The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-02-05
Have the skies fallen, that we catch

Have the skies fallen, that we catch
larks7' asked Nina's lover.
## g see that you have already caught
one" laughed his cousin Stella. ss.s
ssStella has come to look at her rival"
said Mrs. Grandelaw, when Nina babe
her goodnight. "We feared that my
son would marry Stella some day. She
thought so herself, but I disapproye Of
cousins marrying, q
did she love him?'' grasped Nina.
II dare say she loved him well
enough; but one survives these things"
HOh, how she must hate mel" cried
Nina. . II, s:* .:= =:> -.
But if Cousina Stella hated or loved
she knew how to disguise her feelings;
nobody else could be gayer or SUMMER
than she during those days.. She
sparkled with repartee and anecdote,
and shook her listeners with gales of
laughter. Perhaps she was showing
Grandel.w what mistake he had
made ta choose this staid, shadowy
woman instead of herself. :
II have been sitting for my portrait"
she said enc evening. Nina's heart
gave a little stir: had she not sat for her
picture once?' The moon was shining
in through the long windows of the
drawing room; there was no other
light in the room except the fitful
glare behind the fender. ,Grandelaw
had been called out Of town on bust
ness for night or two.
Indeed" said Mrs. Grandelew. cts
it not a tedious affair?''
"It would be!perhaps, if any one but
Victor B]umenthal were painting it."
Nina started and dropped her fan.
Had she come to Laurel Lodge to hear
of Victor
'And who is Victor Blumenthal ~
asked Stella's aunt another flame of
yoursw
II have seen no symptoms of that
kind" laughed Stella. ~ wish I might.
He would make an ideal lover"
"But he is married." spoke Nina out
of the shadow, and there was the sound
of tears in her voice, if any one had
had ears to hear. "He is married,
Stella"
"Then Grandelaw has told you about
him? Yes, it was SO romantic-and
Didn't the marriage turn out well?''
asked Mrs. Grandelaw, to whom 70.
nance meant nonsense.
"That depends" returned Stella. He
married his cousin Theodore"
II have no patience with cousins
marrying"
! "No? There was no great need Of
patience in this case. BlumenthaPs
grandfather had left all the money tC
Theodore and her mother. Victor was
as poor as became an artist to be. ]
tsuppose Theodore had always loved
him, but she insisted upon being mar
ried to him on her death bed, that he
might inherit her portion of the for
tune. She died an hour afterward."
Nina sat like one stunned by ar
earthquake shock; all Grandelaw's per.
fdy stood out like the handwriting or
the wall. Victor had loved her ate,
| all. His kiss had not been treachery
She would go.to him. She would leave
this prison for ever and ever. How
had she ever dreamed of loving Grande
law some day? =.
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Nina said, when she kissed Mrs. Grande
law goodnight. Il snail always bless
you for it; but-Stella would make
Grandelaw better wife, and you q
wiser dauk hter."
my son and think differently, re.
piled his mother; but she remembered
s afterward that Nina had fingered and
lhesitated-"just as if she wished to ask
pardon for something" Mrs ,Grande.
law explained; and when Grandelaw
himself returned to Laurel Lodge there
was little three-cornered note on his
library, table in Nina's hand, which
read: r
IF should marry you, Mr.. Anson
Grandelaw, some day, in looking over
your file of old 11ib,snes I should hap.
ped 5upen one containing the marriage
Of Victor .Blumen thal to his cousin
Theodore, and the notice of her death
on the same day, and your deceit would
kill whatever love I had learned to bear
you. .# Ea~r 5#@ ..:-$$
$50 good-by, and make Stella happy
..s . NINA"
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