Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-05-26

read you little extract from his last letter.
"Clarabel, my own darling, for you shall
yet be mine if there's power on earth that
can move your heart to love me. Why do
you SO resolutely hide youself behind the en-
vlous veil' love you passionately. 1t is
not your person, not your position, simply
your mind that has thus enthrslIed me You
say your uncle and aunt would never forgive
you Tor thus entering into a correspondence
with an unknown gentleman 1t Is not in the
least necessary that they should ever know il.
tive me the name of any gentleman acouaint-
ance, ana though 1t were the Kahn of Tartars,
viii procure an introduction to him, and 80
| come fully accredited to YOU L would ra-
| Iner, 10 oe sure, go to your uncle himself it
would be the more gentlenanly way, tell him
at once ana frankly Of my passion for you,
and ask his permission 10 address You. Then
| if you find that you cannot love me. / will
forever Danish myself from your presence.
| But such would not be the result am sure n
would not, for the free and innocent frankness
with which you confess your preposessions in
my favor, give me welcome assurance that
would you once break down this enviou. wall
wall between US, we should be mutually hap
py In the result. Clarabel, you cannot refuse
to put an end to this horrible torture of sus-
pense."
There" said Kate, Laughing, as she folded
the letter "Isnt that tragic? Ii is work.
ing to charm, think. And to charm all.
he is getting so pale and thin, and eats so
little that my good aunt and uncle are terri
bly, worried about him"
kate, Kate, ;" interposed. Uit Is Won vho
| are playing the firt now"
she blushed, and looked down with an ex-
preston which puzzled me exceedingly.
on no, l. am not, !" she said, and IL /
were, tits but just punishment 1t bids fair
10 oe complete and wonderful cure. do
believe he has not called on a lady these three
nv trufn
| company, he has behaved himself with all the
SOBER proprlety of an actual benedict
You certainly cannot call him heartless
after all this, Kate"
de has, / admit, evinced more feeling
than L expected, +" she answered with the same
doWncast, blushing look, but then as before
she raised her eyes warmly and continued so
much the greater need you know of his being
rescued from his evil habits really do think
ne VIII be quite in manageable order when
am through with him -
An ha! little lady, then perhaps YOU in
tend to take pity on him yourself by -and-by ("
~, nonsense, Harry Bentley is far more to
my taste lie comes here very often, and L
think him the most agreeable person / ever
saw -
had a half suspicion that this was only
sald to arouse my jealousy, and to ward off
further inquiry on the old score Poor Kate
well knew that Harry was an old friend of
NINE, perhaps was little jealous, for an
swered:
eff you like Harry so well. and he /,
equally pleased with you, why don't YOU dis
entangle yourself from this affair with Frank.
and accept Hal?"
She was playing with the tassel of her
morning dress, and she looked up to me with
acunning, quizzical half smiling glance, which
was puzzled to interpret, and then in a mo-
ment she said:
4" There it is again. How am 1 TO get ria
OF this affair? To tell the truth, I'm not p
little puzzled TO know how il is 10 terminate -
was provoked with her, coquetting teazs
that she was, and when left her, was yerv
much IN doubt as TO what her real intentions
were.
CHAPTER Nv.
Carrie, said Kate to me, as a day or tuo
later met her on Broadway, "turn and WALL
with me a little way if Won are not IN 20,
much haste, 1 have something wish to .av 90
you readily acquiesced. for her merry,
mlschlevous glance promised sport.
how are you getting along with your fir
tatiOn 2" inquired
Oh, bravely, you remember that terribly
earnest letter read for you? Well. after
you left sat down and answered il. teIIiny
MN was really sorry for having caused him
OF the correspondence had no idea of the
almculty there would be in reconciling myself
to the idea of a meeting after having CORES
ponded so familiarly, and that though / was
very iaVorably impressed by his letters, and
thought 1t more than probable that a personal
acquaintance might prove as Objectionable to
me as to him, could not feel tn at il would be
either prudent or proper under the circum-
stances was aware that he might consider
me coquettlsh, but assured him had not act
ed from any such motives and concluded bv
desiring that his correspondence might cease
altogether. 1t was worked as skiIIfulIy az
possible, SO as not to wound his feelings-for
indeed, Carrie, 1 do begin to pity himoand
hoped it would give the whole thing its ter
minus. But what do you think the foolish feI.
low did, Why instead of holding ais peace
as he ought, he sat down and wrote the most
ronsensical letter you ever read; nonseusical. /
saw by kate's blush it was lover-Iike, il was
enough to move the heart of the neither mill
stone; 'he could not give me up ne could
give up life sooner L should have tbou0ht
he was just hoaxing me, but L heard him pac-
ing his room all night, and dear me- said
she, 81 was just foolish enough to lie awake
ana cry; though that was all Tor vexation. forI
am sure couldn't think how the matter was
70 emu but have 1t now," she said, glanc-
ing Up nan sadly, half merrily into my face.
Well, L asked eagerly, what is it t''
m going to write to him, promising an
interview. You know he has called at your
house with me once or twice. Well, I'm go
ing to write TO him that have ascertained
that he visits at house of mutual acquain
tance, and that will call there next Tursdav
evening, when if he chooses also to call be will
meet me can easily manage to 90 myself
without suspicion, and you and will watch
him, Carrie, and see if he does feel so badly al
ne pretends. will beg him not to say word
10 you, as dare not trust any one with the
secret, and so when bis Clarabel doesn come
he will think she has deceived him, and then
L will write to him no more letters, and he will
conclude it all a hoax and give it up'
TO BE CONTINUED.