The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-08

[ "oANA " lOOh tU6 lace. - HA q
been deal at Amlwch since 1 left, pee
pie tell me, an you must ha' seen plen
ty OF him. What do you think Q
81, Kyle ?"-her eyes dropping be
meath 5he sharp scrutiny-"I-I don
know. He's pleasant-spoken and civil
L think he's nice enough"
" And think him a cross betweel
fool and ape," quoth Kyle Griffith
fshortly; "son of a sea cook Well
Faith, l wonder"
Faith snatched her hand away angri
y. He has more manners than YOU,
ried she, painting and ruff1ing lii ke al
enraged sparrow; "he is a gentleman
at any rate, an would never dream O
using such language of people he don
even know more than to speak to. Oh!'
and her here feelings were too mucI
| for words, and an indignant little sieI
and shiver filed the gap.
Even the violet was dying out of the
| sky now, and cool, gray shadows crept
up from the east, and threw sombel
tint oyer the mans face. A small, colo
wind rose out of the sea, ruffiing it:
breast with long, fretful lines, like the
puckered face of an ailing child. Il
| chilled the dimples in Faith s cheeks. anG
blewthe soft, brown locks off Kyle's sterr
brow; and far overhead a gull flew by,
with long, shrill scream like the wal
of banshee. Before it ceased KYLE
spoke:
He's a gentleman, is hep thank
God, then, I am not. Had I been ore
[ might have been betrothed to some
tina Io5v i'cEooI n, tI,o Jo,oI,Io- r -
honest seafaripg man like myself.
Faith, twice these five minutes have
you found fault with my manners.
don't say they're finer nor a rough sail
or's have need to be, but you never laid
blame on them before. Has this gen.
tleman been teaching you to so in my
absence, this time ?"
Women are constitutionally towards.
Faith Morgan was a very woman. For
all reply at first she, metaphorically,
turned tail, and took refuge behind that
every-ready shield of femininity, a burst
of tears. It was not until they had
lasted long enough to make Kyle apos-
trophize himself as a brute that she
sobbed out
Chow c-c-cruel you areI You
kn-n-now that L love you as you are
better than-and yet-oh !" Another
burst, and the and pretty head dropping
very near Kyle's knee. Involuntarily
he laid his hand carelessly upon it. In
voluntarily his voice took a softened.
soothing tone.
"Am cruel, Faithio. and to you
Nay, then, don't cry. Mayhaps I was
over-sharp. but was met on landing by
i'll talk about young Denbigh an you.
They said he had been taking nv place,
an though I wouldn't believe if, nor
even hearken to the foul-tongued gos
sips, it sort O cut me when you spoke
up for him. Faith, lassie, l love you
more than many a husband. IF you
were to play me false with any one, I
think I'd feel like killing him an you
too"
He looked like it at the moment, and
she believed him, and trem5led at the
of passionate tenderness and
wrath in his tone. Instinctively she
turned and clasped his strong hand in
both hers, her face turned upcoaxingly.
"Don't think O. such things, Kyle,
love; you know never could. What's
Mr.. Denbigh to me, but fathers part
ner ?"
Ilt1 WIS uOluluk IIlS SO1b uhuAS, ana
looking down into the sweet eyes. The
moon, Just rising, glittered on something
which, unnoticed by her, had escaped
from the folds of her neckerchief-a
golden circle with the portrait of man
within.
Faith" said Kyle Griffths, in tone
which strove for steadiness. "you're
wearin' grand new trinket since I saw
you last. Who gave you that?'
He spoke too suddenly. With a quick,
frightened gesture she snatched away
her hard. as if to hide the bauble.
With a face deeply, terribly red, the
red of cOwardly consciousness, she STAN
mered out
Gifts nothing -father's-I mean
[ bought it.
Without word Kyle loosel her wrist
and rose up. Without q word he turned
from her; only when he had gone ten
5 cps he came back, and said, very
hoarse and lows
Faith Morgan, you have tol me
lie, an you know it. [ can't say if it
was for the first time, but can say it
shall be the last. I wondered and
his voice sank deeper still" that you
should shrink when I took you in my
arms, while ago. I wonder now you
dare let me do it, wi that mans face
lying between my heart an yours. Go
to him now, an you will I want no
wife on whom I can't depend in word
an deed"
He was gone the next moment and
Faith, sobbing bitterly with grief and
anger, went homo to find Philip Den
bigh at the garden gate waiting for her.
He had been counting her for the last
two months; and she had coquetted
with him. Flirting is not an amusement
confined to the upper ten. [ have heard
of young Patagonian squaw who was
as finished an adept at it as any Belgra-
vian beauty; and Faith, an only child
and the prettiest girl in Amlwch, had
been wonderfully fond of trying her
On the weaker" sex, till
the arrival of a new first mate for her
fathers favorite vessel, the vessel he
had commanded himself until he was
admitted to a partnership in the firm of
Denbigh & Co., his employers. Kyle
Griffiths, big as giant, true as the
light of day, and masterful as he said
had "cut out" all the rest in
no time, and won Faith for his own IN
divided property. She never even cared
to look at any one else when he was by;
and, believe, loved him as entirely as
was in her nature, with most worshipful
affection but when Kyle was away at
sea, and young Mr.. Denbigh came to
Amlwch,- Mr.. Denbigh, who was what
she called a gentleman, some one who
wore fine clothes, and had white hands,
and a curly mustache-and when this
hero testified an immediate and violent
for herself, how could she
help being pleased? how could she help
going back to the old habits q?
She did not help, either. Mr.. Den
bigh made love; and she smiled and
dirted, all unconscious in her flattered
vanity of what the neighbors were say
ing, until, just three days before Kyle's
return, the suitor brought matters to a
crisis by a declaration. They had a
tiff about a photo of Faith, which Den
Digh had stolen and put in his locket
and he bad brought her a fine gold
.ocket with one of himself in it, and
begged her to accept it and take the
donor into the bargain.
Followed wakening for silly little
Faith, and the confession, "But am
engaged %