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my dress turned it over and piece fell
out OF the bottom, and these things were
scattered about. Then she ran out of
the room, shutting the door carefully
behind her.
Poor Miss Ehel needed Ler privacy.
Here was her lovers yindicatiou; here
we're all the sweet words for which she
had nearly died. He had suffered all
she had sufferedj he had poured out his
agony and his despajr ia letters which
had never until now reached her. The
/ poor lady took them to her room. and
never appeared again that day. Bnt she
had no hard words for the hand that had
wropged her. Dear father; he meant it
Tor Kindness, was all that she said.
5tl she grew very restless, and con
tlnually declared that she was sure
something was going to happen. But
coming events often cast long shadows
before, and it was full two months after
ward ere Miss Ethel's presentiment came
true. Then she got letter one day
which threw her into q wild. feverish
excitement. 'Eloise, she cried, almost
sobbing with Joy, he is come, be is at
the village; he will be here in an hour.
How am to bear it?
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in hours like this, and E.loise-perhaps
/ with Just a little pang or her own sor-
! row-gladiy gave it. But when she
| joined the long parted lovers at dusk,
and saw her aunt lingering with tonder
caresses by the handsome dark stranger
at the tireside, she knew that never again
would Aunt Ethel want sympathy; it
was easy to see her lover was still her
lover, and that they thoroughly under
stood the past.
Perhaps the sight OF their happiness
was little irritating sometimes TO Elo.
Use. She could not help blaming her
| amt III some measure for the loss OF
Harry, and che wondered ii sho ever re-
membered now any OF her old opinions
about marrying for love. Many women
would have reminded her OF them, but
Eloise was not ill-natured; and when she
saw the old lovers wandering about the
gardens SO happily together, she only
hoped that her own blighted youth
might have some such recompense given
it; for such Joy it would almost be
worth waiting, little while, but not
twenty two years; that was too strong n
test of fidelity.
1t was not asked OF her. On the morn
ing of the fifth of June, when the dew
was yet on the grass, there was a mes
senger TO see her. He had with him an
exquisite basket Of white roses. and in
their midst was letter which made |
Eio1se Bruce the happiest girl in Amer |
lca. And A Mt Ethel was Just as de,
lighted. He must come here. ,aso FJT :
she said; they would wait lNay again. :
hlm-and he must nevered that Harry :,
Then the ladies disc already friends. =
and James Early. hotel in New York,
they had met their hearts in the same )
and both horn town, they had speedily =
little SoOnfdential. And Harry was i
becoHg in getting his pardon, though !
noexcuse might we'll have been consid- =
red by less loving mistress as an aq
,ravation of his offense. u
you see, darling, he explained be 7
ween his kisses, you wanted to test nv =
lesrt, and so l thought it only fair to :,
ct you test your own also. Do Won
hlnk you would remember me, if Won .
lever saw or heard from me for twenty .
wo years, as Aunt Ethel did that lover !.
# hers P II
Harry should remember YOU for. p
'ver never, never would have mar a
led any one else, if you had stajd away o
'ltogether. But, indeed, it was cruel to v
~ me 30 bitterly c
And how sbout your sending me ?
Iway2 Il
1 won't ever do it again, Harry; and d d
never really wanted you to go. You -
'ught to have known that y y
A few nights afterWard, RS they all sat u
ogether on the moon-lit veranda, Aunt Z
ethel said, very tenderly, Children,
-ames and L will be married next Thurs
ay, and we shall sail for Calcutta inn
nediately. Gould not the two marriages y
,e made at once2 Then, Harry, Eioise
,ould live on at the old place, and keep q
t from going to destruction. It is =
Eloises now; | made it over to her to- 4
lay, and Mr.. Green says you are going n
INTO partnership with their firm, so =
hope you will have enough to keep love :
from flying out Of your windows. :
Little more was said at the time, for I
Aunt Ethel persistentiy turned the sub I
ieet; but when she came into Eloise's |
room TO bid the new bride elect good J
night, the happy girl whispered, 'Oh,
aunt, how generous yOu have been to
us Surely Mr.. Early must be very
rich to let you give us such msgnif
cent wedding present,
NO, dear, he is not. 10 fact he is yet
what he calls struggling man. He has
great ventures on hand; he may become
rich, or he may lose nearly all he has
made. It is something about indigo,
dear, know not what, and don't care.
l am going now wherever he goes, and
am very, very happy woman.
Then Eioise whispered, slyly, 'Auntie,
do you remember saying year ago that
girl was little fool who married for
love?
i remember, dear. | ana wiser now,
and l say if the girl is a little fool who |
marries for love, she who marries with !
ont it is the most foolish and wretched |
of women. On the whole, Eio1se, am
rather proud of our good sense-eh, my
darling-'- - kEarz2ez-.s IKeeS-z-
Expressing the Opinion OF Many Others
A few days ago Justice of the Peace
John Weber took his little son on an ex-
oursion. The lad interviewed the man
at the wheel, and gathered much infor-
nation relative to the business OF steam-
boating. Presently his father joined
him on the hurricane deck and asked
him how he was enjoying himself
'First-rate, was the enthusiastic reply.
I'm going to be a steamboat man, pa
pa. 'An right responded the Judge;
'but you will have to study navigation,
astronomy and divers other sciences in
order to be good one The lad said
nothing at the time, but appeared to be
, revolving the difficulties of the case IN
his mind. Perhaps half an hour later
he remarked, with much gravity, Papa,
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