The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-01-25
i Small Boy.

. rt : sar. she's OUT" said small Ned,
: n = a,ed the door. "Shc's gone tc the
: l-r- makers. but she'll be back soon,
'co"sa she : get to friz her hair for dinner.
/ Goa,a II ani wait
! e-2ersci the invitation, and installed
,nyssii in the easiest chair in the parlor,
a.tcr ro'!ing it to the bay-window, SO as to
command ii view of the street, while Ned
! hired himself, as he called it, on a
:naro,c-topped table beside ne, AMI sat
there. with the crispy cheekiness of early
5oyhoo1, wh;stlins and swinging his feet.
Ned was chap of ten years, with a re-
narkablc mcmory-a | was fated to dis
c,r,r--the youngest brother Of Ms Vic
.9ri! Conrad; and Miss Victoria Conrad
"a@ handsome, dashing, clever girl whom
! had met a:a picnic the preceding sum-
iI,cr, and with whom | had Immediately
fallen desperately in love.
| use the word desperately" adTisedly,
for is was my first really serious entangIc-
ment, and my charmer, being a thorough
mistress Of the arts by which young AMI
susceptible male hearts are subjugatei
had iothraliel ne Elost completely.
Tue, before | cas-. mysalf at her feet,
had tclta grca: Tenderness fJr a sweet lit
tie .hird or fourth cousin of mine, slight
pale young girl, with hair Of the faintest
goli anj eyes Of the soGtcsJ blue, and an
innocent, trusting, chill-liks look 10 her
pretty face.
Bat beside Miss Conrad, with her mag
uiiic"nt form, glorious auburn tresscs, and
wonderful biz black eyes, May Newton
faded INTO in-.snitis:arce. Il was as though
, one i,l,c,'i Il lcl,catc, crcam-c0iorcd lily in
che SAME vase with IL /. .'0us, flame dishi
,.,i-ai;ll- c7ilns on leayei, b.oHn- -throated
..l,diole.
AMI So found, on bccnmin,. acqr,int-
c.l with Miss Conrad, thar my feeling for
Mav, when hal existed since cur earliest
.;hildn0oi, .ots only only "a tenderness,
while my feeling for E.ctari,, although but
three months OF, ;.lrcady amounted to y
raSsion.
Rat. in spite of my i:fa.uat;on for the
atgnr, ! was no; blind 10 the fact that she
as { lisheI coauette, ana iln's halls
=" the way, aiJ'r sac very deed j en-
engagement she had given me, size liirted
" III, ioy in innate friend Charley Thornton.
S,neti,ns 5, indeed, it l,.he3 urof, M that
there had been g. love affair between them
and t WAS after Que of these fl,shcs l had
>2nsiIt her house, determined to discover
wha, her real feelings toward ne were, and
resolved that when lcfS her it should be
, either Us AZ accepted or rejected suitor.
To speak frankly, / hal every reason to
believe, in spite OF the flashes, il would
| be as an accepted ono. For as much as
Thornton was distinguished by Miss Con-
rad above her other admirers, just Sc much
had been of late distinguished above
! Thornton. And we two were equal in
! age, looks, family, education, and (our
| lady-loye thousbt) fortune. / say our
ady-loye Moughi, for the truth was, com
pared to me, Charley was poor. How rich
! WAS | hal taken care shouli not be
| known: for though only -ani-twenty,
! had already grown tired Of sinsle-life,
with its attendant boarding houses, and
comfortable home of my own. And like
Lord Burleish and othe. romantic, poetlc,I
fellows, wanted to be lovedfor myself
alone.
Only Charley Thornton knew Of my re-
Gently inherited wealth, and him l haC
bound by ali that is sacred N friendship
not to disclose it.
$50 in singing me out for favor"
argued, "Vicsoria leads me to suppose sht
loves me. And ii she Consents t. become
my wife, that sunposition will turn into
happy certainty, for she CERTAINLY, with heI
beauty and talents, might make nlu:'
liner match than the one | offer her. An,
WIS, delight it will be when the words AZ,
said that seal my happiness and make he!
MI my own, to see he. resplendent eye
grow larger and brighter as she learns lha
in accepting a few thousands, she has be
come tho mistress Of half millioa -
But to 90 back to the small boy, swing
ing his feet and e8ilensly ,.nxioas to ente
into conversation.
81 say." he blurts out at last, ado yOl
like to look at photographs? Cnarle.
Thornton does. He and We boxed q
this book taking one from the table OIL
which he sat-"iDr more'n IN hour III
other, day. | like him. lie gave ne tw
white mice aud a gainea-pig: the cat 1T.
the white mice, ana the gninea pigs dad
But they wasn's looking a. it all she tn
either. They Was talking. Your picture'
there. you know. His usci 70 b. on th
other page, but he coaxe,; Vie to put
somewhere else
"Wb q asked, oeasins TO watch 70
the coming of nv divinity, and turning Il
ward the small boz with awakened curio:
ity.
"Cause,' said Ned. evidently trYing t