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life. The next day Mrs. Tollman lost
her summer boarder.

lie. Inc next uay AurS. 1ollman lOSl
her summer boarder.
Society, languidly contemplating
Miss Cameron for the next three
years, found her eccentric. She was
gay and grave BY flashes; fascinating
in either mood, but she was mysteri-
ously unapproachable. The bravest
suitor found himself met at the point
where friendly attention merge into
lovers devotion, by a wall OF icy re-
sere that was impossible. She never
fiirted but she had the reputation OF
a fiirt, because she was popular and
admired, and remained single till she
was twenty-seven. She was known
to be truthful, and she had distinctly
told several lnquisitive lady friends
that she was not engaged. so that
there was not even the spice of 70.
nance in the gossip. Surely she was
not disappointed" for never had the
bright serenity Of her beauty been
more unclouded.
Scranford knew her not in those
three years, but Mrs. Tollman was
the recipient of various hampers of
city delicacies from her city boarder,
and acknowledged the same by let
ters One of these dated three years
after the beautiful Miss Cameron left
Scranford, after elaborately thanking
that young lady for hamper of dain-
ties added:
'Do you remember my nephew,
John Furber? He LETT the day after
you did, and l fretted more than o
little. But he took a turn for the
good. Heaven be thankful, and went
to n. York to look for a situation.-
He worked himself up, for he's smart
John is, and to-day he writes me he
has made friends with his father
again, and is to be taken partner in
a big commercial house. His fathers
to buy it, but Johns earned place,
too, by hard, honest work. Oh, my
dear, Pm happier than ever thought
to be. Perhaps you've heard of the
house John is in-Collis, Haynes &
Co. Johns to be part of the Co..
But III tire you, writing about my
own affairs. wouldn't only l thought
you'd remember John"
"In New York;" Leonie murmur-
ed $50 near me all these years, and
yet never seeking me. Was | too bold?
Did drive him away by showing my
heart 700 plainly? Well, even so. /
am glad | gave him the first start to-
wards an honorable manhood, Re.
member him ? Yes, Mrs. Tollman, |
do remember John.
|. She folded the letter and was dress
ing for the opera, when the servant
announced i caller.
"Wbat barbarous hour" she MUIR
INJURED, not looking at the card. I'm
few moments, Jane"
"She was robed in her feecy dress
of white lace over pale blue silk, and
clasped diamonds on throat and
wrists, and in the little ears, when,
as she took her opera cloak from the
maids hands. she looked at the card,
John Furber."
A great heart throb sent the blood
over her brow and neck; then it Ia
Ged, leaving only soft tint upon the
fair checks, and in the dark eyes a
light of happiness harmonizing well
with the smiling lips. She looked
like some visitant from another world,
in the radiance of her beauty, and as
she came across the wide drawing
room to the window where he stood,
he had not heard her light step but
he turned when she was near, show
ing the stamp of his better life in his
noble face.
He held out his hand, looking ear
nestly into her face, and seeing she
spoke only happy truth as, taking
it, she said:
81 am glad to see you"
"Leonie," he said, ycu gave me
a hope, three years ago, that has
borne me above temptation and sut-
fering to position where | am not
ashamed to look any man in the
face. Leonie, you babe me"
Blushing brightly, she took up the
words as he paused.
"To be man, John, for my sake|
"And | obeyed you, my darling.
| have come tor my reward, Leonie,
loving you with all my heart, daring
now to ask for your love in return"
Society had a ripple Of sensation in
a fashionable wedding, when the son
of Israel Furber, the millionaire, $50
the newspapers said and they know
everything,) married Miss Leonie
Cameron. But only you and !, read
er, know the romance of that summer
in Scranford, or how John Furber
redeemed his manhood for Leonie's
sake.
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