained. Men with skin
/. water bottles on their backs threaded
their way among the moving thrcn8s;
!. groups Of gaily- dressed Moors stopped to
gaze grayely at the snake efarmers and
Z tconjurers; and in the center of the mar