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court Ito seized runt kissed her bund, "It is t (nnng very fast!" said Mona, sort -
which she withdrew. "There was a time 1y, and ke'rplrtg her eyes fixed ou the tire,
when your baud trembled in mine, and—" but feeding that, \\'tuing's were easteued
"My nerves are much steadier now," she on herself.
said, calmly, "It Is treachery to lot you "Will yen think me week, selfish, worth -
may more, when 1 have nothing to give to less, if 1 menet leave you without saying
return, incl It pane me infinitely to pain haw cleanly I Jove yea; To think hoe, near
you, but 1 cannot 110 your wife." I cams' to ealliug you my wife; and now We
"'ren there 10 sense infernal mystery at tare but strangers to each other. Don't
tho button). of it. 1,12 42 yen throw Waring yort:1 0 how 1t!tterlyhard it was? Olt! you
over in the most unaccountable manner; were 2'44 to irreatc with ate, If you could
now you. reject 1101 You prefer the awful not love me. It would have beau misery
seclusion of this wild place, the eociety of to ea both if you could not have loved me.
these uneducated plutrneeeto the world my But, it trout all utter despair at the Cline, To
wife could command? Mona, you cannot think that you preferred poverty and the
be indllferent to welt paselotsale love as desertion of your relatives to me. and all I
mine, unless you love someone else." could have given you then."
"That does not foliose," she returned, "Al,, Mr. Waring!" cried Mona, covering
uneasily, and very noxious to get rid et her face with her hands, "can you forgive
him, me?"
ONAA"S CHICE
BY \I11S. ALEXANDER.
stn 0114:1,
l.taie Imparted a cool (loot of Modell
soma) before they reached the house, end
was then duly introduced lo Uncle $nndy,
"jell, but Pat saran pleased to nee yeti!"
tis said, with unusual warmth, "It's ins
nneornmoll time 0` year for a Londouer Lo
;once among the hills,'
"Yousa,, Crai r,;a"r,,eh always has its
!direct lolls."
"May bo eu--may bs so, It will be look.
are brawny in another month, And now
yowl( talc' a bit supper wit us, We bav'
tamper at eight. and Kenneth will put you
on your way beak."
'Thanks; I shall be most happy. I need
not trouble your nephew. In your well -
ordered country the roads aro as safe at
, midnight ns aniddey."
"That's true!" emphatically, "Man glad
you're aware o't. That great, lana, self-
°peonionated young woman—how d'ye ea'
Iter?—fiat just turned up her nose (mair
than nature had done for her) against
Scotland to a Scotchmanl—that wasna
weal -mannered for a lady that goes to the
flInvite ; Court, they tell me."
"Obi the come 1e a regular (Ma ppd11413
101Y," said Lisle.
, "A what? What tongue is that?"
"Spanish, It means a general mixture,"
"l,,h, paw-scwdie is the same thing;
that's rate Scotch, and mairexpressive and
wise -tike. \"rel, that tail leddy would
hold her 810 in the biggest pow-sowdi0 of
a', Whole is elle?"
"You mean Miss Morton! She is rho
meettippalling female 1 know. She has
captured a Creek prince; who goes to balls
in a white putticoat, and says he is de-
scended from Alcibiades,"
"Eh, he wad be a shifty suet 01 a great-
grandfather to have!" cried Uncle Sandy,
who piqued himself ou being a "soond
clansskai scholar."
"Well, this fellow is about up to her it
shoulder, and rather a doubtful personage,
They are fighting over settlements at pees -
lent; for though she is said to be fathoms .8
deep In love, she does not like to lose her °
grip of the £• s. d." y
"And varra right she is, Noo, the tea is
ready, come awn' and have a cup."
It was, on the whole, an uneasy sort of
afternoon and evening. .A. sense of unfit,-
ness—a want of harmony, oppressed every
one, though Mona and Kenneth did their e,utmost to entertaintheir guests. Both the
girls sung and played and talked their .�
best. Indeed, Mona was unusually gra-
clone to Lisle, yet be was dissatisfied, and ep
left with Kenneth early, saying that he was
bound to 7,ord I inistoun for the next day, fn
but the following he would come to see
them, as he was going back to town on
Saturday night,"
At luncheon next day, when the post
came in, 'Paring, after reading his letters, tie,
announced that he roust start on Monday,
that he bad been away too long, and it was
time be returned.
To Bona this was a cruel stab. Ile was,
then, to vanish away from her—this frank,
kind, brays man, whose.qualities were the
complement of her own, for whose trou-
bles she felt responsible, and whose wounds
it would have been the sweetest and most
congenial task to heal, and she dared not
try to hold html No; if 1t cost her her life,
she could make no effort to reveal herself.
HO was her friend, hnd nothing more! Yet
a vague, dim belief breathed through her
heart that he loved her still, to justify
which there was not a tittle of evidence,
"I did not know you were here," said
Miss Black; coming into the drawing -room
. the day after tithe visit, and finding War-
ing seated with a book before trim and 111s
head o11 his hands, "Where is Mona?"
"She has gone out with Mr, Craig."
"Will you come with me and look for
theme"
" No, tbank you; I am searching for ono
-or two books I brought here, and I want to
put them up. You see, I Have only two
' days after to -morrow."
"I are sorry you are going, Mr. Waring."
"1 am gratified to hear you say so. Flow
"sorry I shall bo to leave you all, it would
not be easy to say."
"Well, I think you look sad like, Mr.
Waring. You must write K°uneth, and
tell ns all about yourself,"
"`Diary!" exclaimed Waring, after ashort
pause, and not aware of his ovm familiar-
ity, "what do yon think brings that fellow
Lisle here?"
"He says it's fishing; and so it is, but not
with a rod and lino."
"Then it is Matta?"
Mary bent ber head in the affirmative,
"At least I fancy so," she said. "Ire
used to be no hero in the autumn, and
t Kenneth thought he would have asked her
then,"
Fl`, ""I suplpse it will be what is considered
a good match; but she letoogood for hind"
"You might say that of a good many."
• '"You think so?"
""Yes, Don't you?"
"I do; and I suppose Miss Craig will soon
be tratnetormed into Lady Lisle."
"1 cannot think so; she never seems to
me to care about him. I have always im
agined• she loves someone we know notate
turnabout; but I have no right to say 80."
"No, we have no right conjeotmewhat '
she feels or thinks; only I trust in God
,•: what she aloes, and whoever she chooses,
she will be lumpy."
Ile left the room abruptly as he uttered
these words.
"Alt!" exclaimed Mary, aloud, as she
rah, looked tatter hint, nnd the stopped to. run
, over in her own'utind a dozen or mote of
alight indieatlons, which, Viewed by the
new light that had breken in upon her,
Made proofs as strong as Holy Writ of the
,' feeling entertained by Waring for her ad-
mired friend. ""And ohl stir does not care
for him either, and be is honest and true
? - .i am sure nao is," thought Moine "Stay(
, .1 doesn't she care for him? I tun notso sure,
a1 Ohl where is Kenneth? I will go'and talk
to him,"
V,* 0 * a, 5 * *
♦
The morning after this oonversation1000
siege, "ren mac lutea g1111182. ala 1t nal
You'll no be lit for a none a juuixley if ye
gang this gide"
"Ohl I am J, , :1.'7 III, 1 assure yen,
whatever my l ' �,,.,y be, If I did not
rise up like 0 1'' refreshed after the
care and. 1 "eine 1 o Mei In th.ls 0slab-
tlmJ,niellt, Idle/0111 nee be worth taking, care
of,"
"Wool, 1 chants ken what's conte to ye a';
there's Mona wt' a white face, and Yen w1'
a Lang tine, 23114 Kenneth's like n bag o'
bones. Mary is the best o' yo. It Iancom-
fort to look at a eheerfu', healthfn' coun-
tenance," Bald Uncle Sandy, who had
been extremely fractious for the last ton
days.
"What a compliment) Mary! I feel quits
ashamed of myself," cried Mona.
"Lot rue know when you are ready to
start," said Waring to Kenneth, and soon
after the two young men started to see
what assistance they could afford to the
shipwrecked fishermen, Uncle Sandy call-
ing out injunotlons to Kenneth as he went
not to commit him "to mend a' the broken
poets in the parish."
"And who'll drive me into the touts?"
asked Mr. Craig. "1 must gang to the
bank, forbye the minister's and (Bunny
Tulloch's."
"Mery will go with you, uncle. I have
rather a headset)°, and 1 dare say Ken-
•noth and Mr, Waring will be back to
luncheon,"
"I1!ope so, 1 tan no weel content 15Tp
Mr. Leslie. I hope you have nao been Melt -
Ing him wl' your idle clavers. He needs
rest and kind treatment',
"1 think we base been very good and
prudent, eh, Mary?"
"Aweel, let us have the denner at one
o'clock punctually."
"I will see to lt, uncle,"
The dinner hour came, but brought neith-
er Kenneth nor Waring, and Uncle Sandy
having been comforted with a good many not the woman to throw myself drape o'whisky,"and wrapped up with elf at the feet
care, started under .Miss Black's escort, fol of one who is indifferent to m0, as LeeliO
the diminutive town of Kirktoun. Waring is now, I am not ashamed to own
It was a relief to Mona to be alone, but that he has my gratitude, my respect, my
oppressed her to be within doors, She heart, and In it there is no room for an-
ot her hat, and threw a plaid round her aGhar."
houlders, Intending to commune with bar The tone in which she uttered these
wn heart in the Croak sweet air. words, the indescribable dignity and ten -
"I must put away this deplorable weak- der11858 of her air, of the slight, gesture of
one. Where tem pride, that I cermet
osithe bend with which she emphasized her
rn
et this overwhelming tenderness for a speech—touched and silenced Lisle.
an who dogs not ogre about me?" "You are an extraordinary girl," be said
"If the gentlemen return and ask forme, It length; "and it Waring does not love
essie," she said to the housemaid, who you (i suppose you must know), it seems
was doing some extra dusting in the hall, incredible. Well, if he does not, I do not
I'ahall be by the wood, at the big oak -tree despair. You are worth winning. I will
at," not trespass en yon any longer; but I will
"Here's 0110 coming, mem," said the not say good-bye—I shall seek you again
1r1, and Lisle came up the steps as she when tbo sea rolls between you and the
oke. most unlucky dog I have aver known of
"Going to walk," said the man cheer -
heard of. To bo loved by yon, and not to
11y; "may I come, too?" know it. What irony of fate l For the
"Will you not have some luncheon first?" present—sweetest nnd most provoking of
"No, thank you; I had luncheon early ; women—farewell."
ith Finistoun, who dropped ran, Heal this ! p1iArTLt•. SxyIt."T1Ia LAST STATE OF neer
on his way to Balmuir. It is quite spring-
an
•
"Who is it?" lersiated Lisle, who was• "I do not reproltc1, you," he returned.
raging with mprtlacation and disappoint „I was not worthy of you, 01 I should not
meat. "Cm1, it b0 that the hero of the re have gone to the bad as 7 did, beaaus° I
jectecl nddre5ses Lata found favor in your was disappointed. But when I name back
eyes after all?—a great overgrown school- to life from that terrible fever, I felt 00 -
boy, who is wean enough to let himself be other maid. I felt I had a duty to myself
robbed and plundered by professed game- that forbade this unmanly abandonment,
eters and de�ttgning promoters, and then and, I have been stronger ever since. I
skulks nit to hide himself in the wilds of was even getting Over the painful longing
California, like other defeated desperadoes, for you, And now we have suet, and I em
Your first instinct was right when you re- worse than ever! And you, you seem
enneennerneeenhanal-
Site' melt beside hint. and Mend hit thin
11µ,1r1
"You. need not be, unless you shoos°,
You can bav° a Niece to read to you and
write for you, told take retro of you. Think
et it, uncle, dear! Make Kenneth as nappy
138-09 1 1(321,"
"Yes, uncle—fur you must. Jet ode call
you so, There emild not bo o Letter or
more suitable wife found for Kenneth than
the ono be has found for himself!" cried
'Paring,
jectecl a man tubo was unlit to be your pro- sweeter than evert I feel as IPI could oat
temior.0 leave rue,"A.weel, aweel, I will think of it; but,
.Stop!" or[ed Mona, moved by a sudden Il'e pushed the chair from him, and came 1117 lad, ye mats premise me you'll bring
generous impulse to do justice to the ).tan to stand beside bee, bis eyes full of love Mona back to see me slice mair before I
she loved, Maur judgment was right. and sorrow, his plain face beautified by the die'."
My In vocl. ; If it was instinct, was wrong. pint that animated ltlm, 1 "I do promise you, Uncle Sandy; faith-
Mr, Wallin; tug deserved my love, and he has The (Ire of heaven seemed to Mona to • fully promise you."
Ill You are again right, you see, He hen have descended on ]tar heart, and filled 11 The dramatic 1ast0 of moderns will not
shaken nfi the early feeling which made with joy unspeakable. She let her hands 001111it that minute (lietrilnuu,'a of fortune
him so eager to throw h[msel1 between me (Trop' told, quivering from head totem, she to each character which all well const!-
an4 the rnggndnrc;/ of poverty, and I baso almost es bispered— Luted readers ought to demand. None of
learned to know him when it is too late! eThen do not leave mo." 'ens came, however, to any tragic end, nor !!!
Your confession deserves 11confidence on nay ' All, Mona!" said Waring, drawing close was Lisle's confirmed baehet"rhood very I
part, I feel I eau trust my secret to the to her, '"do not tempt me to a renewal of detrimental to bis 110pp1110as-
loyalty of a gentleman; and though I am suffering! 1 am too desperately In earnest For the satl:faet!nn of that estimable 1
to be played with; and I dare not hope that but diminutive portion of the public who
you, 97110 rejected me when I could have would '•cask for more," the curtain shall
go up for a few minutes on the last tab-
leau.
* * •" " 'Yr 0 is 0
Winter and snmmer had come and gone
three times, and a glowing autumn sun
was gilding the hills and deepening the
purple heather, when Mona and her hus-
band strolled together once more to the
seat by the big oak tree.
"After all, Leslie. I believe 1 love this
view the best of any,"
"1 ani quite sure I do," said Waring, a
smile stealing into his brawn . eyes. and
spreading. over. his healthy, happy face.
"Why are you so fond of it?" aslsecl Mona,
settling her head comfortably against his
ahouider.
"Because—well, I will tell you a secret,
the only one I have had from you."
"Mow dare you, sir? Confess at once!"
"Well, I don't think you'll mind now.
The day before you deigned to accept me,
I had been roaming about with Kenneth
and got tired of everything, life included,
so I left and strolled up tbo hollow there
till I found myself beside those big stones,
where the bracken still grows so high, and
eafterthestorm last night. It kept you stn"'"
awake I suspect. Your eyes—those load- I
Uncle San0heu what's come to ye," said
dy, in very discontented tones,
ss he pushed away his plate and held out
the tea -cup lie bad just emptied, to be re-
plenished. "There eanua be better or
purer air than at Craigdarroch. It's aye
west or south; yet there's Mona wi' a bacl
headache,tvantle' her breakfast in ber
room, an' err. Leslie lookin'—nao, but ye
took better than ye did yesterday," Mane-
. Ing at him, "only ye dinno eat What's a
bit haddie an' a mouthfit' o' toast to stay a
mOn's stomach i' the mornin'?"
"Oh! Pam all the better for my ramble
with Kenneth yesterday,"
"You are well-nigh yourso1' again; but I
was feared ye'd be goin' too far when I
heard ye halna come back at tea -time."
"I left Kenneth because bo was going.
further on. I memo back by Monksoleugh
and the oak -wood. I bope Miss Craig's "No more now, dear. Leslie," she said,
headache is not very severe." in a low voice, her cheek growing pale,
"She's more tired like than in pain. She her frame trembling, as he drew her to
I 'il .m5 wants quint, Awee1, she went to'bod air- him.
e• ly enough," quothtlucle Sandy, "to get it." "Not one?" he whispered, and he releas-
"L dare say she will come down soon. ed her, while his heart beat with the alert -
They haat reached the 1111110 bench, Jessie says thesis a new brood of ebick- sus consciousness that she loved as pas -
stone oyes of yours—droop." ens out, Mr. Craig," said Mary. "Twelve stonately as ho did himself. "I am afraid,
"X did not sleep much certainly. Then, woe birdies, all strong and lively," Mona," he resumed, after a delicious 511 -
if you will not have any luncheon, wo will "Ay, that's varra good, Now, there's ence, "that your uncle will not like to let
go to my favorite point of view, and look at anither fast early train 00 Glasgow, we'll you come into the wilds with me. But the
the sen; it will be very fine to -dory." dispose o' good pairt o' the poultry varra place is not really bad; it has beeu cleared
"By all menus!" profitably. I'd go down and look at the for a considerable time, and—"
They walked on in silence for some little *tickles. if Mona were here." "Poor Uncle Sandy," she interrupted,
way, and then Lisle exclaimed— "And wouldn't yon take my arm, bir, "I think he would be willing to give you
"I never was so amazed in my life as . Craig, for want of a hotter?" said Mary, the best he had; and I am by no means
ashen I sate Waring with you! It seemed • blushing very sweetly. sure he considers me that,"
as KM) was to bo your fate! What pos- "Yes, I will, my bairnie," said the 01(1 "Needs must, He will miss you dread-
sesood him to come here to stage his wings roan, looking at her indulgently. Sandy fully."
again, poor devil?" Craig had a great liking for a pretty face, "Then will be the opportunity to suggest
"Your compassion is wasted," said Mona,I 'We'll go and have a crack WV the bon- Mary as my successor."
a slight smile curling bee haugllty month. 1 wife." a "Exactly, Shall I ask Kenneth to join
"Mr. Waring is much improved, and seems 1 Later, Mona, thinking frotn the profound 1120 in making a double demand? Fou aro
quite fire -proof." stillness that she had the house to herself, the ruling spirit Isere."
"1f he is, why he deserves to be called, tame from the seelnafon of her own room "That would be too much. But, pray.
in your uncle's parlance, 'a varra remark- to the drawing -room. She hall beengreat- speak to my uncle today. He deserves to
able person," y agitated by her interview with Lisle, be told at once."
.Pray leave my unto alone," said Mona, Ind greatly distressed, on reflection, to * " * * * " * 0
smiling in spite of herself, think she had trusted the soeret of her love Dinner was got through somehow.
"Very well. Where is everyone. Are tor Waring to a man tt'ham she could not Both Kenneth and Mary instinctively felt
you all alone?" holp considering an enemy. Yet she 11ie1 that something or other had taken place,
"Yes, just at present. Kenneth and Mr. not quite wish her words unsaid. She the former had a shrewd idea what.
Waring have gone to the fisher village, my wished to honor the man she preferred, la About tr couple of ]roars atter the family
unole and Mary to the town," the oyes of the rival who despised 111m; but meal, a knock was heard at the door of
"Then the fates are at last propitious!" the hoped and prayed that the knowledge Mona's room, where elle had intrenched
Dried Lisle. "I have been singularly un- of this admission might never reach War- herself till the awful oxplanatiou with her
lucky as regards yourself of late. Now tag. Perhaps—indeed probably—ho had made had been accomplished,
pray sit down," (tbey had reached the res- °armed some fresh attachment, which bald "Your uncle wants to speak to you,
tic bench) "and hear Me. You have slip- his heart against her. "After all," she Mona," said Waring,
ped from my grasp over and over again; thought, as she stopped to look at herself "Oh, Leslie! How is he?"
you most hear me today," in a long glass at the end of the room, and "The glass is at fair weather. Come
Mona cast a troubled look around, and saw that the long straight folds and close- along."
then suddeuly took courage, resolving Ce fitting bodice of her dark -blue serge, with Uncle Sandy was looking pale, and was
make an end teethe matter, the broad band and buckle that showed eitting unusually upright in his 0rne'chair
"Yes," site said, 'nervously, and some- the easy roundness of her waist, bhe scarf in the library when Mona, with down -cast
what louder than usual, "I will hear you, of old lace round her throat, the,soft wavy oyes, and the air of it culprit, came in,
Sir, St. John." masses of her reddish gold hair, became 010501y followed by Waring.
She sat down, anti be placed himself be- her well—"after all, I am not worse look- "Awee1," be said, in a solemn and some -
side her. ing than l used to be; but that does not what tremulous tone,"I havebean hearing
"at course you know what I am going matter," what the grandson omy auld moister has
to say, Yon kmoW yon must know—that With a sigh sire opened the piano, and to sap, lrNoo, Mona, my bairn, are you
I loved you from the first hour we mot, and began to play dreamily. Haw fast the willing to tak' this 20021 to be your wedded
that although in jnatioe to you I made the days were slipping awayl To -morrow husband?"
unselfish effort to reo0mmond your marry- would bo his last at Oralgdarrooh, and "I am, uncle," she said, softly land clear-
ing Waring, when poor Mrs, Newburgh •thou good-bye forever. ly,
met wtth such. looses, Ido not suppose you "Is the headache quite gone?" said War- I "7S no are, ohne has a right to withstan'
form an idea of what it 'cost me to ing, coming op behind her, ; you. I would be weal content if ye had
o such a sacridset" 11toua started and chabged color. not to.gae sae far awe'; and I'll feel your
am sorry to 1 cadged you pain," "Yes, neatly gone, You startled mei 1. lass sair, but ye mann 1011019 the hnsbaud
Mona, in a 1.,., , calcar tope. "1 am thought you was out." you've chosen,"
your advice, was disinterested." She met his eyes as she spolko, and some- ; "Dear 'allele," said alone, the t0arshang.
t was imbed. I confess I was suepris- thing of indeseelbable tenderness in them . ing on her long lashes, "It will grieve Me,
at the worldly tact with which you untul0,10r 11eat•t steno still. She rose and ' too, to leave you; you have been a father
tad my suggestion." went .o the window, to me, and 7 thank you."
was carefully brought no 10 a good "Itis cold and raw to -day," she said, She knelt beside him tool kissed his thin
ol," said Moue, demurely. with a alight Shiver. ' hand,
school on earth could have given Returning to the itro, she teethed against "Alt' a father I'll be to ye, my Iambic.
the indosetibable ahem nature has the mantel -piece. Waring put his arms Mrs, Leslie, my nioae, shall have ton
°teed! enact Lisle, passionately. I on the top of a high-backed chair °Noma tho°sen' Mountie to hot tochew and it's
e1 loved ally woman tee I love yon! her, and said, with a quick sigh— ,
a, ao hoar mel Cast away this ceid "The flays 00111101. be too dark and dreary glad I'll be that sumo of hay Nardi eatain t
'these, that i1onongh to machien any to snit unystateI. I cannot. gather conrago „I e.to the sen of the t booth by width901 l 78
.. Give ern ymnr love.. Moo 015 a mitt, motels 110 thitrlt of Mondavi„ , ed ie. rine I'll be a lonely moa mem yo !.
given you a lire of ease, would share me'
wild, uncouth homewith me now. Sweet-
est, how dare I hope!"
He drew her gently into his arms,.
"Take me with yon," said Mona, raising
her eyes to bis, and letting him read in
them more than words could say.
"Dry darling! it more than I can. be-
lieve! Mona,,in our short engagement I
do not believe you ever gave me a kiss. If
you will give yourself to me now, put your
arms round my neck and kiss me of your
own free will,"
There 2905 an instant's hesitation, and
then her arms stole gently to his Beck, and
her lips were pressed to the brown cheek
he bent to them, but for a second, before
his lips were on hers, clinging to thele soft-
ly, passionately, as it ho drew his soul's
life from that sweet mouth,
"No, not yet! I cannot let you go yet!
Tell mo, when did you learn to love me?"
"I cannot tell, Leslie. I have never
been Indifferent to you slue°—since I re-
fused to marry you; and when I saw 7011,
I soon began to think Isbould like to atone
to you."
Tben it is only vitt'. nerunnc9" 1 threw myself down among them and
"I do not know what it is," said Mona. thought what an unlucky devil I was,
with a sigh, aS she rested her head against when I heard Lisle's voice close by, and
bis shoulder; "I only know that yon must before I could stir; you were both seated
not leave me," here. I hesitated, and loot my chance of
And all this time of delicious torture!" appearing, until I heard too much to make
cried Waring, "when I ruled myself with it advisable to show myself. Then 1Lis-
a rod of iron lest I should show you the tend, and if ever a fellow was lifted into
love that was burning my heart out, you the highest heaven of pride and delight, I
imposed upon me with icluess of mere was that day."
friendship. No man could have dreamed "Whatl did you hear everything I said?"
that there was any warmth under such an "Every word! So that I' did not know
exterior," how to behave myself like a rational , crea-
How did you come to speak to me at ture, and pretended all the evening to be
last?" asked Mom, with a smile. dead tired. You see, it would never have
It was an inspiration," said Waring. "I done to let you ]mots. But it I had not
do not know how many kisses you owe m0 heard from your own lips . that you liked
for tho miserable momenta I have had rave—well, better than Lisle—Ishonld never
here'" have broken silence?"
"1s it possible? I understand thoughi
it is well yea kept the secret. I should
have boon so awfully vexed."
"Yes; I know that."
"Just imagine my ever having hidden
things from you, and being a stranger, and
fearing you should look into my heart and
see what a goose I was. We could never
misunderstand each other now, we have
grown so like."
"'As the husband, so the wife is—thou
art mated to a clown!' " quoted 'Waring,
laughing.
"Flush!" she interrupted; "you shall not
say impertinent things of my guid man!
But it is nearly half past four; the must go
back. Mary ordered the carriage for ns
to go and meet General and Mrs. I°leldeu
at five, and you know what a punctual lit-
tle house -mother she is,"
"'eery well; bub first you might give a
fellow a kiss for the sake of old times."
"`Yes; for past and present, both, my own
dear,"
'1010 REND.
can
mak
I
bright and fair, though the nigitthad been
Said
so stormy that between the howling wind
end her own distressful thoughts 1\foua ,ori.
got little sleep. ado
KI must go doevn to the fishers," Haid of
enneth, at breakfast, "I hear the two echo
Maakilligans have been nearly drowned, „No
and their boat le stove in. Jock is severely yon
'dburt, They were driven ashore in the gale
"last night•"A t
"1'11 come with you," said Waring, Mon
"YosttareJost ltillingyourself,"said MI- awe
ale Mandy, who 519 11ttSy supping lids nor- , ;man
A Corcoran Death -Bed Incident.
I heard a fete days since an incident of
Air. Corcoran's last illness. Among the
callers one day, about a week before his
death, was a pretty yoneg girl, adebutants
01 the pest season, whom he had knows
from het earliest chiidhgo 1, end in whom
he bed always taken a great interest. As
the girl in her fresh, young beauty ap.
preached the dying man he held her Vaud
for a moment without speaking, then with
a sigh he said: "Promise that yon will not
forget me when I am gene;" adding, an in-
stant later, "1 wait before I go to do you
a substantial kindness, and, as your name
is not mentioned in my will, I have in•
structad my lawyer to have transferred to
you government bonds for the sum of
1i,000," With tears in her eyes the young
lady endeavored to express her thanks far
the unexpected gift, saying,. "What can I
ever do to prove my gratitude?" For an
instant there was silence in the room, and
then, as the feeble hands felt the contact
of alto warm young fingers clasping them,
the old utast lilted his face, stirroel with a
deep emotion, as ho replied in tremulous
tones, "X ask but one thing—that you will
be sorry when I not dead,"— Wnshi ngton
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