dise, sometimes a—the other place— for Jack. While Laura, seeing it all would alternately smile and sigh, hardly knowing what to forese , Rude I” Nellie echoed, indignantly, I should think so, Why he never so much as saw me the whole night. And AFTER THE BALL I was tired and bored last night, Laars; I'm getting over my liking for society; and first thing you know, I'll turn female missionary and leave the boredom of our highly cultivated civ: fue Buy ) I had promised him a dance, and be ilization. ; never came to claim it! He was so ’ You find flirtation pall on you then : 0 . Nellie ? Take my word, you would fascinated by that red-hnired Miss . Foster thut he made quite a fool o be trying your arts on the first tawgy : himself. But I don’t care—much!’ chief you would meet in your island Tra : of savages, You wait a few more] Miss Foster is a very lovely girl, and ber hair is a rich auburn, Laura scalps to dangle at your belt, you lit- : : tle female Nero. Pray, what was [ said, with a quiet smile, “I do not wrong last night ? ee why Jack should not be civil to The young girls were cousins, and her—in fact, be devoted to ber, Jack the frosty light of a winter day shot [bas always admired Nina Foster.” in through the plate glass windows | Well, let him admire her Nellie and fell softly upon them as they sat | said, fretfully, “but I'm sure of just one thing, Cousin Lavra—if Jack ever in Laura More's boudoir. Nellie Lee was a fair pretty spark— | asks me to davce with him again I ling girl of 20° her life .had known { shall uot forget his rudeness of last notuing but luxury and fulfilled de- I night.” Then, afier a short xilence : sire; she bad been given freely of the | I think of going home in a few days, roses of life, and no barsh wind. had Laura- | been allowed to touch her white girl-| Laura’s dark eyes opened sur- | ish brow; her home was in a distant | prisedly. city, bat she was spending the winter | I do, ex with her cousin and in thejtwo mamths | eyes filling with tears. I dou’t want lnimed Nellie, her pretty loved bim best all the time, It was #0 with me, Nellie, I had cold care- less words for the man who was all the world to me. I would ture from him to the most frivolous AMODE my acquaintances and treat him with the most utter indifference. A favor he would ask I would grant to another 0 his presence after having deuied it to him. I was foolish enough thiuk that by sceming indifferent I might become so, and as my heart to tarved more strougly toward him my manoer became more cold and haughty, and the end was that—we aad the world he has left is a dreary ove, Nellie, be more tender to your life than I have been to mine, If—if Jack loved me, Nellie com. menced, but just then Jack appearcd in the doorway, his handsome face full of genial light, Laura, ba said, I have left an old friend in the parlor. He can give us but a few moments, aud I know you'll be glad to see him again. Nellie was sitting very erect, her checks were burning, but As Laura left ber seat she asked who their guest which had passed since her coming | to stay any longer. I'm tired of the she had seemed to flnd her delight in nousense of my so-called admirers, 1 making men's hearts soften under her | think Jack ought 10 be ashamed of | Bunny smile; and keeping her girlish | himself- and I shall go home on | carelessness, she had often been told, | Saturday. with bitterness in the accusing voice, | Dear, Laura seid bending forward that she was heartless and took the {10 lay her white hand on the pretty | hearts that men laid at her feet a 0be in Nellie's lap. 1 thiok 1 quite | amusing playthings. {understand you ; you are 8DEry at Lavra More was not at all like her Jac, and he may deserve it, bat you 1 young relative. Her eyes were dark | should bot make us all suffer fr hia and haughty with a touch of sadness Wisdoings. Nellie, Fp jpn pe} in them, as if from past sorrow: her | ward him as & woman suouw. ab wo brow was thoughtful; her red lips | wards the man she loves ? proud abd sweet, often took a slight, | I don’t love him, Nellie eried an- sad droop as though her life had |grily, snd then she put up both jewel. | known a time when they quivered | ed bands and began to sob, “I don't with some mighty pain. No flirt, [—not the least bit in the world, she | men called her, no heartless, flattery | cried, with muc trifler, but a noble woman, whose | but Laura drew ber chair vearcr her every lover could swear himself her | cousin, took the fair head to her friend. | bosom, and smoothed it a moment sil- | Nellie’s bright face was shadows d ently. When she spoke her sweel | by a very pretty frown as she tapped | voice was very low aod a trifle sad. her slippered toot on the fender while | 1, biaving loved, can recognize the | replying to her cousin. sweet, fair opening of love, she said, | I mean it, she said, crossly. I'm | gently. We are so careless of a heart tired of society —the society of men | | which lies at our baod, Nellie, that used to like it, but now, as you say, it we torture it, play wth it, wound it palls upon me, I'm tired ‘of baving | sometimes :0-ely, because itis our to smile when I want to yawn, of (own. I know, Nellie. No woman simply giving a reproach ful glance Wants to own that she loves, p yen when I want to box some idot's ears ! Itisall a bore, Laura. Dead Sea | to ber pleads fur her a%ection. We fruit, my cousin. I am weary of | would be free all our lives, wére we to insane speeches and stupid compli- | bave our own way ; free, t ments and tender hand.«clasps, | which we do not care for: to luug h A sad condition for the belle of | at heartache last night to own to this morning, | men at our Jeet, and look Nellie, Laura replied with a slow smile | them from the height of I am fally convinced that something | difference. But when the master has happened at which you are put | comes, we rebel agamust out. Did Egbert Lorn flirt with | Nellie. We do not waut t+ knee some other pretty girl, and do you | him, noble though he may be; we object to being treated as you treat (tremble at his touch, his smile, but others ? that we tremble chafes us and we Neilie gave her fair head an patient toss, | Egbert Lorne may flag his perfee- tions in the Last river, and I would not care, she said, Did Elmer Gray ‘ail to lay his homage at so fair a shriue, cousin ? Elmer Gray made a perfect fool of himself a8 usual, was the ungracious reply. Was it Vave Braddon who fell short then ? Did he not ask a rose. bud trom your bouquet, which he could weep over in your absence, dear 7 Is was too bad of him. Really Lara, one woald think you bad been listening, Nellie said, with a mocking little ripple of laughter, you o win love aud love power; to keep down on Our own ine Bis pockr, 0 im-| deny him our smiles, while we tun | calm —which will not come back 10 | jus. Nellie! I read you heart, because when it wad 100, late I Teafned to read my own, and 1 would tell. you, from my own bittef rdemoties, that when love would fain Answerfove/n wom- an’s sole chavidd fof happiess lies in her own hand for single hoar ; among (be loving, happy women who are blest bys man's best love, or she looks dredrily “wt her. barvést, which is but regretful sorrow. Nellie's tears bad ceased to flow; she lifted her head avd laid sn im- pulsive kiss upon the lips of her cous. b unnecessary force, | % others to try for the old forgetful | that bour gone by, bie either stands d Was, Arthur Vaugh, Jack aoswered, and Nellie's quick eye noted the hot wave of color that burned in her cousin's cheek, as, with a fe left the room and, forgetting ber ang- er against Jack—who yet lingered — she asked eagerly: Was this Mr. Vaughn a lover of Laura's Jack? Yes, Jack replied, sinking to the chair Laura had vacated. And she treated him-— well, about as I have been treated by the woman I love. w low words, she as Miss Foster treated you bad. ly? the girl questioned serenely, My complaint is against you, Jack retorted, What have you to say for yourself]? Do you think that fool ofa Brandon s0 much more worthy Of= Bot a little baod stole shyly into his, and the faintest of faint whispers reached him. I'm awfully sorry, Juck! and ip. | stantly Jack was very much inter ested, and his interest communicated itself to his companion: and every- thing—quarrels, flowers, neglected dances, Laura—-was forgotten, until | (10 the midst of 8 very tender speech | when the one who is dear as her life ! on Jack's part, Laura eutered the room on the arm whom Nellie bad pever seen---Laura, with a new joy glorifying her face snd shining io ber dark eyes, The stranger held out his hand, and Jack, not exactly knowing why | He <hoo'd, took it iu bis owas. I'm the happiest man in the world, not paying the Jeast y Jack's companion Laura : dark, ie “nil, al enn | ’ hy is my wife, | Then there's two of us, Jack said, This lady. Miss Lee, Mr. hus promised to be mine. - &hot Dead in a Court Room. fim Vianshn Mune Bie Anderson outrage had a tragic se quel yesterday. John Vanderburg, the man sccused of committing the fiendish crime, was shot to death in the fourt room just at the conclusion of the Preliminary examination, Last Toes- day a man called at the Anderson resi. enoo and asked for a glass of water Jennie the popular and accomplished daughter of one of the leading citizens OF Bates county, waited upon him, When she came near him he suddenly seized and chioroformed her, and while under the influence she was out od, A search resulted in the arrest of \ an- derburg, and lynching was prevented only by a doubt of the prisoner's guilt. After the excitement had cooled in. Tell me, Laura, she whispered to ber, softly, Not unless you love my brother, Laura soswered. My story would warn one who truly loves, yet hesi. tates before her happiness; on care. less ears it would fall too lightly, Nellie's pretty face was crimson as she made her confession, I=I think I—would, if he was not #0 unkind to me, she sid. Laura kissed her. You are scarcely kind to him, dear, she said, with » faint smile; what was quite the thing pretty flower to use his own words, aud I gave him a lovely bud. I wish now that I hadn's but T was angry at thet time, you see: You show ed your temper in an un. usual way, Laura laughed. Is your anger always 50 good natured ? But Nellie’s pout was a decided thing now, and her slim foot wag beating a tattoo on the fender which would not have disgraced a South Bea Islander. I wasn't avgry at Vane Brandon, she said, trailing an amount of scorn over the name. I couldn't become angry at bim—=he's 00 stwpid, Iv was at—well I might as well tell you, Jack. Has Jack been rude, Nellie? Leura to do, but I gavea Jack; and I think I told romebody, where Jack could hear, that he and I were sort of cousins, and that I would like « dozen ed Nellie, Yes, said Lars, bitterly, ELE AL TE 0 Te Vane Brandon, which I refused to | acted down Jennie Anderson confronted the prisoner and claimed to recognize him, At the prelim hearing yesterday the Anderson family were all present, ides many other citizens. Jonnie told the horrible details of the etime, and the prisoner made a poor attempt to prove on alibi, The Judge had just Announced that the prisioner would be held in $10,000 for bail when a shot rang oud, followed in rapid succession two more. There was a soamper for the street, and when quiet was restored the prisover was ddd. No one knows who fired the shots, but as two of the Anderson boys were in the court room they were put under arrest. The Intarasfional Brotherhood of Lox ae motive Engineers held » anfon meeting at Columbug, 0 , yesterday with 1800 angin- sors present and 6000 visltom, An sxsen- Hive somion wad held, at which business of Importande only 10 the Order was trans’ & fog n'y H Okaloosa, In, ohn Full and wife of CHIR ” parted. He has gone from my life, | own heart, more merciful to your own | of 8 tall fair man, | Rockviiee, Mo. Msy 25. ~The Jen- | 0 MA os Ls AR a WHAT SHE DREADED oF, ——— I don't see what ails the girl! said Mrs. Popley, scratching her nose wiih the extreme end of her knitting. needle, I 8'posed she'd be perfectly contented. Took out of the very edge o' the work-house, as it were, and made sort of ‘own folks here, with a to bersell and fringed towel on the bureau, as a [lady coulda’t hev no nicer! Aud here she is, frectin’ and cryin’ half the pail. Father's dreadful partial to *our milk, aud I didn't thin barm, sud it any Harm | cried the old him to come jn—1el] him to sit down right away. Give him some of thes raspberry short-cake and a glass o wilk outey the night's milken', But why on earth didn’t you tell me Maritty 7 Why did you keep this a secret from me ? The girl looked up wel eyes, Did you ¢'pose I wanted fulks to ow how low the Tyson tryin’ to satisfy them, I've giv’ it up, | fell? said she bitterly, long ago, Hired-gals is hired-gals! | a farm of his own once, protested | bad it now of Le [ Mrs. Popley. I've took her all the | for his brother snd | same as my own, fool woman, Tell corner bedroom fl with glitters g Lime, ¢ They're a fault-indian’ set, said Dorcas Jones. Ain't no use | kn suyhows iamily had Father hud and he'd a But she ain't a bired-gal ! badot uwoderwrit A ud u lady, with lost iv all, | ' {that's why | want to be More you! remarked Miss | a house of my own-—ty give father a | Jones, But she keenly observed | Tyson (commonly called { home, Marietta Old Mr Tyson slept in “ $ TY Maritty™) enamber that night, rath r 10 his on n | when she brought in the teapot, | the plate of hot biscuit for supper. the kitchen sid | bewilderment; but he had resche | that | stage of docile servility in which he biack os accepted all for all the world | A tall girl, with eyes as i things | cherries, and cheeks BE BH mAler course, and understood very little like they had been painted, muttered | about it, | she to herself. She's pretty, I'll al} {low: I wouldn't take no such hired _ | gal into our house, with John Henry | (around. Men are go queer, I'd! rather do the housework myself, until I drop. Maritty told him that it was all right, and he implicitly believed her. and troubled himselt bo further on the subject. I've a miod to let the poor old creatur’ stay here, said Mrs, Popley 1 here's the aiv't Dorcas Jooe's visit was rather pro- Kitchen-chamber longed, and it was pipe o'clock—a portentously late hour for these coun. try wilderoess—when at last the re- | doubtable John Heory escorted his aunt home, and Mrs. Popley came in- to the kitchen, where Mariuy moodily by the fire, Maritty, said she. is ngver feel what he eats and drinks, and he might do odd jobs Pabout the barn. Mr. Popley, however, who had by this time returned, shook his head, Maritty’s very well fs sal said he; everything | we can’t keep open house for all her ready to look up and go to bed people. There ain't never no know. Yes, Mrs. Popley. The old lady came to a dead stand- | still. in’ where this things’ goin to stop, I guess, Phacbe Aon, we'd better let Maritty, said she, you've been cry. | {ingagan, | door no more, Maritty jumped up and threw ber | of the principal, {arms around Mrs. Popley's neck. | I can’t help it | she sobbed. Oh, 1 | his new development she within herself. can’t help it. I amso unhappy ! i What troubles you, Maritty ? said | Ain't I glad that Maritty Tyson | the old lady kindly, | nin't our hired-girl ? said she. I don't | I Iwant to be A lady! sobbed | #'pose John Heory woald faocy that | Moritty. I want a house of my own, |sort Of a girl, but there | with a piano in the best room, and a | couutin’ carpet on the floor—that's what | want ! Hush ! said Mrs. Popley. What’ that? Maritty turned scarlet. I don’t quite approve chuckled ain't no ac for a man's whims, And she has got a pair o’ handsome hack | eyes of her own—for them as fancies s | black eyes. I prefer blue, for my part; with a glance at the cherry. | framed glass opposite, which r. flected ber own faded blue orbs with painful sc.Luracy. That very day, however It's the wind rattling the lock bushes agninst the old lay- wooden shat- | | ters, said she, » Just oan the No, "tain’t, said Mrs, 1} verge of twilight, when the sweet fern somebody knocking, Maritty! It's | Open the door, "opley. thickets were distilling thelr pleasant. | est odors, and the yellow glow in the It's rats ! perisisted the girl, who | west was tarniog to crimson, John Was now as pale as ashes, [J often Henry Jones met Maritty Tyson in hear them when I'm here all by my. |the high-road. [ self. Could you lend we your one-horse | Nonsense ! cried Mrs, Popley. Do | wagon, said she wistfully, for a couple | you #’pose I don’t know rats when I | of hours vo-morrow ? {hear ‘em ? Open the door, Ley, or| Yes, the youvg farmer soswered. I'll open it myself! | with pleasare. Shall you want me to | And she did open it herself for | drive ? Mariuy had sunk trembling on al No! the girl replied with decision, | chair, her face covered by both hands. | That would cost too much; I want to | A little old man stood there under | 80 cheap, | the dew-dropping lilac-bushes, his! Oh, I shall not charge anything for | white hair gleaming in the starlight, the driver, or the team, either! Le | certain imploring look iu his faded |*id, sbrugging bis shoulders and fore smiling. When do yon want to 80, | Good gracious! said Mus, Popley, Masaya kiow} EY : > - , [be np i and Popley gone to the You don't know, Maritty? be The old man, however, did not seem schoed a fone Of Surpeine. to hear Rie, Yes—and no! retorted Maritty: Maritty! he said in a faint, sub- P've got ie mats Snquizies Seat, Im dued voice—where's Maritty ? I want hing 5» Srcigopon BE Workin to speak to Maritty, . Io which factory ? I wonder, said Mrs, Popley, in a In any of thom. It don’t matter sudden panic, if we'd better loose the : which. They're always to get dog? Oh, Maritty | you'd better UL | hands, folks tell os lag Bt across the fields and tell John Heury , factory Jones and bis aunt to come back ! —. Y, Sot nderyiand They can’t be gone far. Ioan learn, she insisted. And my Bat Maritty bad recovered herself | futher to care for Bow, I shan't Jet all of a sudden. She rose and CAME | him go back to that place. I've gm to the door, all my wages saved up, and it'll keep No, ssid she, "tain't necessary to do me until I secure a place io the fac that. Italo't a tramp—leastways it tory~-me and father, she added. And ain't & tramp that will do you any the time shall come yet when I'll be a lady, with a house of my own, and & piano, and a carpet on the best room floor, snd a cushioned rocker for father ! John Henry surveyed her with ad. a on 1] | Maritty, said be. © Yes, the girl "doggedly answered: 4ie's on the town at Mudville, poor faiber is. I told you, didn’t I, with & bard him the sour milk that wits left Ia the Y | vever used for nothin,’ and [ shouldn't | but i {him go aboat his own business, and | tell Maritty to feed him at our back- | When Miss Doreas Jones beard of ou'll have 10 work dreadful hard { bo get all that! 1 mean wo work, sud to wait. Can I | have the wagon, John | v'eloek to-morrow afternoon? I think that times will do as we | Idon't believe you can, Maritty, | Henry at two il as any. Her eyes flashed. can walk. matter I dou’t care for myself; | But father. No though! she cried quickly. I'll go and see if I can get Mr, Pratt's cart. Sup a minute Maritty! said John Henry, 1 ain't ax quick some folks: there's of speech as but I'd like to discuss this "ere matier witha you a little, I bain't no time Maritiy Yes, vo) have for discussion, said + #aid John Henry ¢ posed] y- Miss Dore for “ Fyeon Came In » al - 18 was slicing op apples ple that evening when Maritty <q he viewed her with unsympathetic even, So you've lost your place ? said she, | have jell Mrs P Maritty quietly, opley ~—Yes, said Avd you're a fos] for your pains 1 wromising spinster, Ato get a declured the uneomy Where do you eX pe better place ? | Here! said Mariury calmly, Here : echoed Miss Dorcas. What I don't Avd I wouldn't hev Come clear ou! on earth be you a-talkin’ of ? want no gal, you if I did, John Heory'll be comin’ d’rectly, ande—. John Heary’s here now, dtiered g calm voice at the back of the irate oid lady's chair. And if anybody is to clear out Aunt Dor a8, it must be | you ! Maritty is coming | aod all, Si here for good my wife, We the parsonage half an hour . ago. I've liked her this long es were married at while, but I never had Courage to speak out wy mind before. And her father’s coming to-morrow. We'll fix up the corner chamber upstairs for ber father Aunt Dorcas, See Maritty, be added | with honest pride, there's a Carpet on the floor, just as you've always longed | for, aod here in the parlor there's the | piano mother bought for poor | who died before ever she Jenaie, earned to And you shall be a lady, dear, with a hired girl to wait on you play on it, | and your father, aud there s n thing | money can buy that shall be denied | you. Speak up Aont Dorcas! he | went on, with kindling vyes and rising { Culor, Either weloome my wife or | leave the house ! { 'n taking Ob, I'm sare she's kindly welcome ! | stammered Aunt Dorcas, with a spas. | modic click in her throat Walk | Mrs, Lay off your hat shawl, and I'l) i Aud don't be long your choice + ither ! in end get the tea d’rectly. And Maritty, with her soft dark | eyes fixed tenderly on her husband's face, smiled to herself Me and father have got 8 home Bow, sbe murmured, With » piano and a carpet and all, even down to the cushioned rocker in the eoruer ! Just what I always dreamed off ! It seemed such a Jong way abead; and yet all the time it was so Dear, — A —.. Condensed Telegrams. Jones, The first of the three Canard Steamers purchased to ran between Hong Kong and Vancouver sijod from Yokohama Sunday. Clarence House, aged 20; Herbert Jones 21, and Estella Cole, 16, were drowned 1n the Mohawk river at Utien, N. Y., white boating. Army who desire to attend Arrest of Huon g, It is beliey. tion. WF loon were arrested. Ex-Governor Shephord, the fog Shepherd of Wasbingum, 11 ou eritien) cOnditon si Chiuabus, Mex , the resuit of sevare blow on the bead, caused by & horse Wrowing him wgwines he foot of » mine Wwanel. The residence of Dr. DeGrlf, on the Wesbawken Boulevard tn Hoboken § 8
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