Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16

head to be kissed when she wished him goodnight, revealed the extent of her devotion. Now it naturally occurred to Charley Guerdon that so excellent sis ter as Ida Koratine ought to make per feet wife, so that when he had known and loved her about month he began to hint timidiy at 8 proposal, but she al- ways parried these advances merriy as though he were joking. If he sulked she smiled at him with irresistible arch ness and sung him ballad about miserable Russian peasant who had fallen in love with Lorelei, or water-witch, who persisted in asking him at the end of each stanza whether he could change his nature and live under water with her? .zs. .,... ...-. ... ...
 "Well, but you are not Lorelei, Miss Ida," Guerdon exclaimed impa- tiently when he had heard this song twice.
 "Perhaps I am Pyrie, though" she answered, with smile.
 'sWhat is Pyriep"
 GA fire-witch, in the modernized form, 8 girl who delights in firearms, shells, petroleum and other horrid engines of revolutionary warfare," saying which she laughed with forced gayety.
 Guerdon made no answer, but hoped time might work for him. It thus befell that he renamed two months at E., seeing Ida every day, and he was just beginning to feel dispirited by the con- sciousness that hissuit made no progress when unexpectedly he received sum- mons to hurry back to England on &C., count of his elder brothers illness. As the younger son of a peer, Charley Guer- don might be said to have expectations in case of his brothers death but he loved him too we'll to think of that, and was on the contrary sincerely grieved at the news. He hastened to pack his traps and then said good-by to the Ko- ratines. He found them in the garden, looking sad, for he had sent his servant toepprise them of what had occurred. Ida especially was pale, and there was a quaver in her voice as she said, "Good- by, Captain Guerdon, we are sorry to lose you 1"
 "But shall return" he replied. "I hope my brother will recover, and then I shall hasten back to B.. You will still be here, will you not ?'
 Perhaps" she answered, evasively.
 Well, but you are surely not going to leave E. just as the summer sea- son is beginning. Let me go away with the hope that we shall meet again"
 Perhaps" she rejoined anew. Then, as if to take the chill of despondency out of her words, she plucked branch oi May blossoms of tree and handed il to the Englishman. s'Take that to you1 brother, and let it carry health to him, p she said. CT have the superstition oi flowers, so you see I am not quite Nj hilist."
 Guerdon took her hands, and, at a1 approving sign from her brother, drev her to him, and kissed her on the brow It was chaste kiss, and hope was re kindled in his heart as he gave it. *
 The illness of Charley Guerdon' brother turned out to be serious affair It lasted more than six weeks, and dur ing that time Charley was unremittinl in his attendance at the bedside. Il such spare moments as he could snatch he wrote several times to the Koratines and once he received an answer from tn
 Count with postscript in Ida's hand
 but after that he got no more replies
 Charley had never been a newspape
 reader, and the world might have gon
 all wrong without his hearing anythin
 about it. He sometimes glanced at tn
 Field, or at one of the military period
 calls to look for army promotions, bu
 into the Times he never dipped, an
 thus he was kept from learning the gri,
 reason which prevented his Russia
 friends from writing to him. He ws
 not fated to ascertain it for long whil,
 for when Lord Guerdon became conv,
 lescent his doctors ordered him off on
 yachting cruise and Charley accon panied him. The brothers spent tv
 full months sailing over the seas and r
 ceiving no news, till at length they p1 in at Cadiz and landed. It was in tn
 city that Lord Guerdon, perusing. } batch of London papers one mornin
 while his brother sat at the open wi dow looking out istlessly over the wate
 of the harbor, exclaimed CT sa , Charley, didn't you tell me you had F friend called Count Korantine ?' }, "Yes. What of him ?" answer,
 Charley, turning round with sudd' flush.
 f "Why, your friend is going to be b s headed for an attempt to murder. Re thatr'
 @ Charley rose, doubting whether l. was awake. He took the newspar IF and with reeling senses read the accou . of an attempted political assassinati !. about which all Europe had been ta ing for the last three months. An ,r alted personage-one of the half doz ;r who hold the destinies of Europe ,A their hands-had come to E., 8 "a had been shot at by Count Koratil ,4 Arrested on the spot, along with his { d ter, the Count was now proved to be ;. head of widespread Nihihst and n cialist conspiracy. His bullet had mis- h- its aim, but as it killed a person who m beside his intended victim. he was to h. tried for his head, and the Countess ,d too.
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