Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-03
CHAPTER XII Continued

CHAPTER XII Continued.
Game back three days ago." the
man answered rather shortly. Il
suppose Brenton will not mind put
ting this animal up for me? He, can't
+ go much further
Where are you staying?" asked
Camilla.
They ali moved on together slowly.
He mentioned a house that had been
taken for the hunting season by some
friends Of hers.
At this junction Katherine and the
children walked briskly On ahead.
ut is tea-time, you know" the girl
explained AS a matter of fact, she
was anxious to get away.
Sir Samuel had trick of staring at
any woman he thought worth looking
at in very embarrassing fashion, and
Katherine Granger was certainly
pleasing to the eye.
The note of her appearance was
simplicity itself beside the costly
elegance of Mrs Lancing, but She was
slim, and straight, and fresh, and
young, and with such pair OF eyes
any woman must have been attractive.
so you are rusticating,' Brox-
bourne said, as he and Camilla were
left to themselves; mot much in your
line, is it? But l suppose now that
you are going to settle down you
have turned over new leaf entirely.
Is the lucy man down here?"
No, he has gone to build hospital,
or buy up the whole country, as a
Thanksgiving for our approaching we'd
ding" Camilla laughed. Don't you
think hospital Is a very good idea?
expect he imagines he may want 1t
before I have finished with him"
She spoke as lightly as ever, and
laughed with the same ease, but with
in the warm embrace Of her furs she
seemed to wither. to shrink little
Not half an hour before she had been
longing, praying almost, for some bar
rier to stand in the pathway of hel
marriage. Now she knew with the I'm
erring sense of intuition that what she
had dreaded so much just before
Christmas, and which of late she had
managed to forget almost entirely, was
coming upon her-that her future was
definitely threatened.
She had been so protected of late
SO wrapped about with the tenderest
the most chiyalrous care, that she fell
atmosphere more keenly than she hat
ever felt any Of her former troubles
and anxieties. 1t was as though sht
had been stripped Of every warm gar
ment, and thrust shivering and help
less into the aching cold Of a blacl
frost
Yet she tried to play her part.
You wrote me very nice letter
Sammy she said.
He laughed
Yes, didn't L? Too good by half
Fate had played Camilla a mast,
trick by bringing her face to fac,
with this man just at this particula
moment. When he had been throw
his first act on picking himself VI
had been to trash his horse unmerci
fully. That had relieved him little
but the poison Of his anger had no
worked off completely. He had Away
promised himself the pleasure of deal
ing very straightly with Mrs. Lancing
He was not likely to deny himself tn
satisfaction of doing this when he fel
SO much in need of a vent for his feel
ings; when, too, he knew that he hal
the situation in the hollow OF his hand
Il must say" he said with tina
same sneering tone in his voice, "tha
/ was taken all aback when | hear
what had happened. Always though
you were a model of fidelity, tina
your heart was buried in Ned's grave
and that sort of thing, don't 20
know? But money makes a great di
ference, and there has never bee
quite enough money for you, has Their
Camilla?"
She shivered. There was leer o
his face as he turned and looked at he
She answered him half-lighly, hal
YEARLY.
ooh, don't know! | think one ca
have too much of anything, even {
money"
At this Sir Samuel laughed loudly
well l must say you are cleve
woman. Yes, by Jove! your are.
used to think in the old days, whe
Ned was on the scene, that you wer
a fool and a saint combined. | kno
little bit better now
Camilla's lips Quivered. She turne
to him. There was an unconsciou
entreaty in her voice.
Dear Sammy" she said, why al
you SO cross with me?"
But he only answered with anothe
laugh.
Yes in the old days" he went O
"you played the part of the prude
protection. Kept a fellow at arm
length, and pretenede all sorts
things
why go back to those old times
asked Mrs. Lancing, in a very 10
voice.
Because choose to do so: becau!
here is something that has to be settle
between us, and you know that!
suppose you think l was taken in
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