The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-09-01
Captains Double.
BY L1LL1As CAMPBELL DAVIDSON

stances; the receiver reads into 1t
meanings that the writer never meant.
Ursula's answer did not set things
right between them. Then she caught
severe cold wandering round the
garden and fretting when the wind
was chill. That put the coping-stone
to their troubles, for it ended all
chance of their meeting and having
the whole matter out. It was series
of unfortunate mistakes from first to
last, and two people were very unhap-
py when there was not the faintest
need for it and a word or two Of talk
face to face might have set the whole
thing right. 1t is the history of most
lovers quarrels, repeated with thou
sand variations since the world be-
gan; but if these two people had
known that they were not the first to
tread that thorny path Of discomfort,
wroth with one we love, they would
not have seen in that fact how to put
the trouble straight.
Colonel Hamilton was we'll on his
way home now, and somehow Ursula
trusted to that fact to smooth her
path. She felt as if the big, kind dad
dy, who had mended all things for her
in life since she took her headless
dolls to him, would mend this trouble
as he had done all the rest. Captain
Winstanley would speak to him, and
then he would ask her views and tell
Winstanley that she cared for him. If
he still wanted her-ah! that wretched
little doubt of the girl who has once
been jealous-all would be put right
then. She thought it >allspver again
and again as she sat by the fire in her
dressing room, being fed up with, milk
and beef tea and dosed with all, Mrs.
Shuttlewaite's favorite remedies She
had plenty of time to think and won
der; the days seemed longer than the
dawnfng spring warranted.
AS for Winstanley, he, too, looked
out anxiously for the arrival of the
P. and o. that carried the man who
was to settle the fate of his hopes. He
was family aware that it had been his
unfortunate position with regard to
Countess 1lka that was at the bottom
of the trouble between himself and his
sweetheart, but he could not believe
for a moment that he could really
credit him with preferring any one to
herself. The woman who was the one
in all the world to hint was ridicu-
lous to even fancy that any other wo-
man on earth could find a thought in
his heart for her. Ursula must have
some deeper reason for her unkind-
ness to him than those unfortunate
missed dances-there was something
behind all this, and he tormented him.
self with speculation as to- what it was.
AS for Countess Ilka, he saw nothing
of her, and, to tell the truth, he was
better pleased that it was so. There
would have been considerable awk-
wardness in a meeting after their
parting at the ball. There was an
other dance impending ~ one at Ad-
miralty house this time. He looked to
that to settle matters with Ursula, and
haunted the old admiral through the
club and down the streets of Southsea
to find out from him whether Miss
Hamiltons cold was we'll enough to
let her venture to Admiralty House.
The old gentleman thought it might
be-was not sure-fancied his wife
would think it risk after being shut
up In her room so long. Bad things,
dances, for increasing cold when one
had it hanging about one, and there
was a beastly lot of influenza in the
air. Why, that last ball the girl had
gone to-a Town Hall business, wasn't
it?-Mrs. Shuttlewaite said she GER
tainly must have caught her present
cold there. for she had been moping
and miserable ever since
1t was, perhaps, brutal of Winstan-
ley to feel his heart give a sudden
leap at the words. She had moped
and been miserable ever since that
night? Then he was not the only one
who had felt the estrangement hard
thing to bear. The thought comforted
him. # she minded too she cared still,
in spite of her mysteriously altered
conduct toward him. He went straight
to the club and wrote a letter which
SooI I'LL uOcA~ pains anu tnou8nt.
1t was to beg her to be at the ball,
if she were in the least able, though
he implored her not to run any risk
to her health, even If it made him find
the evening blank. without her there:
He humb1y begged !: for the second
dance, and as many more as she would
give him-the more she could spare
him the happier: the evening would be
to him. "An 1 know how little / must
seem to deserve: them after the other,
night" he wrote. Il never was So sun-
lucky in all my life, and II you will:
give me these dances hope you win
let me take one for explaining to you
how It happened that IS must have
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