Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-08-06
K1TTY's RUsE.
"Give me a lone Irritation,
Meath the light of a chandelier,
With music playing softly,

And no one very near
Thus merrily sung Kitty Grinell at the
piano.
care those your sentiments?" called
her Cousin Harry, from the sofa where he
lay with his patent feathers a trife higher
than his head, pretending to study law.
but in fact watching his pretty cousin.
The young songstress slowly shrugged
her shoulders, looked undecided, and final
| ly answered:
'Of course not. L never firt-but some
how it f1irts itself. Pm not to blame for
that, am II"
ooh, certainly not; but who is account
able for the mischief done?" returned
Harry, throwing down his book and APP
preaching the instrument.
"Can't say" she replied, running a
white hand softly over the keys. ''Never
saw any that | had DONE"
"Well, have" replied Harry, in tone
that made Kitty glance up quickly, and
then drop her eyes,
Jimmy" said the young man, ''iust
ull uP W lOOul 1llQ lOOh lOt lily lHO-
king-cap, will you?"
Little pitchers with big ears started off
with an important air, and Harry con-
tinned:
"Aitty, I want to tell you something"
and he lowered his voice trifie.
ooh, know all about it,; she answered
with a little gasp, ''you'r going to marry
that Ella Dunbar, who lives out West. -
''Ellen Dunbar to Halifax" cried the
elegant youth; 'sI'd us soon marry my
grandmother. No, you're mistaken. Kit
ty Grinell; but Pm in love with Il young
lady, and-can you guess who she is?''
CHANGING quickly up, the truth flashed
over Kitty as she beheld couple of dark
eyes, half closed, beneath whose sweeping
lashes new light was beaming for her.
Her heart gave great bound of joy, and
then the evil spirit Of Irritation within her
whispered ''don't sell yourself cheaply."
She dropped her eyes quickly, that he
might not read her face, and playing few
bars of 'sRigoletto," in as good style as
her trembling hands would permit, replied
in voice which sounded strange to him:
''Im sure | can't imagine which one of
your sweethearts it cen be.'
He looked at her steadily for moment
but could only see rosy cheek and bent
head.
"Good Heavens!" thought Harry, "have
I been mistaken all this time? [ really
thought she loved me-" and flinging him
self astride of a chair behind his fair cousin,
with his chin resting on the back, he bit
his moustache nervously and seemed lost
in thought.
Kitty whirled around and demanded:
"Who is she? When are you going to
! tell me?"
| s'Don't believe the girl cares for me-
he growled, "and shall probably never
ing it,
do please tell me-" pleaded Kitty
soothing out her silk apron.
"Well, then, if you mast know" cried
her cousin, with a tragical expression
''it's yourself"
. The look and tone were too much fol
Kitty, and she burst into merry, ringing
laugh.
! Up shot Harry like rocket and about
as red, and kicking over the chair as he
went, dashed out Of the room despite his
Cousins cries to come back
She ran to the door but only saw his
coat-tails vanishing up stairs, and then the
bang Of closing door informed her that
he was shut in his 'sden."
She went back to the sofa, trembling
with excitement, and burying her face il
the cushion burst into laugh which end
ed. in a shower Of tears
s'Oh, what have done," she said. .sH'
did look SO funny that | couldn't help it
He thinks Pm making fun of him. HI
little thinks that I've loved him all TIN
time he's been away"
Then she looked up quickly, with ;
scared face, to see who had heard her adj
mission, but no one was near except Jim
my, who just then entered with the cap
Kitty slipped out and hurried to her room
to battle her eyes.
The remainder Of that day and the mex
Harry spent with his college chum, nea
by, and on the third Kitty made up he
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