The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04

have been listening would have heard
these words spoken at the end of the
interview:
81 love you more than words can
tell you try to care little for me
only httle-if only after awhile, and
do not send me away foreverp
Having said this, Jack Temple broke
down. He saw through sort of haze
a face full of bushes, and heard q voice
with tremor in it murmur
=" L can not-I do not care for YOU as
| ought toto be your wife. And-no
I will not say that. L know that rich
or poor am the same to you"
Then the maiden broke down also,
shedding few tears. When he went
away Jack Temple was in a more hope
less condition than before-the second
discardal was worse than the first
Annie Heath was going slowly to her
room when Miss Jemima, who, for some
unknown reason cordially disliked her,
met her on the steps and stopped her.
So your fine admirer has proposed %
she said-snarling.
please let me go, aunt"
Madam is grand ~
&c am annoyed, aunt"
Annoyed You will please learn,
miss, that you are no longer mistress
| here"
"I know it very we'll"
"You are nobody nobody "
81 know it" Annie said coldly, her
anger rising little.
"Then please behave yourself as
such"
The girl turned and looked at her.
Alas and alas It was true, too
true the report, namely, few weeks
after this that Mr.. Ashton was engaged
to be married to Miss AUguSta Wesley!
1t was currently reported that, when
pressed to name the happy day, the fair
Augusta, blushing deeply named day
so very near that Mr.. Ashton ungallant-
ly expressed doubt whether even he
could be ready in so short q time. But
he reflected that women were uncertain;
raised some money at sixty per cent. to
purchase gloves and,for other expenses
and one month afterwards had the salts
faction of standing in a graceful attitude
with Miss Augusta on his arm in front
of a clergyman who declared that they
were man and wife.
Kisses, congratulations, change of
costume for brown travelling dress the
happy pair borne away in a chariot to
the station where the snorting train re-
ceived them. Three weeks afterwards
they were in dear, delightful Paris,
walking arm in arm in the Tuileries
garden-the manly, elegantly gloved
Tom Ashton and his blushing, happy
bride
j. =
Jack Temple made a last attempt. He
came one evening and, finding Annie
Heath strolllng over the grounds where
the great trees were now touched by the
hpger Of j, ,auttnJmlp2. iQined her. and they
The youth then poured forth his love.
He was not worthy of her-she was an
angel-he was pobody-what was he to
look so far above him-but he loved her
loved her dearlV! he was poor, but
he would work for her, give his life to
her-if only-only
You will probably laugh at all this,
worthy reader, if you have the misfor-
tune to be over forty-tive-but that is
the way young man talks when he is
very much in love.
Unlucllly for Jack Temple, he had
uttered Just one sentence too much,
and used an unfortunate wOrd-the
wold "poor." Miss Jemima had more
than once denounced him to Annie as a
"fortune hunter" and Annie was con-
scious of having suspected him-as
heiresses will. Now great flush of
shame came to her face she had treat
ed him coldly when she was rich, now
when she was poor he came to offer his
heart and his life, and shame paraly zed
her. She said, "No, no; I can not p
and hurried back to the house just at
dusk.
| A week afterwards she left Oakhill
and went to begin her duties as young
ladies' teacher in the house of on old
gentleman, tenderly attached friend,
an hundred miles distant. Six months
afterwards, Jack Temple, who had Wis
tied Annie three times and each time
had been discarded with perfect dis
tinctness, sold his little estate, packed
his trunks, and was making his last ar.
rangements for taking the train on the
next morning for Arizona, where he III,
tended to Trough it" and try, if he
could, to forget Annie Heath.
He stood at the window looking across
the valley toward Oakhill.
81 can't go without telling the ole
place good-by," lie said with a groan
81 must look at the window of hel
room-the seat she sat on-the path hel
little feet pressed !"
There he choked.
Jack Temple walked down the hill
crossed in his little boat, cast glanc,
toward the spot where Annie had fallel
into the water, and went up the wind
ing path in the Oakhill grounds.
He had seen as he left his own door
a travelling carriage ascend the winding
road to the large mansion, doubtless
containing some friends or visitors o
Miss Jemima, who was " in command
at the hall but these strangers, he re
fected, would not be apt to disturb hin
in the remote rustic seat in the del
under the old oak.
He went to the seat now and sa
down, thinking of the girl and trying t.
fancy her beside him. The sun wa
Just setting, and the ruddy light reste'
like a crown of gold upon the SUNNI
of the immense oak, whose leaves wer
whispering in light breeze. A littl
spring near was bubblmg and laughin
the whisper and the laughter mingle
and were charming,
Jack Temple was so much absorbe
in his sorrowful thoughts that his chi
fell upon his breast and his eyes wer
half closed. He went over his Who'll