Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-13

I Jerked his head toward the saloon.
/ Desmond nodded and passed on.
| This question had set him asking
/ himself another one.
Why had he come here tonight-he
VINO had summed his fellow-men for
two long years?
! Why should he add one more to
this jostling and perspiring crowd ?
He stopped, with a slight frown, at
the doorway, and half-turned; then
some people pushed him forward, with
muttered apology, and he found
himself in the room. and shaking
hands with the poor duchess.
4 "Ah. Lord Carr-Lyon," she said,
her set smile and regulation voice
/ changing for one of genuine welcome
How good of you 10 come. They ali
told me should not succeed in get.
ting you, that the hermit never left
/ his SHE'LL 1t is good of you You
Will find great many who will be
glad to See you"
He bowed over her hand, and, with a
suitable response, then made his way
/ through the crowd.
! In very few minutes he got tired
and impatient of the melee, and. find
/ ing vacant corner, lapsed into
4 thought.
For two years he had been wander
ing about the world, stunning the
cities and clinging to the wilds with
that instinct which the wounded man
shows with the lower animal, the in
stinct that tells him that the only cure
for the deadly hurt is solitude and
rest.
And all that time he had continued
to think of the girl he had loved, ana
! still loved; to dream of her by night.
to muse over the memory of her by
day.
And at last he had come back. He
had heard that she was under the
shelter of Lady Warmers wing, that
she was acknowledged to be the most
beautiful and charming woman in
London, and the longing to see her, to
be somewhere near her, if only for a
few hours, took possession of him
and mastered him.
He had come back, but he had not
yet seen her.
With all his courage, he had shrunh
from calling upon her, as an ordinary
acquaintance might have done.
His heart beat with a wild throbbing
at the mere thought of meeting her,
and he did not know whether he
feared or longed for it most.
You see, he had gone through an
ordeal which, like fire, though it may
not utterly destroy, leaves its scars
behind
Even at this moment, as he looked
at the brilliant, chattering crowd. he
was far away in the quarry, with Kate
in his arms, and-alas, alasi-
loving, true-hearted Nellie dying at
his feet,
/ He was so absorbed with these
shadows of the past, mingling with
the intense craving to see Kate, that
he did not see the notice he was at
tracing, and that people were watch
a
curiosity, as they whispered his name
to each other, and told the romantic
story of his life.
Most extraordinary man, my DEAR"
murmured an old lady to another.
Hid himself for years, even after
that dreadful man. Arthur Carr-Lyon,
had been murdered by that still more
dreadful woman. Only just come
back from-somewhere or other. Oh,
most extraordinary! Did you heai
what he did with that place in
Devonshire which Arthur Carr-Lyon
had built-Lydcote, or something like
that? Turned it into a convalescent
home for sick children. He did, i'll,
deed! Rich? OF course; immensely
rich. The Carr-Lyon place. Caresford.
is one OF the best in England. What
a match for some girl. for they say he
is as good as he is handsome"
Eyes? Well. I'm sure we ought to
be very much obliged to him." said
her companion, who was rather a nice
old lady.
Obliged to him? Why. my dear?"
demanded the first, with quite little
surprise.
Because he has restored our belief
in the romantic" was the reply. 1--WE
had got to think that there was no
romance left-excepting in the pages
of novel-and it is quite refreshing
to find that a man can be hero, and
look it at the same time she added,
glancing approvingly at Desmond's
tall figure and handsome face. "He
does not seem to be enjoying the
sensation he is ereating-doesn't seem
to know that he is creating any,
which is rather ungrateful. isn't it?
Look, l fancy he is actually going"
He was going. With the same pre-
occupied expression, he left his cor,
ner and made his way toward one of
the numerous exits.
AS he did so, while he was in the
middle of { Jwd going in the other
direction, he heard a voice behind him
which Sant the blood rushing m his