The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-03

| uOWn she went, III the DTlSnt l1Snt OF
| day. to the house of the dancer. She
! was above silly tongues, as was her
! husband, the captain. She wished to
| see this woman and to speak with her
| nor was she aware of any reason why
| she should not So she stood in the
snow at the Greek girls door, with
| the frost at 60 below, and parleyed with
the waiting maid for a full five min
uteS. She had also the pleasure of be-
ing turned away from that door and
| OF going back up the hill, wrOth at
| heart for the indignity which had been
put upon her. WHO is this woman
that she should refuse to see ne?" she
asked herself. One would think it the
other way around and she herself but
dancing girl denied at the door of the
wife of a captain.
She would not have been surprised
had she been taken into the dancers
cabin and encountered on common
ground; nor surprised had she been
taken in and Haunted in prideless ar
rOgance. But to be treated as she had
been treated was unexpected and dis
appointing. Ergo, she had not caught
treda's point of view. One cannot un-
derstand defilement without laying
hands 10 pitch, which is very sticky.
While there be plenty willing to under
take the experiment. All of which is
OF small concern beyond the fact that
1t gave Mrs. Eppingwen ground for
grievance and bred for her a great love
in the Greek girls heart
And in this way things went along
for month. Mrs. Eppingwen striving
10 Withhold the man from the Greek
dancers Establishments against the
time of Flossie's coming; Flossie less
enlng the miles each day of the drearv
trall; Freda pitting her strength
against the model woman; the model
woman StF9injOor -
the prize; and the man moving through
II all like a flying shuttle, very proud
or himself, whom he believed to be a
second Don Juan
1t was nobody's fault except the
mans that Lorraine Lisznayi at last
landed him. The way of a man with a
maid may be too wonderful to know.
but the way of a woman with a man
passeth all conception. Perhaps the
model Woman'S attraction Law in that
TO the eye she was a handsome ami
mai; perhaps she fascinated him with
her Old World talk of palaces and
princes; leastwise she daZzled him
whose life had been worked out in
uncultured roughness, and he at last
agreed to her suggestion of a run down
the river and marriage at Forty Mile.
In token of his intention he bought
dogs from Sitka CharIey-more than
one sled is necessary when a woman
like Lorraine Lisznayi takes to the
trail and then went up the creek to
give orders for the superintendence Of
his bonanza mines during his alb
sence.
He had given it out rather vaguely
that he needed the animals for sled
ding lumber from the mill to his
slulces, and right here is where Sitka
Charley demonstrated his fitness. He
agreed to furnish dogs on a given date.
but no sooner had Floyd Vanderlip
turned his toes up creek than Charley
hled himself away in perturbation to
Lorraine Lisznayi. Did she know where
Mr.. Vanderlip had gone? He had
agreed to supply that gentleman with
a big string of dogs by a certain time;
but that shameless one the German
trader Meyers, had been buying UP the
brutes and skimped the market It
was very necessary he should see Mr..
Vanderlip, because of the shameless
one he would be all of a week be-
midland in filling the contract
She did know where he had gone?
Up creek? Good Did he understand
her to say Mr.. VanderLp needed the
dogs on Friday night?-that he must
have them by that time? It was too
bad, but it was the fault of the
shameless one, who had bid up the
prices. They had jumped $50 a head,
and should he buy on the rising market
AAO NOOAO AO0O ny IAIC COIAI1dCl I16 WOn-
dered if Mr.. Vanderlip would be willing
to meet the advance.
She knew he would? Being Mr.. Van
derlips friend, she would even meet
the difference herself? And he was to
say nothing about it? She was kind to
SO look to his interests. Friday night,
did she say? Good! The dogs would
be on hand.
An hour later Freda knew the efope-
ment was to be pulled off on Friday
night; also that Floyd Vanderlip had
gone up creek, and her hands were
tied.
On Friday morning, Devereaux, the
official courier, bearing dispatches from
the governor, arrived over the ice. Be
sides the dispatches, he brought news
of Flossie. He had passed her camp at
Sixty Mile; humans and dogs were in
good condition; and she would doubt
less be in on the morrow. Mrs Ep-
pingWell experienced a great relief on
hearing this. Floyd Vanderlip was safe
up-creek, and ere the Greek girl could
again lay hands upon him, his bride
would be on the ground. Sit6a Charley
remarked incidentally that she intend
ed jumping out down river that night
with Floyd Vanderlip, and further VEN
tured the information that accidents
were very likely at that time Of year.
SO Mrs EppingWelPS thoughts of
Freda were unkinder than ever. She
wrote a note, addressed it to the man
in question, and intruSted it to a mes
senger, who lay in wait at the mouth
of Bonanza Creek. Another man, bear
ing a note from Freda, also waited at
that strategic point. So it happened
that Floyd Vanderlip, riding his sled
merrily down with the last daylight
received the notes together. He tore
F'reda's across No, he would not go
to see her. There were greater things
afoot that night. Besides, she was out
of the running. But Mrs. EppingWell!
He would observe her. last wish-or
rather the last wish it would be posi-
BILE for him to observe-and meet her
at the governors ball to hear what she
had to say. From the tone of the
writing 1t was evidently important;
perhaps. He smiled fondly, but
failed to shape the thought. Confound
it all, what a lucky fellow he was with
the women, anyway! Scattering her
letter to the frost, he mushed the dogs
into a swinging lope and headed for
his cabin. It was to be masquerade.
| and he had to dig up the costume used
at the opera house a couple of months
| ago. Also, he had to shave and to eat.
! Thus it was that he, alone of all inter-
| ested, was unaware of Flossie's prox-
unity
Have them down to the water-hole
| off the hospital, at midnight sharp.
! Don't fail me- he said to Sitka Char
! ley, who dropped In with the advice
! that only one dog was lacking to fill