The Republican journal., 1881-10-20

have mostly good conceit o themselves
when they have not they make deal O.
trouble, for the whole world is sorted for
that condition"
"Tell me about it, Janet"
''There is little to tell, child. Thirty
years ago there was handsome lad that
! liked me Weel, and it beho0ved him to 90
ava to the East Indies. He wanted me
to 90 with him, and | wanted no other
thing; but he misdoubted himself and
msdoubted me, and so he sailed east and
| sailed west Life was just a WEAKNESS
for long while afterWard" And the
old lady looked with wistful, fearful eyes
| backward, backward, after the long
vanished hopes and years She was
reused from herreyerie by a low, passion
ate sobbing among the soft cushions I:
Marion was weeping bitterly. She let
her weep such tears were gracious rain,
and would bring clear sky after them.
Three weeks after this conversation
| the weary little party smiled into each
others faces as they turned into Broad
way again. There Is not city in the
world like New York, said Marion en-
Enthusiastically. and she looked almost
lovingly up the long, picturesque vista.
| David nodded pleasant assent, and Miss
Janet made no other reservation than
slight one in favor OF Edinburgh.
After q nights rest at his daughter
Julla's, David Laurie set out at once for
his mills and his home, and Janet insist
ed on going with him. but Marion was to
stay few days in New York, until the
whole house had been thoroughly warm
ed and made comfortable. Perhaps she
was not sorry to do this now that she was
within two hours travel of John. She
wanted time to consider what she ought
to DO and say in every possible contin-
gency likely to occur; and SO, after
J Janet's and her fathers departure, She
| spent the whole day in arranging pro
! grammes Of her unavoidable meeting with
| John.
| " hen the evening arrived she had de
/ clded Oh all her movements, ana was
| quite ready to take an interest in Julia S
dressing fora great dinner party. Marion
/ herself would not go she did not care to
uupack her trunks. or provoke a round
Of callers, for she had made up her minu
| to 90 home as soon as Janet notified hel
that the house was in comfortable order
Consequent sic W tS W SItIlNl TIC
evening alone, and she was rather amaI-
ed at herself for liking the idea; but now
! it was sWeeter to think Of John than
aught in the world besides. She with
drew to small parlor containing piano,
for it would help pass the evening if she
| practiced some Of the old Scotch songs
| which she had not touched since John
and she had sung them together? That
was OF course among the possibilities She
| had arranged for but She started at
the "but," and began to walk thought
| fully up and down the room, noting even
in the midst of her anxiety what a pretty
shadow she cast upon the wall.
50 little changes our moods when We
are young. She smiled at her vanity and
sat down to play, taking the songs as they
came in order, and becoming slowly but
thoroughly ;mbued with their spirit. BY
and-by She came to one that touched her
own case with a startling relativeness.
and it was with a soGbing cadence the
music set itself to the pathetic entreaty
of Marion, singing,
"CouId YOU come back to me. Douglas, Douglas.
Back with the form and the face that | knew,
| would be 50 faithful, SO loving, Douglas,
Douglas, tender and true"
The verse ended in SOB, and the fair
golden head fell heavily into the clasped
hands.
"Marion. Marion Marion T.
There was no need Of further weeping.
John found her in the right mood this
time. She lifted her fearful but exquisite
ly tender face to that loving call, and an
swered it only by that one low word
"JOhn :" Vet her whole attitude was in
tensely eloquent. Without making step,
without Il movement Of the arms, She
gave her lover an impression Of overflow
ing expectation But her first words
! after this tact confession were thorough
ly womanly: "Oh, John, how much you
have made me suffer !"
Perhaps at first John was Il little as
tonished at this charge but when Ills
cruelty had been made manifest to him,
he was very properly indignant at his own
stupidity Then Marion torgavc him.
And really Johns behavior would have
led any one to believe that the most de
lightful of all experiences was to be for
given for an unknown and unintentional
ottensc.
John and Marion have been married
some months now, and yet John, with a
mans laundering incapacity, often mis-
understands his lovely little wife. How
ever, do not know that this is an occur
renee to be in any measure regretted,
plantations 50 much.