Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-09

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elm, passed Eugene and Miss Napier.
The former was laden with cushions and
wraps, while the lady, in bewitching
morning toilet, followed him to the boat
house.
Kitty watched every motion. She saw
the cushions arranged, the lunch-basket
pat in. Miss Napier's gay laugh came
up over the dewy orchard, as she was
handed to her seat. And then the two
went floating away down the river. It
was hard thing for the young girl to
see. True, Eugene was not her betroth-
ed, in the most rigid sense Yarrow So
ciety demanded no formal announce
ment" Of engagement. But none the less
it had been an understood thing for
months hat-Kitty Vance should be the
bride of the young lawyer. as soon as
his business allowed him to take wife.
Can you imagine the shadow that
seemed to have fallen across the sun, as
Kitty turned back to her little white
room ? Young girls hearts can hold a
world of trouble sometimes. God pity
them
"Good morning. child" said her mo-
ther, down stairs. '1'm glad you are up.
Here's the house full of work. A letter
from your Aunt Harrison-she's coming
on the afternoon stage, and here's the
silver to be cleaned, and the raisins to
be stoned"
Deyoutly thankful was Kitty for. the
pfecccOpatIon wnfcn prevented her mo,
ther's queries in regard to last nights
party. She polished the two dozen
spoons and the twelve forks, and thought
the day would never come to an end.
The afternoon stage from x
brought Mrs. Harrison. There was an
early tea, and Kitty soon pleaded head
ache, and went to her room. Sitting at
her open window, in the moonlight, she
saw the boat come back up the river,
heard its keel CRATE ON .he-seft .~aa,
A.a heuru, too, the low voices, as Eu-
gene Talmadge stood beside Miss Napi-
er for half an hour on the river bank.
Then the two walked slowly up the lane,
and the silence of the summer night fell
on the village.
"Now, Anna" said Mrs. Harrison. as
the two sisters sat together in the moon
lit parlor, lido you know what I've come
for ?''
''To see me. I s'pose," )" answered Mrs
Vance, with her brusque, country man.
ner.
''Not at all, my dear I've come to
carry away Kitty! Don't speak just yet
| know just what you would say. But
wish to tell you you've no right to keep
her INJURED up here IN this place"
katherine does very well as she is
We'd better let well enough alone"
''Tut. tut. tell you the girl is &
well educated girl, good girl. and {
pretty girl. But she needs what shell
never get here, and what, thank fortune
I'm able to give her. Let me have he
for two years. Then you may do wha
you please with her,"
Before the clock struck nine, it hat
all been settled. Mrs. Vance was t.
shut up her cottage in Yarrow, and TAX
charge of her sisters house in Philadel
phia, while the latter, in company will
Kitty, travelled in this country as vel
as in Europe.
And so it was that, when Eugene re
turned week later from attending cour
at x, he found the cottage close,
and the inmates gone. Two weeks ear
lier the young mans feeling at so unex
pected an event would have been one 0
overwhelming surprise and trouble. Blu
now, such had been the intoxicating ei
feet of Regina, 1 think it was a sensa
ton chiefly of relief that Eugene turne
away from the fastened door of the de-
serted house.
1t was month later and the end of
warm September day, that Miss Maple
stood. in sable riding habit, upon Mr.
Hartley's east veranda. Her delicat
whip was in her hand. and vivid seal
;. les cardinal flower in her hair. Belo
her, one step, stood Eugene. His fac
wore an excited look-fush and pallc
rapidly chasing one another over b
features as he tried to put in words tn;
which for the last week had been burr
ing into his heart. 1t came at last
torrent of swift, passionate utterance
But first, last and all, it was the san
story, old as the world, as deep as tt
r soul of man. 1t was : "Dear heart,
love you!'
All but to see that rapt face upturl
ed in eager waiting-every movement
eye, of lip, of breath suspended throug
+ the nights silence, waiting on that W
mans speech. And it came. All, b.
I to see the, also-the feigned surpris
e the naughty scOrn of that proud, viii
e face, the well-bred quiet Of the brief +
ply.
y Indeed, Mr.. Talmadge must have fo
!, gotten himself. He could not have su
/ posed such thing possible. In fact,
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