Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

GatyaS thai the agent would write to MISS
Gilmore that afternoon da anu ~ M the day after.
IN one of these two days, between Tue
hours of II and 4, Miss Gilmore Woulu en't 81
that Office and leave again ana c re.uIn ~ ~
one alone. she might come with MT.
wilson .a. pose would he
+bere The street was wide ana Dusy
one she would easily be able TO keep Ln l.e
agents front door in observation Wlt 1
being noticed herself .. MN wilson NgI could
hardly recognize her, and Miss Gilmore
didn't know her .,,+ fo,Iowine.
over that when the time came. me ts,, giil
was probably hard up and wouldn't take a
hanson; she would either walk OF go oy
bus, and in either case Rose couIa De mer
+raveIing companion without exciting sus-
picion. could no differ
ont She should go up straight TO hius
confront him and ask for the pleasure 9!
q few moments conversation with him. All
that evening and far into the night Rose
thought over the scene that she mign nj nave
to take part in on the morrow She re-
hearsed it to herself and spoke ner
speeches aloud as she lay tossing from slde
to side waiting for the dawn she was
foo to- feverish and excited to sleep. She was
not going to be violent or make scene
She had few words OF Wltherlns Sarcasm
ready for Miss Gilmore, VINO Woulu PRIV NJ
ably stare to see strange lady aecost MI
9Wiison rather unceremoniously and insist
upon a private interview, but Win Jack sue
But She was going to let him understand Ina
that he would have to answer TOT ms
wicked, heartless conduct, and that Meme
sis had overtaken him at last
And. crushing her recreant husband with
words of dignifed scorn, Rose fell asleep
at last. and woke SO late that by the time
She had had her breakfast and reached the
side street off the Strand In Wnlcn the
oron+,c office was situated. it was on the
stroke of eleven.
AS she got out of the bus she noticed
a gentleman who got down from oue sa
the same conveyance look at her rather
curiousIy, and she wondered where she had
seen him before She thought It must De
some one she had been introduced TO, ana
so she bowed slightly, but the gentleman
took no notice of her salutat1on, put looked
deliberately the other way.
Rose knew then that she must have made
mistake and she eoiofed shgnsly AZ m nne
who had stared at her. This little circum-
stance set her thinking OF the man as sne
a little start when a quarter or an nour
later, as she was lettering near the once,
she saw this same man come along on the
opposite side and enter public-nouse.
She watched for him to come out. but ne
didn't do so, and so she decided ne must
be the landlord, and then she nxeo ner at.
tention ON the agents doorway, ana IoT Is
all about the stranger TO Wnom sue Hau
bowed in mistake.
For two hours Rose watched the agency
without any result. Plenty OF ladies ana
gentlemen went up and came down the Dig
stone staircase-actors and actresses most
of them, she could tell by their style-Dut
nobody in the slightest way resembling tne
photograph of Miss Gilmore, and certainly
no one in the slightest degree like JACK
Smedley.
Once she had false alarm. A lady and
gentleman came along from the top of the
street. the man was just JACKS nelgnt anu
build but when he came nearer she saw
that he was a man with gray hair, and
actor she thought, because OF his snaven
face, but when they got to the agents door
he left the lady, who went in alone, Wnlle
he went over the road to the public-house.
He was in there about a quarter of an
hour and when he came out Rose thought
he looked at her rather hard But she was
a pretty little woman still, and had slim,
graceful figure and when ladies with slim,
graceful figures go about closely yelled there
is nothing in gentlemen looking at them,
as though they would like to see what sort
of a face that tantalizing veil is hiding.
It must have been really two o'clock, and
Rose was thinking that she should have
to find out some place where she could sit
down, for she was getting terribly tired,
when tall, thin girl, plainly, almost shah
billy dressed, came up the street, looking
up at the number she walked along
This action it was which first attracted
Roses attention, and then in moment,
instinctively, and before she was near
the deserted wife knew that she and her
rival were about to meet.
It was Miss Gilmore There was no doubt
of that Rose soon forgot her caution in
her excitement, and stood still and let the
touched. Miss Gilmore evidently suspected
nothing. She saids 81 beg your pardon,
as she accidentally touched Rose, but only
gave her a passing glance.
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