The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-03

6befasles weighed all the eh.po{ III i
and had atialast, as.-.we have sisefn, |
8 some j to the 5..g n5eluagiqah a hat
rope was the best ! method of stra4g.
Il .liir'gthe g incubus, Hldd sHdd vthat Bernard
must prove fox ibimsa1f; hoN, fatal Was
the mistake lie ~ishea1;''tte 2e1; &; ;ns1ake,z .s po
one attempting to counsel or lcoeree.
It wasiaI boldgnme;; taking into con! 7
side1a6op 5 al ths. .colia4exal,1 ~ a1eun i n! 2
stsncesuoa Ut Sjstaks-Sir James and
iGharlsy tttt.i,'j j.aad adjt jtbs indis9aa.tipn s
which Edith might naturally be sup
Possdl ,!l + e + teel I ~: at the si1ass 1 ef having
had a girl Of Lois Lancashire. .degr ee
!. as" hef anteeedent rival; ] BIT: 81 M..
Haynes was clever, as has been said.
she !. 4 knew new that, b e }erge games &, include
great hszards, aud; that. when: one is
m z deadly, e., peril the way ofescape cam
not possibly be easy. Hence she de-
;eided on her course, and now had on
ly to watch, and guide as well as she
could IF things threatened to go
wrong and needed a skillful touch to
put them right.
They were too handsome young men
who came in now to make one of
their frequent calls on the Wildwood
ladies. Sir James was the older,
graver, darker Of the two. He had
had . long minority and not to hap.
pY, boyhood, for bis father and moth.
;er had died while he was, still an ip-
FAINT, and be had not been over-yell
treated' by bis guardians. They had
cared, 6r lis money and what ,they:
could make opt! of him, not for his
best & advantage e Il and what I they coqld
do for hin. i1n..,H Hence, he had .!l develop.
ed = certain sadness, which, was natut-.
q {, and, what was also quite as nat
ural, = certain suspicion Of motives
which seemed to have robbed his
youth Of half its charm because of
all it's spontaneity.
He was in love with Maud Haynes,
yet he doubted her. He was diff
dent Of himself; but he had a title
and an estate, and he was stepped to
the lips in distrust of women. 1t
was then only too easy to him to be
wary and cautious, timid and uncon-
WINGED, feeling as he did that no girl
could, love him for himself while his
advantages hung likemillstones round
his neck. Thus it was that. although
he loved Maud Haynes, he had not
yet declared himself, uncertain as he
was if it was himself or his name
and possessions which would be the
bait to which she would rise-if she
rose" at all: For Maud was both
proud and shy, and concealed her
feelings with: the skill Of q veteran
80 that she gave him no kind Of init
nation I to- what she. Thought or
what she desired. And 'her physique
aided her in, hen: :retioenee: .oShs had
great EYES habiually cast down and
yelled by long lashes, and that pale,
creameolored, akin which. emotion on
~ renders paler. Hence, she never
blushed and Sir; James was undirect1
ed by stock ipgerposts.. So the af:;;
fair between. them had dragged. on;
for some moths now, the one yearning:
the other hesitating, but the final
plunge. not made and never seeming
nearer. ~.
Meanwhile Mrs. Haynes looked on,
and considered within herself should
she bring matters to an issue sudden
ly or leave them to the gradual de-
velopment Of time (which however
was very slow and wearisome. She
saw that Sir James was blind /; and
Maud perforce was dumb but as
there was no rival, near or far of, she
decided on leaving the young people
to themselves; and now she thought
it best that nothing had yet been
said, With this ridiculous affair Of
Berpard''si in tho wind. Sensitive
and suspicious q q he vas. Sir James
might have been estranged for ever
had he thought that his name and
fortune had been taken to bolster up
the name and fortunes Of = partially
digraoedfkm No, 1t was best that
nothing had been said-that nothing
should be- seid-until> this erase OF
Bernsrd's had got itself settled .,,ut
As for Charles Grattan, that could
wait = almost indefinitely He was
but two.and-twenty, Cora only seven l..
teen; and they were destined. No
one who saw them together. could fail
| to seee the sequel. The fair, laughing
! ligbtea;hearted youth y va. i the exact
match }or. tie fair,, genial, .asctionate ID til .,l,
| girl. They were not engaged ny
moro thaip Maud Mf ana Sir james !.l,s vsre
enoaoed }a- fp.r,fi,evsS i, sS'd IA idsi: :nmrom;aed =