The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30


 black silk dress. twas not so bad, after all. sssI have new laees and ribbons and fresh flowers; I dare say I shall look well enough,n she thought. And then: "Brookes !-that is twice to-day Brookes has been forced on my attention. 1t did not trouble me long the first time, and dare say I shall get rid of the second in trusion quite as easily"
 She took great pains with her toilet, but she always did that. And though she was dressed on time. she kept the gentlemen waiting for her full quarter of an hour. But as she never kept Charley waiting, she hoped he would understand her motive, and do all in his power to make the Englishman feel that he was waiting on a woman. Somehow she had got the idea that MT. Brookes would feel it a humiliation. But if he did, he had either admirable self-control or really fine manners. He chatted with Charley, quite oblivious of the lapse of time. and rose to meet Miss Tyr rel with an air of such indifference as to the opera, that Julia really had the inn pression that he would just as willingly stay where he was as go.
 i And he was a nice fellow, too. In spite of his scrupulous toilet and his formal manners, he contrived to make the night 8 thoroughly delightful one 1 UO o uIlb llC bll liob SlhC llCl ttH op- pOrtunity to say single saucy thing he was so charmed with America and every one in it that Julia declared he 1 deserved to be 8 New Yorker. However, Mir Brookes,' she added, with mock seriousness, '' good Englishmen come to New York when they die"
 Gentlemen generally |" talk over the i ladies who have adorned their evenings, i but MT. Brookes did not make a single l. wished he had. He had watched the two with a burning heart all through the opera, and he told himself with jealous anger that July had never looked so | lovely or been so brilliant and entertain ing.
 And that Brookes," he muttered, " did nothing but watch her. He is in love, of course; no fellow could help it !; and he has nothing to do but to buy the ring and order the wedding cake. Fifty thousand pounds a year, and a title com ing by-and- -hye-and I have fifteen hun dred dollars, and no particular expecta- tions ot any kind. Of course July will take him-apy woman would; and though July is an angel, she likes silk dresses and things of that sort. Iwish I hadn't been such fool! I only wanted him to see what wonderful girl loved me, if l was a poor fellow of a writer, and now I'll bet he cuts me out. Serve me right, toop i To such reflections as these poor Char ley's pen and scissors went all the next day, and many days afterward. For Mir. Brookes having made Miss Tyrrel the regular formal visit, went again and again, until they were very good friends.
 To Julia the winter passed happily. She loved music and riding, and MT. | BroOkes was always glad to gratify these tastes. She had no suspicion that he re- garded their pleasant companionship in any other light than one of mutual en- ertainment. Of course MT. Brook es knew that she loved Charley Rath; he had often seen them together, and she had never attempted to conceal the rela- tion in which they stood to each other Charley and MT. Brooke stood together at the open window. Suddenly Brookes took out his pocket-book and said, Look here, Mr. Rathn-and he un- folded ten-dollar bill and smoothed it carefully out-"do you see anything re- markable about that billp'' -.
 .'' Mo-" said Charley, carelessly. '' It seems good enough but am no expert. J
 Julia glanced at the bill and smiled. "I can guess what you mean"
 Impossible" 4EF.
 "Yes, can There is William Henry Brookes written on the left-hand corner in very small characters. Brookes looked amazed; and Julia, laughing, said, "You need not be afraid of me; am not a medium, and I have not the second sight. I came by my knowledge in d very natural way. Is William Henry your namepn
 s'It is, Miss Julia May I ask you tc tell us the secret of your information?'
 "You had better first tell how you came to do so absurd 8 thing as write your name in such a place. It would make me feel as if I was wandering about the country looking for myself. ,
 "Well, 1t was whim. Rich Eng lishmen are allowed to have whims; il is one of the privileges of their condi. tion. That bill was the first American money 1 touched; l got if on board the steamer; and I wrote my name on 1t 1T an idle whim, whose source l did not than analyze, and certainly cannot now The first time 1 went on Broadway 1 went into booksellers and bought Q maI and guide to the city, and I paid for il with the marked note. I think I die this knowingly, but l am not sure; ir fact, had only passing interest in the matter. That must have been about tho l4th of January" ea And on the l6th got it in payment for some writing. I know it was thu I6th, for I was to go with Charley tc } hear Lucca, and wanted new gloves anc new fan, and had only that one ter dollars. Then, too, l did not feel very sure if ought to spend it in that way I sat thinking and thinking and turning the bill in my hand; finally saw thu writing and that very night I saw als( the writer.n } ''And what impression did it make or you, Miss Julia9 l am very curious tC ] known
 II don't like to tell. You will fee hurt"
 No, I will not Tell me the plair truth"
 Well. I thought, this, William Henry Brookes is 9 snob who imagines himseI i the only man in the world. Then I re f1ected how conceited he must be to put , his name on what he has only passing