The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-09-10

myself for teaching and have several
pupils; and during the enjoyment of my
grandfather's estate have saved enough
for a rainy day. Do not attempt to see
me or to change my resolve, which is
unchangeable. Sincerely,
"JULIETTE L. CAvENDIsH.
Guy had not been deliberate villain
in this transaction. Miss Lowell had
won his heart before he dreamed of dan
ger; and as for Juliette Cavendish, she
was hobbledehoy schoolgirl of thirteen
when he saw her seven years before
shy, nervous and awkward, with elf
locks of tow-colored hair. Her grand
father and Guys father had been sworn
friends, in spite of the disparity in years
and it had been their hobby to unite the
family fortunes. If Guy and Juliette
failed to marry they forfeited their in
heritance. Happily for Guy, he had re-
ceived legacy from his mothers family
unencumbered by ugly conditions; but
he had always supposed he should carry
out his fathers will and marry Miss
Cavendish finally, and they had kept up
an irregular correspondence during her
sojourn in Europe.
" A strange affair."" he thought. Can
she have fallen in lover feel TO blame
as if l ought to have taken pains to love
her.. A snarl always ensues when the
dead dictate to the living" At least he
was free to marry Miss Lowell; but had
not Miss Essie lust notified him of her
long engagement He hastened to write
Miss Lowell a letter full of bitter re-
proaches and angry love; but she had
hidden adieu to the Orchard Farm be-
fore it arrived there, and had left no ad-
dress, having abandoned hope at the
same date and the poor love- letter, with
all its angry protestations, was laid on
the shelf, and Guy was obliged to own in
his heart that he had been deceived and
misled. At about this time he began to
wonder what manner OF woman Miss
Cavendish might be; if she bad really q
lover; and if not, what had prompted
the sacrifice. What but noble sin
cer:ty? After all, why should he hesitate
to fulfill his fathers will, and unite the
fortunes of Cavendish and ThorntonP
Might she not be taught to love him? He
was wise enough to know that his ac-
count with love was not closed because
one woman had proved untrue. AS she
had givep no address, he called first upon
her lawyer as the most likely person to
know her whereabouts.
Miss Cavendish," said that gentle
man, "was at the seashore quite lately,
by the doctors orders-a slight difficulty
of the throat. Had some crotcheJ about
earning her daily bread, and has been
practicing her voice too steadily. WO-
men who can afford to be idle are
always hankering for a vocation, Her
endish working that she has cut adrift
from fhnY,o fIhoxr r1naHa ha1s IL fa hII1s-
den. You'd better call in the evening:
she has pupils all day. She's in earnest
about not marrying, perhaps you knowP
Perhaps she'll change her mind when
she sees YOU" laughed Mr.. Small. "Oh,
by-the-way," he called after Guy, "I'm
growing absent-minded-it's age; don't
grow old, sir; it's bad habit. To
spare the feelings of her high and mighty
relatives, Miss Cavendish has assumed
her mothers maiden name, Lovell-ask
for Miss Juliette Lowell"
"Miss Lovell!" gasped Guy. "What
does she mean by keeping up such
with meP"
You had better go and ask her."
And Guy obeyed.
q was at the beach for my health"
Miss Cavendish explained, later, after
some preliminaries had passed. 81 could
not afford to lose my voice, but l never
dreamed of meeting you there. After
ward 1 thought perhaps you might grow
to like me, if nobody obliged you to do
so. | had taken my mothers name, not
to deceive you, but because my fathers
family felt annoyed when l entered the
ranks of the laborers. / must either
marry you or work. When you asked
me to take you for better or worse, l
was afraid it was pity instead of love,
because people were cool to me after our
journey to Bagdsd, and l hadn't time to
confess my secret. / went down next
morning to surprise you with it, but you
had left without word. | supposed
you had been amusing yourself, as your
cousins said; that you could never have
loved me under any circumstances and
then l decided you should never know
that Miss Lowell was Miss Cavendish,
disguised by seven years of Europe and
an aquiline nose. So wrote that letter
of dismissal, if you please" D."
"And, after all, we lose our hearts
and keep our commandments, my dear
Juliettel What will Cousin Essie say
when she hears that Miss Lowell and l
have been destined for each other from
the beginning .-HdTDeT'S BdzaT.