The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-11-28
SBURG. PA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1867.

tess assented, and we set forth. At first
Charlie had the two girls. But when we
had walked slowly around the gray, old
pile, and stood looking up at the lofty
spire till We were nearly dizzy, I turned
TO the Lady Emily, and called her atten-
ton to some details of the north porch.
/ think she understood my motive, for
she Immediately took my arm, and for the
rest-of the evening Charlie had her sister
to himself. We were to part in the NOR
ming, they to go to the Isle of Wight, and
We TO go to Chichester and Arundel.
The countess had insisted that we sho'd
breakfast together on the last morning.
The ladies appeared in travelling costume I;
the Lady Louisa in most bewitchiug hat
and feather. She looked, thought, con-
scious through the entire meal. Her
eyes hardly ever ventured TO meet those
OF Charlie. On his part, Charlie also
was embarrassed, bul less SO than the La
dy Louisa. Evidently he had determi-
ned, if All opportunity offered, to put all
on "the hazard of a die"
The opportunity came. The man-ser-
want of the countess entered aud asked
her question in a low voice. 1t was
probably something in relatiou to her bill,
for she looked Significantly at her elder
daughter, and the two withdrew to the
other end of the vast apartment, where
they conversed in a low tone. Charlie,
not minding me, seized the chance.
"Her Ladyship was so good as to ask
us to call on her in London," he said to
his fair companion, and his voice, notwith-
standing his effort to appear calm, trem-
blsd. "May 1 hope that the invitation
is yours also, Lady Louisa? 2"
The color rushed over the fair girls
cheek and brow. She tried to speak,
| failed, bluShed deeper than ever, and
then, with great effort, went on. But
| she spoke so low she could hardly be
| heard.
"But 1 am not the Lady Louisa"
"Not Lady Louisa %
"No. am an American"
Her eyes were downcast; she was fun.
bling with her watch-chain.
| "An American %
"Yes. But [ thought you knew. /
ought, perhaps. to have explained before
But somehcw-indeed, it was no inten,
tioral deception-don't you really know
me.?2s
| }Know your" More bewildered than
ever
"Yes. I'm Clara Vernon p
I rose hastily. This was denoucment
had not look ed for and a third party
was altogether in the way. How would
Charlie take it? How did it all come
about?
Charlie took it very we'll. A minute
after, [ heard them laughing toseth
er. Then came explanations, of which
was told in due course. While Charlie
was staying in England, in order to avoid
Clara, she, with an equal horror of match.
making, had run away from Newport tC
living in Lon 3on-and thither she had
fed. He owned place in the country
next to the Vavasours, and thus she had
become intimate with that family, and was
now travelling with them.
Capt. CUldstream's mistake was a natu-
raj one. He had heard much of the Lad y
Louisa, but never seen her, supposed she
was out, and had tancied Clara must be
she. If he had returned to his stall, he
would have told us of his error.
To make long story short, the Vava.
sours aid We did not part company, but
went together to the Isle of Wight. 81
thought all the timc," said the countess,
"that your friend knew Miss Vernon. !
never heard him call her Lady Louisa.
We were her confdants, for Clara told us
why, silly thing she had come to Eng
land. But 'all's we'll that ends well' '-isn't
it?"
Charlie and Clara were married that
very autumn, her uncle giving her away,
and the Ladies Favasour acting as brides
maids. The ceremony took place, sn,ore
nagoruna," as the old Romans used to say
that is, at ST. Georges, Hanover Square,
in the very odor of fashionable sanctity
No5e of this, you see, was part of the
play, as either Charlie or Clara had plan
ned it. 1t came about, SO to speak, ''Be-
tween the Acts"