The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-04-24


en- life Of solitude and loneliness. with
nothing In particular to Interest him, en-
ceps hss books anI the lefsers he wrote
10 Lucy unless. Indeed. II were those he
sas solug to write to Maddy. who. With
Jcsaie. had promised 10 hecoz,e his corr
respondent. Nothing but these and the
p~icfnse~-the doctors plcture--the one de-
aligned expressly for him. and which trou-
BLEED him greatly. believing that he had
fully intended IL for the doctor, Gay felt
~ II il were, In q measure, stolen prop
erty. and this made him prize 1t oil the
more.
Now thar Maddy was away GUY miss
"a her terribly, wondering how be had
ever lived without her, and sometimes
working himself Into 4 violent passion
against the meddlesome ncighbees who
would not let her remain with him
In peace and whe. now that she was
gcae. did not stop their talking ens whit.
OF this last however, he wa ignorant,
~ there Was no eoe Il tell him how peo-
pie marveled more than ever, feeling con-
6dent that - wns educating his own wife,
and making sundry hateful remarks q to
what - intended doing with her ~
iations. Guy only knew that he wal very
lonely, that Lucy's letters seemed insipid.
that sven the doctor failed 70 interest
him q q old. and that his sreatsst com
Tort was h looking 1t the bright young
lace which seemed 70 smile % trnthfully
upca hin from the tiny casing just -
Aaddy I'D smiled upos him wh0 -
haAs ~ soe1-by.
CHAPTER XIV.
II eummer vacatioo had - 0sn2
~ ~ Rsmingteos aoA Aaddy O. H.
seastde, the latter coming 70 ths csetaes
t. . wcek before returning to her school
n Nsw York. and ~ the doctor was thsa
absent fro0 home. she did . meet him
ct oil. Consequently. he had not seen
her since she left Aikenside for New
York. But she was Z. home now Tor the
Christmas holidays--was down at the co.,
tase, too ; and unusually nervous for him.
the doctor stood before the little square
glass in his back Office, trying to make
himself look ~ well ~ possible, for he
was going that very afternoon to call up
on Mis- Clyde.
The doctor was seriously In love. He
acknowledged that now to himself, con-
feeaing. too, that with his love was
mingled . spice Of jealousy, lest Guy
Remington should be expanding more
thought On Maddy Clyde than was consis-
tent with the promised husband Of Lucy
AthefseonA He vishsd % much to talk
with Guy about her, and yet dreaded il;
Tor Il the talk should eonGEm his suspi-
cions there would be no hope for him. No
girl In her right mind would prefer him
~ Guy Remingtcn. and with . little sigh
~ 4ocess waa tnsAing aWay from ~
giAa. when Guy himself drove up h .
most dashing eQuipage.
Guy was In the best of spipita For
N entire halliday he had tried TO devise
some means for getting Maddy up I o
Afkenside. There was to be a party 1t
Aikenside-the very FIRST since Guy wal
In master. The ~neighbors had said he
was too proud to invite them. but they
should 0y % nc more. The house was
70 BE- thrown open Ia honor Of Guys
twenty-sixth birthday. and all who were
q Ill desirable ~ guests were to be bid
den 70 tho festival. First on the list wa
the doctor. Guy was all engaged In the
matter, and after telling who were TO be
invited, added rather indiferently I'm
going now down to Honedale after Mad
a.: It's better for her to be with m .
day Or two before. You've seen her, Of
course"
I. No. the doctor had not I: he was Just
eoing there, be said, In . tone 70 full of
ad disappointment that Guy detected 1t
q eoce.
II havs not sesn Maddy since last
spring. you know. II she very much Inn
provedfs aaAed the thu doctor.
sYa, very much. There Il no more
stylish-looking girl to b. seen on Broad
way than Maddy Clyde. 1 took her to
- opera once. last month. and the many
admiring gtances cast &C our box proved
pesety positively that Maddy's beauty was
~ q ~ ordinary kind"
sIAe opefa! r. the doctor exclaimed:
sN1addy Clyde Ct the OPERA What would
~ grandfather ayf He = very puritaa-
ical. ysu know
sYsA I know! and - n Naddy, ia.
~ wrees and obtained His consent b.
one shs'd - with ne"
HsFs ~ interval Of silence ensued. and
tAen IL doctor began again.
-0uy, Jon told M once you were edu-
eating Maddy Clyde for me. and I trisd
- naks ron think ! didn't care: but I
~, q, - much! Guy. laugh It me, II
yea ptsass. cannot blame you II you
-: bat the fact n, I believe I've loved
0addy Clyde ever since that time she
wa % sick. At all events, I love her
new. and ! was going down there this
very afternoon to tell her 70. She's old
snough. She was sixteen last October. the
-&he-~
-Tsnth day." Guy responded. thus
allowing that be. too. was keeping Maddy's
age.
sYes. the tenth DAY." resumed the DOC
tor. There's most eleven years DIFF
ference between us. but IL she feels at all
~ ] do. she viii not care, Guy" and the
doctor bcvAn In tan earnestly. am he