The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-16

LiSd cnaned him and he must nave known what I thought suddenly for got the slight he had put upon me. In- stead of being angry with him, was afraid for him, I couldn't explained why, unless it was the look on his face when he turned away from me. No man would look like that who was going of his own free will to woman with whom he was in love, that same queer Something whispered in my ear Instead of feeling sick and sorry for myself and desperately angry with him, 1t was Ivor felt sorry for. pretended not to care whether he stayed or went, and talked to Lord Robert West as if I'd forgotten that there was such a person in the world as Ivor Dundas. I even turned my back on him before, he was gone. Sti1 saw the tragic look in his eyes, and the dogged set of his jaw. It was just as if he were going away from me to- his death: and his face was like that of the man in Millais's picture of the Hugenot Loveps. I wondered if that girl had been broken hearted because he wouldn't let her tie round his arm the white scarf that might have saved him.
 change in a moment-but perhaps it Is like that only with women. minute before, I'd been trying to despise Ivor, and to argue, just as if I'd been a match making mamma to myself, that 1t would be a very good thing if could make up my mind to marry Lord Bob; that 1t would be rather nico being a Duchess some day; and that besides, perhaps Ivor would be sorry when he heard that I was engaged to somebody else.
 But then, as said, quite suddenly ftI was as if sharp knife had been stuck into my heart and turned round and round I Qi hfy,or fnI run after Ivor to tell him that I loved him dreadfully and would trust him in spite of all.
 You look as pale as if you were go- ing to faint" said Lisa. in her little high-keyed voice which, though she doesn't speak loudly, always reaches to the farthest corners of the biggest room
 I did think 1t was unkind of her 10 call everyone's attention to me. just them, for even strangers heard. and turned to throw glance at me. asl they passed.
 Tt must be the light" I said, "for I dou't feel in the least faint" That was a fib, because when you are as miserable as I was at that minute, your heart feels cold and heavy, as though 1t could hardly go on beating. But felt that if ever fb were ex- cusable, that one was. 'Tm a little
 
 us got to bed till after last night; and this day. though very nice of 1 course. has been rather long I think, | if you don't mind, Aunt LII, II go | straight to my room when we get up- | stairs.
 We all went up together in the lift, | but said good night to the others at | the door of the pretty drawing room at the end of Uncle Fries suite.
 Shan't | come with yOuT asked l Lisa, but I said mo" It was some thing new for her to offer to help me, for she isn't very strong, and has al- ways been one to be petted and watch ed over by me, though she's several years older than I am.
 Aunt Lillian had brought her maid, without whom she can't get on even for single night, but Lisa and had left ours at home, and Aunt Lil had | offered to let Morton help us as much as we liked. I hadn't been shut up in my room for two minutes, therefore, when Morton knocked to ask if she could do anything. But l, thanked her, and sent her away.
 had not yet begun to undress, but was standing in the window, looking along the Champs Elysees brilliant etiIl with electric lights, and full of carriages and motor-cars bringing peo- | pie home from theatres and dinner UT ldhAH5 thCA1 ~ ASob1uAo ou1S for supper.
 Down there somewhere was Ivor, go- ing further away from me every mo- ment, though last night at about this time he had been. telling me how he loved me, how I was the One Girl in the world for him, and always, always would be. Here was I, remembering in spite of myself every word he had said. hearing again the sound of his voice, and seeing the look in his eyes as he said it. There was he. going to the woman for whose sake he had been willing to break with me.
 But was he going to her? l asked myseIf If not, when they had chaffed him he might, easily have mentioned what his engagement really was, know ing as he must have known, exactly how he made me suffer.
 Still-why had he looked so miser- able, if he didn't care what thought, and was really ready to throw me over at a call from her? The whole thing began to appear more compli- cated, more mysterious than I had felt it to be at first, when was smarting | with my disappointment in Ivor, and tingling all over with the humiliation he seemed to have put upon me.
 "Oh, to know, to know, what he's aloud, because it was comforting in my loneliness to hear the sound of my own