The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-07-02

BY Z. IDA WILLIAMS.

Cannon Falls presented a weirC
picture Is Guy Harvey came upor
them suddenly through the forest, 81
dense that it shut out the bright noon
dsy sun. The foliage was only tinted
here and there amid the Summer yer
dure, with its rich sutumnsl hues
and coming upon the wild berry vines
be found the fruit ungathered, so sc
cluded from the main road and hu
man hsbitation was the way be hsc
chosen.
His fowling piece hung at bis side
his game bag over his shoulder, scan
thy filed with spoil. and whlstlinR
gsyly an air from g French opera, he
parted some branches which cut OF
any further progress, and 10! there
poured the roaring falls some sixty
feet below, believing q complaint &c
the dumb, surrounding country, ther
whispering in its secret creepings
down the rugged, rocky wall to the
sturdy stoLes that had forty years
borne patiently its murmurs with
philosophical stoicism, across the
rocky basin into which, foaming and
babbling, fell the bright cascade Of
water, and across it lay q telled tree
whitened in its almost petri6cation.
Guy Harvey stood gazing at the
imposing scene in wonder. How
grand it was ! The young man bad
an artists soul, and his ever-active
mind fell to imagine the whole per
petusted upon canvass.
at needs some figures" unused he
AN excellent setting for a tragedy
Q mar and q woman standing upol
the old tree trunk which bridges the
stream, bis face dark and forbidding
hers fearful and pleading, and
among the shrubbery, just beyond
the face of her deliverer.'
He was about to pass on when the
branches from amid which his sup
posed hero was to emerge, parted
and, instead, q heroine made her ap
pearance. She walked hurriedly ou'
upon the tree living bridge-like ovel
the impetuoIs torrent.
On she went, with q certainty o
tread of one wholly unconscious of
or indifferent to, danger !; o careless
step would have plunged her instant
ly into eternity. but she sprang from
stone to stone, with the bounding
step of q young fswn, and reached {
point 80 dangerous that Guy Harvey
trembled as he looked, and there sb'
paused.
She seated herself upon a stone
facing the point upon which Guy
Harvey stood, but not seeing him
Her form was 1.-THE and graceful, be-
small Grecian head well poised, and
the long, chestnut hair hung in plsitI
to her waist.
Though she had brought no bool
o work Of any kind, and sat will
her hands clssped idly before her
there was that in her bearing which
proved her no idle dreamer of senti
mental dreams.
Guy stood watchicr the girl il
wonder. She certainly was not cas-
in the ordinary mould, such ss he hat
seen, and her very originality inter
ested him.
Scarcely realizing what be wa
about, he went cautiously toward her
She did not observe him until be hat
reached the tree and was about tt
venture across it.
Then she rose, and lifted her hand
with the imperious gesture of an EN-
press she cried, with excitement tina
i'll matched her manner
do not-do not cross it, 1t viii
be certain death! J"
Il wish to speak to you" answere'
Guy growing bold.
With the same certain step that ha'
amazed him, she walked again light
ly, hurriedly, over to where he stood
and asked abruptly:
What do you wish to sayH
well, really do not know b
answered.
She looked hard at him.
Would it not have been as well,
she said, reprovingly, mot to have dis
tlrbed me?'
Guy felt the suspicion in her tone
and its injustice panied him be knew
that now or never be must set him
self right with this girl. Usually. sc
cure in his own integrity and purit.
OF purpose, be would not take th
trouble to argue himself into favor
but now, for the FIRST time perhap
in his life, the young man felt b
owed it to himself and the girl befor
him; DO he said, with unmistaksbl
courtesy:
you are right, and | beg your pal
don ; the fact is, your position SCENE
so perilous, and you were uncor
s,ious of the fact, that / thought
my duty to caution you
His urbanity Modified her at once
You are kind to take the troubl
for Q stranger she said, in q swee
tone that better suited toe tranqu
beauty of her face, and l sm..ashan
ed that / was 30 cross; but twic
lately / have been disturbed by yoan
gentlemen in the neighborhood, WIT
hunting, like yourself, have foun
their way here, and / determined
pat an end to it,
Then am / trespsssing On privat
grounds p asked Guy.
Yes, but you are welcome so Ion
as YOU don't disturb me; the place
too beautiful to monopolize altogett
er, and, ss l said, so long as 20
don't disturb me, you are welcome.
want company when / go out in th
world but here there is rest
You, 80 young, So
We are strangers, If you please
She bowed Q dismissal as she spok'
and turned away, and Guy had q
alternative than to obey her.
Up to this period 10 the youn
mans life be had always though
girls possessed of no individualit,
All that marked Mary from June, {
June from Mary, was the color of hs
hair and eyes. They both went int
the same exaggerated ecstacies OsS
loves of bonnets and splendid gown
But what more could they do? Cir
were necessary evils. and this youn
man had often thought it strange q
philantbropic creature had e1dowe
an asylum for the above named bors