Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-20

lou know, Miss Loring. am no longer a
subject of congratulation.
Yes know" she said. q"
Don't pity me, he Interrupted; 81 can't
bear that quite yet"
i did not mean to pity YOU" she re-
piled.
Oh, if Lillian had not spoken of the
hear1 caught In the rebound, she thought
Snen week after week Oscar Dering would
nnd his way to the rectory garden or the
rectory parlor, to spend long hours with its
fair young mistress.
She understood so well why he calae, be-
cause now and then Lillian's name drifte6
into the idle talk, and because, as he grew
stronger, he dared speak of her ani of the
love he had borne her. 1t was a mingled
pain and pleasure TO listen. If only she
mad not learned her own heart the pam
would have been less But she was de-
stined to learn it more fatally, yet, as one
morning strolling through the woods to-
gether, tie sharp report of hunters gun
close beside them startled them both. The
next instant Der companion sank white and
senseless on the swsrd beside her. while
the atrighted hunter, whose misaimed
charge had entered his arm, hastenen for
ward
bring assistance quickly" exclaimed
Edith, while she raised the heavy head to
her lap: Oscar, speak to me, she moaned.
Oscar! Oscar"
Over and over again she repeated his
name in the same accents of desparing love,
until they had forced their way into the
life-pulses of his being and aroused them
| TO activity.
He opened his ewes in half-wandering
look, as though delirium had overtaken
him,
| AT this instant TIE hunter returned with
assistance, and half hour later the wound
ed man had been borne to the rectory, the
wound dressed, and the knowledge gwen
that it was merely flesh wound, painful,
but not dangerous. Yet his recovery was
tedious affair.
He grew moody and distracted 1t gave
him more time TO think of Lillian and his
loss, Edith thought. even while abe Won
dered why his eyes followed her with such
strange questioning look. Once she en-
tered his rocm with some freshly cut flowers
in her hand.
Where shall put them, Mr.. Dering?"
she inquired.
"Mr. Deringi" he answered did
not once hear you call me Oscar, or was it
q sweet fancy waited from dreamlsndf"
Again the crimson tide dyed her face.
s.DoR't !" abe said, as though he had
hurt her, and FASTENED from the room bear
ing with her the flowers, and it seemed to
him the light and sunshine.
had he been blind all this time and was
he just beginning to see9
A grand ball was to be given at Ames
court. Lillian insisted that Edith should
be present, and the invalid also was sum-
moned to the feast.
On the evening of Miss Ames's ball she
picked up the paper sent down by the after
noon mail from London. She was sudden
iy startled at seeing the name OF the man to
whom she so lately had been betrothed-
1t was a published decision Of the court
that owning to some disability, the title
could not descend to Oscar Dering COUSIN.
He was, then, Lord Dering still. Fool
that she had beer. But tonight, while he
still thought her in ignorance, she must win
him back.
1t was late when he entered the spacious
drawing rooms.
'T have been waiting for you" she said,
in her sweetest, lowest tones.
eYou honor me oogreatly, Miss Ames, >
he replied.
'.Let us go into the conservatory. she
added, "it is cooler there
He offered her his arm.
From distant corner of the room Edith
saw them.
Il will not begrudge him any happiness, !"
she said to herself.
..Have YOU forgotten the last time we
were here together, MIR. Deringf' Lillian
was asking at this moment
No." be answered gravely, looking into
the beautiful face beside MIN.
s.Can one ever retrieve a mistake, she
asked. .'when one finds it out?''
Il don't know" he replied SCAN one
cause the rose, blighted in midsummer, to
bloom again in the depths of wInterf"
She knew then what he meant
.sWe are dealing in SMILES" she exclaim-
ed sIet us return to our guests.
An hour later Oscar Der1ng led Miss
Ioring to tine same spot
Hove you, Edith" he said, 81 thought
NV bearr was dead when l met you My
darling, will you be my wifef"
"Oh, Oscar, you are sure, sure OF your
self"
he answered
She was too happy to question his words
too happy even to let Miss Amess con-
grstulations sting her when she said
IA heart caught In the rebound Did
not tell you So"
Tco happy to be made happier when she
,..rred that on her wedding day she was
N he made Lady Edith Dering.
-,,nps Il would be Funny to Soc.
A patent medicine that wasn't waIIan'eo 1saS -
dead shot for anything, from corns u
consumption. o,,.r
rose without a thorn and wonian