Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-03-11

10 his own-"tell me- too, and will answe
for it that sister Juliette enters heart ant
soul into your plans, whatever they ma,
be-"
o IL shall be a thousand-fold indebted t,
q you, Miss Jeannie," said Ellery. "Well
now for my plot, or rather the outline of il
5 if you will accept my arm to lead you II
o that cosy seat; for | must confess shoulC
like some woman wit to perfect my IDEAS"
o "None Of your plots and conspiracies fol
me i'll have none of them," said Mrs
Is Martin, the widow, as she left them to obey
a her aunt's previous request for music, ant
where we must leave her, seated at the
fine toned piano, discoursing most excellent
music. and holding her audience enthralled
as if by magic. As for Ellery and Jean,
ME, they had sno music in their souls --at
least, for the time and were therefore the
better fitted for ''treasons, stratagems, and
plots p in which we leave them engaged.
am sure, reader, had you seen Juliette
Martin, you like Ellury, would have called
her "a bewitching creature" Her delicate
form, large beautiful eye Of light hazel, her
brown hair, nearly approaching faxen,
needed not the cherry mouth, nor complex
ion like the sunny side Of peach, to set
her down at once as beauty. Then her
manner, too. was so soft, so insinuating,
that you could not choose out to love her
| She had married, at her fathers command,
a man whom she highly esteemed, if she
did not love him with a young girls roman
1 tic titrore, and whose sudden death had left
| her with an infant daughter, and compe-
tency, alone in the world at the early age
of twenty-one. Many offers of marriage
had already been refused by her, although
/ she never asserted she did not intend mar
rying again.
/ JEANNE Martin, her husbands young sis
! ter, was now on a visit to her she resided
With her aunt, Mrs. Emptcn, and from her
gay, cheerful disposition, had rendered her
self favorite with every one Of their So
cial circle.
The plot disclosed by Ellery was not en-
tireh revealed by JEANNE to her sister-in-
law at bed-time; although she obtained
from her the somewhat reluctant promise
Of allowing her TO per-onate the aoidow for
few days, the farce beginning the next
morning with an excursion planned 10 the
country.
Il do not ask you to .fb, sitter Juliette,"
said the merry girl, ''only not TO unmask
me. wish to tease that young fellow.
somehow or other, Tor pretty little speech
of his that has come to my ears
But viii not lend my aid in the least,
if any one will be injured by your frolic,"
said Mrs. Martin.
Il beg you not to frighter yourself in the
slightest" returned JEANNE. mo one, !
assure you, can be harmed
"Weli, only for few days, JEANNE.
think, however, You should let me into the
secret, when you take my name"
mo no bide-a-wee," said Jeannie. 81
will promise you merry laugh, one of
these days, for its use"
Thus ended their conversation. The
next morning Ellery came before breakfast,
TO beg leave TO bring friend to take the
fourth seat in their carriage; which was
the more readily granted, as Mrs. Empton
had already started with little Annie Mar
tin and the essentials 10 where the picnic
was 10 take place. Dear old Mrs. Emp
ton she was certainly the incest old lady
on earth for picnc always ready 10 at
tend to that most necessary part the seat
ngs )" but, wi'hal, SO deaf that never
word of anything did she hear unless shout
ed through her ear trumpet.
About ten the ladies were awaiting their
beaux. Ellerv soon arrived, and oh, ''mir-
able dictu - accompanied by Shirley.
whom, by some powerful eloquence, he had
pressed into the service. J1 the hurry of
setting out, and misled also by Ellery's des-
cription, it is not to be wondered at if he
mistook JEANNE for the widow; whilst the
girlsh- looking blonde answered his own
idea of Mss Martin. He, therefore, true
to his prtjudice, left TO Ellery the task of
entertaining her-tle widow with the mer-
ry black eye-whilst he was himself enjoy
ing the bewitching smiles and sweet-toned
wal bling of his fair Uis-a-piS Juliette.
81 am sorry that we can only offer you
such poor fare, for your first dinner party (
with US, Mr.. Shirley" said Jeannie, in her /
assumed character, 'bht a hearty welcome I
and our company is the extent you must
expect"
This, of course, brought forth polite /
disclaimer from the gentleman, and with /
more truth than the generality of such
speerhes, for in the mile over which they
had already passed, he began 10 think the
widows sister, at least, was particularly in
teresting. At this crisis. the sudden stop
page of the carriage, and the hurried ex-
clamaiion from the driver of ''open the door,
Mr. Ellery, quick, please. and get the Ia
dies out" showed that something was amiss.
The widow screamed as she clung TO Ell
lery's arm; and even ut that time of dam
ger. Shirley could not but admire the calm
ness Of the beautiful Juliette, for so he had
heard her called, as she endeavored TO
soothe her sister.
II was found that one of the horses had
got his foot over The trace, and was already
rearing and plungirg, so as to make the
carriage very unsafe. After some trouble
tley succeeded in extricating him; but as
both the horses continued very unruly, the
ladies prupc sed walking to their ,le>i nation.
So forth they set, en- route !; the widow pro
TEN. on tie arm of Ellery, and Juli-lte fol-
lowing, with Shirley, chatting and laugh