Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-04-12
Mr.. Halliburton rose also.

The little star a,,ri:tsd Mrs Appleton,
who-mosi Of the guests having gone
was deyoiing herself to Mrs. Halliburton.
Stay to tea. GeOrgy, she suggested.
John knows you are herc--does he moi p
"fcs; but it is raining. | think had
better not stop"
have been asking Mrs. Randall to
take a seat with US, mother" intcrposed
Stephen Halliburton.
"Ah, yes" said that lady, with CON
tracted nOstils and prolonged lip again.
81 shall be happy"
And then the keen eyes overlooked
Georgy, as if to ask IL there were any
cause why the Halliburton horses, and, it
might be, the Halliburton heir should tray
erse the length of Millyille to take home
this young person who had married one
of the Haliburton's employees.
I Georgy stood unmOved, little concern
cd as to whether her last dress and bon
net should walk or ride, not at all con-
cerncd as to her own disposal.
The factory bell had done ringing, aud
John Randall was in sight of home just
as the carriage of his employer stopped
at his door, and his wife stepped from it.
lie did not however, overhear her say TO
Stephen Halliburton, ''il you will come in
tomorrow afternoon, lwill show you what
| mean"
"IIad you pleasant afternoon, ?" her
husband asked, by and by, as they sat at
the tea.table.
Very pleasant she said, thoughtful
! ly,
5 1T was very polite in Mrs. Hahbur-
ton to bring You home"
: "Yes, | should have spoiled my new
/ dress"
: 1t was with some effort that John Ran
t dali got his wife to talk, and she seemed
J peculiarly silent tonight, and absent as
d we'll as silent. Her eyes were brighter,
f too, than common-hcr cheeks little
flushed. He was too generous, too unsclt-
!. ish man to begrudge her even happi-
| ness in which he had no part; but some
IS thing in her abstraction filed him with
uneasiness. The uneasness was not de-
t creased when reaching home little be-
fore the usual hour, the following after
noon, he met Stephen Halliburton just
e leaving the house, nor when he found
t Georgy with the same frightened eyes
and heightened color as the night before.
o That was the beginning of John Ran.
d dal's trouble.
1t was not so much common jealousy
1t a mans instinct of revolt at another mans
e admiration Of his handsome wIfe--as il
.e was fear, desperate, death-ike fear,
that Georgy needed something he could
n not give her to make her happy. He
,e could never give her luxuries. He could
d never say such things as he fancied Steph'
r en- Halliburton must be able to say to wo.
man. But he loved her SO Oh, heavens
n he loved her SO How could he endure
so that anything should come between them
rs II won't wrong and tease her with sus
ID picions," he said to himself in the depth
ID of the night. "l'll just fight my way the
Z; best can against it. LII keep on steady
rs perhaps she'll Sc it right by and by"
J. Poor fellow he did not realize how hil
d own determination implied the thought
< that her heart was turned from him. He
IS raised himself on his arm to look at hei
g as she slept; and through what followed
he retained the expression of her pure
y calm face, as it pressed the pillow whi
lie tened by the moonlight that glinted thu
ID frost on the window panes and flooded
S. the room.
She seemed to him cooler after this
g.. and he kept silent. He knew that sh'
.; met Halliburton at her aunt's; he knew
IS; that when she went to the seaside tn,
u ensuing summer, for weeks visit to Mrs
ul Paul Appleton, there he was also. Eli
ne knew that she seemed to be living a lif
tn apart from him and one-that was whel
the iron entered his soul-when he wen
as to her little desk--a present he had mad
49, her during their ngagement-for a shee
as of paper, and found it locked, and aske,
ut her carelessly enough for the key, sh
ed flushed, and said she would get the pape
ell for him.
w But he kept true to the promise h
III made to himself. He kept on '6ghtin
h. his way against it as best he could" hop
ing with a sick heart, that she might Sc
" it right by-and-by."
is The months wore away. The secon
year of their marriage was nearly com
at pleted. John had been very careiul--a
g Georgy herselfathat there should be n
as outward and visible sign of misunderstood