was a large one and was close at hand it was wrong and improper of course but she decided as do in novels to find her old lover to offer him her hand and her gold and with him spend the rest of her life in some spot far from souls she sat for two months alone in s hotel this decision and the picture was a pretty one then she set out in search of assistant on a tea plantation with a more than usually name she found him she spent a month over it for his plantation not in the district at all but r was very little altered and was very nice to her now the particular sin and shame of the whole business is that who really is not worth thinking of twice was and is loved by and more than loved by the whole of whose life he seems to have spoilt worst of all is making a decent man of him and he will be ultimately saved from through her training which is unfair false dawn to night god knows what thing shall tide the earth is and faint � expectant sleepless open eyed and we who from the earth were made thrill with our mother s pain in no man will ever know the exact truth of this story though women may x tales from the hills to one another after a dance when they are putting up their hair for the night and comparing lists of victims a man of course cannot assist at these functions so the tale must be told from the outside � in the dark � all wrong never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears and so preparing the way for you later on sisters are women first and sisters afterwards and you will find that you do harm knew this he made up his mind to propose to the elder miss was a strange man with few merits so far as men could see though he was popular with women and carried enough conceit to stock a s council and leave a little over for the commander in chiefs staff he was a very many women took an interest in perhaps because his manner to them was offensive if you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards the elder miss was nice plump winning and pretty the younger was not so pretty and from men the hint set forth above her style was and both girls had practically the same figure and there was a strong likeness between them in look and voice though no one could doubt for an instant which was the of the two made up his mind as soon as they came into the station from to many the � one at least we all made sure that he false dawn x would which comes to the same thing she was two and twenty and he was thirty three with pay and of nearly fourteen a month so the match as we arranged it was in every way a good one was his name and summary was his nature as a man once said having his resolution he formed a select committee of one to sit upon it and resolved to take his time in our unpleasant the girls hunted in couples that is to say you could do nothing with one without the other they were very loving sisters but their mutual affection was sometimes inconvenient held the balance hair true between them and none but himself could have said to which side his heart inclined though every one guessed he rode with them a good deal and danced with them but he never sue in them from each other for any length of time women said that the two girls kept together through deep each fearing that the other would steal a march on her but that has nothing to do with a man was silent for good or bad and as business likely attentive as he could be having due regard to his work and his beyond doubt both girls were fond of him as the hot weather drew nearer and made no sign women said that you could see their trouble in the eyes of the girls � that they were looking strained anxious and irritable men are quite blind in these matters unless the have more of the woman l � tales from tee hills composition in which case it does not matter what they say or think i maintain it was the hot april days that took the color out of girls cheeks they should have been sent to the hills early no one � man or woman � feels an angel when the hot weather is approaching the younger sister grew more cynical � not to say � in her ways and the of the elder wore thin there was more effort in it now the station wherein all these things happened was though not a little one off the line of rail and suffered through want of attention there were no gardens or bands or amusements worth speaking of and it was nearly a day s journey to come into for a dance people were grateful for small things to interest them about the beginning of may and just before the final of hill when the weather was very hot and there were not more than twenty people in the station gave a moonlight riding at an old tomb six miles away near the bed of the river it was a a ark and there was to be the usual arrangement of quarter mile intervals between each couple on account of the dust six couples came altogether including moonlight are useful just at 