The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1878-02-08
How They We're Keunited.
"Lettice |! Lettice r.

"Lettlce! Lettlce
For long moment the two have
stood face to lace together there il
silence, and then he has spoken hel
name. Not eagerly, almost with q
groan in it.
And then there is another silence
and the two faces, into both oI
which the meeting has brought a
flush, pale out together.
1t is the girl who is the first to
recover herself.
Pardon me. think must have
mistaken the house. | thought |
was directed here for Mrs. Allen
Stephcnson's."
"You are right. Will you not
sit down? My sister shall be with
you in a moment"
He has placed chair for her, but
she hesitates. He has remained
standing himself, evidently with the
intention Of leaving the room when
she is seated. But she nesitates;
her color varies, and she says, draw
ing her warm shawl more closely
round her-~(what a shabby figure
in this handsome library:
Il think it is not woth my while
to wait. II think | shall hardly
suit her" ...
"Suit her." He takes her words
up hastily. "SGrely-" his eye here
catching sight Of the threadblre
mourning dress, and of the limp
Grape veil she had put back from
her face on entering. "Surely you
have not come here TOTO"
"To answer your sisters adver
tisement for a seamstress p looking
JUL at him. "Yes. But see it
will not do
There is evident disappointment
in the voice. But Arnold Fielding
does not hear it. He is full of his
own wonder.
Mis-. Werner, forgive me, but it
is not possible; it can not be you
are looking for this place for your
seIf?"
She starts a little as he speaks
that nam,; but she only says hur-
riedly:
Il wa but, perhaps you will
pei nit me to pass you"
She sweeps by him; even the
worn merino and the limp Grape
have certain dignity about them
as she moves. As for Arnold
Fielding, he stands mOtionless,
looking at the door through which
she disappears. Looking at it still
when live minutes later, a servant
con es IN with card.
Il couldn't fnd my mistress, Mr..
Arnold, though I'd told the lady
she was in. She said it was on
business. suppose, then, I'd best
put the card here on the table, and
not among TIL visiting cards p
Arnold takes it absenily from
lim. AS absenlly he glances down
1t it, as he pushes it from him on
he table. 1t is an unpreiending
bit of pasteboard. 1t has on il: |
Il. Davis, dressmaker, No. -, :
Sixth avenue (upestairs)." .
An instant later the young man =
s burrying out into the street. He :
5 making straight for Sixth avenue; I
nd before very long he has found =
he Lumber. But i. is "up stairs" !,
indeed; quite to the topmost flight a
e has to climb, as he is directed =
Glow. And then he knocks at the -
oor upon the garrett landing. ;;
As he knocks, it seems TO him he =
ears the sound Of a suppressed =,
ob; and then a low, hoarse voice, -
lys, "Come in." y, a
He opens the door. A woman is "
with her back to it, with a II,
cry busy air, folding up a Grape .,
ell that has been flung down upon "
le bed. She does not turn around
} he enters; and she says, with a
,und OF iears in her voice:
al didn't think YOU would be up
, quickly behind me. Mrs. Smith. di
you'll please put the kettle down d,
\ the hearth, my hands are full. 81
here has been 70 work left for me, FRI
suppose? | couldn't get the 81
ace" la
This, in tore so respondent, at
at the young man draws a step Dc
,arer, and says: til
"Letiice nc
She starts violently, and turns. pr
le lets the Grape fall out Of her re