The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-12-26
The Fair CreoIe'S Fortune
BY SIR WALTER BESAN Mt and JAMES RICE
The Scheming Of a Desperate
Woman For the Sake of a
.Profligate Brother and the
Resulting Adventures Of
Winsome Virginie Ferrier.

age, being then a young gentleman Of
very headstrong disposition and fully
determined upon having his w way
at any cost. He had always from
childhood acted upon this principle.
and it made him so popular at school
that when he left the boys proposed
to have fireworks. In the army he
continued to act on the same settled
principle. being nov quite certain that
he deserved to have everything he
wanted. and he was so much beloved
therefore that when it became known,
directly after the arrival Of this mail,
that Ferrier was going home on
raising Of money to pay his debts of
honor-his brother officers so far SYM
pathized with him as to give thanks
unanimously that he was going to en-
JOY a holiday.
1t was upon this principle also, be-
ing at the moment consumed with pas
sion, that at the age Of twenty-one he
entered secretly into the bonds Of holy
wedlock with il certain "young person"
named Emily Hicks. She was quite
young. extremely pretty, quick and
clever. we'll able to take care Of her
self. almost uneducated, the daughter
of a scene shifter or carpenter and
general service" theatrical man, and
she was Just commencing a dramatic
career. which now promises to be dis
tinctly successful. when this thing hap
pened to her.
The interruption to her professional
pursuits lasted rather more than q
year. She then returned to Daddy
Perigal and informed him that for the
future she should never again speak to
her husband nor take money from him
nor In any way own him; that she
should go back to the stage in her first
assumed name, but for the sake Of the
child whom she brought with her,
whose rights must be watched, she
would assume her legal name when
the boy should be grown up. She
therefore returned to the stage under
her old acting name and began to
work just as hard as if she We're still
really Emily Hicks. with her future
before her, instead of the Hon. Mrs.
Terrier.
AS for her husband he went his own
way and contrived. as a rule. to forget
her. The goddess Of Chance was the only
bride he cared to worship. Some day,
most certainly, if Emily lived and the
boy lived, there would be a row..
Meanwhile. so long as she let him alone
he troubled himself little about her.
I'VE are going to have a sad change,
professor" said Captain Kemyss. "Vir-
ginie is to leave us and to go to Eng
land"
"Virginie will 90 away This was,
indeed, a change.
Yes; she had another guardian be-
sides myself. though I had almost for
gotten it. She is invited, and we think
we ought to let her 70. We hope it
will not be for long. But who knows
who knows:'
There We're letters. too. for the pro-
fessor. among them n which s .med
to cause him much agitation.
"COme home ut once it said. among
other things. The longer you stay
away the more difficult will it be for
YOU to get what You want. Come. and
YOU shall join the ranks of h pcnni-
less adventures AID make Il spoon Or
spoil Il horn"
When they met at dinner a certain
sadness weighed upon their minds.
The dinner was silent. for now they all
knew what was going to happen. and
that the party would he broken w,
never. perhaps. all =" meet again. \ir-
.inic was going to England-the chilu
who had grown up among them.
Why, McT.ouchlin. Mr.\Edrcw and
the secretary had seen her every New
Years day, ana plenty of days l'c-
tween. for seventeen years, They had
watched her pass from infancy to
childhood. she grew slowly before
their eyes from IL girl. imperfect. h"ny,
angular. to Il woman. perfect, rounded.
marvellous. she was the joy Of the
hOuse-the great and chief ;ttrActio.
of Mon ncsir. There was no n like
her in the island. And now she WAS
to 60.
In ralmiSte one is accustomed to see.
ing people come and 20 The officers
of the garrison naturally are constant
ly changing: the governor changes ev
cry six years or so: the chiefs Ct tho
civil service are always changing and
partners and clerks Of mercantile
houses are p .pctnally coming on. and
going home again. to Sly nothing OF
those who Succumb to the eXtraOrdi
nary thirstiness of the place, and &c
prematurely to their long home. There