The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-22

them startled them both.
The next instant her companion sank
white and senseless OH the sw,rd beside
hor, while the affrighted hunter, whose
mis-aimed charge haG tered his arm,
hastend forward. W
''Bring assistance quickly!" exclaimed
Myra, while she raised the heavy head
to her lap. ''Carol, speak to me !" she
moaned. "Cnrol, Carol !"
He opened his eyes with half-wan-
dering look, rs though delirium must
have overtaken him.
At this instant the hunter returned
with assistance, and half hour later the
wounded man had boon borne to Myra's 8
home, the wound dressed, and the
knowledge given that it WAS merely a
flesh hurt, painful but not dangerous;
yet his recovery was tedious affair."
He grew moody and abstracted.
1t gave him more time to think of
Nellie and his loss, Myra thought, even
while she wondered Why his eyes fol-
lowed her with such strange, question:
ing look.
Once she entered his room with some
freshly-cut flowers in her hand.
"Where shall put them, Mr.. STAN
ley? she questioned.
"Mr. Stanley" he answered. "Did
L not once hear you Call me Carol Or
was it sweet fancy waited from dream
land ?"
'.Don't," she said, rs though he had
hurt her, and hastcned from the room.
bearing 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 see?
A grand ball was to be given at Gra-
ham Court, ut which Nellie insisted that
Myra should be present.
The invalid was fully recovered now.
and he too was summoned to the feast.
Miss Graham had plunged into con-
slant gaiety since the breaking of her
engagement to Carol Stanley, but it had
oil failed to fill the empty place in her
heart.
On the evening of her ball, she picked
up the paper sont down by the after
moons mail.
Glancing idly over it's pages, she sud
denly started at seeing the name of the
man to whom she so lately had been be-
trothed.
1t was published decision of the
court that, owing to some disability,
the title could not descend to Carol
Stnnley's cousin, but, together with
the estates, must remain in his possess
sion.
He was, then, Lord Stanley still.
Fool that she had been
But the decision had been made pub
lie but few hours.
He would never dream Of the acci-
dent which had blought it to her know
ledge.
Tonight, while he still thought her in
Ignorance, she must win him back.
It was late when he entered the spa
cious drawing rooms.
II have been waiting for you," she
said, i'll her sweetest, lowest tones.
"You honor me too greatly, Miss Gra-
ham" he replied.
"Let us go into the conservatory, "
she added. cit is cooler there"
He offered his arm.
From n distant corner of the room.
Myra saw them.
"Sho need not have feared" she
thought, bitterly, only the next moment
to reproach herself with her selfishness.
'I will not begrudgo him my happi-
ness" she said to horself.
"Have you forgotten the last time we
were here together, Mr.. Stanley?" Mel
lie was asking at this moment.
"No," he answered, gravely, looking
quietly but surprisedly into the beauti-
full face beside him.
"Can one ever retrieve mistake" ,"
she asked, "when ono finds it out ?"
'I do not know" he replied, toying
with an exquisite rose beside him, rs he
continued:
"Can one cause the rose blighted in
midsummer to bloom again in the frosts
Of winter ?"
An hour later Carol Stanley led Miss
Eynne to the same spot.
IT love you, Myra," he said, simply.
'T thought my heart was dead when ]
met you. T know now that it bas
never lived. My darling, will you he
my wife ?"
ooh Carol, arc you sure, sure of your.
self ?"
"I have been made sure tonight" he
answered, drawing her close to his heart,
and breaking off the splendid rose with
which he had toyed an hour before, tc
place it in her hair.
She was too happy to question his
words or their meaning--to happy even
to let Miss Grahams congratulations
sting, when she said, scornfully :
"a heart caught in the rebound. DID
not tell you SOP"
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