The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22

But Emily Paget did not go nome
Her uncle and aunt, working folk
imagined that she had married into ;
sphere which was all rose-leaves aut
sunshine, and she had not the heart t.
dispel their fond delusion.
"Tll go to some boarding-school,
she said to herself. "I'll study hart
not only books ard the keyboard ot
the piano, but manner and style. II
make study of the most lady-like girl
in school. I'll accomplish myself sc
that no hauty minion of fashion shall
look down upon me again as that Dians
Hall did (! Tom has given me lots of
money; he was always generous enough,
as far as money went, and l shall be
able to manage things as / choose ]!
An occasional letter posted from the
country depot nearest to the Jersey
farm, kept Mrs. Paget advised that her
daughter-in-law was alive and well, and
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.
"Pm so glad she's contented to stay
away" said Mrs. Paget. cts such an
immeasurable 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, suppose. She has
spent ahem-a great deal of her time
there since you went away, and IS we
didn't expect you back SO soon"
"All right" said Tom, with ya"n.
81 suppose I 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? d?
I caught glimpse at her as she came
by this afternoon"
"That Miss Wilde? Yes, I have
heard of her, but I've only been here
week yet. The season is early for Long
Branch"
"She is royal beauty T.
$50 they tell me, and her manners a
model. She sings too like 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"
81 must be introduced to her" said
Tom, eagerly.
"Kate Clifford knows them"
"Then," observed Tom, "Ill do the
the agreeable to Kate Clifford, if she is
a little in the old maid lire. For 1
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. l was a
fool.
"Most men are at one or another
period of their lives" said Mrs. Paget,
caustically. "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 a
pretty girl when see her"
cts dangerous, Tom,"
"I don't care a copper if it is !" he
impatiently. "There she is
now on the sands walking with Miss
Ponsonby and Kate Clifford. 1 can see
the outline of her superb figure in the
And he sprang across the threshold of
the low French window and hurried
down to the esplanade. He gained the
point; he got an introduction to the
reigning beauty, as yet, of the season.
"You tremble, Miss Wilde" he said,
as she accepted his proffered arm, leav-
ing the other two to walk behind. ''You
are cold. Allow me to get you shawl"
"Thanks-no am not cold"
Something in the tones of her voice
thrilled electricity through him.
Surely, surely he had heard that deep,
rich voice somewhere before.
Miss Wilde" he began in hesi-
tating, uncertain sort of way. She
stopped him with motion of the hand.
"Let me correct you Mr.. Paget. 1
am not Miss Wilde. My name is Mrs.
Paget."
Tom dropped her arm, staring and
Mrs.-Paget !"
"Tom, have you forgotten Emily -?
Oh, Tom, meant to keep up the mask
a while longer, but can't can't.
am your own Emily"
So they met again, the husband and
wife, after five years of separation; and
EmiIy'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
" Ny daughter-in-law."
And with reason. For Emily is the
most beautiful and fashionable woman
at Long Branch.
"OHly proof" she says, "of what
a woman's will can do"