River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-04
TIE MATCHED SCARE.
BY INEZ IRVING.


TIE MATCHED SCARE.
BY INEZ IRVING.
From the New York Sunday Mercury t
sMillieent Silyerthorne, sat under the
lofty trees of her friends suburban
residence, and looked upon the far off
line Of hazy hills that met the horizon
in the distance.
1t was lovely forenoon in August,
one of those rare, happy, dreamy days
that crown the perfected summer ere
the golden-browned Autumn takes
her place as reigning queen of the re-
yolving year. vry
shoulder, and Stuart Lindley's tall,
well-built form and handsome face
bent over her for a moment, and then
he stretched in a graceful attitude on
the green turf. ~-s--,.s $ - 81
\ glorious day to live. isn't it 2"
said Millicent ; ''what still, delight
full languOr in the air | dread to
leave it and go back to the city. |
have lived week to-day 81 ~ --'
And yet we must soon be going"
said Stuart, consulting his watch.
Five O'Clock. Only one hour more,
and then we shall have to take the
train" ----
lie lay resting his head ON his hand,
and looking into her face with love-
light in his eye.
Millicent pulled out her handker-
chief, scattering faint, subtle odor
around her. A tiny scrap of news
paper fluttered out of her pocket and
settled under his eye. She was look
ing out into the distance, and did not
notice. He read:
PERSONAL.-Meetm me at half-past eight o.
clock, at corner OF - and - streets
Wednesday evening. J.M.H.
lie did not pretend to notice it when
she turned 10 make some remark and
it caught her eye. She reached out the
hand on which her engagement ring
sparkled, picked it up and placed it in
her pOrte-mOndie without comment.
Stuart pretending not to notice the ac-
ton particularly, glanced at her face
and thought he saw slight flush upon
her cheek, a scarcely defined embar-
Tassment of manner.
Stuart Lindley's principal weakness
was jealousy. lie had fallen in love
with girl who WIS not likely to keep
it dormant. She had the name, though
without reason, of being a most outra.
geous flirt before the engagement. lie
knew of it, but Trusted that all such
| trilling was becoming merged in beI
love for his superior self. With the
absurd unreasOnableness that jealousy
| beg.ts in the Muscular mind, he die
not stop to view the matter fairly
| jumped at the conclusion that she was
| planning to meet some one secretly
and that this was an appointment Will
her that she had cut from the paper
Instead of speaking at once, he con
Guided to wait and watch, The mos
| foolish thing he could do under the
| circumstances.
The six clock train deposited then
in the city twenty minutes past six
| and Stuart, after accompanying Mill
cent to her boarding house, went Il
his room with the little matter on hi!
mind. Wednesday evening, this wa
Tuesday. Tomorrow night he would
watch and see. ''Can it be possibl,
that she would do anything of doubt
| full nature p he thought. sit seems
scarcely possible in one so ladylike ant
high bred" Then he reelected that h,
did not know her antecedents. ii,
had only met her ia the city as
stranger, and becoming interested il
hc@at once, he now began to love her
At half-past eight, he unused; all
just step round to that corner abou
that time and see what is going on.
He accordingly did so, and in shor
time a lady about the form and heigh
of Millicent.c closely yelled. came along
and fingered as though expecting SOM
one. Stuart's heart beat faster. III
see her. But peculiar scarf whicl
Millicent wore around her neck caugh
his eye. He had never seen one like it
Ii verified his suspicious. lie glance,
again over the figure. Ii was rObed il
black, which Millicent nearly AWAY
wore. He could have swoTE it was her
While almost beside himself will
| jealous doubts, tall well-dressed MAJ
with quantity of jewelry glitterin,
in the gaslight Joined her, and the.
walked away together in an opposite
| direction from Stuart's point of Obser
walton. He followed them until the,
disappeared within house in aremott
street. Heeould hardly forbear rush
ing up to the door and demanding al
explanation, but with aneffort curbeC
his anger within due bonds, and wen
home resolved TO face her with hi!
discovery on the morrow. She wa:
false-she, wearing his ring, receiving
his professions of love with such franl
blue eyes dropping beneath his, anC
all the time laughing in secret over
is blindness.
lie worked himself in perfect
fenzy of passion, so that when h'
called the next evening TO see her he
was anything but a reasonable creature
She met him with her usual gentle.
ness and tenderness of manner, but
saw at once a change in him. After &
''gOod evening" that was anything but
| cordial, much less lover-like, he seated
himself meditating an attack. ~
"Why, Stuart, YOU are not well, =
/ said Millicent, in a tone of concern
/ crossing the room toward him.
'les, am well enough in body; but
/ Milicent, l want to know what gentle.
man you met last evening at half-past
/ eight clock. ut the corner of-and
- streets :" erf ~ naa