Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-25

ed 10 be content with that, and to be
willing to let her learn to love him be-
fore he demanded more But she could
not, try as she would. The idea grew
more and more repugnant; only the sight
OF her mothers happiness III it made her
hope that the love might come when
needed. Yet, although that happiness
of her mothers was something very
touching for her to see, nevertheless, in
all her tremor and terrors, she could
never help laughing at the sudden re-
| spect and Difference that Osric began TO
pay her.
$50 you are really going to marry my
cousin q said Mrs. Grey, when he
brought her to call on Evelyn, and left
her at the door,
81 suppose so, said Evelyn.
"You suppose so! Don't you know ?"
| asked the pretty widow, Nesting in her
laces.
Il have promised to marry him" said
Evelyn, then, looking up in the sudden
hope OF some help, some sympathy, and
remembering how unreasonable that was
| to hope for from his cousin, who loved
him herself, people said, although how
she could, as Evelyn said to herself with
a sort of shudder, was mystery.
"You have promised, )" repeated Mrs.
! Grey. "And you are the kind to keep
your word, l suppose. Tell me- have
right to know-would you marry him
if he were poor man !? &" said Mrs. Grey,
imperiously.
81 should marry him now, rich or
poor, since my word has been given"
replied Evelyn.
"That is not answering my question.
" l will answer Is, then, when you tell
me what right you have to ask it,
Mrs. Grey hesitated. every right
every right" she cried then, with sud
den swift emphasis. "The right of
years OF waiting, of patience, of hopeless
| devotion. l have the right at least to
| demand that the woman who wins where
! fail shall give him some portion of the
| love / would have lavished."
" am very sorry for you, said Evelyn,
| simply, after moment or two of silence
had followed this outbreak. CT wish
he did love you !" And then, as Mrs.
Julia was coming into the room, she
dashed by her and ran out, unable to
control the tears she could not bear to
| weep before this woman"
Il came to pay my compliments to
your sister," said Mrs. Gray, coolly, to
Julia; but she seems to regard her ap-
preaching marriage as anything but a
subject for compliments I am sorry
she is so unhappy in it. l suppose
there is another attachment ?"
"Oh, dear me-" drawled Julia, who
never had more than half sense, as their
old nurse used to say, "we don't consider
her old affair with Pierre Gilland of any
| consequence" .
"Pierre?" asked Mrs. Grey, gently,
with an air of interest in Julia's CONVEX
sation. And when the carriage came
round for her she knew al Julia knew.
ga very lovely girl" said Mrs. Grey,
as her cousin, who had not gone in with
her, took took the seat beside her again
in the carriage. "But / can't congratu-
late you, rs l could not congratulate her.
She is in love with another mana
young Pierre Gilland, a civil engineer on
a Peruvian railroad, who had always ex.
pected to marry her, but who left her
incontinently on supposing she was going
to accept the ring of that little wretch
who is now her brother-in-law. Dear
me, what fool that woman is!-the Sis
ter of your pretty Evelyn. How fortu-
| nate you are not going to marry the
family
" Humph!' said Mr.. Bryce
But when he returned that evening,
and found Evelyn still excitedly ready
for tears at word, and obliged to go
to bed with sad headache, he went
round for little comfort from his cousin
Kate; and every time that Evelyn seemed
to shrink from him, and show him the
GOODNESS that she could not help, he in
voluntarily sought with his cousin the
sympathy he had found with her before.
At Christmas time he gave Evelyn
some pearls that made Julia's eyes fairly
run over with drops of ecstacy, and at
New Years some diamonds, over which
Osric hung gloatingly. But Evelyn
gave them back, and begged him to keep
them till by-and-bye. "You mean" he
said, "that you don't love me well
enough to take them now?"
81 think, she said, "that | may care
more for you if | am not so loaded with
them for me- And then, looking up, in
sudden ooiuuvsc, sue au''ed. why
did you not marry her? She would
have made better wife than-thnn any
body. And she-she is very floyd of
you"
Marry my cousin Katel Why, the
thought never entered my head. A man
doesn't marry the women of his family"
he exclaimed 81 mean to marry you"
But the thought had entered his head
| now. And the next time he came into