The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-01-28

hHe tHOuBub ~ Will HOb no 10 blhy
here another week. will go In town."
Miss Stanley did not go to town the
next day. She went to her old home,
the convent, and stayed all day and all
night. The next morning she went to
the Cottage, and told Mrs. Coolidge and
Lilly that she had concluded to remain
at the convent until the Hall should be
ready for her reception.
But you will wait and see Eugene ?"
Mrs. Coolidge said He has been out
since early this morning. He Will soon
he in."
promised to return Immediately"
said Rose. " But you will say good.by
to him for me. Stay,-I will write 1t. I"
She drew an escritoire toward her, and
wrote:
MY DEAR FRIEND After so much
gayety, Ii seems TO me that need lit
tie quiet and 80 / have concluded to
stay Mt the convent awhile. If you
want anything of me, you can send,you
know Don't think me caprlcious In
leaving you so abruptly. only to-day
realized that this Is my last chance for
some time to make u retreat. Good-by
till you call on me ut the Hail."
Both Mrs. Coolidge and Lily thought
that they understood the meaning of
this sudden move, and that IL referred to
Charles Wilson. Lily was not sorry.
1t gave her the opportunity she desired
to comfort the young man undlsturbed
by the presence of the one for whom he
would be every moment forgetting her.
Charles had said that he could not again
come to the Cottage while Rose was
there; but he had pressed Lily's hand
at parting, and called her his "sweet
friend" Now he could come.
AS her carriage turned the corner of
the street, in going away, Rose saw the
doctor approaching in his buggy from
an opposite direction. She leaned for
ward, and gave him smiling bow,
thinking again:
"He must not believe that am an
cry"
He bowed but slightly in return, and
there was no smile in answer to hers
'8ut he looked ut her, with an eager,
questioning look leaping into his keen
eyes. Her carriage turned, and hid him
from her; but in moment after she
heard his swift wheels behind them, and
in another moment he was alongside,
and had stopped her driver. He was
looking very pale, and his expression
was at once piercing and anxious.
"Where are you golngY" he asked
abruptly.
She told him, and added that she had
written good-by to him. She knew that
he was almost beside himself for having
spoken the words that had driven her
from him, and strove to act as though
she had forgotten them. But he felt
the Indifference. There was an air of
constraint,in spite of her, and touch Of
pride and embarrassment in her man
ner. She was no longer the timid yet
confiding child, but the proud yet friend
ly lady. His words had struck more
deeply than she had dreamed they
would.
"You go because you are angry with
me-" he said quickly; I" because have
insulted you!'
81 do not" she replied, tears rising
to her eyes. If you think that, then L
shall turn directly back to your house (;
but want very much to make q re-
treat.n
He held out his hand to her.
"Go, then, child, if you wish to; but
do not for an instant suffer an unkind
thought of me to rest in your heart. L
do not deserve it."
"I know that you do not" she said
earnestly.
He smiled family, touched his hat,
and, turning his horses head drove back
home.
In few weeks Mrs. Burkhardt and
Mrs. Coolidge's direction it was being
prepared for its new mistress. In one
thing Rose had been willful, almost
hard. The room in which her mother
had died so long ago, q little room ad.
joining Miss Fairiield's suite, was left
unchanged but not another stick mol
rag of furniture would she retain.
1t seems to me unwholesome, she
said.
Moreover, she had resolved on send
ing away all the servants, and having
new. Doctor Thayer had expressed sur
prise and some disapprobation at this.
sTaD, sorry to do or wish anvthin,