Connecticut western news., 1878-09-12

| away instead, and pursuing his home ward way in silence. .....
 An hour afterward Aggie and Stella are together on the broad western piazza, when Tom appears, bearing a sheaf of papers in his hands. He has come from up stairs, and Aggie starts to her feet, her cheeks dyed with on1inous crimson at the sight.
 "I will not call thee beautiful, '" reads Tom, in solemn voice. "'Slnce the moment when you first flashed upon.' Charles Lester o. h. o. L. Rather disconnected, my dear sis ter, and not particularly creditable from moral point of view, though an admir- able study of chirography. You should always keep your desk locked when you undertake new branches of study, how ever."
 "Tom, you wretch P shrieks Aggie, as she darts upon him and wrests the papers from his grasp.
 (" How about dime novels now ?" asks Toms voice, rising calmly above the whirl. ooh, by the way, Stella," con- tinues Tom, as Aggle makes her escape, |" might as we'll tell you now that Regi- nald Vane never said those things that Aggie repeated-not about you, at least. I was in the room, and heard the whole of it. She asked If he didn't think you vain, and he laughed, and said he had never noticed it, though you certainly had reason to be vainer than any woman he knew. Then they went on to talk about different sorts of women, and he said what kggie told you about hirts, but he wasn't talking about you, nor think ing neither, I'll bet. How did find out about the letter, after all? We'll, haven't been through course of sensa- tion papers for nothing. No, I won't read any more, but they were bully while they lasted. Only. you see, man. mao make such row if she found it out, and yoas don't want me to, and so- and so-Well, after all, it is time for fellow to leave them off and take to some thing useful at thirteen"
 "Yes, it was dreadful, horrible, con- temptible, says Aggie, Tn voice choked with sobs. "I've been as hateful as I could be all through. Why did I do it We'll, was jealous I might as well own it. He was so handsome And he never looked at any body but you. What blind little bat you were, not to be sure of it Why did I do it? Oh, you know that already. I thought that if you aOould think that that letter came from Charlie Lester, and answer it, it would be such a good joke. And then, you see, if Reginald Vane knew it, he I don't think 1 really would have done it ;z= It would have been too mean and hateful even for me. was frightened nearly to death when Tom insisted upon going to the office to find out who mailed it. When he came back and said MT. Vane did, I was so amazed that came near letting out the whole thing, but remembered in time that he was in the office buying stamps when put the letter in. I was so frightened when saw him that I just ut the letter in the outside drop and hurried off. Of course it slid down in- to the same box with his, and Lucy thought he had mailed them both. And now, Stell"," says Aggie, "what are you going to do? deserve it, know but if you only would not tell him about it. don't want him to despise me-
 No, Stella will not tell. She is LOO happy herself to wish to inhict pain on any human being. She kisses Aggie, and assures her of secrecy and forgive ness-nay, more, she even imposes si- lence upon Toms restless tongue so ef- fectually that all Reginald Vane's ques- tions avail to draw no inkling ot the truth from him. If Reginald has his own suspicious, he keeps them to him self, until, in the new duties and cares which time brings to both Stella and him, all remembrance of the mystery which had well-nigh made shipwreck of both their lives has faded quite away.