The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-11-21

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creeping things. The entrance, however,
was on the sunny side, which made things
a little more cheerful. A tangle of leaAess
vines falling over this formed sort of
SCREEN but did not exclude the sun.
"If we had the vivid imaginations of
misses in their teens, suppose we might
imagine that we were enjoying this inn
mensely," l said.
eyes, I have seen Edith come here
often"
Now look here, young man. If you
have got yourself landed here to indulge in
sentimental misery, and invite a relapse"
ga relapse of what?-gunshot wounds
Don't cry out before you are hurt l want
to study the design of this rockwork.
may have occasion to build myself den
sometime. Now, whatever you do don't
talk to me-"
al won't / said, shutting my mouth, and
presently my eyes, for l had lost good deal
of sleep lately, on account of my patient.
l don't think l went fairly off in doze, but
pretty soon heard Edith and Isla talking
outside the grotto, without any knowledge
of how they had come there.
I" am going to make you one last ap-
peal, Edith" said the younger sister "If
have seemed cross lately il was only be-
cause / am so wretched, and not because |
love you any the less. Dear, dear sister,
there are only you and I. If we are to be
separated it will be by your own act. Do
IL ot place the hideous wall of Libbocus
Chigson between u.s."
81 do not see, Isla dear, why he should
be a wall between us. You can surely en-
him if-if you choose
81 believe you were going to say-"if
| CAM know it is endurance for you.
You do not love him. He must be re-
voting to your refined tastes and feelings.
Edith, Uncle Lem has asked me if it was
possible that you could have committed
some grave indiscretion known to Mr..
Chigson, and had consented to marry him
rather than have it revealed. / disdained
the thought at first, but have been able
to think of nothing else. Edith, whatever
it is, it cannot be so bad as he is. o, do
please take me into your confidence? We
used to be all in all to each other. / can
cannot bear to be so thrust into outer
darkness
"This, too - cried Edith in u tone of
anguish. IIartz clutched my arm, and
seemed on the point of rushing out, but
held him firmly in his seat. 6 Isla, you
must not think what you have said Uncle
Lemuel must not think so. Do you not
know that in marriage opposites almost al
ways unite?'
A groan from Hartz. wished him and
myself back in the bufi-chamber. At this
rate, a renewal of his illness was certainly
inevitable.
"Thosc opposite in temperament may
and should, perhaps" Isla replied; "but
women of cultivation and refinement do
not mate with Doors. Edith, love Alston
Harleigh. l think there are but few men
nobler and truer than he lie is coming
home in six weeks, and count the days Us
they go by. But if he were as repulsive to
you as Libbocus Chigson is to me, would
never consent to see him again."
Z" 1t is for you as much as myself. o me !
l believe | am losing my senses.' She was
silent for moment; when she spoke again
it was in the quiet tone now habitual to
her lsla, we are talking to no purpose.
You will understand me better sometime.
Until then you may think anything but
that do not love YOU"
Now that you have got back that tone
know, indeed, that we are talking to no
purpose" said Isla, in a sad spiritless way.
She walked off directly, and Edith began
to work among the vines removing some
of the most delicate from the rockwork,
and potting them for winter protection.
IIartz leaned heavily against me.
"It is wearing work." he whispered,
"this cropping for light against blank
wall, is it not, Pynstall?"
"Don't grope then"
You might say to one who had diff
Guilty in breathing, don't Breathe" Hartz
retorted, dryly
81 shall have chance to say ii TO you,
If you stay much longer in this moist pic
turesQue retreat"
"Don't bother feel no chill, and am
not rested enough to go yet. There comes
another ~
A darlS-robed female figure glided by
, the mouth Of our den, as he spoke, seeing
Edith, II appeared.
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