Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-28

very much as lt-as lt-may L dare 10 say
it?"
"say anything you please" said Ellinol
with rising color.
"As if you liked somebody else. Oh par
don, Ellinor, please don't be vexed with youl
poor little harum-scurum Katy !" and in pre-
tended apprehension, she hid her face with
one hand and caught Elinor's dress with the
other, peeping furtivcly through her fingers te
watch the effect of her words. Ellinor's color
deepened to carnation, but she reared hel
queenly head with some haatteur, and after 6
moments pause answered very quietly
"Your pardon is granted, Kate but if you
want to preserve my opinion of your common
sense, don't advance such a silly suggestion
again"
"Such excessive dignity is certainly susp
cious," thought Kate, "and believe I've hit
the right idea after all p But she wisely re-
pressed this reflection, and merely replied, in
a tone of mock humility, that she would be
very, very careful, not to say such stupid
things any more.
81 must confess" said Ellinor, returning
to her former tone, "that I am extremely
grateful to your mother and yourself for com
ing here now. If it were not for that,
really don't see what I should do"
"You need our formidable presence as 8
protection to your nerves, eh ? [ assure you
I am delighted to be here, under the circum
stances it will be as good as play to me te
watch your maneuvres; l may take some
lessons in regard to my own conduct, when
have such part to play. But I suppose
am too insignificant to be courted in such
high-and-mighty way-that is, if l am evel
courted at all, which am beginning to think
doubtful from present appearances. think
Neil, I'll write romance when I 60 home
with the characters drawn from life. You
shall be my heroine"
"And Sydney Temple your hero?"
"That depends upon circumstances. If
like him, he may if not, I'll create another
By the way, his real name isn't Temple, is it
It seems to me I've heard some story about
it."
"His name is Sydney but his grandfather
Temple, who had no male descendants, left
him some property on condition of his taking
his mothers family name."
"Why, that of itself is quite interesting,
I
see him, for on the whole, he does appear tc
be like the hero of romance"
81 wish, for my part, you could have your
hero all to yourself" said Ellnor, "for I an,
sure I do not want him."
The young gentleman in question arrived
in due time, met with cordial welcome from
COL Hollingwood, and somewhat distant
one from Ellinor, who, as usual when embar
rassed, comported herself with exceeding dig
nifty and reserve. Kate watched the meeting
with secret glee, and though she assumed a
demure air Of propriety, her black eyes spar
kled with suppressed fun when it came to her
turn, and the hero of romance was presented
to her. She afterward told Ellinor that she
was rather disappointed, for she could not find
anything heroic in him to admire. He was a
tall, rather ine-looking man of about twenty
six, with handsome dark eyes and heavy
brown moustache, and conspicuous air OF
lazy indifference which frightened into bare
ly sufficient show of animation in his inter.
course with the ladies. Even toward Ellinor
his manner displayed no empressment a cir
cumstance for which she felt too grateful to
resent it as a slight. There was certainly
nothing about him suggestive of the ardent or
doubling lover; on the contrary, he walked,
talked, moved and looked with ali the self.
possession of an ordinary individual, who had
come to pay an ordinary visit of friendship,
and nothing more.
Kate, however, who watched him like a
lynx, detected frequent protracted, though
furtive, glances from his large sleepy eyes, to.
ward his fair young hostess glances in which
she could read no special interest or admira-
ton, but rather curiosity, as if he were ell
gagged in trying simply to discover what sort
of girl she might be. Ellinor, on her side,
never looked at him at all, except when po-
liteness demanded that she should address
him, which was as seldom as she could man.
age to let it be. Things went on in this man.
ner for two or three days, during which the
party would have been rather stiff and
stupid one, but for Kate whose animation
never tagged, and her mother, who, being
one of the most unobservant ofhuman beings,
and always in good humor with herself and
everybody else, never thought that anything
was going wrong, and was, consequently, in a
delightful state of perpetual complacency and
placid enjoyment, most soothing to behold.
Ellinor felt as if her securest stronghold was
the corner Of the large, old.fashioned sofa,
where, entrenched behind the cumbrous mass,
through portion of which the old lady's gi-
gantic kntting-kneedles were never weary of
moving, she could listen to the comfortable
soft purring tones of her voice, and seldom
have occasion to make any reply ; while Sgd
ney Temple lent deferential ear to Colonel
Hoilingwood's remarks, or exchanged lazy
witticisms with Kate, whom he seemed to like
the best of the party-probably because he
found her the most entertaining. It. did oc-
cur to Mrs. Roxbury's dull perception after a
while, that the young man talked more to her
daughter than he did to Ellinor, and that this
could not be exactly right.
"Kate, my DEAR" she said to her privately,
''if I were you wouldn't let Mr.. Temple fol-
low me up. Dear Ellinor might not like it. T"