The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-09-15

was great dignity toward the piano
She felt rather than saw him raise his
mead and look at her, and the next mo.
ment she saw him by her side.
"Maggie-my dear Maggie! Why
fancy your being here; where did you
come from? l have been trying to find
you out for months"
~ thought you and then she did
not know how to go on, SO added, al
most piteously, 81 am the governess
here"
"Are you? Oh, / see, then, that is
the reason l have not seen you before,
l suppose"
800 you really know Mis- Dunlop !'
the heiress asked, coming IN and
i spe:a!GZ::Cg IN her coolest manner.
Maggie wished sincerely she could
sink into her shoes and bury herself.
"Why, of course l do ; we have been
playfellows ever since we were born
haven't we, Maggie?"
And Maggie, feeling that she was
backed up, answered bravely:
"Oh, indeed, how Interesting n' then
turning to Maggie: "Will you be so
good as to begin waltz, Miss Dunlop
This was to be our dance, l think" to
Alic, and she sailed off with him tri-
umphantly.
He came to her directly after the
dance was over.
81 went down to PerIock to try and
find out where you had gone to- he
said; ''but nobody knew"
II didn't NATTER" she said, huskily,
letting her fingers wander vaguely
over the keys to make believe she
wasn't much interested in what he
said.
eyes it did-it mattered a great deal
Why, I've got a box full of curiosities
for you-clubs to fight with, and lit
tie heather god or two, and a statue of
Buddha and all sorts of things. l told
you'll should bring them home to you.
Do you live here-I mean in this
hCuse?"
He said these last three words under
his breath, for the heiress came up, and
the next moment he was carried off to
dance with Mrs. SOMEBODY at the other
end of the room; but not before Mag
gle had nodded a reply to him. Soon
after this, Miss Patterson came up to
the piano, and saying she wished to
play herself, and that Maggie looked
tired, dismissed her without her being
able to get even another look at Alic.
The next morning, to Maggie's very
great surprise, Miss Patterson came in
to the school-room before the children
had assembled.
"Miss Dunlop" she said, stiftiy, "I
should like to know where you say you
met Mr.. Granger"
cat Perlock. His uncle lived next
door to my mother. He is very old
friend, indeed"
"Thank you. 1 merely wished to
inquire, because, of course, you must
be aware that it is not usual for any
one in your position to make herself
remarkable by having long confidence
it the house."
IL don't know what you mean, Miss
Patterson Maggie said Indignantly"
But Miss Patterson had swept out of
the room without deigning to reply.
Then Maggie went into her little
room, the one place she had in the
world entirely to herself, and cried till
her eyes were red and her head
ached.
The lessons did not progress that
Maggie was thinking of
Alic. who was no doubt strolling about
the common listening TO the band and
love to the heiress. The chill
dren were more than usually stupid,
too, and all the world seemed upside
down, and all its ways turned crooked.
Suddenly, at about twelve o'clock, just
when Maggie was in the middle Of ex-
pounding as best she could the excen-
tricities &c the Ereuch grammar. there
was knock ct the school-room door.
"Come in" she said.
The door opened, and there stood be-
fore her astonished eyes the form of
Alic Granger, and behind him was
nlan-evidently mis- servant-with box
on his shoulders.
"All right, Tom, put it down; that's
right; now be off. There, I've brought
the curiosities round, Maggie; /
thought you would like to see them"
i ooh What will Mrs. Marshall and
Miss Patterson say" said Maggie in
CONSERVATION.
Nothing to you for the next half
hour or so, for 1 have just seen them
on their way to Woolwich, and thought
/ should get quiet chat with you.
My dears," he said, turning to Maggie's
wide-eyed, open-mouthed pupils, 'I'm
quite sure you'd like to be let off your
lessons, SO I'll let you of for an hour;
run along, my little dears," and he
opened the door for them and shut it
after them.
ooh! Alic !" she said, IN fear and
trembling.
"Oh, Maggie !" he answered, mimick-
ing, what did you mean by going
away from Perlock, and not leaving
any address p :
Il couldn't help it, and you never
wrote"
.sNo ! never write letters; don't
know how to spell well enough. But
have been hunting for you all over the
place, and never dreamed Of finding
you here. Now we'll unpack the box;
u had it opened before I came, SO it's
only fastened bya lock-"
but, Alic, they'll never forgive me-"
1. Never mind, it doesn't matter, be-
L