The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-04-30

ly manner. How are youY Give us
your hand !"
"Sir!' cried Lillian, in bewllderment
II don't know you-nor Is my name
Nance"
No, by lingo ~ he returned, evident
ly astonished himself; "you can't be her
for she must be forty by this time, and
you are not twenty. l was forgetting
how time has slipped away, but you are
the very image of what she was when
she married John Burke.
That was the worst cut / ever had--it
drove me to sea and wandering life
Why, I've been round the world i'm
these last ten years. "Oh," he contin-
ued, with sudden thought; "you're
her daughter-the one that was lost
and she found you again ?"
Lillian was very much embarrassed by
this persistent recollection of the un-
couth stranger.
do not know what you mean," she
exclaimed, hastily; " 1 am not the per-
son you take me for-my name is Lillian
Waldron, my father is a broker on Wall
Street-we live at Green Point"
A young gentleman coming down the
street, observing the annoyance and
alarm depicted upon her face, approach
ed her, and said
IF can be of any assistance, pray
command me-"
The one shy glance that Lillian cast
into the frank, manly face was enough
to assure her of the character of its
owner.
co." she cried, " if you would be so
kind as to show me the way to the
Green Point ferry"
With pleasure" returned the gen.
tleman. This way, if you please
He offered his arm, she accepted it
with a glad sense of protection and they
passed on together. Thus began Lillian
Waldron's acquaintance with Sidney
Gray. We shall see what that acquaint-
ance led to. Upon such trifles does a
life's destiny turn.
The sailor touched his hat with a
mumbled "Beg pardon, miss. if Offend
ed you," and watched them until they
were out of sight, talking to himself all
the time.
g A queer reckoning this" so his
words ran " first day in port too, after
five years cruise. 1 was just think
ing of hunting up John and Nance, see
ing if they still lived, when across my
very bows comes this trim cutter with
Nance's figure-head, just as she looked
twenty years ago. How loved that
woman and she preferred that snip of
John Burke to me-because he was
honest, she said, and she was afraid L
wasn't, but what's the odds, had the
most money, and that's what makes
things slide easy, no matter how you
come by it. What did the gal say her
name was? O-ah-Lily-yan Waldron-
lives at Green Point.
"Let me see-I remember something
odd that happened at Green Point going
on fourteen years now. 1 remember
what found buried there, on that gen.
tleman's grounds. He don't know it
though-thought might turn it to ac-
count some day wonder who he wasg
I had to cut and run just then, and
couldn't stop to find out. I've been in
tending to look it up for some time
there may be money in it. I've been
gone so long that there can't be anybody
on the lookout for me now. I'll fix up
bit and then take soundings."
All this indistinctly to himself, as he
proceeded on his way,
Sidney Gray and Lillian Waldron were
not long in becoming intimate. She was
as ingenious and simple as child of six, =,
instead of seventeen, and what could he
do but return her confidence. There
was charm in this very simplicity that
attracted him towards her, for though
but twenty-five, Gray, from his position
in life, being the only son of wealthy
merchant, had seen much of the world Is
society. He was student of Yale, home
for the vacation. His residence was in
Brooklyn.
He not only escorted Lillian to the
ferry, but accompanied her on the boat
and bore her company to her very door,
leaving her there with a reluctance he
he could not conquer. He declined to
enter, as he had promised to be home at
dinner to meet some relatives, but o
glance at the handsome mansion and
grounds showed him that Lilian's father
possessed wealth and position. Promis.