Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-11-29
Lillian.
BY LOUISE CHANDLER MouLroy.

The band At Mrs. Esserlsy's WAS playing
waltz music. How gay it was, as the merry,
mad notes rose and fell. Bright eyes bright
flowers, bright dresses. flashed by the watch.
err, like the shifting hues Of a kaleidoscope,
and brightest Of all was Lillian. Airy, fairy
Lillian, fitting, fairy Lillian" with her arch,
piquant face; her dark, begu;leng eyes hold
ing CLEAN of some fire that a breath would
kindle; anl ''the baby loses on her cheek -
10 and fro, wherever she moved, two men
watched her ceaselessly, until at last with
that vague feeling which tells us when some
ons-is booking - ,us, shss fsltv thsis scruliny,
ed ths BABY fosel despensl ander il. To-
night ,sle Ind pressntime ssls would
Mle y dGiSc beswsep hose fwo Y Il lsd
Seen Set~ ss1 ena~lons, pu,,;Ae esstsr sAl
circumstances out Of the question, the case
would have been too simple to write story
about.
You could see what Paul Lyermore was at
glance-cvery inch o man--brave, fearless,
'nerous, capable Of infinite tenderness and
Infinite patience; a loyal, grand soul having,
besides the sound mind, the sound body which
held it-tall, handsome, dcbonair, with the
manners Oft Chcvalier Bayard His love,
and he dearly loved Lillian, was in itself the
loftiest Of praises. One Of the worlds work
crs he was-a man who must earn the silver
spoon before finding it in his mou,h-but who
already, at twenty-eight, had won himself
rank in his profession, aud an assured social
status. i3t#a tS.@IE'iA HIE |tf
The other was Hcndrick vanicrhuysor.-
Ills name had been enough for him in New
York, a; Newport, every where anon g our best
society. What need for the inheritor of the
great Vanderhuyson estates to seek any other
distinction? What special work in life for
him to do? lie was thirty-6ve, and look ed
his age, every day Of il, for self>indulgence
wears "A man out faster than hard work. lie
was short and stout, with face irm and s,ol.
id. and Thoroughly Dutch, like the pictures OF
his Knicaerbocker ancestors. Ills manners
would have been called arrogant and self.as-
ser.iye in lesser man !; but toward Ii i lie
was acious, Tor, with such power Of loving
MS he was gifted he loved her.
DO You still think the decision between tie
two men easy! You must remember that she
had to decide between Paul Livcrmore, ris-
ing but roor man, and IIcndrick Vanderhu, :
son, who was born, by mere virtue of inheri
tancc to certain kingship in society
Should she mend stockings and oversee cook,
ing in Paul Livermores modest home, o. wear
the Nanderhuyson diamonds and oneen it
royalty as Nashli You see tile question be-
came complicated. Moreover, the circnmstan-
ces which had been moulding her charae,er
for twenty one years made the matter harder
for her
All her life Lillian Ains!ee had been poor
and prond. Her family had been gentle folk $
always bat gradually the Mmi!y fortune had
melted away, and the last Ainslee, her father.
was very poor nan indeed Outside an
p,arances had been KEEP, up at a ruinous cost
Of domestic comfort This was Lilian's idea.
therefore, of genteel poverty state forever
ashamed o: itself. She had no comprchension
OF life where large parties and gay evening
Dress were never thought of, and the mon
ey they would havo cost went to make plen-
teons CHEEKY enjoyable hong. With differ
ent rearing she might have been reader to
trust to her own heart in the choice of n
husband. But now-she looked at Pa nj. A
ray from his dark earnest eyes thrilled her
She felt his power in every pulse Of her be-
ing. But should she marry him, and con.
demn herself for all her life at least all the
young years Of it, to just such pitiful make.
shifts as she had blushed over ever since she
could remember? She thought of herself
then rs Mrs. vanderhuyson, reiening in thai
stately old family mansion, with no stint of
all the beautiful things in which her heart
delighted.
JustA tia tmonent, Is if.soms evil spirit
had whispered him that now, if ever his star
was in the ascehaent, Henry vanderhuyson
came up, offered her his arm, and led her out
into the cool conservatory.
"You will answer me to night, will you
not Lillian p he asked as they stood leaning
against some strange, dusky Indian tree
from which heavy leaves exhaled an odor
incense burning to . Pagon idol
Lillian never could have told what further
words he said. She was only vaguely con-
'cious that he was asking her to be his wife,
hat she did not love him, AMI yet that shc
was promising to marry him. She felt as il
'he were selling her birth-right but she ans.
wered him with q sort Of mechanical codncss
nst touched weth self pity, Is one might talk
n dream. Listlessly she felt him put a
ing on her finger and noticed the glittering
lame Of the single great diamond it held. as
The scarcely realized what it signi6cd. Only
when he raised the hand with the ring on IL
o his lips sudden electric shock, thrill Of
Eeen pain stang her into full consciousness,
md then she asked him to take her back TO
Ter mother. Mrs. Ainslee, mild .eyed wo.
nan, who had been all her married life n
'cndslave to the Ainslee ambition, saw the
ing and felt that her work was well done
ut understood the glitter in her daughters
yes too we'll to make any comment.
After supper came Paul Livcrmorc to where
lillian stood, between her and her mother andi
er affianced, to claim her for the German,
ir. vandcrhuyson frowned darkly, but she
rhspercd, ~ had promised, you know before
ALLOW me this once" Her humility suited
i'm. It became the future Mrs. vanderhuy-