The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-03-03

my schoolmate and she's been begging
me to call on her. There's train leaves
at eleven and I'll go to-day. I'll con-
trive to see Mr.. Arthur Delaney with
out being seen, and I'll judge by his
looks whether I'll ask to be introduced.
II l don't like him I'll throw the for
tune to the hospitals and become an old
maid, and make tea forever for my dear.
stupid, loving darling pa. So make
haste, pa, l must prepare for my
journey"
"But you are not going to-day, my
dear" complained Mr.. Fairfax, "you
forget that your cousin Araminta
is coming to-day to stop with us, and
she might be offended ifyou were not
here to receive her."
Pa, if anything could drive me from
the house it would be the thought that
would have to listen to the disserta-
tions of the learned Araminta and hear
her praises of that modest, unassuming
Uriah, whoever he is. Araminta is a
good enough body, pa, but she does
weary me so. That decides me. go
to-day"
In the dfawing-room car of the train
that lett Metroville at eleven o'clock,
bound for Opoliston, sat Miss Fidelia
Fairfax reading the latest novel.
|
"Jack," said Arthur Delaney, toss
! ing his hat on the table in Jack Merton's
room and throwing himself on the
lounge, "are you quite sure you were
right about Mr.. Fairfax's house being
the seventh from this ?"
"Oi course ! am. I've often been
there to see him and his daughter" an
swered Jack.
"Ah, his daughter 1 think 1 saw
her at the window as | passed"
Undoubtedly you did; she sits there
all day"
"Lively girl she must be. Has she
black hair and eyes ?"
eyes P"
"And she is-well, not pretty"
There you are wrong. She is
pretty"
Jack, old fellow, you always had
queer ideas of female beauty. Why she
looks like a school marin. Is she one
of the cultured, clever sort ?"
"She is a very clever girl"
"She is, eh. Then I've seen her, no
Doubt
"That must have been her in the
window, there is no other lady in the
house."
"Oh," muttered Arthur. "I'll run to
the telegraph Office. Jack, if you'll ex-
cuse me, and then I'll be at your service
and we'll have ajolly night of it,"
That afternoon Mrs. Delaney received
telegraphic dispatch in the following
words:
Have seen the " condition" Goodbye
fortune. / wouldn't have her for q million
leave at eleven tomorrow morning.
ARTHUR.
"Rena, my love-" said Fidelia Fair
fax, as she came into Miss Rena Lester;
boudoir after a long walk; 81 am not
sorry you could not come out with me
for kept walking up and down one
street which, though it pleased me by
its pretty houses, would have wearieC
you who know it so WELL"
What street was itp" asked Mis-!
Lester.
1.-THE street on which you said Mrs
Delaney lived. BY the way, who wa
the gentleman l saw sitting on th
porchP" ..
"Oh, that must have been Arthur
All the girls are in love with him"
81 don't admire their taste"
"Oh, Fidelia; why he's so hand
some"
"Then l did not see him."
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, only man in the house."
5 HAS he light hairp"
Eyes, very light"
"And book wormy lookP"
f "For shame, Fidelia. He's very
/ very clever; but he's handsome, too"
\ II don't doubt he was the one / saw
! Well the Opoliston girls are welcome +
. him. Suppose we stroll to the telegrap
Office, Rena; l want to send messag
to pa"
. That afternoon Mr.. Fairfax receive
|, a telegraphic message rs follows:
n l have seen the hundred thousand dollf
: prize. A million would be too little. tai
v the eleven o'clock train to morrow mornin
Il FIDELIA.
Midway between OpolistOn and Ml
: troville was junction of three raj
l roads. Tracks crossed and curve
# around each other till the ground al
n peared to be covered with an iron ne
u work.
e How it happened no one ever learne,
le but two switches had been left mi
placed, and as the train bound fro
e Opoliston to Matroville came thunde
A. ;oo on Il shot off In tho xUrOn0 diraptiOI