The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-16

dered where they could have disappeared,
made inquiries of the other members of
the family, and finally gave II up as a
mystery.
The next day, Arlington, on whom the
unseen lady had made such an impression,
placed the rosebuds in his button. hole
before going out. Why he did SO would
be hard to define.
That afternoon, Maude was returning
from making calls, and walking along with
her owe regal air and ehstic step, when
she met Arlington St. Clair, unknown to
her, of course. He saw her some distance
before him, and, struck by her appearance,
not thinking of his last nights adventure,
he continued to survey her until they came
up to each other She looked at him
eareessly, as one does when meeting
stranger, but withdrawing her eyes, they
rested upon the two rosebudS and the spray
of green. He marked the glance, the
startled look, then their eyes met in one
searching gaze, and that was ALL Arlington
looked after her retreating form, aud said
to himself
81 have found her! knew she must
be beautiful, but l did not dream of so fine,
so stately woman. She is my ideal Oh,
if I could only win her But how to get
nh introduction"
Maude went home, and in the solitude of
her own room, with her eyes fixed upon
the empty vase, pondered Those buds
worn by that gentleman who looked at her
with such admiration in his eyes, were just
like hers but, pshaw they were not hers;
how could he get then2 Aud she dismissed
the subject.
Nav, like the swell of some sweet tune,
had glided calmly into June, which had
given place to July-hot, dusty, intolerable
and the more favored denizens of the city
escaped to the seaside, the mountains, the
country homesteads anywhere out of the
dust and sultriness of the city. Among
these was Arlington st. Clair, who was glad
to escape for a few weeks from his confined
Office to inhale the salubrious seaside air,
and find his head grow cooler and his
mind clearer amid the resting influences
of nature.
On the second evening after his arrival,
he was sitting on the cool piazza lazily
thinking, and hearing unconSciously the
subdued roar of the waters, when he
noticed lady and gentleman coming to-
ward the house, from the beach. When
they were quite near, he all at once started
up with look and attitude that betokened
n deep interest. In the gentleman, tall
and fine looking, he recognized Judge Clin-
ton, whom he had known the last winter in
connection with legal matters. He further
saw, with heightened interest that the lady
on the arm of the Judge was she whom he
had met on the street. and whose acquaint-
ance he had SO longed to make. The
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to greet him cordially.
"Why, St. Clair, you here2 I am glad
to meet you once more. Allow me to pre-
sent my daughter. Maude, this is the
young lawyer of whom you have heard mc
speak"
As each acknowledged the introduction
with well-bred grace, Maude knew tina
some where before she had met the glarc
of those handsome, searching eyes. ant
swiftly, on the rushing tide of memory wa
borne to her the recollection of the gentle
: man she met on the street with two rose
buds and spray of green SO like her los
: ones in his coat.
Down on the sanded beach, in the cool {
) the afternoon, paced Maude, deeply thnl
u ing. During the past few weeks she ha
: been much in the society of st. Clai
Q They had walked, drove and sailed t.
Il pether. and now she was acknowledging
a in him than in any gentleman among h
q circle of friends. Yes, this man, thouG
is he knew it not as yet, was fast becomil
1t necessary to the happiness of Mau'
ID Clinton. She walked along until she can
, to rock projecting into the water, whe
| st. Clair and she had spent many hapI
l hours, Seating herself there she watch
the waves sweep in around her, and drear
= lily repeated
= "'Break break, break,
On thy cold, gray stones, c sear"
0 And rich manly voice eontinued:--
"And I would that my tongue could uttei
The thoughts that arise In me-. ,"
Looking up she beheld Arlington at b