The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-11-18

hih ordinary acqua'ntanceship bet en-
them, while away down in tie uttar-
most recesses of her heart she kept
continually wondering if Mr.. March
missed her as much as ste missed
HIM
While Miss Royse-well, that time,
years ago. when she and Tyler Osden
were 'one and insepera BILE seempd
further away than ever. now that she
did Lot as much as meet him OF neu:-
raj gronLd; ana Marian silencsd hef
near, p alnts, aud was cheerful aud
TO al eyes.
So the Sgmmer DAYS wore on. until
one delicious August morning. when a
cool. spicy breez- from the plne woods
was blowing and the glad. mellow sun
shine flooded the dying Summer dsy,
there came into these two girls lives the
sound Of voices and the sight Of faces,
that stirred them to their very souls
busy about their Pheasant.
honiely duties, in dining-room and hall,
Doctor Ogden's gay and cheeful voice
startled them:
It's veritabIe Acadia, March
Did you ever see such an amethyitine
sky. or sniff such a breeze! Blessed
be the fellowman who advised US to
try Clover Villa "
Ard Percy March replied:
There will be lacking but one thing
needful-if We only had few chosen
friends. AS you Say, Doc. there is an
eli in th,r Ial,
Then they passed up the broad, low,
stairs. out of the presence of these two
wo nen, whose hearts were beating so
fast and furious.
Then Wilma looked up at Marian,
and both their faces were full OF agita-
tioa aud Marisn's voice was almost
awe-struck IL its solemnity.
Wilma. it is Fate
More than once that day the four
came face to face, and it was proof
positive that ther disguises were more
than satisfactory that the gentlemen
did not recognize them
1t was more than satisfactory. Sd far
as their disguises were concerned but
somehow there was kind of pity for
themselves about it, for it went very
far to show that the eyes that looked
at them were no, the sharp eyes Of
love; and in proportion as Wilma dis
covered that she was of no consequence
to Percy March, in just such propor
ton she discovered how much Percy
March, was TO her.
A week had gone by, when Wilma
learned the truth of what Marian had
said. that there was Fate in it, and
she learned it one cool, starry evening.
when. her days work was over. Marian
had gone off fo- quiet little stroll in
the garden. and she sat alone in their
bedroom, under the caves. where the
voices of Percy March and Doctor
Ogden came distinctly up TO her. as
they sat and smoked and talked on the
quiet piazza.
II was her name mentioned in Mr..
Marches quiet tones, that attracted her
attention, and then-would not you
have done it. sister reader then she
listened, while the two men exchanged
their confidence. and mentioned the re-
semblencs they had discovered between
the neat. modest waiting girls and the
two fashionable belles-a resemblance
which, it seemed. had set the two gent
lemen thinking very vividly Of Wilma
and Marian. And she heard the whole
story OF the folly of pride that had
separated Doctor Ogden and he only
womsn he ever had loved. or eve-
wanted for wife; how her reserve had
held him aloof since. until he had de-
termined that the very wisest course
for him to pursue was to try t. realize
that there was never aught Of hap
piness for him in love again
And then-snd oh. how every low.
sweet. grave tone thrilled through her
heart, and made her fnsE and pale =
then Wilma heard Percy March re-
turn his friends confidence. and tell
Doctor Ogden how jea ous he had been
thinking he preferred Wilma West,
fearing Wilma West preferred Doctor
Ogden. and telling how the one hope
of his life was to win her for his wife.
Then Wins. with tears dropping off
her lsshes. and her lovely face wearing
a look of ecastasy aud solemdity. slip
ped off her chair and went down on
her knee tn thank God such hope of
happiness was before her little knowing
that it was 40 soon to come to her, lit
tie knowing that. not an hour later.
something somebody says about Mag
gle Brown and Annie Smith. sudden
ly revealed the truth of the escape to
Doctor Ogden, who sought and found
Marian Royse. cut under the August
stars, gathering courage from the
strong belief that hauture could not
exist in the heart of any woman who
could thus lay aside the tra,nmels Of
fashionable society and enjoy in her
own way the quiet delights of nature.
1t was rs if heaven had come down
to that patient hearted woman that
night, when. after such hopeless wait.
ing, joy came to her again; and when,
with loves kiss ard new-pledged VOWS
yet warm on her lips. she sought Viii
mA to tell her the strange, sweet story,
she found her not less happy than her.
self. because Percy March bad asked
her a sweet. solemn question, and she
had not said him nay.
That was the end of their of6ng. and
in their hearts they all believed that it
was benign Fate that suggested,
ordered and arranged it all.
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