Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-30
CHAPTER XIII.
In the Sunset Glow.

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He lived through week of bliss
and of torture. One minute she prom
Used to marry him, give up the stage
go around the world on yacht, whose
luxuries, Dan planned, should riva
any boat ever built, or they would mo
tor across Asia and see, one by one
the various coral strands and the gold
en- sands of the east. He could MOI
find terms to express how he would
spend upon her this fortune of his
which, for the first time. began tc
have value in his eye. Money had
been laviShed on her, still she seemed
dazzled. Then she would push it all
away from her in disgust-tell him
she was sick of everything-that she
didn't want any new jewels or any
new clothes, and that she never want
ed to see the stage again or any place
again; that there was nowhere she
wanted to go, nothing she wanted to
See--that he must get some fresh girl
TO whom he could show life, not one
whom he must try to make forget it.
Then, again, she would say that she
loved the stage and her art-wouldn't
give it up for any one in the world
that il was fatal to marry an actress
that IL was mad for him to think of
marrying her, anyway-that she didn't
downfall she wanted to be her own
mistress and free.
He found her creature of a thou
sand Whims and caprices, quick to cry,
quick to laugh, divine in everything
she did. He never knew what she
would want him to do next, or how
her mood would change, and after one
of their happiest hours, when she had
been like girl with him, she would
burst into tears, beg him to leave the
room, telling him that she was tired
t1red-tired, and wanted to go to sleep
and never to wake up again. Between
them was the figure of Poniotowsky,
though neither spoke Of him. She ap-
peared to have forgotten him. Dan
would rather have cut out his tongue
than to speak his name, and yet he
was there in the mind of each. Dur
Ing the fortnight Dan spent thousands
of pounds on her, bought her jewels
which she alternately raved over or
but half looked at. He had made his
arrangements with Galorey peaceful
ly, coolly and between the two men
it had been understood that the world
should think the engagement broken
by the duchess, and Dams attention to
Lefty Lane, already the subject Of
much comment, already conspicuous,
was enough to justify any woman in
taking offense.
One day, the pearl of warm May
days, when England even in spring
time touches summer, Blair was so
happy as to persuade his sweetheart
river. The young fellow waited for
her in the boat he had secured, and
she, motoring out with Higgins, had
appeared, running down to the edge
of the water like girl, gay as child
let out from school, in simple frock,
in a marvelously fetching hat, white
gloves, white parasol, white shoes, and
as Dan helped her into the boat,
pushed it out, pushed away with her
on the crest of the sun-fiecked waters,
spring was in his heart, and he
found the moment almost too great
to bear.
The actress had been girl with
him all day, giving herself to his
moods, doing what he liked without
demur, talking of their mutual past,
telling him one amusing story after
another, proving herself an ideal com
panion, fresh, varied, reposeful; and
no one to have seen Lefty Lane with
the boy on that afternoon would have
dreamed that she ever had known an
other love. They had moored their
boat down near Maidenhead, and he
had helped her up the bank to the
little inn, where tea had been made
for them, and served to him by hel
own beautiful white hands. He hac
called for strawberries, and, like 6
shepherd in a pastoral, had fed then
to her, and as they fingered the sun
set came creeping steadily in through
the windows where they sat.
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