Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-08-05
CHAPTER Tv.-tCOntinued.)

.,,- was taking possession VI Lllli' why
VIZ claiming his every word and look,
III taa Violet steadily refused to raise her
owes TO help him.
- more she also seemed to have
..inai the conspiracy to force him to
!.,,o-e TO the he:ress; remarks addressed
Lar she allowed Miss Smith to AFRO
~ 20 herself; Invitations. plans, meant
;.o,,,de her. if not exclusively arranged
bor account. were eagerly accepted by
-. otber. until the net had grown so
s.rorg that unless it were snapped at
orca nv a vigorous effort, 1t would snare
and bind its prey forever.
an ~ T. no uncommon thing to see man
~ between two opinions as regards
sarr;are. and in only too many cases
rb1osing the inferior woman for his wife.
The only question is, did he choose her,
IA he merely surrender as pris-
onar If war to a bold and scheming en-
~, while his heart still yearned after
tha other. who to eternity would be the
onp ideal woman for him.
In many cases the battle is between
4ba women. while the man stands ready
20 he claimed by the winning side, which
= a foregone conclusion when the COM
batants are of such opposite natures as
Violet Surrey and Alice Smith were
tba one so quiet, delicate in mind and
action. waiting to let the man take the
initiative, shvy and absolutely free from
PERSONAL conceit, or underhand ways of
claiming a man to her by compliments
she has extorted, or giving different in
terpretation to sentences to what the
sneaker has intended.
Violet would not only have refused to
hire a sutton on to propose to her, but
her self-respect was such that she would
have released a man even at the altar if
she knew he repented his choice. Though
utterly free from conceit, she had SUI
fcent pride to scorn obtaining a hus-
hand. even the man she loved better than
all the world, unless he also loved her to
the exclusion of remembrance of others,
Alice Smith was of very different
caIbcr altogether. Sharp and pretty,
with certain inward determination to
soar to the very top, quite unconscious
If her many deficiencies, and far too con-
scious of her charms, she had from the
first moment her eyes rested on the hand
some young baronet waiting for her on
the quay, determined to marry him. His
appearance, aided by his title and high
position, enchanted her, and when she
saw the splendor, the magnifcence of his
home the army of servants, the stately
mansion standing in the wooded deer
park The conquest was complete,
Sir Halco for her and none other! He
was to her the embodiment of all the
heroes she had ever read of in books in
her life, and it only seemed the natural
thing to her for her fancy to be recipro-
Gated.
Her idea of her own attractions was
immense. AS she had made Sir Halco
into the hero of all romances, SO had she
pictured herself as the heroine, and many
hours a day did she spend at her toilette,
fretting and Tuning the while at the
q necessity of having to wear black, in
stead of enjoying the exquisite pleasure
Of seeing herself arrayed in dazzling tints
/ best calculated, from her own point of
view, to show off her personal beauty.
Had she only known it, she looked at
her highest water mark of beauty in the
clothes selected for her by Mrs. Roches-
ter. the soft black refining her appear
ance as it invariably does, particularly
to blondes, perhaps, and showing up the
far hair and transparent complexion in
the most becoming way.
But Alice Smith longed, with an impa
tlence that was almost a pain, for the
time when she could cast aside the garb
Of woe lin her case perfect mockery,
Tor she had never seen or spoken to the
late Sir Hilary Rochester in her life).
and array herself in diamonds, satin and
lace.
Anybody can wear horrid ! black
things she pouted vexedly; goodness
knows I've had enough of them. | will
never have another black dress as long
as l live. What's the good of being rich,
II | can't dress as / like. / will, too,
l0st the minute | get hold of the money,
ana become Lady Rochester, and III soon
uflye things the way / want to 90. I'll
Gear the house of good many people it
holds HOW! Violet Surrey shall be the
nrst to 90, and that impudent maid, who
laughed at one or two of my mistakes
when l first came. will be the second to
walk.
''NAA VI COuISe L sHdU WdHJ Il
Hother-in-law bothering round all the
tme; sometimes she is useful, but Pm
very tired of her, on the whole. Oh, how
should love to go swelling back to
brisbane a real lady, with title of my
owl own and live baronet for my husband.
wouldn't the folks stare? He's stupid
oa sIowcoach though, and seems afraid
10 10 speak. suppose the money frightens
and so she used to sit in front of her
mirror admiring herself, and building up
great castles in the air of future gran
geaE' which she was all impatience to
nave begin. There was certain danger
j" ae.ay which only she herself knew of
CT she fondly thought so-though in
lts'i'y that grave. stern, white haired
ga lawyer guessed more of her secret
,"1a She would have liked had she only
But ignorance is bliss in some cases,
~.e she Went on dreaming her dreams,
~.- aaIding her card house. until it at
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