Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-09-08

OI0eE CAP. All tue IAAAS' -
with you. and the heavy cases will be
sent up by van tomorrow. Now, where
are you going? Where shall l tell the
cabman to drire:"
She looked heIplessly at him. II
don't know. It is so long-ten years
since l was in England, and then | was
never much in London. Where had
better go?"
Poor SOUL muttered the colonel be-
low his breath; her desolate condition
struck him painfully. He had seen her
the queen of Anglo-Indian society IN
station where her husband had been
great and influential man. Rosamond
had held little court of her own; she
had been fattered, admired, adored, even
by an enthusiastic circle of worshlperS'
she had been as a queen, cold, PROUD
queen. it is true, dispensing her smiles
and her favors discreetly, and with I'M
ruffied dignity, but always queen. Ana
now she was at home, and IN all LONDON
she did not seem to have friend, OF 10
know Of a roof to shelter her.
Where had better go?' she repeated
heIplessly.
He recommended the Langham hotel,
anu lOIu lCA luSC AAC "N0AN
her in the morning.
In the morning she was up betlme
and busy at her writing case, and when
the waiter brought i'll her breakfast tray
she gave him a note.
You have messenger, L suppose,
who can take this letter for me! 1t IS TO
the Carlton Club; is that far from here!
'Oh. no. ma am, he could walk there
in twenty minutes"
Il would rather he drove. l want 1t
delivered quickly. How long will 1t
take?'
Not FIVE minutes"
Five minutes! in FIVE minutes then he
would get her letter, see her handwriting
once more-know that she was at home
and near him. Her heart beat wildly at
the thought.
He will get it at his breakfast, she
said to herself. Then she called her maid
and gave her a long list of commissions
to go out and do, and told her to take
out the ayah and the child, too; she had
a feverish desire to be alone The SER
want left her. She ate her breakfast hur-
riedly and sent away the things almost
untasted Then she got up and walked
about the room impatiently; she allowed
herself half an hour, and then she began
to fret Presently the waiter came IN
and told her that her messenger had re-
turned. He had given her note to the
hall porter at the club and the gentleman
had not yet come into the club.
Thi sanswer inspired her with fresh
patience. He might be late, but, of
course, he would be there in the course
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TO get their letters. RoSamond remem-
bered enough of London life to know
this SO she waited patiently enough.
Two hours went by, she was beginning
to feel nervous and sick with suspe..re.
when all at once she heard footsteps out
side and there was a zap at the door.
The waiter flung open the door and
she felt rather than saw that there was
a gentleman behind him. She half rose
from the table, trembling in every limb;
there was giddiness before her eyes; in
stinctively she pressed one hand upon
her heart, steadyIng herself against the
edge of the table with the other.
Colonel Trefusis,' announced the ser
want.
She had forgotten his very existence.
well, and how are you this morning
Mrs Earle-better, l hope, and rested?
1t was a terribly trying end to a loug,
firing journey, wasn't it? But, my dear
Mrs. Earle, surely there is something
amss: are you i'll, are you faint?' For
lie had perceived all al once that she was
deadly pale and that she had sunk back
into her chair, half covering her face
with her hand.
Rosamond reused herself and sat up
right. looking up at him with a smile.
Il am only little faint; there is moth
ing the matter. Pray do not look so
anxious, and sit down, won't you? |
suppose l am over tired, but | am very
glad to see you.
Col Trefusis looked away out of the
window. drumming his fingers up and
down on the table by his side. He was
thoughtful for few moments Then
suddenly he drew up his chair nearer to
hers.
MY dear Mrs Earle. l have known
you for long time; will you not treat
me as a friend:'
Certainly; are you not friend-one
of the best l ever had?' she answered
heartily.
Then forgive me for asking you What
are your plans:"
Il don't know" she answered. looking
down and speaking with evident reuc-
lance Il have no plans as yet. | have
no home. no friends, no relatives"
Dear, dear, dear said the colonel.
in evident emotion
Then he got up and took a couple of
turns across the room. Suddenly he stop
ped iii front of her, regarding her earn
estly and fxedly with his keen. blue eyes
My dear Mrs. Earle. | am going to
say something that | had not meant to
say To YOU. not for a long while. that
possibly | had better not say at all. and
vet what Won tell me about yourself
compels me to say it to you now.
She looked up at aim utterly bewil-
dered and perpiexed.
# am a plain man, Mrs. Esrle-a man
of actions and not of words | have