Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-05-20
MY LILI.OF-THE.VALLEY.
BY EARL MARBLE.

BY EARL MARBLE.
"Peepw 1t was CHEEKY, almost
childish, voice, we'll known and loved by
me: and yet started in half alright so
deep was my reverie. Reveries, in the
majority of cases. probably, have Love
for their inspiring god; but this was an
exceptional one, else / had surely been
prepared for any such surprise as this,
from the very priestess herself of love.
Not that she acknowledged it, or
either, for that matter. But we are both
finite and love is infinite.
You little pussm l exclaimed, chow
you frightened me"
"Do look so like fright, then, in my
masquerading?"
"Of course not You are always charm
ing. But your voice"
''Was harsh and"
How dexterously you do fish for COM
pliments this afternoon! You know
your voice is soft and musical, for have
told you so several times; and"
"Ha, ha, ha! Go on"
ut was that very sweetness and soft
ness that startled me, being so antipodal
to my thoughts just then"
"1here!" a sudden seriousness settling
over her manner. "That convinces me
that you are not obeying your doctor.
You must have been thinking of those
dreadful columns of figures and of
puts and calls and shorts and such
ridiculous nonsense Don't you remem-
Der you told me you shouldn't think Of
any calls but calling the cows, nor any
shorts but those they have for their
supper, to make them give you an extra
quality of milk for your breakfast so you
can go back to the city in the fall vigor-
Gus for business and fresh for the smiles
of your sweetheart"
"Quite a long speech, upon my word!
And it is not a month yet since | sup
posed you never INDUCED in anything
beyond monosyllables, and scattered
ones at that"
THANK you for nothing. But how do
ysu like my costume?"
Charming. Who assisted your"
i made the things. Cousin Maggie
helped arrange them, and Mr.. Fred Mars
ton acted as critic, to see whether l was
presentable."
and pronounced you an fait?"
"Yes, if looks would do SO. But he
was 50 busy sketching that he would
hardly say word"
"Puss," ! said, after moments de-
liberation, and wondering whether l
really had the courage, do you really
remember all told you, in my gossiping
way, the day after Fred and ! arrived,
about the doctors instructions-how
was never to think of business or cares
of any kind, but only amusement, and any
nonsense that came uppermost?"
1es-perfectly."
Who'd have thought l would go so
contrary thereto?-tirst, to come up to
this quiet place, where both amusement
and nonsense would seem to be sacrile-
glous; and"
Secondly" looking as prim and dig
nitied as so slight and sweet body
could.
:" Yes, secondly, by falling in love with
YOU
spoke deliberately, and with an
effort; and the last word had not died
from my lips before knew that my pre-.
monitions of dangerous ground were not
uninspired.
\ pink glow sutfused her face for an
instant, and then faded into a whiteness
that was not so deathly as it was trans
parent.
1t added to my pain as well as to q
vague delight | ielt in the picture she
made in her masquerading dress.
- speak of this mimic masquerade
SAo the picture 1t formed, it will be nee.
tsSAFy to 60 back few days, on which
~caslon | sat in the little, pinched-up
Iaior Of the oldfashioned farm-ho
lIal formed my retreat from the city's
I'm and business for q few weeks in the
sUNiIiei On the wall opposite where ]
; "a, Auhg N old family portrait, SO old
,-','ceu' WA the daughter of my hostess
vas Hol eAacly certain as to who she
vas, or OF What generation she had
isiiNeu part Or the life. The student
~. lasnien capric,s could probably have
AsCef'aned by research: but it really
maze no great difference. The sa
lent lent point OF the portrait was a larg,
hhzabethan ruff, rot so stiff and upgain
as are generallS represented in Dor
traits, but seeming quite graceful ant
pretty, and, indeed, as though formins
part Of the personality &C the parsonage
who was young, less thantwentv anns r
entity, skin white and deicate aim.s
entirely devoid of color, eye OF a Dor
Jar n's7'te feeling, and lips whose ms
PeFcepuble pont was in fine Seenin,
With the round, CHEEKY face.
Miss Perry" l said, "the posrsi