Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-30
Miscellany.
MISS GTRNEY.

SHE lived al Caroline Place, McchIen-
burg Square and l had known her all her
life, not a very long life as counted bv
YEARS and vet long enough to her to make
even those who loved her thank God when
her sad story was ended and she had gone
.9 her rest.
What that story was l am going to tell
YOU IN as few words as may be.
Miss Gurney was the only daughter of
tle senior curate at ueighboriGg chapel /;
and Is she was born ut Caroline Place so
-la died there
Her parents We're not rich; senior Gu
rates seldom are; but The wife had little
property OF her own, and they managed
b keep4 toierably comfortable household
and d0 a wonderful amount Of good in the
uelEhborhood, which, as perhaps YOU
know Is about is poor and drcary one
~ can well be found in any respectable
part d London; yet ! don't think any of
those friends who sat al the curate's pleas
ant tCa-taale, or heard him preach at the
chapel, cared whether his spoons were
only plated. or his surplices darned in
more than one place, even though they
might not know that the money which
would have bought silver and new linen
had gone 70 feed the hungry and cl0the
Tle naked
In uhis home Catherine Gurney grew
mp. and As, when She was a wee girl of
three and q ciumping boy OF ten we
were wont To run and play in Mecklen-
burg Square Of i'm afternoon, think / am
Justified in saving | had known her all
wg life. Nevertheless, we never became
treuls until | returned from Paris
tl practice as a surgeon in her fathers
district, and found Miss Gurney a tall
elegant Young woman OF one-and-twentv,
Eta 1.-the slim figure, fair skin, bright
re"n curling hair, very sweet, truthful
j" eyes, and q voice whose exceeding
9av softened the tirmness OF her mouth
chin
st course I fell in love with her; and,
.- the object OF making her fall in love
N..a Inc, became So frequent d visitor that
might hc said TO have lived almost more
Caroline Place than at my own res
.uce Ill GuiifoTd street round the cor
The first thing this intimacy taught me
N#- the fact that Miss Gurney was In love
.a-u0t with me- but with a young lieu
.a.ut Ill the Hussars, who used to visit at
.s house almost a. frequently as myself.
81 was uog aware Of his victory himself,
though he paid passionate court to her,
.ls used t0 rave about her sweet face. her
at.eness, her grace, when we walked up
S down the square enjoying nocturn-
~ar before going oar several WAYS
home Which walks were anything but a
.ea-urr t0 me, for did not ike The man.
.la las was as unaware OF that fact as of
HE other; though now and then, when
a.- jealousy had been reused by her
G4sn1ilness with me- he would hardly
speak t0 lae ter days together
and yet there was something pleasant
ugUl Lieutenant >garsdale. He was tall
HGd go0d-l0oAlDg. and had a dashing sort
way with men. winning manner with
women, which most people found irreSis-
a.e. Miss GuTDey was among the num-
ar, and | found il ont after She had
e.aseG TO become his Wife Before that
~ae was even mere easy and cordial with
"e than him; but afterwards her manner
...a d sort of wiSttul tenderness when She
poke q Or looked at him, which betrayed
-er secret to me if 10 no one else.
have heard since that size refused him
.|]ee. He came of fast, fashionable
family. and was well known To be the re-
verse OF straItlaced himself Indeed,
little way thar he had. when he was alone
with one, oi making small, boasttul allu-
SONS To past hlrtaGuns with women who
had believed IN him. was in nv mind one
ai taf most obnoxious traits in Lieuten-
ant ScaFsaale's character | don't know
whether he exhibited It 10 Miss Gurnev.
uut I think, much as she loved him. she
afraid 70 trust her happiness in hands
alien Besides, she did not like to
aaTe her parents, who idolized her; SO
she said No, y and Scarsdale, whose pas