The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-29

neck, and kissed her audibly and emphati.
cally ut least half dozen times.
| But Aunt Rachel had made H., her mind
that Kitty sought to be talked to-" and
when that venerable spinster's mind was
once firmly and fairly made up, it took
more than even Kitty's coaxing ways to
undo the little parcel
"One word more, darling" she said as
Kitty finally released her from her explos-
i've embrace, and turned round to leave the
room. You'll give up that party tomorrow
night, won't you, dear Remember it's
Thanksgiving-day, and such thing was
never heard of as going from home on
Thanksgiving-day, Kitty. can't think
whatever put it into your head to want 20.
"Why, aunty,' replied Kitty, sinking
down again at her aunt's feet, with her eye
brows more puckcred than ever, and dark
cloud of discomfort settling down upon her
features, 'it will be the very last chance l
shall have to dance this winter, The Mer-
ediths 90 to town on Friday, and then Roy
can have me all to himself for eight dreary
months. Come, daringest of aunties, say |
may go continued the lively girl. "l'll
be here all day, you know, and III talk to
old Uncle Zekc and Aunt Charity, about
the coops and the turkeys, and I'll repeat
the longer and shorter catechism entire to
Parson Trip, if he likes to have me, and I'll
crack nuts and pop corn with Biah and
Kiah Pomeroy till their heads are fairly
turned round on their shoulders, and I'll
eat all can, and great deal more than |
ought, and I'll try to make the old fogy fes-
tival as pleasant as ever can, aunty after
the most ancient and orthodox models; but
must go to the Merediths' German after
they are all gone, Aunt Rachel. must
indeed
Aunt Rachel shook her head. rs it not
| that would keep you, Kitty as you very
well know; but Roy objects so strongly,
and you know, dear, you do tiirt with Rus
sci! Meredith rather more than is suitable
or becoming
Now, Aunt Rachel exclaimed Kitty,
the sunshine returning to her bright, girl
ish face, consider Thanksgiving as already
begun, if you please, and the reign of char
ity and good will established. Don't let
your dear old heart be anxious. I'll make
it all straight with Roy. And now really
must 90 and look after poor old Kcziah,
whose astounding performances in the way
of pies and cakes are all artisticaliy ar
ranged OF the dresser shelves waiting TO be
admired They really are the most Won
dcrtul structures. aunty, and would do
! credit TO Partisan chef in outward adorn-
ment as well as in what Keziah calls their
'relishin' flavor am 10 have the honor
Of decorating the large almond cake with a
motto in pink and white caraways, the
motto to be left to my selection. What
I shall it be! Not Waste not, want mott
that's too mean. Let me see; indigestion
waits upon excess would be friendly
warning don't YOU think so!' And be-
slowing another sitting cares upon her
aged relative. who was now fairly van
pushed and utterly hopeless, Kitty Somers
marched .riumphantly out ofthe room.
II was in the long, !ow drawing room of
Miss Rachel Somers house at Newport that
the passage at arms above recorded between
herself and her fair niece took place--a
house from who's. large, old-fashioned win
dows terraced garden and verdant lawn
soped down to the very waters edge, and
which had been occupied by successive
generations Of the Somers family for cen
turtles before wealth and fashion had set
their seal upon the sea-girt island. and
elected 10 hold their reves there In that
house Kitty Somcrs had been born; in that
house her fair young mothcr-widowed be-
fore her baby's birth-had drifted out upon
tie unknown sea from whence no mortal
had ever yet returned, leaving her infant
daughter to Aunt Rachels gentle care and
guidance.
Here KitW's joyous childhood had been
passed; here Aunt Rachel had nurtured.
pruncd and trained the wild luxuriant ma
ture which blossomed so early into fresh
and blooming girlhood, and promised to
bring forth maturity's best fruits in after
years And here. alas had been sown the
first seeds Of vanity and frivolity by the adj
niration that her beauty and cleverness ex-
cited during the brief summer reign Of idle
ness and dissipation. 1t WAS at one Of the
many brilliant entertainments which had
been given during the previous summer
and OF which Kitty had been the bright
particular star that she had first met Roy
Campbell Attracted at first by his mag
nificent physique, she had been repealed on
a closer acquaintance, by his cold and dis
tant manner, and again piqued, by his non
chalance and apparent indifference to her
charms, to putting forth her very best pow
ers OF fascination to entrap him. From that
time there had been but little peace by day
or rest by night for either Roy Campbell or
Kitty Somcrs. One perpetual skirmish and
conflict had been going on with themselves
and with each other. A steady, rcsolute
determination on his part to resist the spells
OF the enchantress and laugh her witcheries
to scorn-an equally strong determination
on hers to bring the scoficr to her feet,
while she escaped scot-free herself-had
ended, as such conflicts always must, in the
complete subjugation Of them both, and in
formal proposal from Mr.. Campbell to
Miss Rachel Somers for her neice's hand.
so matters stood on the eve of that Thanks
giving day, which was destined to be the
turning point in Kitty Somers life.
The morning Of the great Puritan fcsti-
val dawned with that soft mist over the
landscape which belongs to Indian sum.
mer in all parts of America, but which in
Newport minglcs with the sea-fog and pro-
duccN luminous haze through which all
objects take golden tinge