Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-04-06

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school, and then from the most costly
and celebrated tutors money could
procure.
Money was literally no object SO fal
as they were concerned, and he Law
ished it upon them with an open
hand.
! AS for himself, he was man OF the
simplest taste. He considered that
steak-very much underdone-and q
glass of porter an excellent dinner,
and he could have slept soundly on a
plank. But for his children nothing
could be too good.
my boy shall be a gentleman and
my gal a LADY," he had said, and if
money could make them respectively
lady and gentleman, then there was
no reason why they should not be.
Certainly Diana Melford looked a
lady as she lay full length upon the
! couch at the Pines. Lorrie Lattimer's
description OF her was not bad one.
but it did not go far enough. Diana
was fair, but the fairness was of a
marvellous description. Her skin was
like ivory, colored by a master hand.
| There was not freckle upon her face
not a blemish upon the white neck
and shoulders, and the dark eyebrows
only seemed to make the clearness OF
her skin more lovely.
Her eyes were blue, but at times
they deepened almost into violet; k-ar
hands were not particularly small
| MIR. Melford's were. the size of a
shoulder of mutton-but they were
very shapely, and as white as milk.
AS she lay on the couch she looked
like an Ariadne; soft, fair, white,
sleek, and sleepy, and no one looking
at her, would ever have guessed that
behind the soft blue eyes was a brain
broker.
1t was she who had furnished the
house, chosen the decorations-and
arranged the sober-tinted hangingS,
and it was she who decided that the
servants-there was an army of them
should wear dark, almost sombre
livery instead of the purple or blue
which her father would have selected.
In a word, as she lay there, she
looked utterly sleepy, and Indifferent
and careless, but was in reality as
sharp and alert as the tiger who lies
in the jungle with his eyes cloeed and
to all appearances asleep, but who is
quite ready to spring up at the slight
est stirring of the underground, and
earn his supper.
Beside her. almost hidden by the
folds of her soft summer robe, lay
Burke Peerage and she was about
to take it up again when the clock on
the mantel shelf struck the hour and
before its chimes had quite ceased
the door opened and footman in sub
dued tones, announced "Mr. Sey,
mour'
Diana turned her head as a thin
young man entered the room
He was her opposite in every partic
ular She was fair, he was dark sc
dark that there was almost a swarthy
tinge in his complexion. She was tall
for woman, he was very little above
the middle height and while she was
outwardly, indolent and supine, he
was why and energetic. And yet, as
he came across the broad room there
was faint resemblance between
them, for he moved with soft tread
t4-I,i TO h04 Of
and his manner, as he bent over heI
and laid his hand which was small
and white, was stealthy and catlike.
We'll, Seymour, you have got back
then?"
Yes yes"
And father?"
Father? The House is still sitting
left him in London"
You want your dinner, I suppose p
Dinner? No. mere nothing vii
satisfy mel dined in town An!
news?"
News! What news should there be
I went to church yesterday, and rod,
out today. What news have you got?
He went to the fireplace, though
]
there was no fire, and seemed to wan
to warm himself
Not much. They will not make ia
Their a baronet"
Mop"
mo. learned that much. 1t appear
that they have made too many bar
onets already, and they must hol'
their hands"
Then you will not be Sir Seymour
, Melford. Accept my sympathy"
, Thanks. he said.
And where have you been this las
week?"
In good quarters. l have been stay
ing at Latcham Court with the Earl o
Latcham."
"Oh!"
How did you get there?" she asked
Through the governor. The ear
iS in 0ueor street Hard NM All fh,