Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-03-07
raised her eyes gravcly to the old lady's

raised her eyes gravely to the old lady
face saying
81 cannot GO"
l Now, Lola, listen to mo You ar
only connection of this family. l hav
always treated you as if you were m,
grandchild, and IL / could have don,
more for you / should have been glad
but | am too poor"
81 should not have accepted more,
said Lola. VITO l-HEG tN iNb
Don't be peri, miss, with your sboult
nots and cannots. l have some question
to ask of you. Arthur Gray has gone I,
London Do you know what his bust
ness is?"
"No," said Lola. gf,t..
Is it possible that he has asked yol
" "St,y aNoyS ni! nuip!.'Ti GliiG9iIF lGl
" But he has done Just the same, ant
you expect that he will ask you when h,
comes back?"
Eyes" said Lola.
'And you won't go away to earn you
bread because you are waiting to be {
mill stone-round poor mans neck2 YoI
are resolved to wreck completely all thu
hopes he had cherished before he me
you" -,..g r..... ..r-} f.....
A dreadful look had come into tn,
young girls eyes; she put her hand diz
zily to her head ..... III.
"You silly child, don't you see that hi
is poor man; no one could be poorer ex
cept yourself If he were an ordinary
man this ought to deter you, for he woulC
have to toll in way you know LITTLE
about to give you bread to eat. He is mo-
common man, but with great career
before him, that is if you, chit of girl
do not step in to spoil it, He is too gen
erous to tell you this, perhaps, but I have
no scruple in hurting you when 1t ought
to be DONE"
''Tell me about his career" said Lola
"The great person who introduced me
to him in London" continued Granny
"said to me, This will be distinguish
ed man in few years hence, if he only
regains his health, and keeps himself free
OF encumbrances. l shall keep an eye
on his career, and push him onward if
can Gray talked to me about it during
our journey down here; told me all his
hopes while was petting and taking care
of him. said, You must beware of a
foolish MARRIAGE The worst thing that
could happen to me- was his answer. Il
hope you have nothing dangerous down
in your countryY l remembered only
my grand daughters, and that they were
a great deal too sensible to take any in
terest in him. l never thought of you at
all, child; yet here you are doing the
mischief, being neither wise for your
own interests, nor generous in looking
to his. You have ruined him so COM
pletely that he is gone to refuse an offer
which would have given him fame and
fortune had you not been in the way"
"What is that offer?" asked Lola.
can expedition is sailing next week to
the North Pole, or somewhere there.
abouts. What they are going to do l am
not sure about; but they are scientific
men, and they have invited Arthur Gray
to be of their party. A few short weeks
ago he would have looked upon any one
who had prevented his accepting this as
an enemy. Now he goes to London to
refuse j. in order that he may pin him.
self to drudgery and obscurity for life;
that he may live in repining over what
you have selishly forced upon him, he
being far too generous to dtsuPpCint
you"
Lola did not answer a word, but stood
with her face turned away, looking into
the forest; then slowly turned away and
began walking like a sleep.walker towards
an opening in the trees. Granny looked
after her angrily, too full of Arthur's
wrongs to have any pity for the girl
whom she counted his enemy. "An OBJ
stinate monkey" she said to herself,
wrathfully, and muttered her way back
to the house, while Lola spent two long
hours alone in the forest. Only the trees,
and the river, and the singing grass saw
her struggle; when she came back to
Granny her face looked gray and old. 81
will join the gentleman tonight" she
said, sand go to Paris with him." .rsr
Now that Granny was triumphant, a
new feeling of pity came into her heart.
But she knew she had done her duty, and
that Lola was behaving well. She patted
the girl on the shoulder, and sent her
home to pack up her things, and made
vague promises in her own mind that
something good must certainly be done
for Lola.
When Gray came back from London,
there was no Lola in the forest country,
and Granny explained to him how pru-
IDENTIFY the girl had acted.
"You could not expect of her that she
would not seize good offer when 1t pre-
sented ITSELF" she said. sit is very well
for men when women are found with a
little common sense. She will have ad-
vantages In Paris, and will make a good
Lola is wise girl, and as for
you, you will get over it."
Certainly" said Arthur, che would
not interfere with any woman's pros
pects."
And then he also went alone into the
forest, and complained that the world had
never seen a faithful woman. The grass
sighed again, and smile curled the
edges of the leaves of the trees, but not
thing limited to him of Lolas sacrifice.
That night he was again in London, and
the next day he sailed with the expedi-
tion. AS he looked over the ships side,
hopes rose in his heart, and
the pain that would have lin
gered still. The sea-foam gathered over
The past of few months. The sun of
the old world set brilliantly upon what
lay behind him; summer dream, blue
mists, dancing trees, sunny idleness, chill
dren's voices, and woman's face framed
in the purple shadow among leaves. -AR
Me Year Round.