Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-01

and was shocked at her white face.
care ydd ill.," he cried, spriuging to
her side, '.has anything happened to
distress you?'
'.No, no." she replied hastily, for
he must not guess the truth. II was
thinking of you not of myself"
"Of me? What is it? Is it about
Helen? Is she-does she" he brok
down with face that matched hers
in palor.
lydia Allen was not a conscientious
woman; she would have died sooner
than the man beside her should know
that she loved him; some excuse for
her .evident emotion she must have;
at sucl, times we think rapidly and
in moment story; which she had
heard at school but only as jest, re-
Cured to her mind. Instantly her
resolution was taken. She turned
her face away, foS with those plead
ing cyes looking into hers she could
not speak the ialsehood which rose to
her lips. Il do not know that it is
true, she said, '.but-''
do not know that what is true?
Tell me all, anything is preferable to
this suspense" and he began impa-
ticutly to pace the floor.
ut is too late to retreat now,"
thought Lydia, aloud she said, at
was the report that Helen was en-
gagged to Harold Arnold; he had a
sister at the Institute, and he was
often there. The girls thought that
Helen not Maggie was the attrac-
tion:''
Forsyth never once thought of
doubling the truth of this tale. He re-
membered hearing Noel rally lis Sis
ter about this same Harold Arnold,
and this tritiing circumstance Was TO
him, confirmation strong as proof
from Holy Writ" Even Lydia piticd
him as she saw the agony in his face.
and might perhaps have paid some
thing to lessen the force Of the blow,
but before she could speak, 4 servant
came to the door to say that some
one "wanted the doctor as quick as
he could comc.' lie went without a
word, and the messenger found him
verysilcnt all the way to his patients
home. For several days he went his
rounds with darkcncd brow and
compressed lip, and the people mar
velcd to see the cheerful, merry
doctor suddenly morosc and absent
minded. Afterwards came reaction.
Lydia was perhaps mistaken school
girls were apt 20 talk nonsense, ut all
events he would wait till he saw
| Helen again before he would quite
give up hope.
After DIR. Forsyth left her, Lydia
Allen calmly thought over the prob
able results of her falschood. We must
not suppose she did this without
many qualms of conscience, but she
si,uHced the rebukcs of the silent
monitor IA best she could. What is
done cannot he undonc,' she muscd.
Helen has parents, brothers and sis
| ters, and friends without number,
while | have only him. Her pretty
face and her fathers money will
| bring her many sultors. and L have
neither wealth nor beauty. At school
she won all the honorS, for which l
laborcd, and now she shall not take
him from me. Hearts are caught i'll
the rebound they say, and it do
not win his it shall not be my fault"
Miss Lydia, here is letter for
you," said little Susie Lorrimcr'
voice 1T the door. LYDIA took the
letter and sent the child away before
she opened it. 1t was from her grand
father, the third he had written her.
begging her to come TO him. She had
treated the others with silence, but
now sh" hastily rose and going to
her desk dashed Off IL reply. She
could not come at present, she wrote,
her duties as govcrnc.s prevented,
but she would visit him before long.
Then sealing the missiyc, she carried
it to the post-office and mailed 1t
herself, with Il fevcrish haste, As If
she feared that she might repent her
decision. Late that night lamp
still burned ih Lvdia'> room, while
she wrote, read, srwcd. anything to
drown thought, but in VAN. Con-
stantly the words, ..she is tie one
woman of the world | world
choose for my wife, rang i'll her cars.
After hours of rcstlcsSuess she tell
asleep and dreamed that she was
struggling in the waters of the sea,
she felt the chill of the dark billows
rollin" over her, and far above, where
green banks around them. and sun
light OH their brows, walked Kenneth
Forsyth and Helen Nertncr.
One lav a week after the events last
recorded, Noel Ncrtncr entered DR..
Forsytll's office. After the usual
salutations, Forsyth asked when he
returned. "Iesterday," was the
reply. 1--WE are making prepa-
rutions to have gay time to
pay for the dull weeks that Nellie
and Kittie have been spending at
grandma's, though Nell said it wasn't
dull, and really wanted to stay. And
that reminds me the girls want You
to come up to our house this after
noon. We are TO have a croquct
party, and Nelly said you must
bring Miss Allen, your cousin, she
tells me-"
YES" replied the Doctor, "we
will both come"
"Well, good morning, I've to see
half dozen others before | go home"
Good morning." answered kcu-
meth, and leaning back in his chair, The