Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-07-26

Ing which the usual incoherent VOWS
had been exchanged.
This has been all my doing from be-
ginning to end, Fred" said she when
you came here you were very sorry
Tor yourself. ahd because consoied
you little you liked me. Then, at this
last moment, you became sorry for me
and that finished you. 1t Is no use
making generous offers which you
wouldn't accept tonight: but I prom
ise you-and / want you TO believe II,
because II Is the truth-that if to- NOR
row morning, or at any future time,
you should wish to draw back, you
may do so. and you shall not hear one
syllable of reproach from me-"
However when the next morning
came. Fred had no such wish. II eight
hours of sleep, and the more dispas-
sionate view ~ things which naturally
resulted therefrom affected him in any
way, IL was only in so far a S it brought
a somewhat important circumstance 20
his recollection.
Has 1t struck you. Laura" he took
the earliest opportunity OF asking his
betrothed, that by marrying you ]
shall get my uncle's money after aIl?"
Why, of course II has, you goose"
she answered. That's just the glori-
Gus part of it. You don't know how
miserable that money has often made
me! Rejoiced though / was to be de-
livered from the bondage OF poverty, IT
he's never really made me quite happy,
because / have always felt that / was
robbing you"
She was radiant Her spirits fairy
overpowered her and found vent In
some exhibitions of chldishness which
he thought very charming. There was
no use In telling her that all his friends
would certainly set him down a. for
tune hunter. Let themi" she return
ed; who cares? Come now; you are
not going to tell me that You care what
they say. l hope. If you do, l shall
think that you can't care very much
about me. Am / so hideous that no.
body would marry me except for the
Ike of my income?"
What could he do but asseverate that
he did love her. and would always love
her? He was doubtless sincere: yet 1t
would have been plain enough to any
on locker that he did not care for hs-
as she cared for him. and it Is probable
that Mrs. FeDton whose perceptions
were exceedingly keen. did not deceive
herself upon that point. Nevertheless
she was wildly happy, and her hisa
spirits did not desert her until II an
peared that, In spite of what had taken
Mace, Fred still meant to go I'M To
London that afternoon. Her distress
at this announcement was out OF all
proportion to it's cause. She implored
him not to leave her, she declared that
If he went away now she was sure ne
would never come back again; and
when he laughed at her. pointing out
what nonsense this was. and that a
man must keep his business appoint
ments and that his absence would not
extend over more than three days at
the outside, she vas only partially re-
assured
But what about those shooting par
ties?" she asked, apprehensively You
don't want to give them up. do you:'
II certainly do want to give them
up" he answered, and / certainly will.
If I'm not back here the day after to-
morrow, i shall be back on the follow
ing day for certain
Il shall believe that when see YOU"
SD sighed. Nothing is certain; all
sorts of dread fui things may happen at
any ment.
II y dSISSu btbNeSH tUem tnat
they should be married as soon Is pos
sible--perhaps in the month of Novem-
ber-and then they would go abroad
for the winter. and on their return
they would see about providing them
selves with a permanent home.
Mrs Fenton insisted upon accom-
panying him to the station: 1t may be
that up TO the last moment she had
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but she knew that she must not be sill
~ or exacting; and he. for his part,
having no acquaintance with the an
guish of nervousness. had never
thought of abandoning his journey. He
would have been better pleased If she
would have allowed him to say good
by to her in her own house. where. of
course. good by could be said in more
agreeable and emphatic fashion than
upon a public platform: still, he was
willing to indulge her: and so, when
the train had come in and he had
jumped into a smoking carriage he
contented himself with sqeezing her
hand and bestowing an eloquent look
upon her.
AS Mrs. Fenton made her way slow
ly homewards she said to herself that
Only by some extraordinary and most
improbable stroke OF ill-fortune could
she now be deprived of what. until
yesterday. had seemed to her to be al
most hopelessly out OF her reach. Luck.
which for so many years had been
against her. appeared at last to have
definitely taken her side-according 20
the doctrine of averages, some months
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ed round again.
Dependency with her never lasted
long. She went and sat upon the
beach and threw pebbles into the sea
and forgot certain catastrophes upon
the possible occurrence of which she
had allowed her mind to dwell for
while, She began. instead to build
castles in the air. which is far more
sensible thing to do
1t was evening when she rose and
strolled toward her temporary abode
In order to reach it she had to cross 4
hoard walk, where a German band was
playing. and where the attractive be-
ings whom she had described in her
letter to Fred were pacing to and gro
n large numbers. She contemplated
them with friendly and lenIent eyes;
for amongst them were many lovers
or. at any rate, potential lovers-and
she felt that she was bound to them by
the tie OF a common humanity.
But these sentiments of abstract
benevolenee were replaced by an emo
tion OF a keener and very different
kind. when her eyes suddenly encoun-
tered those OF solitary individual who
formed one Of the throng. This was q
Swarthv vplgar-Iooking little NAV
whose age might have been anything
between 10 and so. He stared very
hard at Mrs Fenton. who. for a mo-
ment returned his stare and then
passed on. Her face expressed neither
recognition nor perturba ton: but the
color had left her cheeks. and. after
crossing the road. she quickened her
pace considerably. When she reached
the little iron gate which gave access
TO her garden she glanced for one sec
| ov.i over shn.sliAr she