THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, FA., JULY 8, 1879.
A FORTUNATE GIFT.
THEY made a strikingly contrasting
picture standing in the warm June
twilight, and the fragrant odors of the
roses and the woodbine, and the bud
ding grape vines, lingered around them
as if the tender scents were fitting
tributes to them.
Two fair young girls, the same age to
au hour, and unlike as sisters could
pos&lbly be, and each a perfect type of
her own style of loveliness both of
them peeresses hi their royal dower of
beauty.
Rose stood leaning against the railing
of the verandah, her haughty eyes, that
could melt from the cool, brilliant gray
they now looked Into such liquid dark
ness when occasion required splendid
calm, cold eyes were roaming away out
into the gathering dust that was falling
in a purple-gray of tissue over wood and
lawn.
She turned her face toward her com
panion. Her eyes suddenly relaxed in
their wandering, listless" glances, and
showed a half-vexed, half-amused ex
pression. " Bell, how much longer are we go
ing to stay here V at least how much
longer do you want to stop t I am sure
I shall die of ennui if I have much more
of it."
" I don't think of going back to town
yet, Rose. I wish we might never have
to go."
"Never go back? Why, Bell, is it
possible that you are so infatuated with
the country as to actually wish that V
Child, for three months it is all very
well to bury one's self as we are buried,
and I've no doubt that mamma will feel
much better and stronger for it; but to
stay longer, in a hired cottage, with
only one half grown girl to assist in the
work, and no amusements of any sort,
and our joint stock of earnings, ex
hausting itself daily I tell you, Bell, I
prefer our own suite of rooms at home,
and my music scholars and your book
keeping, with a chance of occasional
enjoyment.
" I dare say you're right, dear. But I
do love the country, Rose."
" So would I if, for Instance, I lived
iu the mansion over yonder Ferley
Court, you know where the stately
housekeeper showed us through and des
canted on the many qualities and vast
wealth of its owner. I forgot to tell
you, Bell, that there will a grand recep
tion a week after he comes back, and he
is expected hourly."
Bell lifted her eyes in a graceful little
gesture of surprise.
"A reception? Oh, Rose, and of
course there'll be a dance. Oh, dear,
how I'd like to go 1"
" Of course you'd like to go. But do
you think for a moment that the aristo
crats around here would condescend to
associate with us 1"'
Bell's face grew stern.
" Why not ? We are ladies boru and
bred, if we do work for a living."
" You foolish child I I tell your our
faces and our handsome dresses if we
had them would take us where our
family name would not. And I can
tell you something else, Bell "
The little gate at the roadside opened
at that instant, and the sound of lag
ging footsteps coming toward the house
interrupted Rose's remark, and then a
dusty, travel-stained man paused at the
"foot of the steps and touched his dingy
hat-rim to the girls.
He Was evidently one of the many re
spectable, discouraged,dlsheartened men
one so often sees tramping through the
country in search of work.
Rose drew herself up.
"Go away. We have nothing for
you. We don't encourage tramps
here."
He touched his hat the rim was de
cidedly battered and dusty.
" I beg your pardon,, ladies; but if
you will give me a"
Rose swept across the floor angrily,
" Will you march on, or will I have
to set the dog on you V Bell,go tell Jane
to unfasten Rover."
The man turned away slowly, as if
to move was an effort, and Bell sprang
up in an impulse of protest.
" Rose, how can you be so heartless I
He is pale as death, and only gee how he
draws himself along You might have
let bim sit down a minute, and at least
have given him a kind word and apiece
of bread and butter."
A contemptuous laugh pealed from
Rose's red lips.
"Tired and ill! Drunk and a thief,
you'd better say! A piece of bread and
butter I Absurd, Belli"
Bell raised her finger warningly.
" Oh, Rose, don't ! he'll hear you I"
Rose raised her voice a key higher.
" Let him hear, then ! Perhaps you
had better sit and watch that he does
not faint and fall."
She swept haughtily into the house,
leaving Bell with her cheeks flushing
and compassion born of sweet womanly
sympathy glowing in her blue eyeB as
she watched the man walk slowly, pain
fully, and finally halt at the gate, as if
in Utter discouragement at the long
stretch of road between him and the
next house, where he might find what
Rose had rudely denied the magnifi
cent country seat of Lionel Granville,
from whose doors bo beggar was ever
turned away hungry.
Bell saw him, and her quick instincts
told her what she imagined his manner
meant.
Quick as a bird, she dashed up stairs
to her room and snatched her portmon
nale from the bureau drawer, and was
down again with a sovereign in her hand
and she ran softly after him still leaning
against the gate post, and still looking
with that same strange expression on
his pale face at the towers of Fernley
Court.
" Here, please. It Isn't much, but it
is all I have to spare. Take it, please."
He looked surprlsedly at her,and then
at the money.
" You are very kind, but you are mis
taken. I only wanted a"
Bell thrust the money in his hand.
" Never mind, please. I think I can
see you are proud ; but please lake it.
There 1"
He seemed amused at her eagerness,
but made no more ado about accepting
the gift and pocketing It, as he stood
and watched her slim figure flitting
away like a spirit in the dust.
The next day Rose came into Bell's
room, radiant as she only permitted
herself to be under such clrcumatances
her gray eyes flashing, and her red
lips parted in a smile of triumphnat de
light. " Bell, see this 1 Now what do you
say V"
She laid a square, mouogramed en
velope in the glrl'B lap, addressed to
Misses Mel ton, and bearing inside invi
tations to the reception at Fernley Court
for a fornight from that pight.
Rose watched the girl's sweet face
glow under the surprise, then saw,
to her amazement, the flush of delight
fade.
" Well, Bell, of course we'll go. I'll
take some money I can spare and get
some Suisse, and wear natural flowers
with it ; and I know you have a sover
eign laid aside for an emergency. You
can get a good many things with it
gloves and a sasb, you know and who
knows but what Lionel Granville may
be captivated V"
Bell laid the envelope softly down.
"I can't go, dear unless I wear my
old white muslin, which will look
wretched beside your new Suisse. I
I've spent my money 1"
Rose frowned.
" Spent your money V Why, I saw it
yesterday morning in your drawer. I
noticed that the edge of the sovereign
was a little chipped, and remember
wondering if it was a good one or not.
Spent your money 1 Bell, what do you
mean V"
Bell met the vexed eyes as calmly as
she could. She was just a little in awe
of this magnificent Bister of hers.
"I gave it to that poor man last
night, Rose, r was so sorry. I am
sure he wasn't the sort of man to talk
as you did. I know he deserved the
money."
Rose sat down, and folded her hands
in icy wrath.
" Give a sovereign to a tramp a beg
gar! Well, if it doesn't pass my com
prehension."
Rose swept out of the room she was
like a duchess in her movements and
poor Bell went on with her sewing,
wondering if her old white muslin
wouldn't look pretty well if it was nice
ly got up, thinking that there was a sea
green sash somewhere she had never
worn ; and a pair of white kids at home
that Rose could go for when she went to
buy her Suisse. So, while her busy, deft
fingers sewed through the Bummer days
on Rose's airy dress, little Bell decided
she would go ,after all, and wear her white
dress, and tea-roses in her golden tresses,
and the sea-green sash knotted on her
skirt a simple, exquisite toilet, that
made a very Undine of her, that made
people turn their heeds for more than a
second or third look when she and Rose
entered the magnificent ball-room.
It was perfectly delightful every way,
Mr. Granville possessed none but high
bred, intelligent friends, and the Misses
Melton were treated accordingly.
The musio was heavenly, and from
her 6eat where she sat like a queen in
state, Rose watched her handsome host
who had bowed low over her hand
whenjhe was introduced watched him
as, in his quiet, self-possessed manner ,he
went among his guests.
Her heart was beating would he, oh
would he ask her for the first dance, or
would he go among the groups of stylish
women from the city, any of whom
would be honored by his attention t
And then Rose saw Mr. Granville go
straight across the room, right by her.
and bow slowly to Bell as he said a few
words and offered his arm.
Bell ! Bell to lead the grand quadrille !
Bell on Lionel Granville's arm, the ob
served of all observers as fair as a sea-
nymph, and so graceful, so sweetly un
conscious of her radiant beauty.
Rose sat gloomily through the first
quadrille and watched Lionel's pale,
handsome face, as he bent it very near
Bell's golden curls, his ardent, admir
ing eyes, that looked so eagerly into the
sweet, girlish face, that others beside
Rose noted his attention.
Then, the dance over.LIonel gave Bell
his arm.
" That has been a delightful quadrille,
Miss Melton. By the way, did you.
know I have something that belongs to
your"
They had reached Rose's chair by
this time, and Bell turned laughingly
to him.
'Something of mine! I do not see
how that can be, Mr. Granville. Do
you, RoBeV"
Rose favored him with her most fas
cinating smile.
" Indeed I do not, seeing that this
Is the first time we ever saw Mr. Gran
ville." He smiled In Bell's eyes.
" I'll leave you to fathom the mystery.
Don't forget the first waltz for me, Miss
Bell."
He went away, bo handsome, so court
ly, and Bell's foolish little heart was
throbbing with new, vague delight,
while Rose was almost suffocating with
envy at the signal triumph of her sister.
Mr. Granville came for his waltz.
He drew her hand through his arm al
most authoritatively.
1 Miss Bell, it seems I have always
known you, yet you Bay you never saw
me before. Suppose we take a walk
through the conservatory Instead of hav
ing this waltz?"
Into the fragrant semi-dusk they
went, where fountains tinkled and rare
flowers bloomed, and the music came in
veiled sweetness and richness.
"I want you to be sure I am right,
Miss Melton, when I Bay I have some
thing of yours. Look at me closely.
Have you ever seen me before V
He bent his face near hers. It was
gravely smiling and so tender and
good and Bell looked timidly at the
smiling yet stern eyes.
" I am sure I never saw you before,
Mr. Granville."
" Then have you ever seen this? "
He drew from his vest pocket a sov
ereignthe very one, with a tiny bit
chipped off it, that Bell had given the
tramp.
" Don't you understand, dear child?
I had taken a freak into my head that
I would walk from town here, and It was
a grand walk, although it took three
days, and ruined my clothes. I stopped
at your little cottage to beg a glass of
water. You know the rest."
Bell's face was a marvel surprise of
at that moment.
11 In your kindness and goodness you
gave it to me, Miss Bell, and the little
act gave me an insight into yourt heart
that a year of ordinary intercourse
could never do. I shall keep it until you
buy it back. I have Bet a price on It,
and if you are ever ready to give it you
can have it."
He put the money reverently away in
his vest pocket, and took her out
among the crowd again, a strangely
happy girl.
And before the summer roses had
faded, Bell paid the price for the chip
ped sovereign her own heart that
Lionel Granville pleaded for so ea
gerly. She is the mistress of the grand house
now, and Rose visits her once a year,
not oltener, because Bell's husband does
not care much for her.
But the invalid mother has a life-long
home amid the luxuries of Fernley
Court, and Bell is happier than the
birds that sing in the trees of the big old
park.
A Romance from Troy.
THE Troy " Press" says : The follow
ing very romantlo story is but the
substance of what happened in our city
many years ago. The characters that
appear as principals have passed away,
but their descendants yet live among us
and occupy honorable positions in socie
ty. Two young men who had passed
through college and graduated with hon
ore were studying medicine. They were
fast friends and were almost inseparable.
They entered society together, and were
well received in the best houses. They
were together one evening at a reception
in one of the wealthiest mansions in the
city, when a new star appeared in the
person of a niece of the hostess,' who
had come from Massachusetts. She was
handsome, and reports agree In saying
that she was as good as she was pretty,
Both of the medical students were
smitten, and for the first tin?e in their
lives a feeling of estrangement came be
tween them. The natures of the two
young men were essentially different
One was frank and open as the day,
while the other was tactiturn and re
served.
Both paid court to the lady, but she
soon manifested a choice for the more
frank character and they became engag
ed. The defeated suitor seemed to bear
bis disappointment resignedly. In time
the lady went home, and the successful
Bultor went abroad to complete his
studies.
While absent, letters were received by
the girl concerning her lover which
created the feeling that he was false to
her, and finally one came lu his own
handwriting bidding her farewell, and
stating that he was to be married to a
lady of rank.
This proved almost a death-blow to
the girl, but she soon rallied and sought
in every way to conceal the traces of
grief.
The defeated suitor was at hand and
again proffered his homage, and finally,
in a fit of pique, she married him.
Had this been the finale of the story
there would be no romance. It was
not long after the wedding before the
lover returned. He could not be made
to believe that the one he loved was
false by nature. He reasoned that there
was cause for her change, and like a
sensible man he commenced the task of
unraveling the mystery. After much
trouble he obtained an interview with
the wife in the absence of her husband
and as an answer to his upbraidlngs she
handed him his letter of renunciation.
She was happier than she bad been in
many a day when she learned that the
letter was a forgery, and that the lover
had always been true to her.
She at once renounced her husband,
and soon opportunity offered, and she
procured a divorce and was united to
her first and only love. The husband
and wife settled down in this city, and
here he enjoyed a long and successful
career, and when he died, full of years
and honors, and was surrounded by his
wife and family. The false frlend,who,
by his wicked machinations, had
wrought so much sorrow, removed to
Lansingburg, where he became a physi
cian of note. He afterward re-married,
and his posterity to-day occupy honor
ed positions in the State. In two fam
ily Bibles in this city the marriages are
recorded among the family achives.
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17HENEVER a national bank or
, VY legal tender note becomes mu
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The mutilated currency goes to the re
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