Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-06-28
LANES LOVER.

Jane .Haypie, exclaimed Mrs. Crane;
sharply, you must certainly be in love,
and you know well enough that 4
have no patience whatever with that
Kind of fooiishness. Here's pie
burned to coal in the oven, you up.
set the milk pitcher, put salt in the
sugar bowl, and forgot to make the
coffee for breakfast. What possesses
you. grip
Jane's face flushed, but she made no
reply, bat kept on kneading the bread
on the bfeaI-board "a ID
You'll tell me, won't you, Jane?'
said Leila Crane, coaxingly, c0Hing 10
the side of the girl who had been the
same as sister to Osber for three years.
Yes, after a Whiie,' replied Jane,
quietly.
And Pm sure. MAJ said Leila, swby
Jane can't have beau is just because
you're afraid of losing her. Shells 8
perfect treasure. Hurry up, Jane, and
come up stairs and tell me who your
lover is . a 3
jane smiled as she said: Il have nc
lover, Leila. esSf- 80 : ..i.sls..ss = & s
But after She had kneaded the bread
and done half dozen other little
things about the Kitchen she went up
stairs to the low, farm house chamber,
where Leila Sat braiding her hair, a
small mirror Op her laps M Ess
Now tell me all about it, jane
Jane took seat in a rickety cane
seated chair and pressed her hands on
her hesd as if trying to recollect some-
thing she had TO tell.g ..S5xsg EFsgf
'Lknow | was careless this morning,
Leila, and your mother had right to
be yexed, but | was SO worried and
frightened last night that l could not
rscollect mysenses this morning. You
see it was a lovely moonlight night.
and afteryon had all gone to bed j
thought I'd run out in the grape arbor
for breath of cool air. 1t seemed to
me it wouI;l refresh me, Ifelt so, tired
with ironing in the hot Kitchen all
day. Well, sat down, on one of the
benches, aud was thinking how I'd
triumy blue cambrie, when i saw a
mar come out from behind the lilac
bushes right by the arbor and go to the
pantry window. Ny heart beat so
loud | was afraid he would hear it. He
stood there q few minutes with his
head bowed in his hands, and then he
took something from his pocket and
began to unfasten- the window blind.
All my fear seem to die away, for
thought OF your Aunt Lucy lying In the
room nextf0 the pantry, and knew il
would kfll hers ontfisht in her weak
state if she was frightened at all, and
so ran up softly and stood right be-
fore him. He was SO startled that he
let the chisel in his hands fall to the
ground, and said 10 me in a queer sort
of way: Well, who are you?' Pm
Jalie,' said, and beg you won't get
INTO the house, for there's sick lady
there, and if she Was TO be scared BY
you it would killiber.'l Miss Leila, he
turneii aNsy his teadsand whenI saw
his iaes asaIp.it was white as this wall
Pm starved he said, and I felt the
tears come to my eyes, for he spoke In
such a hopeless, detected tone. i fook
bold of his hafd and led sirn around
tn the kitchen door, and then gof out
pie and cake, and meat, and he ate
as il be was fafnished. When he was
through ise5tDek from his finger.a fine.
ly-worn gold ring-see, it is here, and
Jane showed an old gold ring. He
said il Was once his dead mothers, and
he told me Ihad been so good TO MIN.
the first kindness he had received since
he had left prison, and he begged me
to keep the ring until we met again.
and then ahee went AWAY , - o4lI
what did he look like, Jane?' asked
Leila, deeply absorbed In the story.
oh, he was quite handsome; his hair