Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-07-14
Maud Glyn and the past.

Maud Glyn and the past.
While she, walking away oh Gen
eral Howards arm, said to herself
SHARPLY
I HE has forgotten it But I have
never forgotten, ard I never can for.
get"
i And when score of years, with all
their lights and shades, their pleas
ures and pains, had been marked off
her life, she had not forgotten.
Mamma, l have come to tell you
something. Will you listen ?"
Mrs. Lawrence Giyn looked up from
the letter she was writing, with the
fond, tender smile she always gave
her beautiful daughter-a shy, sweet
girl Of seventeen, so like what the
mother had been at the same age.
you want new dress o, some
other necessity, from the non-posses-
sion of which you are suffering 80 ter
ribly ?"
Her soft white hand, jeweled and
strengthful, smoothed the girls fair
hair, and she smiled down at the
flush ed, hushed face.
":Not a new dress, Lily, or a trink
ct or another new pet pony Child.
what is it? Not"-and a quick
strange look came into her eves-"you
do not mean Herbert Carlyon'"
That is what I mean. Oh, he says
he loves me and"
And you told him what, Lilyl"
Il said it must be just as YOU said,
mamma" Lily repllod.
And you-care for him? You
are such a child-the merest baby J
What do you know Of the lovo that
sways hearts, and makes or wrecks
human life p
Lily looked up in her mothers
stormy passonful eyes.
Il know | care q great deal for him, !"
she said simply.
"Yet you will tell him no. Lily I!
When be demands your answer, tell
him your mother says no, Lily, you
have always been a dutiful daughter,
and in this expect your usual obs-
dience. For years l have been wait
ing, and now my turn has come !!
Tell Malcolm Carlvon's son l say no !!
no no.
The girls lip quivered, and her
face paled
But mamma, it will break my
heart, for love him and he loves me
just as we'll"
Mrs. Glyn laughed coldly.
THAT Is all nonsence about your
heart breaking. l tell you l know
that hearts do not break 80 easily.
And as to love--you are two babies to
talk of such thing. All the same,
| command that you tell him what my
decision is.
But, oh, Mamma"
Mrs. Glyn passionately interrupted
the piteous remonstrance,
II tell you have only lived for
this hour There is no but about it,
Lily-it is nothing but no to NAL
colin Carl yon 8 son.
And Lily crept away to CRY out her
sorrow to herself
Twenty.four hours later servant
took to Mrs. Glvn a card from a gen.
tlemaa waiting in the parlor, and she
went down, with a cold, passlonless
face, and deliberate repose of manner
to look upon Malcolm Carlyons face
for the first time since her widowhood
ten years before.
He was SO like he used to De-oj
course showing that he was twenty
years older-but, she thought, even
handsomer than in mis- younger days.
! Nevertheless, her we'll disciplined
heart did not quicken or lessen its
steady beats, and she bowed conrte-
ously, not even wandering if his
thoughts had gone flying back to the
last time they stood alone in Maud
, Tudor's home.
"Perhaps it is needful for me tc
apologize for intruding, Mrs. dlyn,
, he began; but she fastened to assure
him his presence, although surprise
was no more an intrusion than doS'
ems of calls she received daily.
ut is very serious matter that
brings me, he continued, with grave