The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
CHAPTER Xxx.

Another night, in which Lizzy Wickly
Ia in a tumuft, brain-whirl of excite
ment that shuts out of her mind any of
al the thoughts and feelings of her or
binary everyday life.
That wealth is not even the least of
the elements Of happiness she demon
strated effectually in her own self-con-
temptation. The first fash of excitement
had been that feeling, perhaps. which in
the gambler makes him tremble with I'M
utterable eagerness over n heavy stake.
which, when he has won, is of no further
value in his eyes than is given it by its
power to reproduce that same state of
expectation. This she recognized as that
Inherent love of peril. that disposition to
brave dangers, that in some degree and
In some form exists in every human or
ganization. The feeling of qualification
had been as transient as the fitting mo-
ment in which the event had been in
allegiance. She had at once settled back
into the groove of her ordinary thought.
For now she fully recognized the fact
kat it never had been Huntley, the In
visible professor of geology; Huntley. the
man of straw; Huntley. the principal and
employer, that she had loved. She did
not doubt now that had a real Huntley
apr eared-such q real Huntley as Mr..
Mason Huntley had imposed upon her
she would have decided between them at
once, upon their simultaneous presenta-
ton before her. And that decision, she
now knew. would, at any moment of all
DE time in which she had known the
genuine Huntley, have been against any
ether man in all the world
Early in the evening she had dressed
herself in one of those prettiest of al
pretty summer dresses white Swiss
ntslin-with an unlimited number OF
ruffles and tucks in the skirt, and with
little knots of blue ribbon here and there
and bunch of the purplish, sweet-smell
ing wild flowers pinned upon her shape
" left shoulder. She had gone backward
and forward before the little mirror, il
the middle of the room, win her face
turned first over this shoulder and Their
over that. to see Il the skirts hung. ex.
actly right, and to see how well she real
y looked in the glass. as even the bes,
and most sensible girls in the world will
20, IN spite Of all the jeerinz and sarcas
dc remarks about them for their vanity
and self-love. She had taken out of its
velvet receptacle q strand Of little pear
and gold beads, that looked very becom
hg against the linen collar here. an6
over the looped knot of narrow blue rib
bon there. at opposite sides of her shape
b throat whose winter whiteness ha(
taken on little Of that rich, warm TIM
that our intsrmontane valley climate 81
plentifully bestows upon all sojourners
and which In unhealthy people we cal
ssaIlow," while in the more robust it goe.
By the unobjectionabIe title of rudy.
Then. with her new, bright '.paten
leather" slippers, showing a very littl'
band Of white stocking about her shape
y ankles, when she sat down and crossed
the very neat little left foot over th'
right, she was as pretty picture as eve
q little mirror exhibited in any littl
plain middle-room in all Christendom-
fhH white pond lily Of Reelfoot Prairie
~ could be proved By every admjrinI
Hoosier from the mouth of Big Rattle
snake Greek on the north. to the yer.
Tush-tangIed limit Of Reclfoot Pond Of
he south.
She Was In her eayest and most teasing
mood, too. She couldn't help it Sh
would think Of her Esther, and his mis-
fortune, Tor q moment, and feel that
vns perfectly shocking In hsr to b >
1ononstrntfvely, boIstorou6ly merry Z
- WAS But che couldn't hep II. 81
could not reprem her buoyaht a1ima
uirifs. She dew about the house ffez