Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-09-29

Half an hour later a hanson carried
m a note to a certain house IN Con
naught Square, addressed to Sir hoy
Grantley.
You said if ever I wanted a friend,
you would be one to me. l little thouSne
| should claim your promise so soon.
Come to me, Roy. l want you.
II will be ina ined that Roy was not
long in responding to this appeal. soon
after he was sitting with her IN inc
shadowy GOODNESS of her pretty drawing
room, holding her tiny thin hand III MS
and listening to her in dire dlsmay.
leave your home, Kitten! Can you
realize what you would be doing! Wha'
will people say of you if you go away
from your husbands protection"
II shall not, Roy. l shall still be IN
his house. only he will not know 1t.
Il don't see how it can be managed
said Roy.
''Do you mean that you will not help
mep oh. then am sorry indeed that
sent for you"
"Now. Kitten, you know that IS I'M
Just Would l not die to serve you'
But I cannot see the use OF this strong
step which you are contemplating. Whar
is there to be gained by it! After ALL
are you not his wife? Why, if you tear
the influence of this other woman, why
play into her hands by deserving your
post? How can you better your case Dy
fiinging aside your own rights and the
security of your own positions!
"Ah. you do not understand, she sald
impatiently. sYou talk about my rights
my position. v nat are they when l
have not got my husbands heart! Wlli
he not be happier without the perpetual
reproach of my presence! Roy, oniy
think how awful it must be to nave TO
pretend to love person every DAY oA
your life, when you are always hanker-
ing after some one else. Think II L nau
married you-and loved Brian"
He WINGED a little and turned away.
Oh. women are very heartless to the
men they do not love. It did not occur
TO her that she was causing him any
main. she was too full of the tragedy
in her own life.
Il could not bear it," she cried; "and
to see him strive and struggle to slmu-
late a love for me that l know he does
not feel, II at is what will not SIT Dy
and do. l want to set him free"
"You cannot set him free, not really:
Kitten; it is folly to fancy II" ne
said, almost angrily, for this abnegatlon
of herself filled him with blind rage
which he did not dare to give utterance
to-
ooh, why-why did he marry you"
he said, with a groan.
s'That is my affair."" said Kitten cold
ly, and rather loftily. If Roy had dared
to utter one disparaging word against
Brian. she would have ordered him out
of the house, and Roy knew it. I'VE
need not go into that, if you please, but
Won can understand once and for all that
our marriage was entirely my own dong.
Will YOU help me? And will you keep
my secret"
He promised to do anything and every
thing she told him.
81 don't see how it is to be managed"
he said doubtfully.
Kitten rose and went to her writing
table, and taking a letter out of draw
err, gave it to him to read.
It was from Mrs. Succurden, the house
keeper at AepplHSLoLl, anu was nuuleoo-
ed to Brian. Roy read it through care
fully, then he looked up at her.
"Well?" she said impatiently.
II am sorry, Kitten, but I really
don't sec" he said hesitatingly.
ooh, Roy, you were always stupid
boy" she said, with half-impatient
gesture. Cannot you understand that
the housekeeper writes to ask Brian if
she may have a girl under her, to take
charge of the china and glass; she says
she is getting too old to clean and dust
it all properly herself. And Brian gave
me the letter to answer, and-and | have
written this morning to say that 1 am
sending a girl down from London. Here
is my letter, and you must post it for
me-"
But still Roy did not understand. He
looked at her earnestly and fxedly, striv-
ing to make out her meaning.
Roy, don't you see that I shall be
tha girl ~