Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-08-14

For through it all she knew with a
certainty beyond all doubt, that she
aid not hold his heart-that he still
loved the brown-eyed girl whom they
by treachery and falsehood hal sup
planted.
But, like the Spartan boy who hid
the fox under his robe and let it gnaw
his vitaIs rather than confess his theft
she hill her love and her doubts. and
appeared before the world smiling and
triumphant.
And after all, she did not doubt
Let him come back to me-" she
thought, proudly conscious of her
power, "an1 all Will be we'll! Let him
come back, and cam hold him against
the world"
And so the preparations went on,
the stern old mother sitting silent and
sorrowful amazed at the confidence
of the girl who refused to believe that
anything i'll had happened Heron.
"You will see!" said the beauty, with
a brilliant smile and the hectic flush
that so frequently glowed in her
cheeks. HE will come back. and
YOU will have had all your anxiety for
nothing"
Gail right" said Vane gloomily one
night when he dropped in at Grosve-
nor Square after a ball at which the
beauty had carried off the laurels. Il
don't want to discourage you; but |
would merely remark that the wedding
was fixed for the thirteenth, and that
today is the sixth, and that we haven't
had line from him for. a month";"
She smiled and turned the diamond
bracelet on her arm.
zone week! Well, he is on his road
home. no doubt! I shall be mistress
Of Letchford Void in a week! Have
you seen my dress? Worth has sur
passed himself I always said that |
should be the best dressed bride OF the
century. and think shall bel"
On this same sixth of June May ana
Carrie are sitting in the little room
which goes by the name of the best
parlor. May is putting the finishing
tuches to a water-color sketch OF the
church; Carrie is leaning back in a
chair tilted to it's extreme limits, her
hands clasped behind her head, her
eyes fixed on Mays face with
thoughtful, admiring gaze.
NEARLY finished, May?" she asks
presently.
Gust finished" says May, with her
head on one side to view the effect OF
the last touches.
I'm glad of it," says Carrie. "I've
been waiting for the last quarter or
an hour for that finishing touch. Let's
look at it? Let me see; how much do
they give you for this?" and she takes
ur the sketch unceremoniously.
May smiles.
s'Two guineas; take care you don't
smudge it,"
"All right said Carrie cheerfully.
"It's a very pretty picture, dear, and
worth fifty guineas. Why don't you
put Mr.. Gordon in; he might stand in
the porch there; he'd be pleasing ad-
dition to the picture"
May laughs softly, and wipes her
brushes in silence.
eyes. I'd put him in, says Carrie
carelessly. He'd make handsome
addition. BY the way, May, what
have we-or rather you-done to OIL
fend Mr.. Gordon?"
May looks up with a sudden blush
then arises and puts her paints to-
gether as she answers:
Offend him? / don't know, Carrie"
ooh, I didn't know" says Carrie, re-
Stunning her old position, and scrut-
inizing May through half-closed eyes.
Something has offended him, sup
pose. He hasn't been down to the
school for-oh, weeks past, and ne
doesn't call as he used; Indeed II ne
happens to pass he turns his eyes as IL
we we're forbidden fruit"
Carrie" exclaims May reproach-
fully; but faint flush rises to her
face.
"It's the truth" says Carrie, calmly
"No one could help noticing it. Ii
we had been detected playing pitch
and-toss on Sunday he couldn't avoid
us more palpably. What is it?''
"I--don't know" says May falter-
ingly.
"I believe that to be falsehood,
says Carrie cheerfully. But I'm very
sorry. A nicer man than Graham
Gordon"
mir. Gordon" says May laugh
ingly.
Graham Gordon reiterates Carrie,
stubbornly. What nonsense it is to
talk of a man always by lis formal
name because he is a clergyman! He
was christened Graham, and he is era
ham. It is a pretty name, isn't II?
Eyes," says May. st is pretty
name"
Every we'll, them" retorts Carrie
choose to call him Graham Gordon. He
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