The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-11-02
The Blue Bonnet.
We'll, l have found her. y

Well, have found her.
So exclaimed Bert Rey nolds. bursting
into his friends room, where Will Law
renee sat. cody enjoying his morning
smoke, his slippered feet lazily ON the
fender, his handsome form enveloped
in somewha. luxurious robe de chan,Jre,
the whole atmosphere surrounding him
one of indolent comfort
Glancing up and surveying the young
man who had spoken with such breath
less haste in cool surprise. he calmly
questioned, in striking contrast to the
Others excitement
Found her? May l inquire the
meaning of the pronoun and, if you
will deign to bestow the information,
had you not better help yourself to q
sest!'
All very we'll for you to be so CON-
posed now; but wait until you SHARE
my discovery For once III your life
you will forget YOURSELF
Then spare me :! am happy en-
ough. Let me alone, and l will fore
go this marvellous disclosure
That is just what dc not intend to
do, answered his friend, seating him.
self. Listen, Will! thought when.
six months ago, plunged into the
ample might induce you to follow me.
You say You are sick of your life, with
its aimless purposes. and only need to
be reused from your torpor. You have
wealth-everythiDg necessary to make
woman happy. 1t only remains,
then. to seek tho woman. have found
/ her !
SO, no this is the grand discovery
with which you interrupt my morning
rcveries Is she pretty, young. charm =
ing?
Yet what care / how fair she be,
So she be not fair for me ?,
All very we'll now for you to turn it
into ridicule; but wait until you have
seen her.
And when is this rare pleasure to be
offered me?'
Tomorrow. Listen II you will
shake off your lethargy, and attend my
wife's reception tomorrow afternoon,
station yourself near the door. and
| watch the entrance of the first pretty
face framed in marvellous pink bon
net Ii you do not lose your heart at
sight. l promise to forcgo all further
interest in your future. Come, is it a
promise?'
The inducement for my future peace
and uninterrupted quieted is too strong
to permit me to decline the one method
by which l will insure it. l will be
there.
And Will Lawrence, with q sigh Of
relief beheld the door close after his
friends retreating form, but somehow
his quiet was disturbed. The promise
he had given for the morrow weighed
OH his mind.
What bad he to do with pink bon.
nets aud pretty faces? One was as
delusive as the other--a sneer in which
he did not intend to be entangled. He
once had his dream. and his awakiug.
Not always had he been as selfish as
nova man to whom society in vain
threw open her doors with aattering
promise.
He once had drank of its follies. seen
its shams, aud now it might beckon in
vain. None knew of the grave in his
heart, nor the skeleton by his solitary
hearth-stone. which had made him fore
go the touch Of a woman's hand upon
his brow, and children's voices singing
thrugh his home.
Fool that l was 7 he soliloquizcd, as.
true to his promise. at the appointed
time, he stood before his friends house
and entered in the midst of rustic oil
satin and sheen of silk, with the soft
murmur of feminine voices, and run.
ming the battery of feminine glances
Such recluse ? reproached one. so
glad to welcome you again = breathed
another; until at last he was able to
break away from them all, aud. in an
unobserved post took up his watch.
| A pink bonnet and pretty face
How absurd That which pleased one
man might essentially fail in another.
However. it was whim of Bert's. HI
would. for this once. crafty him. then
peace and his solitary hearth-stone
again. But. by Jove who was this
Entering, standing one moment on
the threshold. leaning on the arm of a
fine soldierly-looking man, stood q
young girl. who had numbered scarce
eighteen years. A tiny hat of blue
which matched her eyes, rested on ths
small golden>crowned head. 1t was a.
though violet had sprung up where
she stood-as though the breath Of
Spring had been waited in their miis,
] -as though . subtle perfume must
penetrate the air she b:eathed. 1t wa.
the fragrance OF innocence. Of beauty
and youth.
| who is that young lady enterings
he questioned Of his hostess. forgetting
his promise, his watch for the coming
one, his hope for future peace; but ere
he could catch the answer. she ap
preached near where they stood. ex'
tending tiny gloved hand to Mrs
Reynolds, who. still holding 1t claspet
within hers, with a slight twinkle il
her eyes. said:
my dear. want to present you to
an old friend Of mine and my hus'
| hands. Miss Fernlcy, Mr.. LAweenc'
-Co,onel Fernley, Mr.. Lawrence
i A few words acknowledge the intro
duction: then, leaving the father will
his charming hostess. Will lawrence
had secured his prize and moved OF
through the rapidly-crowding rooms
What was it that caused his heart t
heat faster at the slight pressure OF th'
small hand on his ARIA the singuia