Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-08-25
WAS SHE JUSTIFIED.

"And her niece, Miss Clyde?"
"ls here, too, OF course and Harry,
don't you think ner beautiful-Miss Ada,
/ mean?"
"Yes, as poets dream"
"You speak warmly ! should think
she had made an impression on you this
past wirter during your sQjourn in the
city?"
A few Whit. from his cigar, and then
he resumed. .
"She is beautiful and accomplished,
and don't wonder that man who had
not his affections previously bestowed
should fall in love with her. She i, not
a blonde, yet too fair to be brunette
such saucy, soul-speaking eyes, heavily
fringed with that rare shade OF golden
brown. tempting red lips and pea.iy
teeth"
Hold, Charley your description is
perfection /; but OF this last named cham
let me ask if you believe they are natur-
all ?"
Her teeth, Harry ~
" Yes don't you .hink them the work
OF the dentist ?"
Z" Not for one moment; they are her
own; mean natural ones" replied
Charley, with iaugh.
well, my Gear boy, confdentally to
you, ii thought they were not the art OF
dentistry, l should propose to her my
frst opportunity and" be added, brush
ing the ashes from his cigar, g should
make that opportunity myself"
IF you are as deeply in love with her
as your frank avowa would Imply, /
shouldn't think you would allow set of
false teeth--provided they are false,
which ! douGt-to stand between you. -
We'll, Charley, you see cannot for
get the repugnance with which | first
viewed my mothers false teeth in a
glass of water in her bed chamber. /
was quite boy then, and | coud not
drink out of goblet il had been chok
ing. 1t makes every nerve in my body
,ingle to see case Of dentistry with the
everlasting, perpetual like motion Of n
set Of false teeth worked By springs"
A silence ensued between them. Har-
ry, with eyes half closed, hitchcd his
chair little nearer the balcony railing
md gave his feet new position on the
round that was nearly parallel with his
heud. and tipped back in bis chair as
though lie was perfectly satisfied with
himself and the world generally. Char
ley Grey sat in precisely the same posi-
lion, with II cigar between his lips. from
which he was drawing long puf,, and ex
haing blue wreaths Of smoke that were
plainly visible in the silvery sheen Of a
new moon that was slowly dropping into
the top boughs of grand old oaks and
eycrgreens.
A waiter approached Grey and deliv-
cred a verbal message. He .prsng to
his feet, and tossed his half moked cigar
into the cump Of rosejushes that clung
10 the trellis-work of the balcony. Turn
ing 10 Harry, he said
They are waiting tor Us in the ma lie
room. | think ii you are still unsettled
about that private affair OF which we
have been talking, that you had better
ask her."
" And face the resentment Of those
eyes Not for Il thousand dollars ?n And
he too. threw his cigar down into the
gravel walk that ran parallel with the
veranda of the Alhambra Hotel. and wns
only divided from it by fragrant green
boughs of evergr and tangled masses
of roses that sent out their fragrance on
the cool night air. The cigar that was
flung away SO lightly fell within II few
inches ola daintily gathered foot. After
the footsteps Of the young gentlemen had
echoed along the whole length ol the YER
anda and died away in the hall "A slight
girlish figure emerged from the shruhbery
and by private staircase ascended To
the tloor above. Rapping lightly on Il
door, it was opened by handsome and
Why, Ada, what's the matter. my
dear girl ?-you are Us white as ghost.
Has anything happened ?" questioned
The woman, as she viewed the young grrI
with startled look
" No, aunty nothing very terrible. l
went down into the garden to get these
rosebuds for my hair. You remember
speaking OF them to ,day-those That grew
so close to the house on the buck yeran
di. Well, just rs l had secured them.
two gentlemen came out OF the house
and thinking they would pass around to
the other side, and not wishing to be seen.
l stood perfectly still, close to and in the
shadow of that largest evergreen. They
took seats, however, aud began talking
in voice so loud | could not help hear.
ing all they said. / could not retrea,
without being seen, and it they had po'
been called away ! should have remained
there till doomsday, for after found
that was the subject of their converse.
ton"
You ? did you say Who could they
have been |"
"One was Charley Grey" said Ada
sinking down in a chair.
And his companion ?" questioned
her aunt.
Was none other than the handsome
wealthy Mr. Heath" and then Ada told
her aunt every word OF their conyersa-
ton.
After short conference, Ada, in com