The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-02-25


, smil-s.
WHY should | % Miss Lyon ask
ed, witn artless earnestoess.
why not p said Mr.. Austin
promptly.
Miss Lyon appeared to reflect q
moment. snd then:
"i'hat strikes me as very forcibls
observa ion vt YOURS" sac said
though fully Goa the whole, I'm
iucliued to agree; bat who is to fur
nirh The three hundred dollars, you
or IL"
| am." said Mr. Austin. "I have
sCdiebls developed ID do aspirations
The d-ct OF The rural districts agaio,
you see y
just at this point Mrs. Wilmer rose,
aad Miss Lyon stood up too, and
turning 70 Mr. Gleno said, 10 q for
NAL, co1yeutlunsl time:
Il hpp7 you siIi come and see me
again. Mrs Gleun Perhaps Mrs
Wilmer has teid you that have
ehanged my plans aud concluded tO
stay Mrs Wilmer is good eaouyh
tn undertake me for d few weeks
| longer"
Toen, With perhaps a little increase
nf formality, Miss Lyon just turned
for a momeuj To MIR. AuslIn
Coed morniog," she said, coolly,
and swepS out of the room.
As they we're walking home Mas
Wilmer said
Grace, how could you be so ab-
surd heard you tell Mr. Austin
! that you could dress on three hundred
q year. Now that comes exceedingly
well from girl who pays about that
for one costume"
81 said could do it; not that |
did" said Miss Lyon; "aud 80 | could
! AN quite sure before my grest-aunt
menriJued me in Der will, | did dress
90 less than thai, ant managed 20
look presentabs enlu..h - tn ,ke her
say | had talent for e1srumIng, and
~ p0it have The Means TO ihdulge It,
Well, she very graci iu-ly furnished
he means. aud Of Course I've veFv
datiiully carried ut her wishes 10 re-
gard to their disp ,sition; bat think
| hook much as before My cl th 81
ase much richer, but half toe time |
don't IKE their set as well ss when
llade tbem myself
How did you like Mr.. Austin u
%, very we'll He entertained
me-"
"1ou might sec him quite rs of.eD
as You alsb, If you'd let me dIvulge
be liItle seerst know ABOUT you
II he knew you we're great heIress
you could be eotertsiued 5y him aud
not know hiu afLsrward Come, IL,
one tell Mes Glsan-dI rem I'VE Ihi-
rigid lDhib'tlJH--it'- absurd"
al -n..u mas ihi4-L r r--------- CO. !
Miss Lyon said Now MUD you
d1a'l break f4ith win me ia this
You dpH't kuo@ bow bart and angry |
| shall he My money viii bring |
plenty of tOadles aud men If ina
class around mo when | come our Ia |
New Yo. ( next wlnter, and do want
a little immusity from them now les
to tbInk of how much mure
importance will be attached 10 me
then. when 10 realty | am not chang
ed u whit am quite the same as
sEn nan nd M. b
angry TO think | snall be treated dat
fereotly."
Two evenings after this Lucian
Aus,in called rec Miss Lyon. Hl-
reason for doi0y ibis was Identical
wIh Mis- Lyons for liking him
she euteFtaiued hIm. TDey talked at
first ia toe formal aud couveulIunsl
way that Miss Lyon initiated when
she entered the room, but almost 10
sen IDLY tDey glided into the easy
tone that bad characterized their FIRST
and presently Mr. AUstio
said:
by the way, Miss Lyon, when
you we're good edouyh 10 say You
would take the fer when rendered
my heart aud hand the other day,
you dIda't know some of the liabili-
lies of t0e situation, and | nnd it my
dutv nov to inform you of these"
"Wait a moment, Mr. Austin |
accepted you on the old fashioned
principle-for yourself alone. Exte
riar conditions are wnat have moth
.og 10 do with"
Very we'll +; but you'll allow me to
.ry aBd entertain YOU With some pass
ag remarks about myself You
ioa't kaow, perhaps, that my profess
sion Is engineering, aud it may not
.oUceru you to be told that it some
lines takes me To the Nest barren
wastes conceivable Lastly ! was
or three mUDtbs III deep wilder
less ia Tennessee | was building q
'ailroad there, and slept 10 cabin iD
he woods, and had absolutely no oBe
. talk to. True. she weather wa
ilvinp, aud the bloom of the wild
lovers aud The song OF the birds were
bewilderiOg. | used often
% long tor some ey mpatbetIc mpan
oDsbip, but | fervenlly thanked hesv ,
% that i had never married any wo-
nan that | would have had to ssk To i
bare hat solitude with me could
magins well That insiead of ~ mps
hetic cnmpsaionship our iiWe would
,e filled Win desclate repr0acbes AID I
egrets"
"iow can You tell that 2" Miss
1yoD SAID, sofS meditstive look
mlng over Der face You might, /
I you had married womaa who
wed you, have beeu very happy iu
hat solitary place" II
"H apps | should think 30 Why,
Could have heeu a. happy as the
sy wa long, ouL sm thiakiny of {
Ter Oi course she would nave piaed l
n tue places and people of Ger old a
lf-, aod /! ,nid not have blamed her
she did | could uuiy have blamed
hyseif sreteheoiy, aud ooth OF hs q
you'd have been most horribly ua- :
appy." L
~fnal's not my idea cf the old- /
a bisn.d wsrrisge-Darriagu as il I
usht 10 he. ssid Miss Lsun. {
When take ycU 10 spend your Z
Ia some dismal swamp, r
'ou're going TO be as sunshiny and I
onIented as possible, are you I" Mr.. t
Austin asked with smile. 9