The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1907-08-16


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| Lady Jahn--I taspw 4 4 yaa ~ rem
II depainc-wAst are yoa aoing I'll alone
Issat IL fnnt Aren't yeu enjoying yeur
seifs neyes vas ~ anything 50 lovel,
In ali M hrs. Don't You know met
am Alice Falrfax 1t l. such finn hesns
| disguised like this. but you must mel
i sif here all alone. Lord Jehn IL enioy'
/ ing himself Immensely. | met him walk
| ing In the garden with Shcila Just new.
| You see. know an the dominoes. anA
can pick people out quite easily"
aYou-you are sure nay husband 4
here. Miss Fairfax"
yes. He has been dancing with
Sheila. They are out in the garden. De
you want himg Shall 60 and find him ;
or why not come with me. I know just
where they are"
Audrey's simple, loving heart was
ablaze with jealousy. So he had come,
and had gone to Sheila first without look
ing for her? What If those cruel tongues
had spoken true, that already he was
repenting his bargain. and turning again
to Sheila. the girl he had always loved
Il think l will go with yeu, Miss Fair
fax" she said, hurriedly. She would zee
for herself
Some this way. them" Alice Fairfax
went out through the window. Lift up
your skirts, Lady John: an afraid the
paths are not too dry"
''They went down here" Alice Fair
fax said, as they passed onward to
more remote corner; "but don't see
them now. What nuisance! thought
we should have been sure of catching
them up. All. there Is Mr.. Devereux,
will ask him II he has seen them. You
90 straight on, Lady John. ! viii over
take you.r
The girl darted away az she spoke,
and Audrey wandered on alone, obeying
her mechanically.
.when | find Jack he shall take me
home" she said TO herself. very slowly.
She longed to be gone, to be away from
this horrible ball, with its laughter and
fierce eayety, and yenomons tongues, hid
den behind every mask. Deep In her agi-
tated thoughts, Audrey had hurried on
unconseiously. She left the ball room
behind her she had followed along the
path Ia which Miss Fairfax had set
her first. She scarcely realized that she
was alone. she had no desire for the
girls csmpanionship. All al once she came
10 standstill.
What forms were those just before her,
half hidden by rustic garden housed
Her eyes were blinded for an instant,
then she saw quite clearly. That was
She!la Frascr's face; she had taken OF
her mask. and the far-away lights shone
on IL. and touched tho red gold Of her
hair with q shlmmering glory and that
tail, strong figure In the gray domino
All. did she not know that only too well7"
With sickcning pain Audrey noted the
attitude OF those two: how Sheila's white
hands were clinging TO the mans strong
one~ and then. Ms though to confirm the
truth, to allow OF no remaining doubt,
Audrey saw the girls head, with its
wealth Of rudy gold hair. rest against
the mans breast. She caught the muir
muir Of mnn's voice. and then the an
rwer that Sheila gave. clear and shrill az
a bell. .0h. Jack Jack my darling |"
and then. with a cry of despair. she turn
ell and sped away-on. on. unheeding,
till suddenly her strength
went and she stumbled against something
or some one. and she knew no more.
tTe he ~ontsnned.t