American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-11-03

yes, one-for Miss Dabney," replied
that lady.
al don't know the hand" said Lou
Use, turning it over and studying the
postmark. &c Fairfield. never heard of
that place before. Some mistake, 1
fear''
&c Fairfield" repeated Leroy, catch
ing the word, and speaking on the inn
pulse, with heightened color. "It's
a new summer resort. There's some
sort of water there good for blues and
biliOusness.'
Louise opened the letter and read:
MISS DABNEY: You may think it an in
trusion for me to address you, but hear
that you staying at Valley Farm, under
the same roof with Mr.. Leroy, and that he is
falling a victim to your cruel spell. 1 beg
you to send him back to me. He is mine;
he is all 1 have. 1 can not live without him.
Before he met you, he was all my own. Have
mercy, and send him back to me heart
whole! What will it signify to yOu?-only
one conquest the less among your scores,
while it will mean either lifelong misery or
happiness, as you may choose, to
LLZETTE LAYTON.
The gentlemen had gone to the smok-
ing-room, and the ladies of the house
were chatting merrily about her as she
read. Mr.. Leroy had been trembling
on the brink of a proposal that very
night, and yet he was engaged to be
married. How dared he mention love
! to herr But had she been blameless?
Hadn't she fiirted deliberately with an
other girls lover? What disaster had
she not wrought in her mad pursuit of
an admiration which she did not value |!
| What should she say to him? How could
she send him back? At what expense
had her vanity been fattered! just
/ to prove that she was attractive like
other women, she had worked this
wrong. To be sure, she had had no eX-
perience to guide her. She had sup
posed that the boundaries of Irritation
and love-making were more clearly de-
/ fined. She had never meant to make
Leroy love her; but, whatever she had
meant, it was all one to this poor fool
| iSh Lizette. Her regrets and self-accu-
sations beset her so sorely that she was
obliged to leave the gay raillery about
her and take refuge upon the veranda,
where the shadows hid her; and, lean
ing her head against the lattice, where
the dew-drenched passion-fowers shook
out their sweetness, the hot tears filled
and overlooked her eyes, and sobs seem
ed to tear her heart asunder
ktk
pered some one, whose neighborhood
she had not needed. ''Can help you
Shall stay and try?''
&" Nobody can help me, Mr.. Northcote
have done such dreadful thing!
have-yes, 1 have been flirting with an
other woman's lover. She has written
to tell me soto beg 1 will send him
back to her. He is all she has, she says
And II don't care fig for him; and
what shall do if he asks me to marry
him, as he may, you know?"
g AS he would have done, if 1 hadn't
arrived in the nick of time, tonight
''What shall do? How shall SEND
him back heart-whole?"
'You would avoid the dreaded ques
ton, fancy, if he were to hear to-mor
row that -thatyou belonged to somebody
else; that some one had stolen marcel
on him-if he were to hear that you be
longed-to me-"
"Oh, Mr.. Northcote, to you! You
don't want to own such a mischief
MAKER
''I want to own you, Louise
Mr.. Leroy, strolling out from the
smoking-room, was petrifed by tn,
shadow of pair of embracing lovers
cast by the late rising moon. "Check
mated, by Jove!" he muttered, refec
lively. ''No fun hanging about here an,
longer; L had better go back to Lizette.
l-HGrper's BGzGr.