Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-07-14

grooms were clustered around the
entrance, and as he made his way
through them he wondered what whim
had seized the old earl, that he should
build this great place, while he had
Caresford and so many others.
A footman took his coat and hat in
the hall, and another led the way up
the stairs. murmuring respectfully:
What name. sir?"
The man, too respectful to ask
twice, invented a name as nearly like
Clifford's answer as he could get IL,
and Clifford entered the room.
Lady Warner stood at the door and
extended her hand with the usual
hostess smile; then she looked
puzzled, for the face was strange to
her; but the patrician face and figure
allayed any suspicion she might have
had that she was welcoming an un-
invited guest, and she thought that
he might be some visitor or relative of
one of the guests for whom an invita-.
ton had been procured.
He passed on. and stood for a
moment or two looking round about
him in search of his uncle's face; but
he did not see either him or Kate Med.
don; it was just at the time she had
gone into the conservatory. Then
with a feeling of disappointment, not
at the absence of his uncle, the earl
he muttered:
"She is not here, l have committed
this piece of folly for nothing" and
with sigh he made his way to one OF
the side doors, and found himself on
the terrace.
The music fioated out on the quiet
night, and it and the sound of the
voices laughing and talking in the
ballroom behind him, affected hin
strangely.
1T is so long since I was in the
society of ladies and gentlemen" he
murmured, that | feel like partial
and outcast. L was fool to come-to
be reminded of the past that has gone
forever, and to be made dissatisfied
with the present. I'll go back and dc
my accounts, and leave. my uncle, the
earl, undisturbed," and, with laugh
he went down short flight Of steps OF
to the gravel path bordering the lawn
Then he turned and looked along the
noble facade with feeling of surprise
1T is grand place, indeed" he
thought But why on earth WASH
my uncle satisfied with Caresford ant
the rest of them?"
AS he asked himself this question
with a shrug of his shoulders, he
caught sight of a figure coming along
the terrace above him.
Something prompted him to stoI
and watch her in a listless fashion
and he saw her stop and lean on the
balustrade, her face upturned.
"She does not look very happy, who
ever she is. he murmured. What has
happened, wonder? Some other CIR
dancing with the man she loves.
suppose; or he has not come tonight
and even the dancing will not console
her"
He drew a little nearer; then. with
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ing to his face, and his heart leaping
for he saw it was Kate.
Kate, alone here on the terrace
within a few yards of himl OF what
was she thinking?-and why did she
look so pale and sad? He was pale
himself at that moment. If he had but
known it,
Then. feeling as il he were being
drawn toward her by an influence he
could not resist. he went on stood he
meath her so near that by stretching
out hand he could have touched the
white arm resting on the cold stone.
His heart beat fast with the dread
that she would go, and the burning de-
sire to speai, to her; and, at last,
scarcely knowing what he did, he
breathed her name:
"Kate,"