The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-05-12

Ia not rue 10 Iaui. Tbov
Knows something about het' =,
hore something in common when -
not known to Paul or to any Oh 10,
Whv do you not speak? why 40 YOU
SIT staring into the fire with your 'P'
80 close together" ,,,1
"Recause | do not think that we sha',
Gain ANYTHING by discussing ian' "Hu
his wife. 1t is no business OF ours
Catrjpa laughed-a lamentable' mir'N-
less laugh.
"Tbot is because she is your cousin
and he-he is nothing to you. You 10
NOT care whether he IS happy or not.
Catrjnn had turned upon her ON,
nanion tiercely. Maggie swung aFoui'u
in her chair to pick up her bracelets
which had slipped from her knees 10
the floor.
"You e%xaggerate things she ana
nniptlv 81 see no reason to suppose
that Paul is unhappy. 1t is because
you have taken this unreasonable dis-
like to her"
She took Il long time to collect thfee
bracelets. Then she rose ana placed
them on the dressing table.
30 YOU want me to COZ asked Ca
trina in her blunt way.
NO" answered Maggie civilly
enough. But she extracted a couple
of hairpins rather obviously,
Catrina needed the voice and not the
action.
do you like NJ. de Chauxville'' she
asked.
mo"
"Does Paul like him"
81 don't know"
Catrina looked up for a moment only.
Then her eyes returned to the contem-
plation of the burning pine logs.
81 wonder why you will not talk OF
Paul." she said in a voice requiring nc
answer.
Maggie moved rather %uneasily. She
had her back turned toward Catrina.
II am afraid ! I'M rather a dull per.
son." she answered. u have not much
to say about anybody"
and nothing about Paul?" suggest
ed Catrina.
Nothing. We were talking about NJ.
de Chauxville."
"Yes. l do not understand NJ. de
ChauXville. He seems to me to be the
incarnation Of insincerity. He poses
even to himself. He is always watch
Ing for the effect. l wonder what the
effect of himself upon himself nav
be?"
Maggie laughed.
"That is rather complicated" she
said. 1T requires working out. I
think he is deeply impressed with his
own a%stuteness. If he were simpler.
he would be cleverer."
Catrina was afraid of Claude de
Chauxville, and because this was 50
she stared In wonder at the English
girl, who dismissed him from the ION.
versation and her thoughts with a few
careless words of contempt. Sucr
minds as that of Miss Delafeld We're
quite outside the field of De Chauy.
Vllle's influence, while that Frenchman
mad considerable power over HIGHLY
strung and imaginative natures.
Catr1na Lanovitch had begun by to,.
Grating him-had proceeded to NAL.
the serious blunder of permitting him
" oe lmpertinently familiar and was
now exaggerating in her W mind III,
nold that he had over her. Sha Az
moi actually dislike him. So few neo
PIE a taken the trouble or found IN,
eApeulency OF endeavoring to sym.
pathlze with her or understand bor
.ule INA. she was unconsciously draw,
toward this man whom she now sa".
ed. '"e now G
IN exaggerating the power he ever
clseu over herself she somewhat no+
lay exaggerated also his importanc,
ID the world and in the livos 81 ~
around MIN. She had imagined b,n
ali powerful, and the first norson I'M
"no,n she mentioned his name disnisa
ed the subject inditfereptly uas liss
entire sincerity had enabled bar = oM W.
.ect the %insincerity of her ann " ue
nau purposely made mention 90 .n'
WEAK spot which she had discovered I i'
corra, .nat her observation might ~
to, ,IoDora.e And this Maggie ha "
wan the slightest encour, CO.,,
Sa'rlna would have told her eenns
tDn an that had passed. The Snpa
my between women is GO .ne sympa
. .nee is usually only one m o,ron g, that !,
sale from discussion. In VINO +
cuse mat n man was not c Ia's1na,s
oIa SilTarsa. But Maggie Dela niepls w de-
ures uillerent material from teis wa Va.
st : Ma impulsive Russi ,n,s i'm
one was essentially Britts 1usslan girl
course course tor thra steering a straight pe aes ga
sands sands Of fn heu a., the shoals and 1ef aa'nh
thoughts aus hs'n s grip She held upon he's ss a ais,
pared 70 she was by no means lpS owl owl
e s9.ass.. and in her ,somnWh 20 the frs,
'Ns-s.IW pn