~ GOLDIES GUARDIAN. It wasn't really her name, but every of the hair which was one called her Goldie because lovely yellow her chief beauty, though not her only one by any means, Goldie Farne had as pretty and winsome a face as one would Lo gee, and therefore, quite naturaily, Yet it was hard to predict upon which one of them Goldie would eveutually stow her wayward little heart, for she cure her admirers were countless. was even more thoughtless aud capri. cious than pretty girls of 17 usually are, She was still a mere child in the eyes of Leigh Ormiston, her guardian antil the formal proposal of young Harry Thurston for her hand had day, with of a 17 aroused him one fine shock, to the realization her years. A grave, across his handsome face—hand:ome despite its thirty-nine years and the in the dark. surprised look swept few threads of silver thick clustering locks above it. Goldie i taken in “So you want to marry he said slowly, when he had the full meaning of the young modest but touchingly earnest appeal. “Have you spoken to ber on the sul - man s ject and—been accepted “[—well, no, sir, “returned Harry, king constrained accents of Mr. Ormiston’s not quite that, his the besitatingly, heart sin a little as he noted voice, snd the way those ball sad and firmly cut lips were ¢ ym pressed under the thick dark mustache, w ing the apswer 10 Mr. such a wilful, hile await- Miss zing little eif that see, Ormiston, Goldie tental one can't get her to answer se thoug sure. riously, kb I've tried oft enough, I'n But she told I must azk you about i and - Ix seechl en me, at her at her word came, hope, sir’ You don't disapprove ’ “Oh, I d Harry—not at all,” n't disapprove ol interrupted th Ormiston, in a pleasant voice, the tense lines which the ye had fan lingered about “If my to marry she ied meant dispieasu he strong, mouth. ward really could i choice which wou ble to me Yo. may and”’—He pa lutely; then brightening went on, “if d your suit from me to a have it my boy.” “And I he muttered, io a low, &t thought her but a child, rained Yet ready sigh when once more alone, 17, a woman with ing at her feet. as she was whet lovers a Seventeen ! -Ah, heaven!’ ri: pacing the floor with quick, uneven strides. “I pray that her accursed ireachery is not herited by her she, my pretty Goldie, trifle with a man’s true went to the window, and for a long time, gazing abse ntly over the beautiful vista land and sparkling water which ing abruptly, and in- child that will pever wantonly He there heart ! 810 wl out i all kis own, and yet which had never | brought him happiness or peace. ® Pl Far down at the foot of an avenue of maples he saw two figures walkiog | side by side, and knew they wereGoldie and her ardent young lover, Thurston, He found himself wondering, moodily, if Harry had won the answer | he coveted from those saucy lips. Harry “Yes" he murmured, following out | a train of silent thought almost un. consciously, “I would rather give her up to him than to any other, I realize now that I must lose her soon. Dear, bright-haired (oldie! I never knew until now how precious you have grown to me, will be hard to give you up, He turned away with a gloomy shadow on his face, as if something in the sight of these two youthful figures pained him, and, seating himself at his desk, sought distraction from his troubled thoughts in attending to some dry business correspondence which, he firmly persuaded himself, could not be neglected a momert longer. His pen was still busy over the task when an abrupt opeving of the library door. wecommodated by a very pro- nounced rustling of feminine draperies caused him to pause and glance up, with a conscious start. since be- | 0 pure i yOu of cultured | was | little | It | “Well, a half smile, seeing who the intruder Goldie, he questioned, with was, “what's the trouble?” For there was an air of ungry agita- tion about the graceful figure which, iu half defiant pose, had paused just within the room, The fair, satiny | cheeks were highly flushed aod the | blue eyes were blazing with excite ment, “The | proachfully. trouble?” she echoed, re “On, guardy !” and her sweet girlish tones trembled with in- asham you tell stupid fellow “aren’t you just How could Thurstoun—the dignation, of Harry yourself? —that he had your consent to marry me?" “Why, Goldie, my dear’ —surprised at the girlish, burst of but very genuine out- resentment—"1 understood that it was your owo wish. I thought you sent him bere to ask me for it.” “I sent him here simply to get rid | " she pouted, almost "t me marry him, or of him-—that's all, “I didn ou would let tearfully. think, guardy, that ; —or any ne else, even if 1 wanted to. I thought you would tell him I was too young, or that you'd get mad, or I was He The others I disposed something, and go I thought safe in sending him to you. wus 20 persistent ! of myself, but—" “The others! Leigh Ormiston turned in his chair | excited face as he sternly echoed thos two words. “Goldie,” he went on in the sam: tone of grave displeasure which she had never Ey tetherly care and artless. Can it have already stooped to Daseness taint I wo prang forwar quiver.ng with ang What were As old | | was fair and { what you i answered, | gettling ove | handsome face But h t Golds mirved and she e had ¢l would not “I would rather never Goldie,” he to 1 ane kK Pt n egaid, sadly, a it yielding To | must ever be a painful remembrance | Yet if | the the | spoiled my life, perhaps I ought to | tell you.” last her entreaties.” me sin—which | weakuess—or It was a sad story, touchingly half | though briefly told, and one of the It | was merely that of a man's heart broken ; his first, | deliberately won and then wantonly | betrayed by a beautiful coquette, who, | at the end had laughed his passionate fave and faith to scorn and wedded bis bitterest rival before the month | was oul. When Leigh Ormiston ended the rier recital, whose broken, husky | sentences revealed to her sach a world of unsuspected suff ring In his life, the warm, bright tears stood in Goldie’'s blue eyes, and she bent and touched the band resting upon the arm of his chair with quivering lips. commonest stories in the world. best and holiest love “And it was my own mother who did all that: who broke yeur heart and spoiled all your life?” she mur mored softly. “Yet when she aud paps died and left me alone in the world you took me and cared for me as if I had been your own. Oh, gaurdy, how good you have been to me—how generous and noble! How can I ever repay you?” [tht 1 | thoughtless as a butterfly, | often they bring wonde | changes. fascination | Yet she it may serve to warn you from | brought travel, society, { wiching | vou talk of losing me, AWAY, | | resolute { had not passed entirely beyond them } | p——— ——————— ——————— “Simply by being a good true | hearted woman—always— Goldie,” ve auswered gently. “ will,” Aud then, ness chasing the shadows from her bright face: “But indeed, she responded esrnestly, with some of the old sauel- | guardy,” artlessly, “1 never If Harry Thurs ton and the rest of them she exclaimed thought of flirting. would fall in | love with me, why, 1t was't my fault. I'm sure I told them in plain English didu't care for un sixpence them." ‘You don’t know little your heart yet, looking beautiful, one,” he snuswered, down her with his kindly But, Goldie, how surely you upon smile; vom: day you will. | this day has taught me | possess Lhe uangerous | gift of winning the hearls of others. Whenever you are tempted to trifle child little story I have told you, and he added with with the power, remember the be merciful,” impressive | Seriousness, And Goldie, hitherto as bright and | in her own | pretly sobbed room, out the long hours of that sunoy afternoon io vain i like a a remorse for ber beautiful dead mother’s | sin. Three years glided swiftly by, and | rously eventful Goldie they had | To homage, and and looked squarely into the pretty | deep ¥ nowledge of her own gift of | never dreamed off at 17 was still Goldie Farne. {al : wh She wass looking indescribably that evening in the most eXquinite fare ni am in strateg away {rom her crowd ‘ht rest + she mig a litle solitude “Yes beautiful beard Lhe idle jutet smu proud 0) with a ah with a % 10 Dis Boe dark eyes all has wr old fons the 1) t from ¥ 1 at gaur Heaven for that, XK of losiog you harder to bear with y 8ity for retorted archly, unio bis eyes, “Why must g guardy ? “Because your host not let me keep you always, little Ab! He one, Goldie broke a yearning inexpreasible sad- | buskily and turned ness {lo e very line of thes strong, te nder : face, Bat the two gossips | as they had supposed. “It would be the richest joke of the | season, ‘pon honor,” again drew said one, as they | “if her guardian, after all, and near, ghe ends by | marrying leaving all the rest of us out in the cold, He's perfectly devoted to her happiness, and a dused handsome fel- low, too, if he is old enough to be her father, and~—" But they bad passed on again, and Leigh Ormiston could only turn snd look at the gil beside him, his «ve, glowing and his lips white and tense with an emotion which he was silently | struggling to repress. But she laid ber little hand gently upon his arm, with a look and smile which their was no mistaking “I would never have dared to tell you,” he breathed with an inipassion, od thrill in his low accents ; “butewyou heard it, Goldie 17 “Yes, goardy—Leigh,” she whis- pered, with a tender smile, “and I only wonder you did not guess it for yourself long, long ago.’ Clyde Ray. mond, | Aud he repeated, And you were there, | parasol.” | looked up at the white | impul i her the | were bright | the ke then squarely agalost the lower cone of | toe of lovers will | ind | conscious of [ly | gation, ( | drove on in agony until a gray coated 1x | fine,” Laslie's “make ME. " He took my hand, He did not even say “He mine, for 1 have loved you many a day.™ He only pressed it In his lovingly; He looked Into my eyes and sald, "Make me.” A mist cams over mine; I could not see, What you will, make me. * “Last night 1 had a dream that | was dead, love, bending o'er my head “You held my soul, and wes Your team fell on it; \d . Ping saw its stalin; IL was pure again ‘Can you not do ity 1 will follow you | Until I feel that 1 am formed anew ‘Drop dow ij another tear; we KOT 106 Of Il not fear 14 Mi k. 1! “Oh, take my band thout you 1 am wea me your i it with you strong heaven, and I shall be Oh, innks George Holme 1 love iy to dwell there with you VEE TI AN YOU ord SHE TOUCHED THE CLOUDS, A Chieago Girl's Exploit In Cheored by the Young Men. to touch a cloud with my Was ng wr nnd in her life of 10 years was Bhe sto] on the long, the hot Manitou and noky clouds curling n peaks with the questioning eyes of a young, 1'o the left and in front of most ald like She “1 wor id strong for the first th in Lhe wide is mountains veranda of about the lower eager, puzzled, mon uve gids is slopes her right Ww Cl the mounts n's of Came a level Ri Il, # oor mil ng along at tat iia. | wall Around this they mo feel iw way cious | wy floated off with ween Lhe Inter vening peaks and wouched even the Wp of sinf tof the b h she could a mountain 1 Vee ug th mon bet dangerous const. Tl wind | y the Wn ed Lined ae in a short t fact WAIK Fes uch TY ii, in the clouds » sitting on the broad hex] the young girl as 1 ft and of Queer Graves ot Urchin's Fanny Prank. « have af Quick an ove for the of things ae anybody, and xl many of their « i. 5o tw indies ther ile ot have ar Tae te Hil nigan aveeve Lhe t and rage al Aci a mer ity a 1 juickly up to the footman's } ews fl there i simul The young ladies, all un- ludicrous aspect thar outfit had taken on, drove along chatting merrily Soon they were vexad to observe that pedes sal he par I COMM ali the ahwent Joems | trians on either side of the thoroughfare gaged curiously at them and grinned broad Too proud to stop and make an fn vesti. sr to turn their beads, beacause some chose to make sport of them, they nile They ange rude men vard po iceman rusbed to their rescue dex that henceforth they will excl mfldences and take less enjoyment in Are fower | their chat rather than drive out in the dog i cart with wut having Jeems in his proper place. 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