Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-04


with his coat sovereign and got
outside.
Poor Fin he muttered, standing
on the pavement and staring about
him. Poor Fin"
And so he got off with the old love
Number Two.
Finetta stood where he had left her
for second then she sprung forward
with her magnificent arms out
stretched.
"Yorke Yorke" broke from her
white lips; but the door had closed
and he did not hear her
She stood erect for moment, then
staggered and fell face downward
upon the sofa.
Polly ran to her--loclang the door
on her way-and raised her hcan.
She had tainted
polly poured some wine through
the elnchod teeth and bathed the
set face, and presently Finetta came
| to-; but it was to pass from a swoon
into an awful torrent of weeping.
He's gone, he's gone forever"
she moaned. Il shall never see him
again. why did let him 60 life
that? Why didn't | ask him on my
| knees to let me be "a friend still?
should have seen him now and again,
and that would have been something
to speak to him hear him talk and
laugh and call mo Fin But It's MI
over now Hen never come back.
Oh, | wish ! was dead, dead dead"
flush, hush" implored Polly try.
Ing 10 sootho her Hes better gone;
there was no good In his staying
No, no; ! know that He never
cared for me, only amused him, and
directly ne LETT me he forgot me
rhey arc all alike No he was dir
! Gcrcnt Look how he came and tol0
mo Hike man, OH Yorkc, Yorko,
All he nile Ruessos how -" Her
lips shook, and she hid her face oven
from her sister,
Where's your pride, Fin" whisper
cd Polly almost as Lady DENLY had
said TO Lady Eleanor
My prlde," retorted Finetta. An!
You can talk like that YOU who don't
know what feel. haven't any. ia
have followed him round the world
Hike u dog grateful for kind word
or blow, I'd have worked for him
Hike slave. Poor? He shouldn't
have been poor If he'd married me.
He should have had ever penny, ana
I'd have been content to- 20 In rags so
long as he had the best OF everything,
and I'd have made him happy or died
in the tryingl"
You'd most likely have died" re.
marked Polly, with woman's insight.
Il dare say. Well, could have Licd.
But Its all over"
She hid her face In her hams ana
shook Hike leaf for u fun minute
then suddenly her mood changed and
she started up--a fury.
The tears Tried up In her burning
eyes, her face went white her Tips
rigid, and as she stood with clencheu
hands and hoaving bosom she looked
like an outraged goddess, tigress
robbed of her cub woman deserted
and desperate; and that Is a more
terrible thing than the outraged god.
dess or tuc rebeaved tigress, by the
way.
Hes fool she painted, "A fool
TO leave me for such II thing as her.
Says she's pretty" She strobe to the
glass ana stood erect before 1t. is
ubn haitian lnnlfinu thnp | an,V ln,t,
believe It, And what else is sher
Nothing! She's poor-she amt
swell, even; and he's left me and the
other-that Lady Eleanor for her.
Yes | could have borne ii better II II
had been Lady Eleanor, II it had Deem
one of her sort It would have been
more natural but mere nobody, the
daughter of an artist" In her
ignorance poor Finetta regarded the
painter OF pictures and gatoposts as
equals. "A common painter! Nny.
he'd better have married met" and she
drew a long breath, I'm as good as
she is! and she'll be a lady. iii make
as good n lady as she would"
You never saw her" ventured
Polly. timidly.
The tigrcss swung round upon her
dashing uie wine-glasses 10 the ground
in the movement.
Saw her? | don want TO see her
To know what she's like, can guess
A iowdy, simpering, dollfaced chi, of
a girl that's caught his fancy-and
she'll be mis- wife, while /" She
raised her clenched hands above her
4 head and laughed a Wild. discordant
laugh. 1T makes me mad,"
She fell to pacing the room Her
hair had come unfastened and fell in
u black torrent over the creamy satin;
her 1.-THE figure, erect and quivcring,
looked six feet high. A magnificent
spectacle for a painter, a sculptor, but
not for the man or woman who had
| offended her,
I'm flung aside as not flt for him to
know. Oh, II could only do some,
II