The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-11-23

Will YOU keep on with me uoWh OnAo
path. or will you go with Mr.. Frisbee on
the other ChooseP
She hesitated, and her color Went
"You have no right to speak to me
"I have right" hereplied, firmly
" the right to know whether the glrl
love is false or true" -,
Hetty, like Lloyd, was high-splr1ted,
and his look and tone angered her;
"Go your own way, and Will go
mine 7" she said, proudly.
And without another word she turneo
down the pathway by which Mr.. FTlsoee
was approaching.
Ioyd. as he reached the gate, turned
back to look at the two figures slowly
sauntering along the green meadow.
"I could never have dreamed 1t OF
her" he ethonght. "I believed she loved |
me- And 10 cast me off for a fellow
like that, whose greatest recommenda-
piol is his wealth Oh, Hetty, that L
should have been so mistaken in you !"
And Mr.. F'risbee, as he walked by
Hetty'sside, admiring her girlish beauty
and her pretty, coquettish ways, and
thinking how he would "show off" his
vounp wife am ong his friends-did the
thouSht never occur to him, as to Lloyd,
That This girl, Young enough to be his
daughter, coultl not possibly find In him
anv attraction save his wealth
Rnt moor Hetty, since her father died
bonLrunt. had experienced enough of
noverty's ills, an d heard enough from
her mother and sisters to learn to look
mon riches as the, key that could open
to her the golden store OF l1fe's pleas
ures.
Tnyd could give her comfortand COM
natence. but as Mrs. Frisbee she could
have an elegant city residence, carriage
ond servants. b,,lls in winter and water
in0.nlaces in SUI umer, with everything
else that che mig ht desire.
Not that she wa light and frivolous,
or lonped for mora worldly pleasures
bnt for the time be ing the picture had
dazzled her, and in her present angry
Y and resentful mood against Lloyd, what
y y wonder that she liste ned to all that Mr..
> Frisbee had to say, and before she
Q reached home had accepted the rich
widower's proposal? -,
.s And vet somehow "a, stty felt IN hel
own heart that this was the most miser
,t able evening she had evel spent
AS the days went by Hetty grew nC
"A bappier in the contemplation OF hel
20 brilliant prospects. She turned with |
40 snecies Of loathing from the man she
" had promised to wed, and her hear
\. went ont more and more TO the love
!" whom she had discarded.
nt They sometimes met, but he was dis
h. tant and proud, and it was not for he
90 70 mako advances. So she decided t.
let her engagement become publlcl
To known. and one day went over to Mrs
~ Sutton's and asked Sue Sutton, Boyd
cousin, to be her bridemaid.
he "You ought hardly to expect it 9
me. Hetty," Sue said, with some spirit
he al think you have treated Lloyd BADLY.
elbow so?"
Of "Because know he loved you, an
I used to think you loved him. 70
he certainly did behave in manner to- eE
5. courage him."
he "Perhaps we were mistaken in fame.
ity ing that we loved each other"
it eff you were mistaken, LLOYD WASH
T have never seen a person so change
ner and unhappy" said Sue, with tears
she her eyes.
on, last evening, flirting with Josephlr
re- Willis" -,
"Oh, that was merely put on! 81
ike fIirted with him and he humored her,
a blind, know Loyd-how proud
ner is. and that he would never allow al
his one to suspect how he suffers. b
.th. when we all came home from the par
IL where he had heard from Mrs. Cart
Iurt that YOU were really engaged to tn
MIR. Frisbee-oh, Hetty, he looked
li0- wretchedly, and we heard him waikiki
mn and down his room for hours, al
v I tossing about on his bedl I'm certa
and he couldn't have slept wink all night
"Where is he now9" asked Hetty
res, little tremulous.
"I don't know. He went out befc
Won breakfast, and haven't seen him sint
ont 7 believe his heart is broken, and I'll
he will pine away and die, or perha
bit- take his own life" said Sue, with tei
in her ewes. "And he had been Loo
ad- ing at your portrait, Hetty, for fou
it on his table, propped up agains
blue book"
Ioyd My portraltf Why he senS IL Os
d by to me-"
,ath. "Did he? Then TINS InusI DO 60
Het- Wait moment, and I will get it
10. you to see."
/ the She was hardly out OF the roc
re- when Hetty heard "eil-AnoWn sUSl
ming the hall, and the next momenS ~
! the himself entered. Instinctively she
drawn back, and the great book-c
a the screened her from his view. He
and not, however, look around pu1 InI
,rtly, ing himself In CHAIR. lea3eo paeA il,
man, closed eyes, ana seeing nIn VI ,D.s
IS de- was struck with the chahge III ms
field pearance. HIS face was pale enu
ty he unmistaksble traces OF snneIiog' 3II .-I;