The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-05-30
CHAPTER X-(Continued

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20 please him. but he is Indifferent.
CHAPTER M.-(Continucd.)
When he turned into Van Ness ave-
nue. the Ryan house was one block
beyond him, a conglomerate white
mass, like a crumbling wedding cake
slowly settling on green lawn. He
surveyed it as he approached, noting
its ugliness with a musing satisfac-
ton. It's size and the bright summary
perfection Of surrounding grass and
flower beds lent it impressiveness and
redeemed it from the position Of a
colossal blight on the prospect to
which architect and builder had done
their best to relegate it. Prosperity,
complacent, overwhelming prospect
ty, was suggested not only by it's bulk
but by the state of studied finish and
neatness that marked mansion and
grounds. There did not seem to be a
willing flower bed or withered leaf left
on a single stalk in the garden Dor
ders. Every window-pane cleaned
like a mirror innocent of dust or
blemishing spot. The marble steps up
which Cannon mounted were as snow
fly unsullied as though no foot had
passed over them since their last alb
luton.
The door was opened by a China
man, who, taking the visitors card,
left him standing in the hall, and, deaf
to his queries as to where he should
go, serenely mounted the stairs. Can
non hesitated moment, then hearing
a sound of voices to his right, entered
the anteroom that gave on that suite
OF apartments into which Dominick
had walked on the night of the ball.
They were softly lit by the afternoon
sun altering through thin draperies,
and extended in pale, gilt-touched
vista to the shining emptiness of the
ballroom. The old man was advanc-
ing toward the voices when he sud-
denly saw whence they proceeded, and
stopped. In the room just beyond him
Cornelia Ryan and young man were
sitting on a small, empire sofa, their
figures thrown out in high relief
against the background of silk-covered
wall. Cornelias red head was in
close proximity to that of her com
panion, which the intruder saw to be
clothed with thatch of sleek black
hair, and which he recognized as ap.
pertaining to young man whose ia.
Their had once been shift boss on the
Rey del Monte, and who bore the pat.
ronymic Of Duffy.
Cornelia and Jack Duffy had the
appearance Of being completely en-
crossed in each others society. In
his moment Of unobserved survey
Cannon had time to note the young
wOman's air of bashful, pleased EN-
barrassment and the gentleman's ex
preston Of that tense, unsmiling
earnestness which attends the deliv
cry of sentimental passages. Cornelia
was looking down, and her flaming
hair and the rosy tones of her face
shading from the faintest of pearly
pinks to deepening degrees Of coral
were UNANIMOUSLY vivid against the fiat
surface of cream-colored wall behind
her, and beside the black poll and
thin. dark cheek of her companion
That something very tender was afoot
was quickly seen by the visitor, who
softly withdrew, stepping gingerly
over the fur rugs, and gaining the en-
trance to the hall with a sensation OF
flurried alarm.
An open door just opposite offered
a refuge. and. passing through it with
a forward questing glance alert fol
other occupants who might resent in
trusion. the old man entered a small
reception-room lit by the glow of 9
hard coal fire. The room was different
in furnishings and style from those he
had left. 1t had the austere bleak
ness Of aspect resultant from a combi
nation of bare white walls and large
pieces Of furniture Of black wooG
upon which gold lines were traced IN
ornamental squares. An old-fash
Toned carpet was on the floor, and sew
eral tufted arm-chairs, begirt witt
dangling fringes, were drawn up so
cheerily, red focus of heat barred
by the stripes of a crate, and sur
mounted by a chastely severe white
marble mantelpiece. He had been IL
the room often before and knew it fol
Mrs. Ryan's own particular sanctum
When a celebrated decorator had beer
sent out from New York to furnish the
lower floor Of the house, she had in
sisted on retaining in this apartment
pieces of furniture and the works O
art which she approved, and which tn,
decorator wished to Danish to the gar
ret. Mrs. Ryan had her way as she al
ways did. and the first fine "soote" O
furniture which she and Con ha,
bought in the days of their early af
fluence. and various oil paintings ais,
collected in the same era of their eve
luton, went to the decking of tn,
room she used for her own and often
est sat in.
Cannon approached the fire, an,
stood there looking up at the life-siz
portrait in oils Of the late Corneliu