The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-12-26
What It said was
made him angry.
this:

TINS:
Dearest Guy-1 hear from two or three
people who know or ought to know that
our creole cousin is rich. young and beau
tiful: also that she has manners which
would fit her for any station, and that she
Is coming home to stay with a woman
who wants her, I believe. as a help to get
on in society. The woman, however. is
very we'll and will take the girl to good
houses. l have taken notice OF her for
Your sake-mind. for your sake-and be-
cause such a woman may in certain cases
be very useful to you. Now, Guy, be rea-
sonable. You tell me that you are in des-
perate straits. It is now six years or
thereabouts since these desperate straits
began. I do not reproach you, but I re-
mind you that YOU have had not only your
own allowance, but all my money and all
that I could persuade my father TO add.
He does not know Of these straits. Come
home Immediately on urgent private at
fairs. Come home, if you can, in the same
steamer with her. Make fierce love to her
all the way home. When she goes to Mrs.
Halloues' let it be with your engaged
ring on her finger. When you set her
money you can pay off your creditors
even if you only begin a fresh course OF
madness. There, Guy: that is all l can do
for YOU at present. I have only to add
that the times are bad for everybody who
has got land and therefore for us, and it is
not the least use expecting any further
assistance from Your father or from your
affectiOnate sister MACDE.
''Then,' murmured the young man,
''hov is Morgan's l o Z to be taken
up"
The other letter vas written in a less
clerkly hand. and there We're occasion
al misspellings in it And it was this
letter which made the young mar
scowl. 1t began without any polite or
conventional endearments Of speech:
I told you. Guy. that I would let you
know from time to time what I arp doing
and how l am doing. Very well, then. l
am doing very we'll. and SO is the boy.
He is not like you, I am glad to say, as
yet. In face he takes after me and his
grandfather. the scene shifter, who was
once a very handsome man, and l hope
he will never become like you in any sim
gle respect. And, as I am not quite a lady
myself. though more SO than when YOU
knew me, I have got a girl who is a lady
to act as his gOvernesS and companion.
BY the time the child grows up and can
| compare I shall. I dare say. have become
| more like a lady, because I do not want
him ever to be ashamed of his mother.
An actress I am and shall remain. Ten
C'Ai' " ">~T '"s o~AN'N 'o~~
wife draws. She's got her marriage lines
safe, but nobody knows that she's the
Hon. Mrs. Terrier. Biz is first rate.
! We have got a piece good for GOD nights.
and the ghost walks regular. Portraits of
your wife are sold wherever she goes
character portraits. looking in the glass,
tying a handkerchief round her head, in a
riding habit-all sorts-and she gets let
tiers, offers OF MARRIAGE, bouquets and APP
plause and everything which the heart of
: an actress can desire, so that she is quite
happy. And the boy is so beautiful that
she does not so Very much repent having
fallen in YOUR WaT. And as for his rights.
why, whatever YOU do. YOU can't gamble
them away. do not want ever to see
YOU again nor to hear from YOU. The
Army List will tell me where you are,
which is all I want to know. And on the
! least attempt at interference with my boy
We go to The Towers, accompanied by our
own people, the respectable scene shifter,
and We see my lord, and we introduce the
daughter-in-law and the Erandchild, It is
q good situation. and | think | should play
it rather we'll. | remain Your wife, not at
all aNectionato. Violet !.ovelacc. It is a
swell name. ! found it in the Court Guide,
but it is not :" good as my own real name.
which is. as YOU very we'll know.
EMILY FEREIER.
When Captain f'errier had got
through the whole Of this cpistle.
which did not take long. he fell into a
study. in which everything became A
nocturne, an arrangement in black.
He was reused by the arrival Of the
professor, against whom, for some un
known reason. he had conceived a VIC.
lent and irrational hatred. He glared
at him for q moment and then strobe
hastily away.
We may here observe that among
the many things which once done can
not be recalled perhaps the most fatal
is such a thing as Guy Ferrier did
when he was just twenty-one years OF