The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-19
CHAPTER IL.

Miss Phaeton rode home, and found another
lovers horse at the gate. She smiled: 1.-TWO
beauX on a string are quite as good rs two
strings to a bow" thought she.
Old Joe, the groom, who had served long and
faithfully in the family on board wages, hobbled
out:
"Mistress Kate" said he, "have you seen
Liffith Lank anywheres ~
The young lady colored at this question: and
replied she didn't know. This was one OF
Woman's WHITE LIES.
''But why ~ she asked.
"Why ?n repeated old Joe; ''all the girls in
town be runnin' after un now. The blinds be
down at Bolton Hall, and they do say as low
the old Squire be dead. Here be letter sealed
with Black for Mister Liflith.n
Miss Phaeton took the letter, opened and read
it. The news was bret but good, and the
grand and glorious orbs frightened. Old Mr..
Ohur]ton was dead, and Ltlith was heir to
Bolton Hall. Carefully resealing the letter, she
told Joe to drop it into the post-ofice, and
boted into the house.
In the hall she met George Neverill He was
a young man, handsome and accomplished;
had travelled on the Continent and in America;
had made love to all the women he met, and
was IN nowise troubled with bashtulness nor
doubt OF his own merits and good looks.
IL love you, Kate, said he, putting his arm
round the young lady's waist. 81 love you
better than l loved Mimi, or Marguerite or Isa-
bella, or Beatrice, or Dorothy Jane-the latter
being a native of Maine. And the pride of
Cucumberald and pearl Of all other lands,
has but to say the word to be mistress of my
/
| Kate ?p
Honiton Grange suggested Honiton lace, and
the lines Of the young ladys mouth relaxed.
There was a sound as Of "P'Neep,n q success
sion Of similar sounds, decies repettd pidce5H
, and Miss Phaetop dreamily wiped her lips.
Wilt do me favor, George ~ said she.
LAY, ~ replied he, 'an' it be not to shave my
head and turn priest.n
"Seest yonder horseman on the grey mare
bring him baCkn
A.
But ne returned with alacrity, and came in
without rapping.
SIS not ylon gentleman Liffth Lank'"
"Ay," said Kate quietly
! "And you wish / should bring him back to
you that you may
Marry him. put in Kate, looking dreamily
/ in his eyes
George Neyerill reached out his hand and
81 admire coolness," said he, "and this suits
me exactly; But go after him you, and ride
| my pIebad charger
You are preur Chepa!ie1," said Kate: tex.
cuse me moment,b and vanished-promisiug
to be back in hve minutes
george Neverill stood alone. "Cest nm peu
JUt3o o3oa megSstered eSt he to himself Five minutes
passed, fifteen, twenty, thirty sixty: IL was
nard upon his dinner hour and there was none
70 10 ask him to tarry and dine. Mounting Miss
ma phaetSn !. horse which stood at the gate, he
Loue tnoughtlully home, telling old Joe it was
al right, and giving him a Shilling to drink
10 MS wedding with Miss Phaeton,
IN the meanwhile, Kate had oYertaken Iif.
hth ana explained to him that She would
hIid hIHiRk about about it, He at once promised to
1t would at all avail or conduce To her banni-
ness, ness, oe ana all around them were to be Roman
In delightful frame of mind. Miss Pbaeton
I09e nome, ana on learning that Georee Neye-
rill had. waited her return until The last
so, stroke OF the dinner hour, ayerred her belief
that ne was a goodnatuIed and handsome fell
low: On pelng told that he had ridden the
white geding away, her face fell but t' only tor for
a moment "The piebald charger ia mncb tbe
down 10 dinner. '"' JOS'""J