Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-03-19

| Pay for the return message and all
| charges. But I can tell you the re
suit at once"
THE result-what?"
You will not find her. She does
not intend that you should. With all
her beauty, and grace, and sweetness,
she. even she-even Leslie-being a
woman, is too worldly to marry Yorke
Auchester, now he is a duke no
longer"
I'll soon prove. you wrong!" he
said
And if you do not? If you prove
that I am right?" asked the duke,
looking at him steadily.
Yorke stopped at the door and
looked over his shoulder.
Internationally stopped and
swore-''then you may do what you
| like with me. Marry me to whom
you please, when you please-send
me to the devil"
He strobe through the marble hall
and called a cab. He ran up the steps
of the Dorchester, and confronted the
patient Stephens.
There's a telegram for me now,
Stephens-bearing 'Yorke,' you
| know"
mo, sir, nothing for YOU" was the
freply.
He turned at once, and going
straight to the telegraph office in
Regent Street, sent the following
telegram to Mrs. Merrick.
IF Miss Lsle is not at Portmaris,
send her address to 'Yorke,' Regent
Street POst-Ofice. Reply paid At
once"
III wait" he said.
1t may be an hour, sir" said the
young lady clerk.
I'll wait if its ten hours" he said.
He waited for an hour and a half,
and they handed him this:
Mr.. and Miss Lisle have gone, and
left no address"
He walked from the post-off1ce to
Grosvenor Square with the telegram
crushed in his hand, and went through
to the dukes room. The duke was
still lying on the couch, but he did not
lift his head as Yorke entered.
"Wen?" he said But l need not
ask you-are convinced?"
Yorke fattened out the telegram,
and dropped it into the dukes hand.
No address, Here in London, and
do not know where to look for her."
he said, hoarsely. Convinced! No.
no."
Then his voice broke, and he sunk
into the chair by the duke and drop
ped his head upon his arms
The duke sighed.
MY poor Yorke, Oh, woman wo-
man. God sent you as a blessing, and
YOU have proved a curse!"
CHAPTER XVIII.
Lady Eleanor reached Palace Gar
dens, and went straight to her boudoir
and flung herself on a couch. To
women of her class came very few adj
ventures such as that which hap
Ipened to her this morning. From
their cradles, through their girlhood,
and, indeed all through their lives,
they are so hedged in and protected
from the world, outside the refined
and exclusive circle in which they
move, that there is little chance of
their coming in contact with other
than their own set.
She had seen Finetta on the stage
of the Diadem; had heard of her,
read of her, new that Yorke Auches-
ters name was in some way connected
with her; but she had never dreamed
that a meeting with her would be
even possible, much less probable.
And now she had not only met her,
but talked and listened to her.
The fact that she had done so filled
her with shame and confusion. What
would her friends ana relatives think.
if they knew? What would Godol-
phin, the duke, say, if he were told
J that she had not only engaged in con-
versation with this Finetta, but act
ually entered into kind OF compact
and conspiracy with her?
But she soon dismissed this part
of the case; and allowed herself to
think only of the information that
| Finetta had given her.
Yorke going to be married!
She would almost as soon have
heard that he was going to die. In
deed. death would not more com
pletelv remove him from her, would
not set up a more insurmountable
barrier between them, than marriage;
for if he were to die she could still
think and dream of him as hers;
! whereas, if he married, he would be
long in this world and the next to an
other woman.
And such a woman! Finetta had
spoken of this Leslie Lisle as if she
we're an uncultured, half-educated
country girl.
| Lady Eleanor could imagine what
she was like; some simperIng, round
faced girl, just step above Ia
borer's daughter. One of those girls
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