Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-01-19
CHAPTER XVIII.
Kept Apart.

nept Apart.
Caution is a brave mans attribute
Were there no fools the world would
Be rid of all its knaves, for they
Must prey ON one another.
That same evening Stephen walked
over in the darkness to the Box, and
Sir Richard Wildfang was in possess
ion of full report of the meeting and
conversation of the lovers.
Stephen, as before, was warned to
be careful and dismissed with the in
junction to be all eyes and ears.
The next day Sir Richard rode over
to the Vale, said nothing of the init
macy between Stella and Louis Eel
ton, but simply protested his willing
ness to wait until Miss Newtons feel
ings warmed toward him, and with a
cordial pressure of the hand, added
to the anxious and worldly mamma:
Time, my dear madam, works won
ders. Your daughter has not had
time enough yet to understand the
worth of such love as mine. I am
quite willing to wait until she learns
to look upon my suit with favor?'
Then he pressed her hand again and
departed, saying, as he left the room:
Il am going up to town tomorrow,
and l may be compelled to remain
some few days. When l come back |
hope to find fortune more favorable to
ward mel"
Mrs. Newton hoped so too with all
her heart, and Stella coming in a few
minutes after had to endure another
panegyric on Sir Richard.
She sat silent, however, and en-
dured it with good grace. She felt,
now that she had Louis love to
strengthen her, able to endure any
thing.
So Richard went to town and was
once more shut up in his luxurious
private counting-house, and Mr.. Dew
lap once more came to make his re-
port.
Alas! it was not brighter one
than that which had so affected Sir
Richard before Christmas.
Luck, which had so long stood in
Sir Richard Williams favor, had
taken turn, and now presented her
scornful, immovable back.
Mr.. Dewlap sat and poured out his
tale with sorrowful, broken sentences.
Two of the large houses upon which
Sir Richard relied were lettering,
and must inevitably fall within a
month.
Stocks to which he had chung with
Inflated tenacity had deprecated at
the moment when they had to be sold
to raise the money.
One by one the supports of his com
merc1al existence were being with.
drawn from under him; and Mr.. Dew
lap wound up his dolorous statement
by declaring that if smething in the
shape OF a miracle did not occur in
their favor ruin would once for all
level the great commercial house OF
Wlldfang & Co., to the ground.
Sir Richard dismissed his confiden,
tlal manager and set his teeth firm.
No time to lose," he muttered
The girls money alone can save me,
It is question even if that cant"
Then he took a piece of paper and
worked ont complicated calculation.
and, staring at the result, arose from
, his chair pale with determination.
1T must be done!" he muttered,
all must go but that What can I do
with it? Where shall I put it?"
He walked up an down for a few
minutes, then smiled.
Il have it! No place could be safer
Or less open to suspicion
Then he put on his hat and walked
down to club of which he and Lord
Marmion were members.
He found the supplemented young
nobleman in the smoking-room.
My dear Marmion, how do You
do?" he said, with his pleasantest
smile. II thought you were down