The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-05-08
was brought up to kitty bearing the
name-Frederick Lockhart.

go, that horrid sewing machine agent
again ~ exclaimed Kitty CT do wish
mamma had not talked with him about
machine, he is such bore And the
idea of his sending up his card, in that
way, as If he were a visitor The i'm
pudence of the thing Nora, tell the
man we don't wish to see him, and he
will oblige us by never calling here
again |"
Nora departed, and was soon heard de-
livering her message, just inside the
drawing-room door; when suddenly
Lillian started up.
"I think that Is really too bad, Kitty,
for 1 heard Aunt Laura ask him to call
again, and think she means to buy a
machine of him. 1 don't see that it was
anything very dreadful to send up his
card; of course he wanted her to know
who he wasl"
And Lillian was flying down stairs be-
fore Kitty had time to demonstrate, if
she wished too.
Nora was ushering handsome and
elegantly -attired gentleman out of the
hall-door. He turned his head at the
sound of Lilian's Footsteps, and she en-
countered very naughty gaze from
pair of keen brown eyes.
Wait moment. / think there is
mistake" stammered Lillian, little
awed by his manner, if he was only
sewing-machine agent. "My aunt
Mrs. Tyler-did wish to see you, Il think.
She had some idea of buying machine
of you. If you will call sometime when
she is at home"
The keen brown eyes did not leave her
face, and Lillian found herself blushing
in the most unaccountable and ridicu-
lous way.
A smile flickered family about the cor
ners of his mouth, and he hesitated for
a moment. Then he bowed gravely ,and
went, without word in reply.
" If that's the sewin machine agent,
it's foine and handsome he's growed
since the last time he was here" said
| Nora.
| "Why, isn't it the same man ?-but
of course it must be. Aunt Laura said
his name was Lockhart."
/ was afther thinkin' it was little
pindlin' feller but he moight be the
same for all I'd know it'sa little notice
Nora Finnerty takes o. the men-thrub-
blesome crathursl'
And Lillian went up stairs to receive a
scolding from Kitty for interfering with
the message she had sent, and being SO
polite to peddler. The truth was that
Kitty was little out of temper because
Cousin Fred had not appeared.
The glance Lillian had received from
those brown eyes of the sewing-machine
agent haunted her more than she would
have acknowledged, even to herself.
If he were prince he couldn't look
any more high-bred," thought she; and
she inwardly resolved to see Mr.. Freder-
ick Lockhart the next time he called, if
possible.
But he did not call again. Lillian men,
toned him, one day, to her aunt, and
received the information that she had
told him, month before, that she had
decided to buya sewing-machine of an
other kind, and it was very strange that
ne should have called again but then,
such people were always SO PERSISTENT
Lillian was conscious of wish that
he might be persistent enough to call
still again; and though she laughed at
herself for it, and was ashamed of it, she
could not drive it away. G
Lillian was ridiculously romantic. -
said her cousin Kitty, and perhaps she
was not far from the truth. What
would she have said if she had known
that Lillian was haunted by one glance
which sewing g-machine agent had cast
upon her, as she stood in the hall-door
that she was bewailing the cruelty OF
fate that would not let them meet againl
But fate was not so cruel, after all
One November day, Lillian, being down
town on a shopping expedition, was
overtaken by a sudden and violent rain
She had only few blocks to walk tc
reach the horse cars, but in that distance
she would have been drenched if it haC
not been for the friendly aid and um.
brella of-the sewing-machine agent.
: Itwas very improper,of course. Wha
he ought to have done was to have walk
ed straight by her, and let her ge
drenched. At all events, that was Kitty
opinion. 10 fae
} But what he did do, was to walk up Il
her, without the slightest hesitation ,an,