Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-08-25

He took another, turn around the
room, again came up to Bill, and again
surveyed him with absent-minded
speculation. This time he said it long
drawn out and laden with subsiding
| SURPRISE
Great Scott"
There was evidently little help to be
had from Cringer. To Bills mind
Cr1nger was laboring under an attack
| OF mental alteration from which
there could issue no word of comfort
or hope. He took his hat and went
| away, leaving Cringer in a state of
stupid lnAction. He resumed his
wandering life for period OF two
days. eating nothing and sleeping
hardly at all. On the third afternoon
his hunger tempted him to a meal,
and the meal restored his courage.
and the courage eventuated in a plan.
| He would return to the home OF
Angelique Van Loo and would tell
her what he thought Of her! He
would tell her he was glad she had
| rejected him. He would tell her he
| despised her millions and her aunts.
He would tell her-but he would wait
until he would see her face to face
for the formulation of the entire mes
| sage. He could see her so clearly in
| his imagination that he closely
watched the door of the restaurant on
the chance she would enter there.
It was odd, too, that he never once
thought of James; and when James
opened the door for him, and came
out little way into the outer hall,
and stood before Bill with a sheer on
his fat red face, the angry passions of
Bill began to rise. But his voice was
| gentle and calm as he spoke
| Don't look at me that way, Shorty,
don't like it,"
| The open hand of Bill came down
on the varlet's shoulder with rare and
wonderful power, so that one fat well.
fed body shook with the shock of it.
"Not that way, Shorty Slap, don't
like it (slap). / don't like (slap) to
be looked at (slap) that way, Shorty
(slap). Do you hear what 1 say,
(slap) Shorty? Now go and tell them,
Shorty, that I'm here"
| AAO FoAAOC "oo OIdLul116 up W LuS
punishment of his shoulder like
wooden horse in a gymnasium,
and he did not. observe that
the two guardians of Angelique
Van Loo were behind him in the hall.
| They now came forward to Bill in
warm and smiling welcome.
ooh, William, it's you, isn't it? So
fortunate you called this afternoon!"
The dear fussy ladies, one to the
| fore and the other to the aft of him,
dragged him and pushed him into the
big front room, and piled him into a
chair.
One of them was telling him that
she had told AngeliQue that she would
never believe he could be such
heartless fellow as that Surely
even if 1t were fact, it would be an
unheard Of and monstrous thing for
man to be guilty of such a cruel
and unkind trick, especially when 1t
was known to everybody, and the
poor dear girl was almost insane from
grief and shame.
The other one was telling him that
Of course they had practised a little
deceit upon him in allowing him to re-
wealth and position, but they had
done it with the best intentions in
the world, as it was perfectly obvious
that William, being such a simple big
fellow, had really never suspected
anything of the kind, and probably
would never have suspected until
long afterwards, but at the same time
she had said to her sister that we are
sure to weave fatal web when first
we practise to tell f1bs to people, but
everything was all right now, wasn't
| it, or at least she hoped it was
And then the pair Of them joined
voices, and said it all over again,
| thoroughly revised and with the In
PRODUCTION of considerable new mat
ter, which Bill was at total loss to
| understand. OF course they had not
suspected that he had a silver jaw,
too, and that was the reason why
AngeliQue had thought him SO very
contemplate for speaking of it. But
they had planned to tell him all about
it the very day that he and Angelique
had quarreled. You know, poor child,
she had made up her mind never TO
marry, and it was SO fortunate that
Doctor Cringer had called and ex-
planned to them the whole strange
story! Providential, wasn't it, that
they had consulted Cringer about
Angelique within the very week Of
| the operation on William himself?
Bill was still in the fog. He looked.
from one Of the aunts to the other, as
If they had been speaking particu-
larly difficult dialect of Chinese, the
meaning of which, while intensely in
teresting to themselves, no doubt, was
of no Importance whatever to the
world at large. And when they had
thoroughly winded themselves with
talk, they had time to take note OF
Bills peculiar condition.
The big stupid! Couldn't he COM
prehend that Angelique herself had a