The Newtown bee., 1878-04-11

with her visit. Mrs. Amer was so kind and the girls, Ella and Ruth, so charm ing and friendly. Jeanie talked enthu. siastically for some time about her new friends. and Dr. Lowell listened to all she said eagerly.
 After few weeks, invitations came to the farm. for party to be held at the Hall"
 Shall you go, little one '" question. ed her father.
 Jeanie looked up at Dr. Lowell, and was surprised again by the odd pallor of his face. It was decided they should go and the eventful evening arrived. The Hall was ablaze with light, and fra grant with the aromatic perfume of flow CTS, and as Jeanie entered the ballroom on the doctors arm, her girlish heart gave great bound. She had been to but few parties, and youth loves life and gayety.
 But her pleasure that evening was not what she had expected, and as she lay in her own little bed at home that night, and thought over her lovers bewildering conduct, the pretty head buried itself in the pillows, and any one listening might have heard smothered sobs.
 Shortly after their arrival her escort had left her and devoted himself to Ella Amer. Not that Jeanie was neglected that, her beauty and popularity never all lowed her to be-but she had watched with keen pain her lovers manner to- ward Miss Amer.
 From their first meeting the reserve which he generally held toward stran- gers had been wanting, and he seemed to become more and more engrossed in her society.
 The long walk home that evening had been taken almost In silence, and Jea- nie's heart. all unused to trouble, sank very low as she thought she had been unmaidenly in giving her love so freely, and now her punishment had come. Yet heart once out of ones keeping cannot be called back suddenly without pain.
 And this was enly the commencement of her sorrow. Day after day pr. Low oil was 6 gusSs at "Wsbsn Hall, and Jssnis sftsn saw him end Ella Almer riding OF walking together. Farmer Moore never noticed how grave she wsa- risoms face was growing. for with ths pride of womanhood Jeanie kept her grief to herself She had made up her mind bitterly, that while she had been loving with all the fervor of her warm, impulSiye heart, he, whom she had thought so noble, had been only trihing with her-testing his powers of pleasing
 She avoided meeting him as much as possible, and so the time passed, until one morning as she rose from the break fast table, Dr. Lowell said:
 "Can you speak with me little while Jeanie? It is almost impossible for me to see you alone lately" Never had his voice pronounced her name more tenderly. Was he about to make her confdante of his new-found lovef Jeanie raised her eyes quietly to his face, then answering. Certainly" led the way ss the library. She seated herself. and he, standing before her, after slight pause. began:
 "Jeanie, the time has come for this mystery to be explained, and I can tell you who I am."
 The girls large dark eyes opened widely.
 "Who you are!"
 "Yes," he said, laughingly, "I know! I am Dr. Howard Lowell, practising physician, of Groveland; but that is not all. Listen. and will tell you the story.
 My father died when I was ten years old, leaving my mother a widow with three children. Between the oldest of the two girls and myself there was the most passionate attaehment-indeed. we were all an unusually united family. But in three years my mother married again, Then my misery commenced. I cannot describe the persecution my stepfather inflicted upon me, whom alone of all the children he seemed to hate. Perhaps it was because of my then head strong. impulsive nature. l was pas sionate boy, and at last, driven desper- ate, I ran away from home and from my dearly loved mother and sisters.
 "Then for years was driven where fate willed. working here and there at anything, no matter now menial, until at last fortune, in the shape of kind old physician, interposed.
 "Dr. Lowell saw and became interest ed in me, and when he died left me, his adopted son, his wealth, on condition I took his name and never returned to the influence of my stepfather. And now, Jeanie, comes the most wonderful part of my story.
 "I have found my mother and sisters at last free from the one who made my boyhood so wretehed Shortly after I left home my step-father had taken bis