Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-08-30

search for another woman, and. con-
hding In his honesty, trusting entirely
to his faith. l allowed the plans and
purposes of years to vanish in the
glamour of this new joy and spoke the
word which linked us together In a
bond which half an hour before / had
never dreamed would unite me to any
man.
HiS dmpassione>i mine, mine!" filed
my cup to overlooking Something Of
the ecstasy of living entered my soul
which in spite of all have suffered
since recreated the world for me and
made all that went before but the pre-
Jude to the new life, the new Joy.
oh, was happy, happy-perhaps too
hdppyI AS the conservatory filed and
we passed back into the adjoining
room the glimpse l caught Of myself
In one of the mirrors startled me into
thinking 80, for had 1t not been for the
odd color Of my dress and the unique
way in which 1 wore my hair that
night l should not have recognized the
beaming girl who faced me so naively
from the depths of the responsive
glass.
Can one be too happy? do not
know. know that one can be too per.
picked, too burdened and too sad.
Thus far l have spoken only of my
self In connection with the evenings
elaborate function; but, though emit
tied by my old Dutch blood to a GER
tain social consideration which am
happy to say never failed me, / even
In this hour of supreme satisfaction
attracted very little attention and
awoke small comment There was an.
other woman present better calculated
to do this-a fair woman. large and of
q bountiful presence, accustomed to
conquest and gifted with the power Of
carrying or her victories with a GER
tain lazy grace irresistibly fascinating
to the ordinary man; gorgeously ap.
pareled woman, with diamond on her
breast too vivid for most women, al
most too vivid for her. / noticed this
diamond early in the evening, and then
! noticed her. She was not as fine as
the diamond, but she was very fine,
and had been In less ecstatic frame
Of mind might have envied the hon.
age she received from all the men, not
excepting him upon whose arm / lean.
ed. Later there was no one In the
world envied less.
The ball was a private and very ele-
giant one. There were some notable |
guests. One gentleman in particular
was pointed out to me as an English
man Of great distinction and political |
Importance. l thought him very in
teresting man for his years, but odd |
and a trifle self centered. Though |
greatly courted, he seemed strangely |
restless under the fire of eyes to which |
he was constantly subjected and only |
happy when free to use his own In con- |
temptation of the scene about him. |
Had l been less absorbed in my own |
l might have noted sooner |
than did that this contemplation was
confined to such groups as gathered |
about the lady with the diamond. But |
this / failed to observe at the time, |
and consequently was much surprised |
to come upon him at the end of one of |
the dances talking with this lady In an |
animated and courtly manner totally |
to the apathy, amounting to |
boredom, With which he had hitherto
met all advances. -------- -----..
Yet 1t was not admiration for her |
person which he openly displayed.
During the whole time he stood there |
his eyes seldom rose to her face They
mainly-and this was what |
my curiosity-on the great fan |
OF ostrich plumes which this opulent |
beauty held against her breast. Was
he DESTROYS of seeing the great dia- |
mond she thus unconsciously (or was |
1t consciously shielded from his gaze? |
It was possible, for, as l continued to
note him. he suddenly bent toward her
and as quickly raised himself again |
with a look which was quite mex
plicable to me. The lady had shifted |
her fan a moment, and his eyes had /!
fallen on the gem.
The next thing I recall with any
defniteness was a tete-a-tete CONVERSE |
ton which held with my lover on q
certain yellow divan at the end Of one
OF the halls
To the right Of this divan rose a cur
tanned recess, highly suggestive of ro-
nance, called 'the alcove" AS this al |
cove figures prominently in my story,
I will pause here to describe 1t.
1t was originally intended to contain
a large group of statuary which our
host, Mr. Ramsdell. had ordered from
Italy to adorn his new house. He Is a
man of original ideas In regard to such
matters and in this instance had gone
so far as to have this end Of the house
constructed with special view to an
display of this promised |
work of art. Fearing the ponderous |
effect Of pedestal large enough to |
hold such considerable group, he hsSi |
planned to raise II to the level of the |
eye by having the alcove floor built a |
few feet higher than the main one. A
6iRht of low wide stoDa Oonnacfad tho |