The Brussels Post, 1885-4-17, Page 2A YOUNG GIRL'S WOOING,
a3K fl1. ta. £191^.,
Author 1,t'"Hal.( mooibrc a ivab.,".-room(
.hint to Fsnrticol:' S: c., ad:c.
which her seusltivo womanhood drew
back in deepest dread was hie 1ci v lett go
of her lovo. To prevent this silo 2'ot11l
rather die, and alio felt op {Seel( and
despairing that sho thought and almost
hoped site would dio. li' slle could only
go away, whom sho would nut Ave 1,111,
and. hide hor wound! But how could
she, chained near his daily presence by
weakness and helplessscss ?
Thus through tilts long night hor
despairing thoughts went to enol fru,
and found 210 rest. Miss 11'ild(noto s
cold glance mot hor everywhere 1
ita
the nrlsurltu • that such a creative a.
sho could Hover bo anything t"
stud, alas I his own worliS confirmed tho
verdict. Lotto that gives all dulw.u(•.s
all, and such pitiful affection as iw
now gavo was only a mockery, The
morning found her too weak to leave
her room, and for the following ,114x.,
sho mado illness her excuse for rcnlaiu•
ing in seclusioo. As Graydon 1eokcll
ruefully at leer vacant chair the fourth
evening after tho company, Alrs. atm,
remarked reproachfully, " X hope vci
now realize how delicate lfndre i
Yon never should have coaxed her to go
to that party."
IIo was filled with compunctions, and
bn 213( hor flower's, boxes of candy,
boo. Irl everything which ha hue.
gins° •odd amuso her. At the same
time ho was growing a little impatient
and pr•ovokcd. He knew that ho had
taken Ilei from the kindest motives,
Now that she gave n7) utterly to her in.
validism, ho was inclined to onestiin it,.
necossity. Ho found that he luisseot
-her more than bo would have itungiuud,
and his brief hours at houlo weal
droary by roasou of her seclusion,
" Why don't you call in 14 first-class
physician and put Madge under t4
thorough eouree of treatment ?" ho
askrd, irritably, She has no disease
tow that I know anything about, and I
don't 10llewe it's necessary that she
should remain 1)o weak and lacl(a-
dainhcal,•'
" We did have our doctor call oftou,
and he syi.l she world outgrow her
troubles if she world take plenty of
it Mr ;incl ceorcise. .5tal moa sho
Costively ruiuscs to 1,°o a physician."
" I w.,.11.1rft littltll,, a sit'k girl's fan-
' ies. Silo moods tonics and I. geuernl
building up. With your parnlissiou I'll
stop on my way down -town tomorrow
foal toll Dr, `tolo2oon to call."
Airs. 1Iuir icputtcd the cat:vatisation
to her sister, with the literalness of
which only uuimagivativo wonton aro
otpenle. Madge turned her face to the
and said cohhly, and docfsively, " 1
refuse to sho a ph Sialau. I aiu 11 ,
l nicer a child, and my wishes most be
wen cote 1." AfLer a moment, slim ad,hol
apo.moctioally : "A doctor could do
mu 1)o goo -I. I shall soots be stronger.
lou underst 1111 too better flan 1):•.
Andersou cal. You are the hoot amt
landest nnrs, that our breathed, and
I've had euoneli of doctors. I'll take
111ty'r!litt2 yon give hue."
'rloi...et politic words appealed to 'Mrs.
3IIlir's weak point. Nothing plcaeed
her bettor than to belicvo that rite
could act the part of a physician in tho
family, mot prescribing for 31a,Igotwas a
,111.11 1* 0f l(1) lagging interest. When
sho inforlaed Gryaydon of their decision
i11 the owning, he muttered something
not very complimentary to either of the
]alias ; but Lim good•Iature erevail11,
and instead of the doctor ho ordered a
superb bouquet 01 .TacquomimOt roses.
Meanwhile events wore taking place
of which Madge had no kuowledgo, but
which would favor the plan slowly
maturing in her mind. llr, ilh1122
business affairs had been taking a turn
which made it probable that ho would
soon have to send his brothor abroad.
As long as there was ltncer'tainty*, tho
reticent man raid nothing, but at
113 received advices which brought hint
to a prompt decision, and Graydou WAR
11)1d that 111) must go at once. Tho
yotmg follow submitted with fairly- goo 1
grace. A brief foreign residence had
its 1ttracthons,but it interfered with his
incipient suit to ,hiss Wildniere. lie
telt that he lead not gone far euot(gh for
v dolinite proposal, but he show)•
during the bold call that his time pole
nlitted, au 1011105 which tho young
lady well understood, Since he ream to
b1) aliment for an illdlelhnito 10110(1, and
would have no chanco to obsorvo her
other llttlo affairs, (1110 pormitted herself
to be gracious and regretful up to the
point of inspiring much hope for tho
future. With a nicety of tact—the re-
sult of expeiiou00—she confirmed his
vii:w that thoy had made favorable im-
pressions on each other, and that for
tho present they must bo eontout with
this,
Ho had but a day in which to make
bus preparations in order to catch a fast
steaulor that sailed at daylight tho fol.
lowing morning. 11adgo's first tensa•
tion when sho learned of his near do-
protium
opro ti u1) VMS 0110 of immense relief. Tho
possibility which she had so dreaded
could not ;cpw be realized, and Ileo plan
could be carried out with far loss otn-
barrassm0nt. But as time passed, and
sho know that their separation was so
near, her heart relented toward him
with inexpressible tenderness. 'rho
roses that perfumed the room worn a
typo of his unstinted kindness a11c1 con.
sideration, Sho was just enough to ace
knowledge that those were oven morn
than she (Mild naturally expoot from
him --that tho majority of young leen
-would havo treated hor with a half eon.
tomptuous pity which silo was now
beginning to admit would bo partially
deserved. On the 00041510M whoa sho
had gone out with Hint she hall learned
how unattractive in society her Palo
face and shy ways wore, Such anon -
flans as she had reoeive 111x(1 boon to
her sensitive spirit like charity, Gray
don had boon aufmate(1 by uuat'feeted
goo(1.will nod au affoctiou that was,
after its kind, g41ufine. While sllo felt
that it would bo no longer possible to
receive tilos° mild nlanifostatious of 120•
gelid while giving Something so different,
site still know, with a half despairlug
sluicing of heart, how blank and dos-
olatll her life would ba without them.
She trust meet hint onto moat, and
word woo Kent that sho would ro0eive
his good•hy after dinner, 'laving sa101y
passed this coo iutorviow, sho hoped
that she might bo able to control the.
future, and either cease to b°, or bring
about eamigos upon which sho had
res0lx,•(l.
Only a soft, dim light shout in her
route w$cu ho carve to say farewell.
"W hv, Shade," lin exclaimed; "you
tiro lienor : Yon actually hutvo color,
l'w•hapa it is fever, though," he added,
dubiously. "At any rate, Wu very
becoming.,,
"I tido]: it must be Sho roflecti011
from your roses there, you extravagant
fellow," sho replied, laughing.
"That's famous, Madge. If you will
laugh again Mu that I'll sc•n<I you a
present from Paris. Door Madge, do
{tet wolf. Don't lot us Maio anything
dlooial in our parting. It's only for a
little awhile you know'. When I come
back it will bo suunuor, and 1'11 take
you to the se1.shove or mountains or
SOm1Wher0, and help you get well."
"You aro very kind, Graydon.
You halo boon a true brother to
m0 from the time you triad to
claim: and enconr)lge the pale, frightened
little girl that sat opposite you at the
dinner -table, 1)ou't you remember?"
"Of course I do. It seemed so droll.
to talo that you wore afraid when thoro
was nothing to bo afraid of."
"lly £ar was natural. Little as I
loam of the 3t01!11.1, 1 »mow that,—at
least for ono liko me. It may seem
»oak and silly to you, but, brought up
a:, 11nad hcun, I Wag morbidly 51111siti00,
Yon might Have mealtt to bo kind and
swuillathetio and all that, and yet hurt
tum cruelly. I havo been out with you
enough to kuo30 how I am regarded. I
(1011'1 eoluplttin. I suppeso it is the way
of tho world, but it has not been your
way. You have brought su11811in0 from
rho first, not from a scuso of (h1ty, not
out of sheer humiliating pity, but he-
et4n81' it was the bond .12 of your stre11gt11
to lion, and cheer oll".who was so weak,
and if—if—anytii ug—Well, 1 want iron
to 1(nuty beioro you go away that I ap-
preciate it all and shall never forget it."
11011 c01110, Badge, don't talk so dia.
madly. What do you mean by 'if—if
anything' ? You aro going to got strong
(4(11 well, and we'll open the campaign
together next fall."
?;11 :haul: he: hood, toot asked, lhghtly,
"HOW 14111 Aliso 11'1111 ,cr0 011dalu your
absence?„
"Feeler than you, I imagine. She
k,uo1. how to console 1lorself. Still, as
my little sister, I will tell you in 0ouli-
deuce that she was very kind 111 our
porting interview. I1ow mileh her kind -
(toss mount only she herself knows, midI'vo been in so010ty long enough to kuow
that it may moan very little.'
"Are you s0 wholly bout upon -'inning
her, Graydon ?"
"0 you little Mother Evo! You aro
surely going to get well. There is no
sign of longevity in a woman so certain
as curiosity. I'vo not reached the point
of brooking my heart about her, what-
ever x110 du0.8. 11'uuldu't you lila so
beautiful a crlatnro fur your sister 2"
"Thio contrast would1 bo too great. I
should indec h I.ol In a ghost beside her.
Still if she would make you happy—"
But sho could. co no lurthcr.
"Weil, well, that's a very uncertain
problem of rho 1111 110. Don't say any-
thiug about it at home. My brother
(111'(111120 her father. They oto not got
on well in business. Let no talk about
yourself. What are you going to do
-while I x111 gone ?"
"What eau such a shadow as I do ?
Tell Ilio rather what you aro going to
do, nod where you'll be. You aro real,
and what yon do atm mints to something."
"There's ono thing I'm going to do,
and that is w'rito you some jolly letters
that will make you 1140141 111 spito of
yourself. They will bo part of the tonic
treatment that I want you to promise
1n0 to begin at once."
"I havo already entered upon it,
Graydon," oho said, quietly "and I don't
think any one else will value y0lir 105.
taro m0ro than I, only I may not get
strong enough to write y01y much in re-
ply. I'vo nOver had occasion to writ°
many letters you know. Tell 1)10 whore
you will bo and what you are going to
do," and oleo leaned back 0pon 1102
loung0 and closed1100 eyes.
While ho complied, ho thought, "She
has grown pale and thin even to ghast•
lines, yet I was more she had dolor when
I oseue in. Poor llttlo thing I perhaps her
fears aro well founded, and I may never
SPO her again ;" and the good.hoattod
fellow was full of teudor and remorseful
re1rot. 111, was [111110 2)0 fond of hor at
if 1;111 was Hit, 011'0 sister, portal raven
more 50, for 111314,1l01151ou was lot toot oly
the result or n, natural tie, but of amine
Olin;; congenial to itis nature in Ilio girl
ho:solf, and it out 111m to the h(n4rt to
sot her so white an11 frail. Ido st)111,o(1
n ntonlont, and she opened hor eyes and
looked at hire inquiringly.
"0 Madge," ho broke -ant, ((I411 1,c
sorry I took you to that confounded
party. You seemed getting on hopefully
until that blasted evening. You must
got well enough to haunt mo after your
old fashion. You don2 know what n
dear little sister you hive become, anal
1 didn't know it myself until you wore
secluded by illness, and all through my
fault. You have barricaded youroolf
long o110ug11 with that staled and its
I17. 'c3ZiUS3EI.r POST
vase Of I(st's. I'111 not 1101(111 to 4143'
good-bye at this (listal:co." 110 1)uulwcd
tho stand, anti mention Munich by lux
Hide, lto drew her hood down upon his
el onl(101' and kissed hor 14ga.111 au(1
again. "There mow'," ho 1)o tinued, "yon
look p0121c otly lovely. Ilissos aro a Inlet
of tho tonic troatmcut you lulcd, and I
wish I wort 110111; to bo hero to give.
thorn. 'Why, you (Inver llttlo 3wonitul I
1. ctitl not know you had se much blood
i11 your body."
"it's—it's hyenas° I'111 not strong,"
silo said, struggling; for r410aso, Slot-
denly sho bucmmc still, leer fano took 111
almost tho Ilea of .bath, 1.1111 to saw
that sho Wail nno011S0:°111.
Iii W11'11114 ri1(^a lie I11i11 111'r latalily
011 the 1ou11,ie, 51,1 1,3.11(11 lar Urs, Muir.
"Slut has mono t ..are;1," said that
exporirno, 1 woe! •u, ;.1tur v. intimeit'S
ex1lnhuat;nn. ••4011 1),.wor will kart),
(1111) , that :1314'-c 1, ant as strung
SS yoltrse.f, [2)111 21..3, 1:' flit )nai;la tubi
hravo hat' to 1)r'."
hat 131:.14 11111•,.31 "10 lid. `•1111' 1:L11 i1
A.bh•u f•,t' 011' 4. 14 , two yvars. hIlo
eo"m 3)1ioii, but a_lru•'" with hor sister
chat it would 1.,,'1,...1. lout. to s,a) 1)fm
a: nu1, :;1)n so"t i3) 0 „n1 of 1,b, own
1.00,,-, (111.11 the r,inlp)u.nm.rn,40, "Uuud•
by,"
Late at u.4;111 hu wont 11131.11 to tho
Rtennn.r, .e•prraw:d and ell\t"ns, carry -
log with hum the vivid noono 3 of Madge
lying Whin• and deal I; - like where he had
laid her I.plutreutly lifeless 12112(1).
"I burnt rower goo her swain," ho
mnitero,i' "Such weakn050 roust he
nem tat"
CIIAPT.Eli IV.
rz ronT.
Tl)o Reap uxperience, the 1one1utol:o
of cl)araat1r, of latent pow21r, if ouch
existed, had collo to lladgo Alden. For
days sho had drifted llelpl0ssly on the
rislug tide of au apparcutly hopeless
lova, With ovary holm she comprllr.•ud•
cd mole fully »that Graydon Muir had
become to her and all that 1.1e alight
have boon. It seemed that she lend
boon carried forward by a strong, quiet
current, only to bo wrooked at last. .'1
801180 of uttorholplessuoss overwhelmed
her. Sho could not ignore her love ;
it had become interwoven with every
uttered and fibre of her life. At first
slue exnte(llplatl.'d it in wonder, 1I1 thole
ly troubled mud alarmed perploxity. 1
was a momentous truth, that had sud-
denly been made known as some irre-
triovable misfortune might have been
revealed. She had read of love as
children hear of mental aneieticr, and
conflicts of which they hove no tompro-
heusiou. As the grew older it had been
lilro poetry, music, romance,—something
that Modica her imagination into vague,
pleasant dreams. It lead been as re-
mote from the present and her ots'u cs-
perionce as lives of advontnre in strange
and foreign lands. She had awalcooed
at last to (incl that it was like her vital
breath. I1y soma law of her nature
she had givcu, not merely hor tllongl;ts
and alfemtion, but bol' very self to an-
other. To hor dismay it math) no differ.
euce that loo had not sought the gift,
audi was not even aware 01 it. Circum-
stances 04-01. which She had no control
had brought her into close eonlpatl ou-
shly with Graydon Muir. She had soon
hint almost daily for cors; alio 1ulew
]line with 1Ile ]utim t., vt at sister, yet
without the safegunl•(i of a natural 310;
awl from his genial kiudnrss oho hail
drawn (duos( all tho life olio had ov(:r
posressod. With au unc0nscionsllcsa
alai" to that of a plant which t(4kos root
teed thrives upon fouling a soil 12(l:l}.t(-11
to it, 11o1 love had beta) dovelopellby
his strong, sunny nature. She soon re.
cognized that it was a love such as sho
1111 1104'12 131200,21, 410lllc(. that for her
mother or sister or tiny one else, and it
seemed to her that it could rims away
only with herself. It was not it vagll0
sentiment, an 111d01inito 1011gi11g; it 11'1131
rho coucentratod and imperious demand
of her whole being, which, denied, left
little fndoed, Oven 1'010 the whole world
hers. let such were tho cruel condi-
tions of her lot that sho could. not speak
of it °veil to ono w110so head had Leen
pillowed on the 0125110 mother's Inmost,
and the thought that it might be dia.
covered by its object made her turn
cold with dread. It was a holy thing—
the spontaneous product of an unp0r.
vested heart—and yet sho must hide it
as if it were it crime.
Above all the trouble and turmoil of
hor thoughts, clear and definite amid
the chaos brought into her old quiet,
languid life, was rho impulse—the 1)0008-
sity—to eoucoal that 30121011 had 1)0001n0
rho mainspring of her oxiste11ce. She
had not the exporienoo of oue versed in
the ways of tho world. How could
others—how could ho—bo kopt i1) iguo-
memo of that of which oho 1)4(18 so pant-
I!oilyand vividly conscious? Therefore,
overwhelmed with dread ands Benito of
helplessness, glia yielded to her first im-
pulse to hide, in order that -what seemed
inseparable from llersolf might bo eon.
10141011.
Taut shoknew that this seclusion could
not host, --that sho must moot this first
and groat 0m0rgen0y of her lite in some
other way. From the strong wish to
obtain safety in separation, a plan to
bring it about gradually took form. in
her mind. She must escape, either to
lino or die, before her .secret bocamo
known ; and in casting about for filo
1neans, she at last thought of a family
who hall boon the kindest of neighbors
in the villago whoro her mother had
died. Sir, Wayland and his wifo had
boon filo truest and most sym.patitetio
of friends to tho widow and her orphan
ollildron, and Marlgo felt that sho could
be ab home With them. itirs. Wayland's
prolonged ill-hlealth had induced leer
husband ho try, in hor behalf, rho rem.
ody of an (Intim change of air and
climate, Thorofare, thoy had removed,
some years bolero, to Santa Barbara, on
tho Pacific coast, Tito signal 0(100088 of
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