The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-16
WHAT HERBERT SAID

"Don't 60, Ellie; please don't! What will
Herbert say?"
al don't care in least what Herbert says.
He has no right to dictate to me. Not that
he ever does" Ellie added quickly. "Mr.
Granville Ferguson has invited me to go to
the Park with him, and there are four other
ladies and their escorts to join us there. l
am going and shall wear my new cash
mere. 1t is just the right length for skat-
ing. If you were good natured, now, you
would lend me the sealskin cap Uncle Will
last gave you"
" You can have the cap, Ellie, but do
feel bad about Herbert. You know he loves
you"
"He has never told me he. loves me-"
"Never told you he loves your said
Carrie. Don't he come here every alter
noon or evening to see yOu?"
"How do you know he don't come to see
Aunt Fanny or you?"
"Ellie"
1uCTt was SuCl hCCh pam az SoiAiS . Nch>
that pretty Ellie sprang from her seat and
remorsefully threw her arms around hel
sister, kissing her warmly, and saying, 81
everybody knew you as well as | do, Car
rie, how good and sweet you are, nevercros
or out of temper like me, and KNOWN!
twenty things where have learned one
you would have fifty lovers. Men are sucl
idiots lfa girl has pretty face, that is al
they ask"
Certainly, if this speech was true Elli'
Wilson had no cause to complain Of Ma
tures unkinduess. She was very pretty
with saucy, sunny face, full of sparkl
and animation, and dainty little figure
every movement of which was graceful.
But Carrie, only two years older than he
sister, and not twenty-five, without an
great beauty naturally, had, through tn
carelessness Of nurse in he infancy, beel
the victim of fall, which had cut open on
cheek, leaving long, red scar, disfgurin
her for life. Her soft blue eyes, her gloss
brown hair, her clear complexion, were a
lost sight of in the long, blood red mar
that GOV cred one side of her face from ten
pie to chin. 1t grew purple in the cold al
crimson in summer heat, but it never fade
away.
1t had been poor Carries cross from chile
hood. Her school life had been cmbittere
by the taunts of her companions, and 81
had shut herself up in a great measure iro
society, from her sensitive shringing fro
notice. 1t was not perhaps strange for Eli
praised and petted all her life for her bea
ty, should also have given undue weight
her sisters misfortune. That Carrie wou
, be an old maid and Ellie make brilliai
match was certainly in the minds of Il
I family and friends.
t But relatives and friends alike were plea
ed when Herbert Brandon, after the dea
- of Mr.. Wilson, became a constant visitor
y the house of the orphan girls. He had be,
y their fathers clerk and later his junior pal
y per. and still carried on with one other su
e yiyinp partrer the business of Wilson NC
II though the head of the house had been thr
years dead at the time my story opel
e Business at first, and afterwards certain
n his own good pleasure, brought him often
n see the young ladies aud their aunt W
p had filled their dead mothers place lor ma
Is long wears. He was man whose 10
re- would honor any woman and Carrie
!; not alone in supposing that pretty Ellie
II the chosen OF his heart.
Carrie liked to think so. ofall the su
= ors that came to visit her pretty sister, Il
"a bert was certainly the one she would sci
y for brother. Never haYing thought
8 possible that she could win closer love u