Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-10
CHAPTER XIII.
In a Mine.

CHAPTER XIII.
In Mine.
Eve had no sooner consented to
take Mr.. Coyshe, just to save herself
the Inconvenience of being questioned
about the lost ring, than she ran out
of the room, and to escape further i'm
portunity ran over the fields towards
the wood. She had scarcely gone
three steps from the house before she
regretted what she had done. She did
not care for Mr.. Coyshe. She laughed
at his peculiarities. She did not be-
lieve, like her father and sister, in
his cleverness. But she saw that his
ears and eyes were unduly promi-
nent, and she was alive to the ridicu-
lous. Mr.. Coyshe was more to her
the neighborhood, who talked Of no.
thing but sport, and who would grow
with advancing age to talk Of sport
and rates, and beyond rates would
not grow. Eve was not fond Of hunt
| ing. Barbara rarely went after the
| hounds, Eve never. She did not love
horse exercise; she preferred saun-
tering in the woods and over the
downs after fox. Perhaps hunting
required too much exertion for her;
Eve did not care for exertion. She
made dolls clothes still, at the age of
| seventeen; she played on the piano
and sang; she collected leaves and
| flowers for posies. That was all Eve
cared to do. Whatever she did she
did it 1istlessly, because nothing
thoroughly interested her. Yet she
felt that there might be things which
were not to be encountered at Nor
well that would stir her heart and
make her pulses bound. In word, she
had an artistic nature, and the world
in which she moved was a narrow and
inartistic world. Her proper faculties
were unevoked. Her true nature
slept.
The boot of an owl, followed by a
queer little face peeping at her from
behind pine. She did not at once
recognize Watt, as her mind wa;
occupied with her engagement to Mr..
| Coyshe.
Now at the very moment Watt
| showed himself her freakish mind had
swerved from position of disgust at
her engagement, into one of semi
content with it. Mr.. Coyshe was going
to London, and there she would be
free to enjoy herself after her own
fashion, in seeing plays, hearing op-
eras, going to all the sights of the
great town, il a life of restless pleas
ure-seeking, and that was exactly what
Eve desired.
Watt looked woe-begone. He crept
from behind the tree. His impudence
and merriment had deserted him.
Tears came into his eyes as he spoke.
Are they all gomez he asked, look
ing cautiously about.
Whom do you mean?'
The police
Yes. they have left Morwell. do
not know whittier. Whether they are
searching for your brother or have
given up the search cannot say.
What keeps you here?'
o Miss Eve! poor Martin is not far
of. 1t would not do for him to run far.
He is in hiding at no great distance
and-he has had nothing to eat
Where is he? What can l do%
asked Eve, frightened.
He Is in an old mine. He will not
be discovered there. Even If the con-
stables found the entrance, which is
improbable, they would not take him,
for he would retreat into one of the
side passages and escape by an air.
hold in another part of the wood
I will try what can do. I dare say
I might smuggle some food away from
the house and put it behind the hedge, |
whence you would fetch it.
That is not enough. He must get
away
There is Jasper's horse still with us.
will ask Jasper, and you can have
that
No. answered the boy, that viii
not do. We must not take the road |
this time. We must try the water
We have boat said Eve, but |
papa would never allow it to be used
Your papa will know nothing about
it. nor the prudent Barbara, nor the
solemn Jasper. You can get the key
and LET us have the boat
I will do what can. but'-as sud
den thought struck her-'Martin must