The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-10-21
TRI-WEEKIY EDITION.

MT. husset 1elt as II he had behaved
very much like scoundrel, now that he
was removed from the magnetic influence
OF the heiress and her jewels. ss 10
tl''But of COURSE" he pleaded before the
tribunal OF his own conscience, "a man de-
voted ito my profession should select the
sphere In which he can do the most good.
And with Antoinette's wealth and position,
l am morally certain of rapid advance in
the world" xxx, ....'t I.|,,,, t'~-O,.,0
But, somehow, the letter would not get
itself written. To do,a contemplate ac-
tion, is one thing, to confess it boldly to
ones fellow creatures, Is another.
Two or three days passed, and still Reu-
bon Rasset could not bring himself to tell
Pennie Joyce about the Saratoga heiress.
with the purple blue eyes and the low,
silyer-syllabled voice, fEgElf
Pennie watched him, wistfully,
"He Is changed" she admitted to her
self; sbut of course could hardly expect
him always to be just the came. Oni y
only" 81 d.. 'A.,t
And the tears came into Pennies eyes,
she scarcely knew why, and she blamed
herself for being s'such foolish little goose.
But one 'sultry ssummer evening, Mr.
Russet did force himself to write the letter
"a vague, mysterious sort of missive, con-
tanning only one plain fact-that he was
engaged to Miss Gushington Gordon. .1p
And. as he wrote 1t, he felt more and
more what a fatal mistake he had made in
giving up Pennie Joyce's true, womanly
heart for the artificial smiles of the Sara
toga. BELLE, ...u. ........
AS he folded and sealed it, The land
lady's little boy handed in the evening
1oI
A letter from one Ernest Valdez, whose
acquaintance he had made at Saratoga
an idle, go6d-humored young fellow, with
no harm In him, and deal Of latent
good.
MIR. Valdez wrote:
"We are progressing much the same as
ever. We drink the waters, we criticise
the music, we watch for the incoming
trains. By the way, you surely haven't
forgotten that tall girl at your house, with
the curious pansy- -colored eyes and the
magnificently-dyedh halr2 Miss Gushingtou
Gordon, you knowa Well che has turned
out humbug-an imposition-a stupen-
dous fraud. 1t seems she is only Iadys-
maid, the whole time, and she has been
skillfully masquerading in her mistress
wardrobe, during the lady's absence at the
sick-bed of dying relation. >
'sMrs. Montague has come back; the
'daw in borrowed feathers has been
stripped of her gay plumage, and Miss
Gushington Gordon, with her imitation
diamonds, and second hand airs and graces
has disappeared entirely from the arena.
''Some say she has been arrest eli; others
declare that Mrs. Montague has forgiven
her, on condition Of her retirement to her
native place, in an obscure English town.
AT all events. she has vanished from the
stage of action, and the places that knew
Der once now know her no more"
Three or four closely-written pages of
gossip and clever satire followed, but Reu
ben Russet never paused to glance at these.
He sprang from his chair with an excla-
nation of reliet.
''That Providence!" he exclaimed, that
l am no longer bound to false. hearted,
hollow prctenderl Little Pennie is worth
ten thousand of her." i.
lie tore up the letter of confession, and
went straight to spend the evening at the
Joyce farmhouse, and innocent little Pen
ME never knew how nearly that season at
Saratoga had cost her her lover e
AS for Reuben Russet, he Is a wiser if
not 81 saddcI man. And he wants no more
lessons in human nature