The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-09-02

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ark with you and talk"
LILLIAN hurried to her apartments,
where she found Elsie White stand
ing before q photograph Of Phillip.
lillian smiled cruelty as she viewed
this tableau and stood silent until FL
sis. feeling her presence In the room.
turned slowly. . flush Of crimson
mounting to her brow a. she met Lii
Hans gaze
~He's a handsome fellow, isn't he7"
LILLIAN observed .carelessly az Elsie b.
Gan to smooth out her hair.
sWhoY' asked Elsie quietly.
Lillian glanced sardonically at Elsie
n the glass. but the girl back az her
had her eyes bent steadily upon her
work.
"Kelvin." answered Lillian. Hes
built like an Adonis and muscled like
q young Hercules, but the touch Of his
hands, strong as they are, II like ve;-
vet" She was keeping her cold eyes
now steadily fixed upon those ether
eyes yelled beneath their downcast
IDS and that cruel smile sat 6xedly
upon her mouth. His lips"-she lin
gered over the item with relish. still
watching that pale face-"his lips are
cool and nrm"-the hands busily en-
gagged with her black tresses trembled
slightly-"but suddenly they are like
tlre. think shall marry him! Elsie!
You hurt me dreadfully that time!
You are becoming more and more
clumsy every day am afraid that
/ shall have to discharge you" And,
having inflicted all the pain that she
could, she went down the hall singing
blithely. A stranger hearing her would
have thought that there was nothing
but gentleness and guileless Joy In her
heart.
She stopped in at Blagg's Office. He
had heard her coming. He was receiv-
ing a message at the time and the light
Of the tubes gave to his emaciated face
a CHASTITY wanness. As she entered he
only glanced up with smoldering hate.
Lillian smiled back in all her witchery
ut that black look. She knew that she
had never been more beautiful than
now. She knew that her beauty was
. perpetual torment to this man and
In the absence Of more entertaining
prey she had toyed with him a. cat
does with captured and wing broken
bird.
you don't seem half glad to see me.
Mr.. Blagg," she demonstrated.
Nor he answered her. and his voice
was tense and strained II wish you
had never come back. wish that you
had diedr'
'Oh. tut. tut" she said. laughing.
though a glitter came into her eyes.
She was forewarned. That II not q
very cheerful reception. It seems to
me that you are becoming old and
peevish."
II am" he asserted. LILLIAN
miss Breed. II you please" she cor
rected him.
'I'n call You by less formal name
than that II I like" he nared. NJ
know every step that you took while
you were away"
''Indeedr' she said pleasantly. realis-
ing for the first time that there was
some basis for the hints that Blagg
had often given her Of a powerful or.
ganixation Of which he was the head
Her calmness angered him. "What-
ever Of awe ever had for ron b
gone,' he declared. Whatever Of no
spect ever had for you IL swept
away. : whatever of love felt 10
dead. now that know you for what
You are, now that you have made
yourself common
BE careful" she warned him. 1T
b not safe to talk that way to me-"
'Safe or unsafe" he cried. what
do l carei have died q thousand
deaths in the past week. and I cannot
be further harmed"
'sToo bad" she murmured In mock
sympathy. Deaths among the lower
orders Of the animal kingdom seemed
quite common last week. They Just
found one poor fool In the Long 10
land woods this morning. He looked
like a workingman. A revolver was
by his side. but he had not been shot.
He had been strangled. That's bad
place down there. Somebody shot at
Kelvin there earlier in the week, but
II was foolish waste Of ammunition.
Kelvin bears charmed life. By the
way. you have not yet stated what
has made this alleged tremendous
change In you" She looked at him
mockingly. half smile upon her lips.
"Are you daring mey' he cried. his
nervous tension increased to the break
ing point by her recital of the failure
Of his plans. the first news he had re-
ceived Of It.
Tell me-" she defied him.
"Have you not made yourself KEEL
Wins mistress7"
He had expected to overwhelm her
with this. to meet her indignant do
NAL. to have to brave her fury. In
stead she let her half yelled eyes rest
cruelty upon him and walked toward
the door.
''Yes." she said.
He recoiled az though she had struck
him mortal blow. Rigid and immov-
able ~ he would ever be IN death be
sat and from the stairway there noat-
"a up to bis numbed ears . gay little