The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-20
RlRRs--ALoVE STORY.

The TACT was she gave herselftoo many
airs, and he did not mean to stand il
any longer. He didn't care ii she was
pretty; that was no reason why she
should let half dozen fellows at a time
hang about the shop or stroll In one at a
time, and, leaning on her elbows, chat
ter and smtrk and smile over the coun-
ter, cadets and officers too, wild young
fellows, who only did 80 for their own
idle amusement, and would no more
dream of marrying her than they would
| oil inviting her TO u ball that was coming
, of next month. To be sure, he was on 7
La common cavalry soldier, but then he
had been in theservice good many years
Inow, had an excellent eharacL Ter, and
! a good trade at his back, and more
over, his father had died not long since,
and there was the cottage all ready for
Jennie to walk into, and they might set
tle down at once il she'd only be sensi-
BILE. Jennie acted as shop-woman Tor
little shop IL was, very small and badly
stocked, for Mrs. Evans had only mai
aged to got few pounds worth OF
things with what had been subscribed
Tor her in the garrison after the fever had
carried off her husband. The specula-
tion answ cred pretty Well at first, for
many of the officers wives, knowing what
an Industrious woman Mrs. Evans was.
made point Of buying their tapes and
cotton and sticks OF sealing-waK of her,
Then Jennis's pretty face was seen be-
hind the counter, and the shop was filed
from morning to night with officers and
frisky young cadets, and the original
customers took flight--though Mrs. Ev-
ans did not know it, for she, believing
that the business was sale In the keep
in Of i a ha nrao anna L.
she had three chlldrensto 10 support, and
The shop alone would not do it).
The officers were not profitable GUS
toners, for they only went to tilrt with
Jennie under the excuse of buying a
penny paper, or perhaps asking for a
| timetable. Jennie made the most trim
and pretty and obliging Of shopwomen,
and the place itself was always a pat
| tern Of neatness; but the officers wives
did not care to 60 and buy thread where
they were evidently interrupting q
Irritation, and SO the business continued
| to fall off, and Mrs. Evans began to get
quite unhappy about 1T. Jennie-pretty,
kind-hearted, thoughtless Jennie-had
no idea that she had anything to do with
it, or she would have sent every one OF
her admirers off at pace that would
have astonished them.
l
her brother-in-law died, to come from
Devonshire and live with her sister at
| Woolwich-not only because she had
wished many times TO see John Weare
again. She had made his acquaintance
when her brother and he--tOr they had
been in the same regiment-were sta
| toned at Plymouth, and she had paid
them a flying visit with her father. John
had told her then that he was tired of
The service and wanted to settle down,
and she inwardly thought that he could
do no better than to ask her to settle
with him. He had been very attentive
when she came to Woplwich, and gradu-
ally established himself on the footing
OF q lover, till he found the shop was al
ways filed with the officers and cadets.
At first he was shy of appearing before
his superiors, then he got jealous and at
last angry, for he felt and knew that they
cant her no good, and besides it was
uoing real injury to the business OF the
shop. At last he spoke his mind and
told the coQuettish Jennie what he
thought, and was snubbed for his pains
'If you think don't know how to take
care of myself, MIR. Weare, you are mis-
taken, and don't want any one to tell
me what's right or wrong. l know for
myself"
"Well, Miss Jennie, I didn't mean to
give offense. only told you what L
thought"
"Tnen you might have kept your
thoughts to YOURSELF" she said, with r
| little toss of her pretty head-''unless
they had been nice ones," she added.
He heard the aside, and picked up his
courage. .... ..
"Its awtully hard, too, when one that
cares really can't get near you," he
pleaded. Just then Jennie caught sight
of Captain McGee, tall and handsome
man, with long whlskers and red nose,
coming in the direction of the shop, with
big bunch of flowers in his hand. She
had heard John Wears last words, but
she was secretly OF the opinion that she
ought to have come up to the scratch
before" 30 she thought little Jealousy
might do him good.
"Ob, here comes Captain McGee," she
said, in Delighted tone.
"Well, he's just the biggest blackleg
in tue service, Jennie, and If you take
my advice you'll send him off sharp"
II believe you are Jealous, Mr.. Weare,
and telling stories about the captain.
He is always very polite to me;" and
ranged the trifles on the counter.
"Oh, he's polite enough, no doubt"
"And he's bringing me some flowers"
"Now look here, Jennie, are you going
to take themp'
GOT course / am"
"Well, then, gooI-by."
"Good.by," she laughed. or course,
she knew he wouldn't go.
"Jennie, he will be in directly, and
shall be of, but you must choose be-
tween him aud me. II you are going 10
keep on talking to him, shall never
come in the place again; so which ID it
TO beW
"The captain"
"But l am not joking; Ill never see
you again."
"No more am l joking; SO, good by"
"Good by"-and he Went.
He kept resolutely away for whole
month-never once went near the place.
Ii Jennie wanted him she might send for
him, OF get her sister to invite him to
! Tea, as she had done before. But John
| Weare was not sent for; neither was he
invited to tea, and his spirits began to
wax low.
"If she'd cared about me she'd have
| got in my way somehow before this
| trust woman" he thought.
Tie idea sf not being cared for was
,