Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-02-24

ed the eyes of the villagers IN church
that morning, and replaced it by a light
cashmere gown.
1.-THE last Sunday that I shall be
known to the world as Miss Mailing, y
she unused. Before this time next week
Jack and l will be away from here,
happy in each Others society, and in
the certainty that nothing on earth can
ever separate us. Most young women
would have numberless love tokens to
destroy before their marriage; l have alb
solutely nothing that l fear my hus-
bands seeing. Circumstances have been
against my cultivating lovers as an
amusement, and am spared the farce OF
destroying the evidences Of my past
folly"
When she had taken two or three
turns up and down the room, she stopped
in front Of her desk and looked at 1t
thoughtfully.
Il suppose may as we'll destroy It,"
she said, absently. 1T can do me no
good to keep 1t, and 1t might possibly
do me harm in the future That must
have been In my mind all the time"
She unlocked the small bronze box on
the toilet table with 4 key that hung
from gold chain round her neck, and
took from 1t bunch of keys. Then
drawing up chair ITO the desk she IN
locked that also, and went slowly
through the contents.
She came upon one or two letters that
interested her slightly and drew her
thoughts away from her original purpose
| nd
both sides were quite empty that she
discovered with a sudden heart-quaking
fear the absence Of that for which she
was searching.
A look Of wild despair flashed from
her eyes and her breath came in short
sharp gasps, as she turned to the heaps
OF odds and ends which she had already
gone through, with hope that in her
absence of mind she might have passed
what she sought without noticing it.
Her quick, nervous fingers turned over
the papers until the pile had once more
been thoroughly searched; and then Pau
line Mailing sank back in her chair with
her hand to her head and look of de-
spair in her eyes. Horrible thoughts
chased each other through her aching
brain; and, when 8 o'clock at last struck
she had arrived at only one definite con-
clusion, that the person who had posses
sion of the missing article and the one
who had advertised for the address of
Sir Godfrey Mailing were one and the
same
When she rose and relocked the desk
she was .haggarl and pale. and she look
ed at herself W stfully in the glass; and
an instructive prayer went up from her
/ heart that her beauty might not leave
| her until she was Jack Dornton's wife
In the midst of all that threatened her
loss of name, wealth, pOsition-it was
almost touching to note how this worldly
woman counted everything as nothing
compared with her love for Jack.
Lord Summers was one of the guests
at Mallingford. He was staying lover
the seventeenth" and the fussy, kindly
old man was slightly concerned at the
existing state of affairs. He arrived only
on the Saturday evening. and he was
surprised to find Jack still at the Park
"And when are my pictures to be
completed, Mr.. Dornton?' he asked.
This very question had been a point
of disagreement between Jack and Pau
line. He had wished to carry out the
commission for those six pictures ant
she had urged the unftness of his earn
ing another penny by his painting afte
their marriage. So he hesitated littl,
before he answered.
Are you anxious to have them soon
1 am anticipating winter in Rome thi
year, and I'should like, if possible, tt
devote myself while there to clos
study of the old masters. But, if yo'
are particular as to time l will fnsl
your commission before l touch any othe
work. of course"
NO. / don't think l am exactly in
hurry, if you are not" and as his lord
ship spoke he thought of the avidit
with which Jack had accepted the offe
when it was originally made. and hi
voluntary promise to complete the serie
by the end of the year $50 you mea
to winter in Rome?' he said, pleasant
ly. 'And how does Miss Ethel Mallet
like the prospect of so long a separs
TOM
, Jack Redeemed suddenly, and he hate
, himself for it.
81 did not know you took enough II
terest in my private affairs to be lie
| into investigating Them" he answere,
t Nor do |. ; You are mistaken; it
4 Miss Maletts affairs l am intereste
in. l beg you will not credit me wit
9 prying into your personal affairs at al
: AS l have spoken on the matter an
| as you seem tosresent the liberty-whc
Il believe me, was not intended as such
l must explain how things are. l MI
r an old friend of mine, with his daug
4 tor OF tho Exhihition NJ tho Rovo1 Ars