Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-01

which l shall awaken and find my
treasure gone"
TO think, Louis, how miserable W,
have both made ourselves! Only al
hour ago | wanted to be dead.''
but you viii not die now, my darl
ing!
You shall live to know by my lif,
how thankful ! am for this precious
gift"
Louis" said Nettie, few morning.
after she sat in an easy chair, making
her lover thought, a very beautiful
convalescent, "Next Wednesday is my
wedding day"
"Nettie, said Stab, looking his sur
prise, ''you are darling to name Sc
early day. WANTED it to be so, but
scarcely dared TO ask it,"
She raised her hands deprecstingly
as she spoke, and then hid her face
from him in them.
"why, Nettie," continued her lover,
as he laughingly imprisoned her hands,
''you need not care: we will be mar
ried to-day, if you say so. You took
me by surprise, that was all; and ]
could not help expressing 1t; there is
no need for you to look so confused
''Oh, Louis, how provoking Of you to
think could have meant our wedding
day ~
''You said yours, dear"
Yes, but not yours"
''What do you mean, Netties" said
Stab, with grave face.
''You are so stupid You must surely
know. Next Wednesday is the day set
for HE 10 become Mrs. Preston"
"Nettie," said Stab, "you do not
know what you are talking about"
Nettie Austin looked up now, and
saw that every vestige of color had left
her lovers face. She began TO COM
prehend tnat he was indeed ignorant
of her promise and arrangements to
marry Preston.
why, Louis" she said, with trou-
bled face, Il did not think it worth
while TO explain it TO you. The sub
ject was hateful, and 1 took it for
that you knew all about it,"
And so you are to marry him 20
said Louis Staib, in voice so changed
that Nettie scarcely recognized it.
mo, Louis; / intend to write to-day
and offer a price for my hand, which
is promised him. know him too well
to fear he will not accept it,
"Oh, Nettie, to think of you being
the promised wife of another and affi-
anced TO me at the same time -
Indeed, you are little too fast Mr..
Stab. promised to be Preston's wife
but not yours"
''Nettie Austin!''
How could promise, said Nettie,
turning half away from him, "when
you have never vet asked?"
She was in her lovers arms the next
second.
You know very well, darling" he
said, kissing the face that was trying
to hide from him, ''thst have told you
over and over again that L loved you,
and that you were mine forever"
Yes, Louis, know, but you"
''Oh, / begin to understand. You
want me, as Maud Muller says, TO ask
Tou as they do in books. Well, dear,
will you be my wife?'
Nonsense, Louis, OF course l want
o be asked; and of course"
well, Nettie, of course WHAT"
III be your wife,
Thank you darling; now make me
Is happy as was a half-hour ago by
citing an early wedding-day."
That was stupid of you, Louis ~
well" said Louis, laughing, ''for-
,ive me, and III set the day this time.
You will hear from Preston, to-mor-
ow, and we will be married on his day
Ifter all"
SVF oh thc 'Suic>uds SGT, ONcHS-
,oro was put in little uproar of talk
nd excitement; for in the church, at
he hour appointed for Nettie to be-
ome Mrs. Preston, she walked up the
isle with Louis Stab, whom, before
he walked back, she promised to love,
lonor and obey.
The strangest part of all, the gossips |
aid, was that Clarence Preston was
he first one to offer the happy pair
congratulations.
No one guessed how Nettie had man.
ged affairs, even when the young |
awyer announced to his friends that |
e was the possessor of suddenly ac-
uired wealth.