The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-05-18


II am very glad sir; it quite relieves my
mind. Some young gentlemen think women
folks about a house are so troublesome. -
The black eyes looked saucily into his
"Confound the girl! she is laughing at
me. | believe she heard what said about
Looise Villiers. | wish she was not so con-
foundedly handsome. T"
As time passed on, Tom found himself
very faint about the region of the heart. II
Bel Vaughn was splendid at night in Grim
wrapper in the morning. Tom forgot all "a
his uncle promised bride that is how it
was. He wisely kept his secret hid, though,
for the wicked black eyes had way of hurl-
ing lightning glances at him that was most
eXasperatlng.
:" If she only cared speck for fellow,
Id-Id-but no, that would be dishonor.
Brave old Uncle Hal, would not step be-
tween you and happiness if | could. y
As the weeksawore on, Tom saw plainly
that Isabel did hot love his uncle, though
she did not know it herself She had never
known any other love but that she had borne
her father,Aand when Mr.. Trevanion asked
her to be his wife she feeling lonely and des-
olate, gave him her promise, knowing moth
ing of that other self who, somewhere in the
length and breadth of the land, was waiting
for her.
1t had been dismal day. A kind of driz-
sling rain had fallen sullenly all day long,
and kind of dirgc-like wind keeping it com
pany. For once Bell Vaughn was sad, yet
if she thought any one had noticed it the red
lips would have been smiling in tlicc. She
had been strangely silent all the afternoon
and Tom thought he saw her lips quiver
once or twice He crossed over to where
she was sitting, hoping her sad mood would
make her more comfortable.
What dismal day, Bell! 1t gives me
the heartache
What is that2" A voice and eye both
firm, though Tom could have sworn he saw
her lip qulyer
If yote don know / shall not cnlightcn
YOU"
Tom was exasperated, He almost thougt
she had no heart Bell went to looking
drealningly out of the window, and by and
by sighed little quivering sigh. This time
he saw the proud, red lip quiver. Tom IRE
van:on was a noble hearted fellow, and he
pitied the poor motherlcss, sisterless girl
pitied the proud young heart, that ache as it
might, would never let it be known. He
had watched her closely and knew that un-
derneath her elfn ways warm, passionate
heart was throbbing.
One night he saw by her eyes she had
been weeping, and as he stood by her side
he ventured to lay his hand upon her shin
ing hair She looked up quickly into his
handsome face, as if she would read what
was written thereon. 1t was a manly face,
strong and tender.
"Bell, you have been weeping; it greves
me to see it. " Eyes and voice were burden
ed with tenderness, but She would not see it.
- | am going down town, Bell Can | do
indescrbable tenderness which deep feeling
always gives. ...
" Yes; if you are going by Taylor's bring
me some glngcr-snaps.
lie splang to his feet, and a muttered i'm
precation burst from his lips. Pulling his
hat down over his eyes, he strobe fiercely
down Broadway, causing the passcrs-by to
look after him wonderingly. He met some
boon companions, but his gloomy brow gave
them mo encouragement to tarry.
What's to pay, now?' said Ned Ster-
ling to his friend Lennox. Trevanion looks
us fierce as Il Bengal tiger Las .rf
Got in debt, | reckon. Come Ned, let
us go down to Niblo S. ="
Poor Tom knew to his cost what was to
pay. LoniSe Niliers, the insipid tame lit
tle'Parisian was, to use Tom vocabulary,
nowhere!" She had been cast into the
shade by this brilliant, fascinating, tantali-
zing Bell Vaughn. Toms thoughts were
something after this fashion: g love this
brilliant Bell; her rich, tropical nature in
tones with my own. She may school lip
and eye, but | can read both. She is un-
happy, there was anguish in her eyes when
she asked for those abominable gnger-snaps
| saw it brooding dumbly through all her
acting. The girl is wretched; she does not
love my uncle she cannot, and yet there is
but one short month between this and her
wedding day! 0 woman woman man S
blessing and his curse! | will leave New
York tomorrow; it is all that ! can do,
He returned from his mad walk silent and
moody. His uncle sat reading the Herdd
and Bell without yestige of color i'll cheek
or lip, sat with her dainty little feet on the
fender, and the last number of Cooley i'll
her hand She did not look round as Tom
closed the door, though she knew his foot
steps.
"Fluted trimming is still worn, guardy-
/ think will have my new dress trimmed
so. All, Tom are you back? Where 5
the ginger-snaps?
Tom left the room with never a word OF
answer.
Tom is getting to be an insuferable
puppy, with his moody brown and tragic
airs. ..
"An insufFerablc puppy echoed Bell;
but her lip quiyered.
Mr. Treyanion, ,said down his paper, and
went over to where Bell was sitting with her
eyes fixed on the fire. He laid his hand
kindly on the bowed head; but she sprang
suddenly to her feet and the small hand
hanging by her side now clenched tiercely.
Nv hat is the matter, | say ..t.
My head aches, sir; and if you will cx-
cuse me, will go to my room. .r.
She almost flew up the broad staircase,
and her white face was perfect revelation.
Tom Treyanion, pacing up and down the
study floor, saw it as she passed, and shiv,
ered Reaching her own room the despair,
ing girl flung herself, face downwards, on
the floor. She neither tainted or wept, she
did not even moan; if she had unclosed the
firm-set lips for single instant she would
have shrieked. Her dumb anguish was q
thousand times worse than tears, more than
river of tears She had promised to be
Mr. Trevanon's wife through gratitude; be-
cause she was lonely and desolate; as he had
said, and knew not till too late that life
would bring any other love. That she had
learned to love this handsome Tom Treyan-
ion, was a fixed fact. How, or when the
love crept into her heart she could not have
told but she knew, to her sorrow, that il
was there. She had thought to put it away
from her, to forget the manly, tender face
but she found her own heart a rebel, all she
could do was to keep the sad secret from
the eyes of Tom and his uncle. She never
entered the study now. SO they met only al