The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-02-02

quickly with glance SO penetrating
that felt for the instant rs II she were
ia possession OF the whole secret OF my
despair.
But she remarked, presently, igno-
rantly enough, +" Then you have come,
think, 70 just the right place to be
cured"
"Because people are so gay here that
there is no room for melancholy Or
Is IL the sea itself that you consider an
inspiring elementP"
ssThe sea ITSELF" she said; Eat least
here at Long Branch. Different sea-
shores, | know, have different express
sions. Some are so sad, even cruel.
But here-and perhaps the people have
much to do with il; have never visit
ed Long Branch excepting in the season.
and can hardly imagine it solitude
here, it seems to me, If any one had
trouble, there would be something in
MIGRATING, inspiring-somethi to
say, II not so much as BE happy, then,
anyway, We must be sensible and we
must be brave.'"
How these words startled me can
not find language TO tell. darted up
on the girl beside me furious glance.
She was utterly unconscious Of the
wrath she had raised; her attention,
indeed. at that moment, was directed
eagerly toward the bluff.
"We must be sensible and we must
DO brave" Those were the very
words of Arabella's letter that had been
haunting me for month, ringing in
my ears their racking mockery, till of
their syllables my soul was sick.
l felt myself seized with sudden en-
nifty against this girl who had re-
peated them. But there was little
time in which to indulge my animoisty.
Some one sprang down the stairway
from the summer house that had been
Miss Reeds object of interest upon the
bluf-a servent from the hotel TO sum-
mon her to her aunt; and she babe me
good-by at once.
Such was her haste, hardly could
persuade her to let me accompany her
across the lawn.
!" Next time we meet" said. as she
flew along softly by my side, . shall
beg you to explain to me an expression,
certainly the most foreign and the most
unsentimental that l ever have heard
ascribed either to frivolous watering
place or to the sad sea-waves.
uttered this sentence with precisely
the sarcastic iciness of tone which SEN
sitive girl, who has just departed little
from the ordinary routine OF talk with
astranger, would be most likely to hate.
And | had the satisfaction OF perceiving
a panied look cross her face. 1t was
replaced, however, Immediately, as we
reached the piazza, by friendly smile,
q quick "good-morning," and she was
gone.
The fancy bali was the event OF the
week. In every detail Of pleasure and
il was pronounced a sue
cess. 10 me il was a brilliant bore,
not even cnlivened by the presence Of
1.-THE girl in the red jacket" Where
had she been--unsought and unmissed
through all the dazzling hours OF the
ball? was just about mentally inquir-
ing, when All and sprang from our
chairs, aroused by the most piercing
shrieks that ever broke from woman's
lips.
Dead silence followed; then a rush
OF footsteps down the passage aad then
again those heartrending cries. At the
next moment Minis voice at our door
" Alfred! Robert! are you thereP are
you upp' and, as we hastily withdrew
the bolt, herself, pale as ghost.
''Come with me, both of YOU" she
gasped.
We followed her along the hall
where, at the head of the stairway, I
saw Miss Reed apparently trying to calm
q frightened group Of people startled
from their rooms, half disrobed like
ourselves-and turned into narrow
entry, where, at sound Of Alf's voice,
Mrs. Colt cautiously opened door, and,
ordering Mimi authoritatively TO retire,
admitted us to an interior which ex-
planned at a glance the source of those
thrilling shrieks.
In the midst Of the apartment, shroud-
ed in night dress bearing evidence Of
a struggle, like the tossed bed beyond,
stood slender woman, with her out
stretched arms held fast by two men,
between whom, her head bowed upon
her breast and her face hidden by
dropping hair, she was swaying herself
70 and fro in the lull Of a frantic parox-
ysm.
Before Mrs. Colt had time TO explain
how she had herself been summoned to
this scene, the woman lifted her head,
gazed at us stupidity for a minute, and
then, with darling glance Of recogni-
ton, an individualizing intelligence, d.
rectel solely, as / felt in every nerve Of
my body, against me, dashed herself
away from tho unguarded men and
leaped like tigress at my throat. A
brief conflict there was, such az trust
10 its iaintest resemblance Ishall never
know Or see again. When at last we