Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-05-16

Drown eyes, anu d cuIlouo qoiNcl aoouO Alo
lip.
"You're wrong there, Harry Belt. If
there's any man that is worthy Of Gertrude
Wares love, and has won her heart, |
should be the last to grudge him the trea-
sure he will possess [ say God speed him,
and keep him to cherish as she de
serves"
phil, you are an odd fish,, said Belt,
looking at him as one would regard a
stranfro anomaly. "Therc isn't a bit of
jealousy IN your nature"
Yes, there is-lots of it," said Philip,
hammerlng Blackstone" down into his
trunk. But mean to conqucrer it like
q man ! Harry am sorry for you-just
! as sorry as if [ hadn't loved the girl my
self"
Il believe it, Phil" said Belt, grasp
ing the others hand and respecting his
honest nature as he never had respected it
before.
All that night Philip Leslie lay awake
watching the faint starlight creep along
lis wall, and listening to the voiceful 81
lence of the midsummer night. And
when it was daylight, he rose and pre-
pared for the long journey that was to
take him away from Gertrude Ware.
Gerty had not got out her mornings
sewing when Philip came in to bid her
goodbye. She was busting the piano
with small, rainbow- tined feather dus-
ter-a dainty piece Of work she most liked
doing, and generally took some time about
"Gerty-I have come TO tell you good
bye p She stood leaning up against the
piano, looking ike fair, dropping lily,
with the bright feather brush in her hand.
"Philip, are you going away from
us?"
Yes" said Philip, speaking bravely,
and trying to keep the crimson from his
cheeks.
"Why 2"
''Gerty," said the young man, simply,
Harry Belt and both loved you very
dearl y-loyed you as a man loves the
woman he would fain make lis wife,
You knew this before yesterday p
Il suspected it =
She spoke very low, with her fair head
still dropping, and the curls lying on her
shoulders like motionless coils of gold.
Very WE'LL Gertrude when Harry
Belt spoke to you last evening, and you
told him that you had given another the
treasure we both coveted-your heart,
Gerty-I felt that I could not dwell longer
under the same roof So, Gerty, [ am
going to turn pilgrim once again; will
you bid me god speed ?"
"Philip," said Gerty, playing nervous
ly with her bright oolored plumes, ''did
Harry tell you who it was liked the
best p
ono Gerty'
Il did not tell him !''
"Leslie stood silently holding her hand
in his, and looking down into her averted
eyes but he did not speak.
''Shall tell you who it was, Philip?
''If you please, Gerty.'
He felt that he had rather not hear his
rivals name, yet ne could hardly refuse
her proffered confidence
"Phil-can't you guess %
ono"
She laughed and flushed and stood on
her tiptoe to whisper, and then shook her
curls impatiently.
''Stoop down you great tall giant . how
can [ reach your ear p
He stopped, still holding her hand and
nstinctively dreading to hear the name
spoken.
philip, it is -
"Well." For she had stopped, with her
coral lips close to his ear.
You, Philip p
He started back, with the blood mount
ing to his very temples.
''Gerty, you would not be so cruel as to
joke upon-upon such a subject !"
Il am quite in earnest, Phil -
"But Gorty, am clumsy, and awk
wark, and -
II know it p she answered, demurely.
"And yet [ love you with my whole
heart 0, Phil, you are worth a dozen
Harry : Belts !. p ).
So it TRANSFERRED that Harry Belt left
Judge Wares law Office instead Of Philip
Leslie, and the firm is "Ware & Leslie
now, and Gerty is the cheeriest little wife
in the world, Notwithstanding she still COM
plains that 'Phil. is as clumsy as two
bears !" And Phil looks down on the
fair-haired little creature, and secretly
wonders how on earth he ever came to
possess such fairy talisman
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ETIoUETTE ON STREET Cars. The du-
ty of gentlemen toward ladies on street
cars is just now attracting considerable at
tention and discussion, CORY OLanus,"
the quaint humorist, in discussing in the
Brooklyn Eagle whether the ladies ought
to have seats" says:
[ believe they ought.