The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1914-01-09

something from the delicate bloom
which lay upon the cheek of the fair
creole beneath her own palms and
had given her a little of the hardy and
robust look Of her English sisters.
Just now, flushed with the exercise
and the excitement. the warm air, the
soft sunshine and the animated scene
about her, the girl had lost for the
moment all her creole languor and
was in very truth become an English
girl in appearance.
Whether she lost or gained by the
difference l do not know. Certainly
Of all the young and beautiful women
in the park that morning there was
none, English or otherwise, more beau
tiful than this fair creole, a fact OBJ
served by many Of those philosophers
who love to lean " the ratings and
mediate in the midst of youth, beau
ty. wealth, flowers, gay and careless
talk on the happiness lying ready to
Of all possible worlds. Captain Fer
rier was master Of several accomplish
ments besides the art Of card playing
II gambling. Among other things,
he could ride we'll and looked his best
on horseback. Beside him rode his
sister, also an accomplished horsewo-
man. She looked handsome, being tall
and Of graceful figure.
When she dismounted you perceived,
first, that she was no longer very
young. being, in fact, four years older
than her brother, and he was twenty
eight; next, she was thin, and her pale
face, with it's large and lustrous eyes,
wore an anxious look, as if she was
continually suffering for the sins of
others. For the moment, however, she
felt happy, because it seemed at last
as if a thing on which she had set all
her hopes vas really likely to take
place.
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MAKE love to her on board"
That was Maude's injunction to her
brother when she wrote to him in
Palmiste island. Captain Ferrier would,
perhaps, have obeyed, but for one cir
cumstance-he found on board a young
fellow who was as fond of cards as
himself, and he preferred playing
ecarte or picquet in the smoking cab
in for'ard to dangling after his cousin
on the after deck. Besides, he could
not present himself except as a sort of
rival. Good heavens! A rival-to that
fellow. Percival! Now Percival, who
certainly was not the son Of a peer,
but had started quite as a second class
passenger in life and was by no means
DESTROYS of passing himself off as any
thing better. was for some unknown
reason peculiarly hateful to this young
man: the more so because Virginie in
his society seemed always more happy
than in his own.
Guy Terrier learned at school to de-
spise the whole of mankind except n
few who need do nothing. but are born
to enjoy. Most of the boys in his own
set who held those views went out into
the world and shook off this narrow
view. He went out into the world and
retained it.
He avoided the quarterback as much
as possible and spent his time chiefly
with his venturous friend, from whom
in the course of the voyage he Won so
large a sum that he could afford to
send the major a check for $500 on ac-
count.
If'Maude wanted him to marry her,
he thought sulkily, she might arrange
the thing herself-at all events, any
kind of marked attention before all
these people was out Of the question,
He paid her no attention at all. He
made no attempt to appear interesting
or clever or profound or remarkable in
any way, as is frequently done by men
who open the old fashioned siege In
the old fashioned way. and try to be-
! gin by inspiring respect.