t saw you, dancing with her lover, too, I thought she would have fainted. Her eyes flashed lightning. I believe she could ha

Elaine Brooke drew her sister further into the shaded alcove

d her dimpled white shoulde

she said. "You know you all treated me unf

?" asked Miss Brooke

ou needn't lecture any more, Ellie," sai

drifted over the grave, s

ringing her slender white hands together. "He should have know

but, while I was up-stairs dressing, he was called away for an hour. So when I came down to the parl

again to-night! Promise me you will

and off her shoulder, d

exclaimed, "and I don't want to break my word! You're self

ge parlor next to the dancing-room there are some young people like yourself who are not dancing at all, but playing games and having

she saw a glittering tear splash down on her sister's cheek. "Oh, Ellie, yo

up to you, indeed I will, some other time, dear," and drawing Irene further int

all I say to him about our dances?" asked

y, as Mr. Kenmore came toward them, not looking very

ll upon Elaine Brooke, and she was well worthy of it, for

oveliness. Men called her a "magnificent woman," envious girls sneeringly dubbed her an old maid. This latter was her own fault, certainly, for she had admi

fair, Elaine

lily maid

suitors, though her mother frowned and her father sighed, wh

ve, though given

eath who puts

looked up at Guy Kenmore with that calm, sweet smile, soft

r dances," she said sweetly. "She wants to go and

nd before Mr. Kenmore could murmur his ready asse

tner! Come along, Mr. Kenmore, and you s

d her captive away, leaving Elaine gazing after them in silent dismay and despair. Irene had outwitted h

as death, she turned away to convey th

he brunette type, received the news with

ay for it, dearly," she m

think. She doesn't really mean to be di

ispleased glance that silenced

, haughty beauty, three years younger than Ela

e? I left him with y

r the next dance," Mrs. Brooke ans

ge, flashing dark eye

to get Irene out of the wa

he parlor. Unfortunately Mr. Kenmore came up as she was going, and she playfully carried him

" Bertha sneered in her sister's ear, mak

eks crimsoned, then grew paler tha

such remarks in this crowded room?"

ess you get my lover away from that wretched girl,"

wered, soothingly, to allay the young lady's violent rage. "

were enjoying themselves, to the top of their bent. Having exhausted everything else, they had determined on having a we