Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25

Hho hnaWefod inst gh0 was sorry she |
but he could soe how hoarse
she was. She left the piano and sat in
low chair In the shadow Of a screen, az
she complained that the freight hurt
her eyes. Jack moved chair near
hers and they entered upon q long con-
versation, and finally Dick and ! ad-
journed 70 the library for q smoke, and
talked over our own affairs in sensible
fashion. could see Miss Hallowell az
she sat opposite the door; she looked
pale and tired, and began 10 feel sorry
about the cold. She was certainly n
very pretty girl, and l remember she
had on very dark blue silk dress with a
white ruflie round her throat and a
bright yellow gold chain Just under it.
There was something so pleasant and
frank about herl-but sometimes she
put on the little ways most girls have In
talking 10 gentlemen-so conscious Of
themselves, and looking at you with
that devoted little smile.
"Jack's in for it, sure enough" said
Dick 10 me in an exultant whisper. 81
hoped there'd be Irritation. Did you
ever see any thing done better in all
your lifePn and he shook with laughter
and then began to talk about some
thing else.
1 had no wish to change the subject
and said, "I should think he would en-
joy her, after having that stuck-up Miss
Daneweight for a lady-love." (We
somehow had never approved Of any Of
poor Jacks flames.)
"Alice is a good-looking girl" said
Dick in a matter-of-fact way. "Hou
are MT hit yourself, are you PHILIP
and then he went on talking about run
ning-iumps and standing-jumps, the
giant-swing and other gymnasium af-
fairs, and l wondered why his eyes
twinkled so and why he seemed so full
of the old Harry. He seemed so glad
to be at home, and that made me feel
blue, for couldn't help thinking of my
home, which only Il year or two before
had been broken up and which l
missed terribly.
We sat before the fire some time, and
at last began to grow sleepy; for had
got up early that morning to do some
studying-a most uncommon piece of
behavior on my part-and between that
and the journey, the Dive and the sup
per, my eyes kept shutting up. / dis
covered my miserable state Of mind TO
Dick, who said he was sleepy too and
volunteered to keep me company. We
listened a minute in the hall, and found
that Jack was repeating poetry. He
looked up at me in rather shame-faced
fashion when 1 said goodnight to Miss
Hallowell, and seemed more i'll at ease
than ever had seen him. Dick said in
a casual way that he should be down
again presently, and we departed.
Sentimental goosel" said he, when
we were half way upstairs. ''He'll be
made fun of if he goes far on that tack.
said was coming down again just to
start him off. I'm afraid you've had a
stupid evening, Phil; but Alice will be
all right tomorrow and we'll have no
end of fun
put in a remark not altogether com.
plimentary to Spenser, for to tell the
truth was little jealous and had a
sense of being left out of sight. When
we were in my room, Dick banged the
door and rolled over and over on a wide
sofa, laughing until he was almost in
Mysteries. l never had seen the fellow
behave so in all the time l had known
him. laughed at first from sympathy
and finally pounded him on the back
and shook him and made him sit up, anC
then ] gave my whole mind to finding
out what the matter was.
"Oh, can't tell you, old boyl" sale
he, gasping, "but it's such go! I'm
afraid l never can keep it until to-mor
row. If we both knew it we should spoi
it, but it is such fun, and you shal
know tomorrow afternoon" and my
friend sat up and wiped his eyes, anC
told me if every thing wasn't all righ
in the room to sing out, and that
should be called for breakfast, and
mustn't tell Spenser that there was any
joke coming off. l made another at
tempt to learn the secret, but Dick sour
ried away downstairs in self-defense.
In half an hour or so, when was jus
going off to sleep, Spenser opened tn
door of his room, which was next mine
and was evidently much elated.
"Hallo! you are not asleepp" said he
"Isn't it larky placer Iwish we wer
going to stay month "s-and h
whistled a little, and moved about tn
room briskly, pulling his dressing-trap
out of his traveling-bag.
With a great struggle against jeal
ousy and sleepiness I said, "She is
sumner, isn't she, SpenserP" and b
looked grateful for this sympathy am
gave me his opinion of Miss Hallowell'
charms in most touchingly confiden
tial manner.
And the fact is" said he, "she i
lonely here, and 1 don't wonder at il
There are no young ladies near, and sh
: says she has grown up with her broth
ers. Of course she is awfully fond @
Dick, but you know he is little roug
sometimes, and he seems only boy +
her ''--and Jack looked at himself i
the long dressing-glass as if there wa
Miss Hallowell's beau ideal of what
young gentleman ought to be. "Sh
says she always has wished TO see me
ever since Dick used to write about m
at Exeter. She knows how to say
nice thing to a fellow, and she mean
every thing she says; you can tell she
not trying to stuff you. That's Dane
weights fashion"
"Then her sun has set, has itPn
= asked, waking up little.
"Don't be rough, " said Jack placidly
"Did you see what stunning rings sh
wearspn
Next morning we had breakfast late
and had to hurry to get through in tim
to get to church. Spenser suppose
: Miss Hallowen was going, and didn
, care to stay at home alone; but whe
the sleigh came round and we wake
out of the library dressed in our highe,
/ style, Dick said that Miss HallOwe
r would not be of the party. Jack eV
( IDENTIFY wished to stay at home to kee
/ her company, but didn't dare to say Sc
, as Dick seemed to have no such idei