The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-02-02

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Don't say anything please, Miss
Marvin" he whispered Just come
with me for a moment. if you will"
Bewildered by his manner, she fol-
lowed to the top of the stairs. In 81
lence he directed her gaze to the two
young people in earnest conversation
below.
1t was picture that might well have
startled less impetuous heart than
Pauline's. Harry's hand still clasped
Lucille's, and he was leaning toward
her in the eagerness of his apr cal
You will? You promise? Lucille
you've made me happy" Pauline heard
him say.
Through mist-dimmed eyes, dizzily,
she saw the two arise She saw the
man she loved clasp Lucille's other
hand. She saw the girl who had been
her friend and confidante since child
hood draw herself away from him with
lingering withdrawal that could
mean-ah, what could it not mean?
Polly fled to her own room. The
watchful eyes of Owen followed her.
In his secret battle to retain con-
troll Of the Marvin millions fate had
never so befriended him. None of all
the weapons or ruses that he had used
! to prevent the faithful attachment of
Harry and Pauline was as potent, he
knew, as this little seed of jealousy
Sown in q woman's heart.
Pauline rang for her maid.
| Tell Miss Hamlin that | am not at
home" she said in a voice that start
ed haughtily but ended in a sob.
But, Miss Marvin" Margaret tried
to explain.
Tell Miss Hamlin that l am NOT
at HOME" repeated Pauline
Lucille had just started up the stairs
leaving Harry with sympathetic pat
on the shoulder.
We'll, even if | cant do anything
with the wild woman" she laughed
back at him, you know Pauline bears
a charmed life. Nothing has ever hap
pened to her yet Guardian angels
surround her-as we'll as heroes"
Harry walked into the library. The
agitated Margaret met Lucille on the
stairs.
Miss Marvin is-Miss Marvin is
mot at home" said the girl, flushing
crimson.
But Margaret, you know
Il thought really thought she
was at home, Miss Hamlin. | hope
you won't be offended with me-"
Il insist upon seeing here cried
Lucille. Il don't believe you are tell
ing me the truth. I'm going right up
to her room"
Margaret burst into tears.
Lucille quickly reconsdered Indig-
nation took the place of establishment
She hurried down the stairs and rush
ed through the door without waiting
for Margaret to open it.
Pauline, back in her own room
vented her first rage in tears With
her hot face pressed against the pill
low, she sobbed out the agony of what
she thought her betrayal-her double
betrayal, by courtier and comrade al
once. But the tears passed. Too vita
was the spirit in her, too redly flowing
in her veins was the blood of fighting
ancestors, too strong the fortress OF
celf-command within the blossoming
gardens of her youth and beauty fol
the word surrender ever to come tC
her mind.
True, she had found an adventure
that stirred her more deeply than the
peril of land or sea or sky could have
done Here was thrill that had new.
er been listed among her intended
tremors. But there were not more
than five minutes of weakness. She
sent for Owen.
Masked as ever in his suave exterior
and his manner of mingled obsequi,
BUSINESS and fatherliness, he came in
stantly.
"Mr. Owen-have you knowm-havt
! you known that this was going on?"
Il feel that it is my duty to know
what concerns you--even what con,
Germs your happiness. Miss Marvin, hi
answered
|, Il mean that l have long had my
suspicious"
But again the very perfection of hi.
deceit brought Pauline that feeling
that she had had since childhood-tha
sense of an insidious influence always
surrounding her, always menacing ant
yet never revealed This influence
which Owen seemed to embody, was
the antagonist of that other mysteri
GUS power, SO real and yet so mex
plicable, that warded and protected
her-the spirit of the girl that hat
stepped from the mummy
But Pauline had seen with her OWL
eyes, SIG QLu IlOl u6eu any worn U
Owens to convince her of the falsit,
of her lover.
She was quite calm now. She dress
, ed with the utmost care, Margaret
who had seen her in such anger onl.
short time before, was surprised a
the sprightliness and graciousness o
her mistress. A slightly heightened
color that only added to the lustre o
her loneliness was the single sign o
her inward thoughts She summoned
her own car and left the house alone.
, The drawing room of the Clarence
Courtelyou mansion was ablaze witt
; light There was little too mucl
light. The Clarence Courtelyous al
ways had little too much of every
thing.
There was little too much money
there was a little too much gold lea
decoration in the drawing room, lit
} tie too much diamond decoration O
Mrs. Courtelyou, and, if you were 81
fastidiously impolite as to say SO, {
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