The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-03-11

soon looked back.
Oh, do not fnee, beauteous visionl"
he exclaimed Draw near, and let
me reveal the emotions which thou hast
aroused In my heart
Miss Lupira fed but she "came that
way again" the next morning. And on
this occasion she went so far as 10 pause
for u moment and listen to the little
gentlemnn's delightful flattery, and
even to utter few tlmld word herself
And, for the first time In her life, she
had secret from her sister. This was
II real lover,and she could not talk about
him as she could about the dreadful man
who winlSed ut her.
Miss Mehetabe took her walks In the
twilight, and Miss Lupira took hers in
the early morning; and they each man
aged TO always go alone, and each was
40 intent ON keeping her own secret that
she never suspected the other of having
one.
And the wooing sped apace in each
case
One evening the unsuspectng little
listeners to their love-making. In the
rustic summer-house, near them, were
secreted "Louizy" and very handsome
young man. They evidently had to
make very great efforts to keep from
interrupting the tete.a-teta by shrielSs of
laughter
Oh, thought 1 should scream =
How could you help 1t ?" said Miss
Louise, leaning confldingly upon the
young mans arm. "To think of him
asking her to marry him, and her TAX
ing 1t all In such dreadful earnest And
did you hear her call him 4" dearest
Frank pn
I'm afraid It won't do to let him go
on so-poor Uncle Frank We shall
have to serd him back to the asylum
Your mother says he proposed to Chloe
this morning. And he Is destroying
the garden now. He has pulled every
beet out of that bed that he weeded so
carefully, and set the weeds out in their
places and he has pulled up the car
rots, and stuck them in again bottom
side up. Poor fellow and he was just
as sensible as anybody once See what
u dreadful thing II is to be disappointed
in love. You had better take care that
such thing never happens to me. /
might be crazy too. 1 really don't know
but that should"
And young Frank Warfield looked
very aflectionately into his betrothed's
pretty face, and forgot his uncle for
few moments In doing little love-mak-
ing on his own account.
"No, Frank" said Louise, returning
to the subject; 'don't send him back
| yet. He enjoys the garden so much
and, If he wants to destroy few veg
etables, that is very little harm. And,
besides, 1t is such fun. Those two hor-
rid old maids, who have been my 6etes
n0ir ever since was little girl No,
L am not too hard on them you would
not think so If you knew how much
harm their meddling and gossip have
done in this town. But don't see how
he can make love to both of them, in
the way he does, without their suspect.
ing each other"
1t was rather surprising, but the rea-
son was, that each was too much alb
sorbed in her love affairs to think much
about the other.
Lupiry, have something to tell
you, which will probably surprise you
very much" )" announced Miss Meheta-
bel, with her twilight walks. II am
going to be married."
'' Mehetabel you don't say SO ~
And Miss Lupira, in her amaZement,
sat down OH her sisters bonnet But
bonnets were trlhe to Miss Mehetabel
now.
'' Is it Elder Whitlow, or Ebenezer
Robinson, or''-
"Neither of those, Lupiry, neither of
those" dismissing all those objects of
her former attentions with majestic
wave of her hand. "They were all
worthy men but 1 never could bring
myself to favor their suits, because l
couldn't feel either of them to be my
souls true mate. But have found him
at last, Lupiry-my twin soul. But he
wishes our engagement to be secret,
and our marriage strictly private, on ac-
count of family reasons"
Miss Lupira started at this.
1--WE are TO lie married the first Of