Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-09

Xcnturing any demand upon his time.
and nobody else at st Berold's ap-
pealed to her.
Agatha Caithness was there a great
deGl looking like saint IN her Sub
Gael pluniage and very deyout. dodg-
ing nothing, neither confession nor
Quarters occasionally lifted eyes.
though their gaze. meeting. seemed
lost in dreamy devotion or drowned In
lhe contemplation Of the spiritual and
remote.
Plank came docilely from his Dutch
Reformed church to sit beside Leila,
AS for Mortimer, once vestryman.
he never came at all. There was a
new set of men among whom he had
recently drifted, to the unfeigned dis
gust of gentlemen like Major Bel
wether-" club" men in the commoner
and more sinister Interpretation Of the
word.
Mortimer stayed out at night very
frequently now: also BIZ appeared In
make his money go furthec or was
luckier at his ''card Killings" because
be seldom attempted TO bully Leila
being apparently content with his al
lowance.
Once or twice Plank saw him with
an unusually attractive girl belonging
TO a world very far removed from
Leila's. Somebody said she was an
actress when she did anything ut all
lone Lydia Yyse, somewhat celebrat-
Cd for an audacity not too delicate.
But Plank was no more interested
chan any man who can't afford to en-
danger his prospects by a closer ac-
quaintance with that sort of pretty
woman.
Meanwhile Mortimer Kept away from
tome, wife and church, and Plank fire.
Iuented them SO the two men did not
meet very often, and the less they
met the less they found to say to one
another.
Though the opera was. over, theaters
questionable. formal functions sus-
still continued at discreet and dec
orous trot, and those who had not fled
to California or Palm Beach remained
TO pray and play bridge with an
JUNCTION most edifying.
And all this while Sylvia had not
seen Siward
Sylvia was changing. The character
istic amiabiIity. the sensitive reserve,
the sweet composure which the world
had always counted on in her, had be
come exceptions and no longer the
rules which governed the caprice and
impulse always latent. An indiffer-
ence so pointed as to verge on inso-
lence amazed her intimates at times.
A sudden, flushed impotence startled
the habitues of her shrine. There was
a new. unseeing hardness in her eyes,
in her attitude the faintest hint of
cynicism. For the first time slight
sense of fear tinctured the general adj
miration.
In public her indifference and grow
ing impotence with Quarter had not
reached the verge of bad taste, but in
private she was scarcely at pains to
conceal her WEAKNESS and inattention
That he noticed it was evident even to
her, who carelessly ignored the conse-
quences of her own attitude.
At the Mi-careme dance given by the
Siowa Hunt Quarter, who was NJ. f.
H.. led the cotillon with agreeable pre-
cision and impersonal accuracy, favor
ing her at intervals. She returned to
town next morning with Grace Ferrall.
irritable, sulky, furious with herself.
All hot with self contempt, she lay
back in the comfortably upholstered
corner Of the brougham, staring
straight before her. sullen red mouth
to the occasional incon-
sequent questions of Grace FSrrall.
after awhile observed Grace, "peo-.
pie will begin to,talk about the discon-
tented beauty Of your face"
Sylvia's eyebrows bent still farther
inward.
"a fretful face, but rather pretty"
commented Grace maliciously. at
won't do, dear. Your role is dignified
oh, dear! oh, myP' She
stified yawn behind her faultlessly
gloyed hand "Oh, dear, how do
yawn! And Lent only half over. Syl.
via, what are you staring at? Oh.
see"
They had driven south to Washing
ton square, where Mrs. FerraIl had de-
sired to leave note. and were now re-
turning. Sylvia had leaned forward
to look at Siward's house, but with
Mrs. Ferrall's first word she sank
back, curiously expressionless and
white, for she had seen a woman en-
tering the front door and had recog,
nized her as Marion Page.
We'll, of ali indiscretionsr' breathed
Grace, looking helplessly at Sylvia.
'She has courage" said Sylvia. very
white.
Courage! Do you mean foolhardi-
less?''
No; courage-the courage | lacked
knew he was too III to leave his
'oom. and lacked the courage to 20
md see him."
You mean aloneT
Certainly alone"
"You dare tell me you ever contem. |
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