Louisiana capitolian., 1879-11-29
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, NOVEMBER 49, 1879

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| 4 find him most wearisome,' an.
swered Gertie, dry.
You are not bound to cit and listen
to him them said Mile, with q 6ash
in her eyes. a
Il will withdraw, then, on another
occasion--with great PLEASURE was
Gertie's reply.
That's IL, dove sl,an't miss you.
By-the-bye, you never make your
self scarce when Mr.. George do vray
comes here.'
There's not tho same reasons for
doing 10. Mr.. George is n thorough
gentleman s...,
And you mean that Mr.. Ralph ia
mott
Certainly not, to my mind t@
'Ahl ah! Pray IL It simply because
Mr.. George has given up property
that WAS not bis you consider him 20
superior TO his cousin I l see nothing
wonderful in TINT. III found one Of
your trinkets among my things, l
should restore it without Growing all
over town about my honesty. Indeed,
] think It rather strange that Lord
l'eauvray should not have dis.
covered this secret until he had Oh.
joyed his property several years; 1t
looks much III ne as if some other peo-
ple had discovered it, too, and ~ ifhe
had only acted under compuision.'
'Oh, Millie, you are casting m as
persion on one Of the most noble nets
] have ever heard of! exclaimed Ger
tic, quivering all over.
well, it's your fault screamed Mil
lie, exasperated; Il nm sick of always
hearing you harp on the string. Nyou
arc 80 fond Of Mr.. do vray, why don't
you get him to marry youi That
would bo two beggars togctherv ''
Naturally, Gertie went to her room
to have y good cry, but from that day
she ceased speaking about George aud
became very circnmpect In her de-
mcanor toward him. When hc called
to sce Millic, she left the room.
George soon noticed these tactics, for
his interviews with Mr.. Moyle's daugh-
ter were growing more and more irk-
some by reason Of Miles coldncss
md irritability. At tho least thing,
she would snap and sulk /; and one a.
ternoon, when George innocenNy
made some inquiry about Miss Brown,
she fired up in u jealous pct. You
seem very anxious about Miss Brown,
! nm not obliged to show her of in
the drawing-room whenever visitors
come. She is only u pHupcr cousin
whom wchave taken IN from charity
ITS queer charity, dear, IL you talk
Of II in that way laughed George. Il
don't consider poverty q disgrace,
either
mo, but it's very inconvcnicnt,'
said Millie, still quernlously, 'and that
reminds me (; II We marry, | suppose
you don't mean to live on my money
Papa says his banks might break and
all sorts Of things. So ! suppose you
will do something to get III indepen-
dent income
Yes,' answered George, coloring
deeply, Il have applied for an ex-
change into the line, and think Of 60
ing ont to the war on tho Indian from
tier. IslIall have u licutenant-cOloncl's
rank so fyon will wait for two
years, Millic, may return with u
new career, and, perhaps, an income
before me- ... .......
'Oh, wait two years to become u SOL
dicr's wife, and 70 out to live in bak-
ing Indian heatv exclaimed Millic,
pouting. q never bargaincd for that
Just at that minute Gertic Brown
came in. She had u message to de-
liver to Mile from Mr.. Moylo, and
blusl.ed M she crossed tho room where
the pair Of quarrcling lovers sat.
Miss Brown, said George, rising to
shake hands with her, Il will wish you
good-by, for | have just been telling
Miss MoyIe that nm going to the
war in India
you are goins to the war! Oh, Mr..
dc Vmy--if anything should happen
to you !! exclaimed Gertie, and tears
started to her eyes.
"Thank you, for those tears said
George, gratefully. y shall know
that one person here, at least, will feel
interest. Now give me as n keepsake
that red book-n,arker you are holding
in your hand. ! will bring back tho
ribbon with something hanging to it,
'The Victoria cross perhaps, tit
tered Millie, rather unc0mfortably. Il
declare that's quite poetical. Well,
good-by, Mr.. dc Vray, we part as
friends don't We 2
Excellent friends, answered George
~ he lifted both her hands to his lips,
and kissed them playfully.
That evening when old Mr.. Moyle
was apprised and said, 'Wcll, well,
it's he who has broken off the match,
not we. l suppose we've heard the
last of him ndw--for he'll 90 out to
India and stay there. As for the new
Lord Beauvray, my dear, was quite
wrong in my estimate of him. lie is
n remarkably clever man, and he