The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-10-03

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a slow growth that if one shOnld confess
he loved you after a few weeks intimacy
you would doubt him ?''
Il don't know"
Miss Lowell, viii You take me for
/ better or worse -
/ ''Mr. Thornton -
~ on do love me, you do care for me. -
/ boldly and Guys arm was about to in
! close her. his lids were bent to her cheek,
+ when a voice out of the fog asked. is
it private theatricals ? Have we intTUd-
ed behind the scenes ?' as Lucia and
/ Duchene drew nearer. Cousin Guy,
/ there are letters for you and telegram
at the house - and while he went for
. the mail III the convoy of his cousin and
! her escort, Miss Lowell escaped to her
/ room. The telegram proved an urgent
/ summons, and Guy was obliged to leave
by the earliest stage next morning As
Miss Lowell, unaware of this fact. was
asleep at that hour, he slipped a note of
explanation and observation under her
door as he passed down but the wind
/ blowing through her open window swept
! it back into the hall. and when EsSie
trIpped by TO breakfast it lay in her
path. Miss Lowell" she read, land
Cousin Guys handwriting. and she
( carried it to her room, lighted 4 taper
and let il shrivel in the flame. That
CNtllili8. d. MISS i-bNCll lillRtltl Oll blE
Yeranda. Miss Essie brushed by her and
turned, Ou are not. perhaps, aware -
she said, in an undertOne, that Mr..
Thornton is already engaged-has been
engaged for years. He has not told you
OF cOuTse-what man ever tells such
things when be amuses himself p
Yes - rejoined Miss Lowell, ''and
am engaged to marry mySelf-since some
time
a bo1,ne boucbe to write Guy" tho't
Essie Il viii put it in postscript az
san afterthought. - It was not strange
if Miss Lowell became sadly disturbed at
Guys departure without word, and at
his subsequent silence. She could not
question his cousins and as day after
day passed without a syllable in eXpla-
nation, she decided that he had been
merely passing the time, as people will
at the beach that it was no true affec-
tIon, but q Eill-o-tne-wisp which she
had mistaken for a reality. Guy, in his
turn, was both hurt and angry that she
paid no heed to his farewell nste but
he had no time to upbraid her, and then
come Essie's postscript.
Another letter arrived for Guy in the
same mail-a letter from the woman to
whom he had been engaged for years:
MY DEAR Mr.. THoRNTON" Cft ran)
-''G our last letter was received in May. [
returned from Europe early in June. but
did not notify you, because | have been re-
volving certaiu matter in my mind. ! fee
that it viii be impossible for us to fulfill the
. engagement which was brought about by our
parents It Is out Of the question that you
who knew me rs mere child seven years
agO-haye yOU met me once in that time p
can love me. You used to say that my
straight nose was my only beauty, and l was
thrown from carriage while abroad and It
is now an agui.iue foature-uot bad for an
limo lr1f ont Won I'll
sacrifice yourself rather than to diSObey the
dead, who have morjaGcd us to each other
so to speak: and / feel obliged to take the
. initiative and declare our engagement null
and void. | have fitted myself for teaching
and have several pupils and during the en-
iOEmeut of my CTaudfafhcr'S estate have
saved enough for rainy day. Do not at
tempt t@sce me or to change my resolve, which
is Interchangeable. Sincerely,
"JULIETTE /. JAvESDISH.'
f Guy had not been a deliberate villain
, in this transaction Miss Lowell had
won his heart before he dreamed of
danger and as for Juliette Cavendisb.
p, she was n h0bbledehoy schoolgirl of
: thirteen when he saw her seven years
befOTe-Shy. nervous and awkward, with
, clflOCks Of tOW-cOiOred hair. Her grand
. father and Ggv's 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
heriJance. Happily for Guy, he had re-
I ceIyea q legacy from mis- mothers family
2 unencumbered by ugly conditions; but
' he had always supposed he should carry
out his fathers viii and marry Miss
J Cavendish finally, and they had kept up
an irregular correspondence during heI
= soiouTn in Europe.
e a strange affair. - he thought. 'Can
t she have fallen III love feel to blame
as if | ought to have taken pains to love
1 her A snaTl always ensueS when the
dead dictate TO the living At least
g he was free TO marry Miss Lowell; but
: had not Miss Essie just notified him OF
e d long engagement He FASTENED tC
write Miss Lowell letter full Of bitter
: reprOacheS and angry love but she had
bIdden adieU to the Orchard Farm be
fore it arrived there, and had left no adj
t dress, having abandoned hope at the
same date; and the poor love-letteT
= with all its angry protestatons, wa:
o laid on the shelf and Guy was obliged
Y to own in his heart that he had been de
II ceived and miSied At about this time
, he began to wonder what manner of wO
e man Miss Cayendish might be; if sh,
& had really lover; and if not, what haC
C prompted the sacrifice. What but ;
st noble sincerity? After all, why SHOULD
e he hesitate TO fulfill his fathers will
= ana unite the fortunes of Cavendish anC
IS Thornton Might she not be taught t,
d love him lie was wise enough t,
know that his account with love wa
n not closed because one woman ha,
O. proved untrue AS she had given IL
q address. he called first upon her lawye
7, as the most likely person to know he
ID whereabouts.
Miss Cavendish.' - said the gentle
c. man. was at the seashOre quite lately
by the doctor OTder5-a Slight difficult
,. Of the erhrOat. Had some crOtchet abOu
t earning her daily bread and has beel
!, practiciHg her voice too steadily. NO
)t men VINO can afford TO be idle are alway
T. HankeTinr for q vocation. Her relative
E. made such an ado about a Cavendisl
o, working that she has cut adrilt from
a them They made her life burden
&c You'd better call in the evening; sin
- has pupils all day. She's in earneS
g about not marrying, perhaps you know
IS Perhaps she'll change her mind Whel
TO She sees you, laughed Mr.. Small. oh
by-lhe-way,' - he called after Guy, ''I'U
L growing absent minded-if's AGE; don
he grow old. sir; las a bad habit. i
e spare the feelings of her high and might
relatives. Miss Cavendish has assume
if her mothers maiden name, IOvcll-as
for Miss Juliette Lowell" ="
f ''AIiss Lowell - gasped Guy. wv ha
does she mean by keeping up such
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