The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-07-19

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leaves Of each.
Susan, looking idly on as the Other
two laughed and chatted, started sud
denly, changed color, and left them.
she took the book she was examining
with her, and presently she sent mes
sage to Edith, saying that she wanted
her immediately.
Must you go? Well, come back di.
rectly, and | shall wait here for YOU?
said Dudley; and, with smiling assent,
she left him.
But she did not return, and the young
man wondered and waited for nearly an
hour.
At last came card, with a penciled
message, and full of bewilderment, he
read:
Miss Armitage hopes Mr.. Manning
will excuse her sister, as she is particu-
larry engaged for the rest of the day."
Dudley flushed as he tore up the card,
and walked away, bordering over the
strangeness of the message.
At dinner Susan made her appearance
alone; but when Dudley approached her
to inquire for her sister, she was almost
rude III the curtness of her replies to his
questions.
Dudley's first impulse was to ask the
meaning OF this changed behavior, but
modification and rising anger conquer
ed, and he turned away, with look of
equal hauteur.
Half an hour later his mood changed.
He sent note to Edith, begging for an
interview; but when she returned a
formal excuse he was furious with him
self for having written.
So all that evening ne paced I'D and
down the piazza, in a savage frame of
mind, and finally decided to leave the
house next day, if Edith still refused to
see him.
Up stairs poor Edith was crying
softly, while Susan packed.
" Who could have supposed that they
came from him?' she was saying, for
the twentieth time.
Susan came over to her and strOked her
hair caressingly.
"DOn't think of it, darlingl Try to
forget u" she said, soothingly.
"But, Susan, are you saeres" Don't
you think there could be a mistake? So
many people write alike, you know"
said Edith, with an eager, imploring
look.
Susan shook her head.
"That writing is unmistakable, my
dear sister," she answered, sadly.
Edith threw herself back, with fresh
burst of tears.
" But the dreadful part of the whole
affair is that he has been so dishonor-
ableH' she exclaimed, to think how he
must have listened to our conversation,
and pried into all our secrets! So I'M
manly Inever want to see him again."
" think / will put the-stockings in
parcel, and leave them to be delivered
to him." said Susan, presently.
Edith closed her eyes and groaned
don't care what you do with them,
only don't tell me-"
Early the next morning Dudley was
awakened by the humping of trunks
outside the door. In an instant he
was up, and dressing in frantic haste,
for he had comprehended that his neigh
bors were leaving.
As he emerged from his room and
rushed to the stairway, he caught van
ishing glimpse of two gray travelling
dresses in the hall below. One followed
the porter, the other turned toward the
hotel parlor.
Dudley OWNED that this second figure
was Edith, and seized his advantage with
mastery quickness.
In another moment he confronted her,
had seized her hand, despite her resist
ance, and was pouring out torrent of
words, half-angry, half-tender, ending
abruptly with:
Edith, love you. Will you marry
met"
"Good morning, Mr.. Manning" inter
rupted Susan, with a charming intona-
ton.
But Dudley wasnot to be discouraged {;
Edith's face had emboldened him.
"Tell me where / can write to you"
he whispered, entreatingly, and, spite of
Susan's interposition, he caught the low
spoken words Of her answer.
And then the omnibus whirled them
away to the station, and Dudley walked
up and down, thinking of Edith's lovely
dark eyes as they smiled farewell upon
him, and composing his letter.
One week afterwards Dudley NJ an
ming and Edith were sitting together in
Mrs. Delancey's elegant library. Both
looked Enthusiastically happy, but Dudley
had that air OF conscious proprietorship
which denotes the engaged man.
"Tell me, please, why you acted so
strangely-what had [ done to offend
you?" he was saying.
Do you suppose she told him?-Satur-
day Night.