News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-02-26
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BY HELEN r. MARTIN.
Author Of "Tiiiie; A Mennonite Maid" .
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Copyright, 1907, by Mcclure. Phillips q Co.

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Daisy" Georgiana pleaded with her
''if contact with me has given you nc
higher ideal than that
'Oh, it's easy for you to talk, Geor
kie!" Daisy retorted plaintively. "Your
market is made"
What do you mean, Daisy?"
You're as good as engaged already
to DR.. Kinross."
Eunice had sensation as though
the earth were suddenly floating out
from under her. What did it mean.
Daisy speaking of "Dr. Kinross ?" Was
his disguise Il pretense and did these
girls know him otherwise than as
Pete? What was this which Daisy
had said, You are as good as engaged
to DR.. EinrOSS"' And he had told her
that he loved Georgiana" Eunice felt
herself floating amid clouds of Illusion
Gcorganu laughed and looked rather
pleased I'm afraid your assumptions
are quite gratuitous. my dear"
'Wel. at least there isn't the least
doubt as to what his feelings will be-"
Daisy predicted. You'll do him brown.
He won't be able to help himself no
matter how much he'd like to be
nisogynist or whatever you call EN-"
"I'm not so sure" GeorG,ana protest
ed, but she laid her hand affectionate-
Iy on Daisy's arm.
"But you may be sure" Eunice
spoke with a half gasp and almost
without volition. "He does love you"
WHAT" Daisy turned upon her
'Yes, DR.. Kinross does love her.
Eunice's voice sounded hollow to her
self. She was dazed. There was a dull
dead weight upon her heart. an unde-
fined but keen sense of loss and pain.
Or. Kinross and Georgiana were "as
good as engaged"
"He says he loves YOU" she repeated
mechanically.
There was a sob in her throat that
ached intolerably. She felt an impera-
tive need to get away by herself She
suddenly sprang up. and before the
other two girls could collect them.
selves she was gone.
For an instant surprise held both of
them silent
"She's a little bit off the top" de-
clared Daisy.
what could she have meant?' Won
dered Georgiana.
81 can't get aboard" said Daisy. 81
don't think she knew herself. | always
did think that girl acted as if she had
wheels!"
eff Pete were still here l would ask
him what he knows about her. She
is singular" Georgiana agreed. "But
what could she have meant"
"She never saw Kinross. and Kin
ross never saw you. She was talking
through her hat"
"Of course" Georgiana again agreed
reluctantly 1t would be so much moro
interesting if Daisy's conclusion was
not so inevitable-if Eunice had not
been talking through her hat"
Meantime Eunice, alone in the
haunted chamber, seated on the side
of the bed and staring with unseeinG
eyes into the darkness of the room.
CROPPED in a greater darkness of soul as
she tried in her blind ignorance of life
to understand her own great desola
ton.
Engaged to be married. What did
marriage mean to men like him? She
had an unhappy knowledge of what it
meant to such as Abe and the other
countrymen about here. But to a man
like DR.. Kinross, a man with an intel
lect and a soul as well as Il body.
would not marriage mean something
different to such as he?
Suddenly hot wave of realization
swept over her Some burning lines OF
Browning came to her mind:
Be a god-and hold me with your charm.
Be a man-and hold me with your arm.
Eunice sank down upon the bed and
buried her face deep in the pillow TO
her trembling heart only one thing was
clear That which in the days just
past had made the sun in the. heavens
shine for her as it had never shone be
fore, that was over. He belonged to
another. What had he to do with hel
or she with him? She was alone-ut-
terly and absolutely alone.