Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-11-25
CHAPTER X.
Miss Vests Request.


Tho surprising change in her held
MO sneechless. All the animation OF
mo breakfast table was gone; there
v,s no hint of the response with
which before, she had met my non
,onsiral sallies. She stood there
vbtelipped ,unsmtling, staring down
4bp dusty road. One hand was clench
ed tight over some small object. Her
owes dropped to it from the distant
road, and then closed, with a quick
4 !ndraWn breath.
Her color came back slowly. What
aver had caused the change, she said
\ nothing. She was anxious to leave at
once almost impatient over my de.
4 lberate masculine way of getting my
things together. Afterward I recalled
that had wanted to explore the barn
for a horse and some sort of a We.
aIcle to take us to the trolley, and
4 that she had refused to allow me to
4 look | remembered many things
later that might have helped me, and
4 lid not At the time, l was only com
pletely bewildered. Save the wreck,
The responsibility for which lay be-
tween Providence and the engineer of
The second section, all the events of
that strange morning were logically
connected; they came from one cause,
and tended unerringly to one end.
But the cause was buried, the end
not yet in view
Not until we had left the house
we'll behind did the girls face relax
It's tense lines. l was watching her
more closely than | had realized, for
when We had gone little way along
the road she turned to me almost pet
ulantly. please don't stare so at
me" she said, to my sudden confusion.
7 know the hat is dreadful. Green al
ways makes me look CHASTITY"
Perhaps it was the green" I was
unaccountably relieved. do you
Know, few minutes ago, you looked
almost pallid to met"
She glanced at me quickly, but |
Was gazing ahead. We were out of
Hgat Of the house, now, and with
every step away from it the girl was
obviously relieved. Whatever she held
III ner hand, she never glanced at it.
Dut Sne was conscious of it every sec
Vld' She seemed to come to a de-
VSlon about it while we were still in
'sut OF the gate, for she murmured
"Wethlng and turned back alone, 60
-us swiftly, her feet stirring up small
puDS OF dust at every step. She fas-
Tuea something to the gate post
could see the nervous haste with
"uIcn she worked. When she Joined
ut NJ again 1t was without explanation.
=" Inc clenched fingers were free
]V"' ana while she looked tired and
VIII the strain had visibly relaxed
We walked along slowly in the gen
Va Vol direction Of the suburban trolley
,'' Once a man with an empty
,, ssON snered US a lift, but after a
cined.
-, 1ne ends of the bone think they
~. 'aS'anets as it is" 1 explained.
But the lady"
.,3 young lady, however, declined
~ ~ We Went on together. Once, when
trolley line was in sight, she got
,, pSooIe IN her low shoe, and we sat
,snI 0noer tree until she found the
Sase Of the trouble.
so,, - don't know what I should have
sWo. Without you," 1 Numbered.
,on "a, 81 support and-and all that. Do
,t.,- Auo"' my first conscious thought
Wv me wreck was of relief that
., D"u not been hurt?"
nn - was sitting beside me where a
sn. ~SS'hut tree shaded the road, and
tsro = pIISed look of misery on her
baa, 'na' certainly my words had not
"a. meant to produce.
Slowly u my first thought" she said
h,an,. was regret that THAT /
rons oeen obliterated, blown out like
an Please don't look like that!
Hrn-only talking"
cspsa 81 n .S lips We're trembling, and be-
torgo,..us little shams of society are
oysr > o at times like this, 1 leaned
vbero anu - patted her hand lightly.
IL II rested on tn, grass beside
sgnos Su must not say those things" l
tlen5s,au Perhaps, after all, your
Bsr Iaa no friends on the train"
SnsI ~ was hard again, her tone
nina n Ie drew her hand from under
csr ua uol quickly, but decisively. A
''S IN sight, coming toward us.