Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-01-08
CHAPTER XVI,

Yorke walked all the way from ST
Johns Wood 10 Bury street, and it was
not altogether pleasant walk. There
is popular parlor game called Con
sequence" and after a fashion, he was
playing that game as he STROBE along
smoking vigorously.
1t is an easy anu pleasant amuse>
ment running into debt; buy ere are
the consequences. 1t is also an easy
and pleasant matter to make love to
two women; but the consequences
have to be reckoned with, and the
reckoning whether it comes soon or
late, is a serious matter.
He had never loved. lady Eleanor
but he respected and liked her. He
had certainly never loved Finetta, but
he had liked her-iked her very
much; and as he made his way through
the silent streets, his heart-it was by
no means a hard one-was filled with
pity and remOrse.
1T was playing it very rough to go
and tell ner that | should have to cut
her-that she wasn't fit company for
me any longer. But what else could
do? l shouldn't cut her without a
word-without saying Goodbye he
unused. And how we'll she took it!
40 scene, no fuss, no reproaches. 1t
was we'll that he was unable to see
tneCUa at that moment! Or perhaps
it wol. have been better for MIN II
he could. She bore it like brick.
She is a brick! Most women of her
class would have raised a devil of a
row, and made it hot for me all round.
! Yes, Fin behaved we'll. What fool
| have been! What fools we men all
are! Why did want to strike up a
| friendship with Finetta of the Uiadem?
And yet that's scarcely the fair way tC
/ look at it, for she is every bit as good
as | am and she'd have gone a hun
! dred miles to do me a Service-yes,
and have shared her last penny with
me. l know that. Poor Fin! Thank
Heaven, it's over! I'll begin new
life from tonight, please GoL-a life
devoted to my darling-my darling!
Heaven! it scarcely seems true that
she is mine. l wonder whether she is
asleep? Perhaps she is looking up at
tAese same stars, and Yes, hope
she is thinking of me. Jove! it's like
having a guardian angel all to ones
! self to be loved by such a woman as
| Leslie. l wish l were more worthy o.
! her. I wish I'd met her years ago.
| WHAT a time l seem to have wastedw
| He had forgotten Finetta long be-
fore he reached home, and was
wrapped up heart and soul in Leslie,
and looking with lovers Impotence
I Portmaris.
He would have gone back the next
day, but the duke had asked him to do
one or two things for him, and he
Yorke-was anxious to pay some bills.
He went out after breakfast, and his
first call was at a grimy Office in
dark and dingy court leading out OF
| Lombard street. This was the parlor
Of certain money-lending spinner
called Levison, and Lord Yorke was
not the first fly that had found its way
| into it.
| Mr.. Levison was a young man with
hooked nose and thick lips, an
unctuous smile and a decided Israel
itish accent. He was dressed in the
height of fashion, wore a scarlet neck
tie in which shone an enormous
diamond breast-pin, a thick gold cable
Albert across his waistcoast, and in
Vulnerable rings upon his fingers,
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fact that the later were dirty.
This young man greeted Lord Yorke
with a mixture of respect and
familiarity, which made Yorke, and
most other persons, feel an almost ir-
resistible longing to kick him.
And 'ows your lordship?" said Mr.
Levison, with a smile that stretched
| his flexible lips from ear to ear. 1T
amt often we see you in the city, my
! lord-moress the pity for the ethyl"
and he laughed and rubbed his hands
What can l have the pleasure Of dom
for your lordship? A little accom-
mediation, l s'pose, eh?"
| Thanks, no, Mr.. Leyison," he said.
No? Oh, come now, my lord! Not
want little money? You're joking"
Strange as it may seem, L am
lserious, said Yorke, as pleasantly as
he could. Il don't want any money
in fact, I've come to take up that bill
for two hundred and fifty pounds -
And he took out his pocket-book in
which were lying snugly the bank
notes for whicA he had cashed the
dukes check.
Now, it is generally, and not
Enormously, supposed that Jew is al
ways ready and glad to receive money;