The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
But Emily Paeet did not 90 home,


Her uncle and aunt, Woodworking foil
imagined that she had married into
sphere which was all rose-leaves an
sunshine, and she had not the heart
dispel their fond delusion.
"I1l go to some boarding school,
she said to herself. "I'1l study bar
not only books and the keyboard @
the piano, but manner and style. II
make study of the most lady-like cir
in school. I'll accomplish myself 81
that no hauty minion of fashion shall
look down upon me again as that Diam
Hall did +! Tom has given me lots o
money; he was always generous enough
as far as money went, and I shall b,
able to manage things as I choose I"
An occasional letter posted from thu
country depot nearest to the jersey
farm, kept Mrs. Paget advised that hel
daughter-in-law was alive and we'll, ani
for more than that, the fashionable wild
ow cared little. She wrote back per
fumed billets which Emily did not take
the trouble to open.
"I'm SO glad she's contented to stay
away" said Mrs. Paget. cts such ar
Unreasonable relief to me !"
Thomas Paget stayed in Europe four
years. When he returned, he was older
perhaps wiser-than on the outward
bound voyage.
"well, mother" said he, "where's
Emily
"In Jersey, I suppose. She has
spent ahem-a great deal of her time
there since you went away, and as we
didn't expect you back go soon"
GAIL right" said Tom, with va n.
"I suppose must go there and get her,
one of these days. By the way. mother,
who is that magnificent girl staying at
the San Pietro, with the Ponsonbys
I caught glimpse at her as she came
by this afternoon"
"That Miss Wilde? Yes, I have
heard of her, bu. I've only been here a
week yet. The season is early for Long
Branch"
"She is royal beauty !"
$50 they tell me, and her manners a
model. She sings too like a night
ingale. Mrs. Vane is going to ask her to
assist in her ameteur morning concerts,
and I'm told she is the best waltzer at
the Branch"
"I must be introduced to her." said
Tom, eagerly.
"Kate Clifford knows them"
"Then," observed Tom, &" I'll do the
the agreeable to Kate Clifford, if she is
a little in the old maid line. For I
must know that beauty with the bewil-
dering eyes and the hair-like FURNISHED
gold"
"Fie, Tom! What would Emily
say ?"
Tom Paget twitched at his long mus
tache.
Mother" said he, 81 married too
early to know my own mind. I was
fool.
"Most men are at one or another
period of their lives" said Mrs. Paget,
"But you're married now,
Tom, and you have only to make the
best of it.
"I know that" gloomily retorted the
Young man. "But all this needn't
stand in the way of my admiring
pretty girl when I see her"
cts dangerous, Tom,"
81 don't care copper il it is !" he
impatiently. "There she is
now on the sands walking with Miss
and Kate Clifford. I can see
he outline of her superb figure in the
moonlight"
And he sprang across the threshold OF
he low French window and hurried
Town to the esplanade. He gained the
point; he got an introduction to the
:eigning beauty, as yet, of the season.
"You tremble, Miss Wilde" he said,
Is she accepted his proffered arm, leav-
ng the other two to walk behind. ''You
re cold. Allow me to get you shawl"
Thanks-no; am not cold"
Something in the tones of her voice
drilled electricity through him.
Surely, surely he had heard that deep,
.ich voice somewhere before.
"Miss Wilde" he began in a hest
;ating, uncertain sort of way. She
stopped him with motion of the hand.
"Let me correct you Mr.. Paget. I
I'm not Miss Wilde. My name is Mrs.
Paget."
Tom dropped her arm, staring and
amazed.
sMrs.-Paget y
"Tom, have You forgotten Emily ?
Oh, Tom, meant to keep up the mask
/ while longer, but can't can't. I
am yonr own Emily"
So they met again, the husband and
wife, after five years of separation; and
Emily's innocent little strategy was
successful. Tom fell in love
With her, as it were, a second time.
And Mrs. Paget is immensely proud of
IS My daughter-in-law."
And with reason. For Emily is the
most beautiful and fashionable woman
It Long Branch.
"OAly proof" she says, "of what
1 woman's will can do"
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