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SCISSOR Bagger.' she added. = il
'Oh,indeed!' was the curt ejoihder. ii
yes; he was SO amusing. He took v
me in TO break fast; and, what do you q
think ? When he was returning
thanks for our health being drunk, e
he told US he was engaged to be mar U
ried.' lt
WAS his bride present :? inquired t
Miss HELM. I'll
'Oh, no ! she could not very we'll t
have been present. you see. Do you
know who she is? ?
How should I2' answered her
companion. IL
sWhy, the whirlwindv = exclaimed
Miss Brandt.
sThe whirlwind replied the other,
in amaZement.
Yes; he said that once, as young
man, he had committed his plighted
troth to a whirlwind, in the shape OF
a love-letter. aud that he was CON
stantly expecting all answer; anc ne
w.s, therefore, an engaged man."
oh, dear! what is the matter ask
ed Miss Helm, in tone of ofsympathy,
as her companion uttered . sharp cry
of pain.
The fact was that just at that mo-
msnt Miss HELM had omitted to hold
back brier-shoot that hung over the
path, the consequence of which was
that a thorn had struck into MISS
Brandt's ankle.
This circumstance stopped their
conversation for short time, but, on
their return to the house, Miss Brandt |
again alluded to the subject OF their |
! conversation. Il
'Only fancy, dear, how romantic ano
interesting it would be, if the wind
| were really to pour down such bill
lets-doux! What would ones feelings
be if one got such letter from the
sky, III which your unknown lover
pledged his fealty for time and eter-
nifty ?''
That is rather too difficult a
question for me to answer re-
Piled Miss Helm, laconically.
But, after all perhaps, it is
not so very extraordinary an occur
renee. A girl know once had such
billet, aud she made me present
of it,
you don't mean that? But have
you really got the letter. | should
So like 70 see one of these messages
, from the sky
Il think 1 have it stlll,' replied Miss
, Helm. 'Bnt l will see;' and, after
rumaging in her writing-desk for =
, few minutes, she at length found the
, paper in question, aud handed 1t to
, her companion. ...-
t Miss Brandt read ii through, but
was very careful to conceal the fact
that il seemed to correspond exactly
Q with the description the Assessor
had given of the note he had once
8 written and committed to the whirl.
< wind.
sYon may keep it if you like said
o Miss Helm, as Miss Brandt was re.
8 turning it to her.
e %, thanks-but-well will keep
o it as curiosity, you know, and &C
# saying she folded it up aud slipped ii
d inside her glove. and shortly after
n ward took leave.
After Miss Brandt and her party
l. had gone, Miss Helms cousin, &
II rather pretty Looking young widow
said to her:
!, What is the matter. Ingeborgi
$ You seem as if you were laughing
e with one eye and crying with the
other.'
u 'Oh, nothing much was the reply
,r sonly a bubbl: has burst, and per
!" haps-'
at guessing riddles; so if you wlsl
,e me to understand your meaning, yOI
70 derstanding.'
it We'll. then, have just lost an il
a. lusion of six years. standing salt
" Ingeborg.
s, :Of SIX years! Why, you were thel
~ only sixteen
l Exactly just when 1 was sixteel
a met ali ideal with which fell il
ct love. To-day l have heard that h
e. is married. But I'll tell you tn
whole story. Six years ago drov
e, into Copenhagen with my late father
While he was engaged in busines
W matters, l went about the town T.
as execute my commissions.
just as was turning the corner o
p a street was nearly Knocked down b.
the wind, for 1t was bio wing very vi
l olently. While I was gasping fo
- breath, a scrap of paper few i'll unde
my veil, and hung there futterin
ne Just like butterfly. l tried to re
70 move it, but as often as tried to pu
le it away it flew back. At last de
ly termiued to get rid of it, for it wor
to ried me, and was on the point Q
throwing it up in the air, when no
u ticeI there was some writing on ii
II. | read it, and saw that it was regu
m lar love letter. The writer state
III tnat he had sent 1T forth after the fast
r. ion of the old Mortimer, who con
es mitted the props of their high sea,
to the waves; and that to whOsoeve
e. it alighted, he would some day brin
his plighted faith. 1t was signed &C
IS E. BIS
ht sWhat is 'geb" inquired the widow
,ir 'Why, Iugeborg, OF COURSE replie
Miss Helm, with simplicity tbs
testified to the esrnestness with whic
he she believed in the reality of the VIZ
n, ter's vows.
70 sVery strange, indeed replied he
ell cousin, with slight touch of iron
Nv in her words so you determined
iy remain single till your unknown cam
re to claim you as his own
ne No, not exactly that answere
he Ingeborg; 'but perhaps it made II
ng more particular
sy sWell-and nowT interrupted h
Cd cousin.
Il have just given Miss Brandt Il
m, note.'
Given it to Miss Brandt! VIII
lat what made you do that p
of Because l learned from her th
'er the man who in all probability wro
lgs that letter had spoken Of it publicl
and was an Assessor in the Grimm
ng court
me %, see now,' replied the wido
pa in bantering tone. when yol
in ideal hero turns out to be anAssesso
er- then
,ly He is my ideal no longer, you we
nd going 10 say broke in Miss Helm.
be- No, not exactly that. But tell n
how could l possibly have gone
in him and told him that had his IL
his sive? Beside. it is quite plain tn
Miss Brandt has liking for the A
SCISSOR. Fancy if they we're only
Inp make a match of il. and she W
q to give him his note back GU the
wedding-day, wouldn't it be roma
mo tic p
M. But how can she explain abo
jch 'Geb?' asked the widow.
no. 'Oh, such matters do not depel
She upon single syllable; beside, Mi
tn Brandt is rather a cautious you
or lady, added Miss Helm, in slight
voc sarcastic tone.