Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
NELLIE'S MISTAKE.

NELLIE'S MISTAKE.
Nellie Graham stood leaning against
the easement of an open window leading
on to a sloping lawn, at whose base
flowed sunny, rippling stream of wa
ter.
Near her, reclining on a low, easy
chair. sat a young girl of about her own
age.
AT first glance the exquisite soul-love-
illness of her face paled in Miss Graham's
more brilliant beauty, but there was
more to love its possessor and fewer TO
envy her.
Something like Indignation was in her
voice as she addressed her friend.
Il cannot believe that you mean it,
Nellie she said s.You have been en-
gagged to Carol Stanley year, and how
can you say so carelessly that your en-
gagement shall be broken"
BEG pardon" interrupted the other,
in low ironical tones. 81 have not yet
been engaged to Carol Stanley twenty
four hours. 1t was to LORD Carol STAN
ley 1 gave my pledge" :"
''Oh, but Nellie, because he has lost
title and estate, must he also lose the
woman of his love? Think a minute.
You surely will not give him up so
easily? Think better of it, dear. L
know you care for him. Do not so
lightly renounce your life's happiness.
.'You plead his cause eloquently, my
dear. Really did not know 1 possessed
a rival in my fair cousin. Perhaps
heart caught in the rebound. You know
the rest of course, and can point the
moral
"Nellie, you are cruel-cruel I"
But the late speaker had passed
through the open window out OF hear
ing. and advanced to meet a man quick
lv approaching on the green sward,
while the young girl left behind fell
back in her chair, the great tears cours-
ing down her cheeks, ON which the GRIM
son color signal famed.
II must leave this place. L cannot
meet him again. must go homei But,
oh how can she give him up ?"
Myra LYNNE and Nellie Graham were
cousins. The girls, however, had been
closely united, more by the tie of friend
ship than cousinship, since the latter
was distant bond, and Graham Court
was almost as much Myra's home as her
own.
Now. however, the palmer charms OF
her own humble home We're very CRATE
ful to her.
Here no one could probe the discovery
so new to herself-could trace the scar
LET blush which seemed so often to burn
her cheek. until she wondered that it
did not leave its brand.
She had been home six weeks, and
twice Carol Stanley had ridden over to
see her. but she always denied herself
to him on some household pretext, un-
til one morning he overlook her IN the
road.
80 / am to find you at last, he said.
His voice sounded the same as Of old,
the bright CHEEKY tone was unchanged.
..Have you seen Nellie lately?" she at
last found courage at ask.
NO" he answered, and then she saw
the frown gather on his brow, and an
expression of pain come about his lips.
81 see rs little of your cousin as posi-
BILE now. Yen know, Miss Lynne, ]
am no longer subject for congratula-
ton"
YES, hLow," she said. L
Don't pity me, :" he interrupted. 81
can't bear that quite yet.
Il tlrd not mean 70 pity you, she re-
phed-
And then the conversation drlfted lnte
other channels.
.sOh. if Nellie had not spoken of the
heart caught in the rebound y she
tboucht. when week after week Caro-
Stanley would find his way to their gar
den. or the parlor. to spend long hour
with its fair young mistress.
She understood so well why he came
because ROW and then Nellie's Lam
drifted into the idle talk, and because q
he grew stronger he dared speak OF he
and the love he had borne her
1t was mingled pain and pleasure L
listen.
If only she had not learned her owl
heart, the pain would have been less
But she was destined to learn 1t NOR
fatally vet, as one morning, stroliin'
through the woods together, the sharl
report of a hunters gun close besid
them startled them both.
The next instant her ccnpaaIon san
white and senseless on the sw rd sesid
her. while the afrighted hunter, who's
mis-aimed charge had entered his arm
hasiend forward.
Bring assistance quicklyr' exclaime
Mvra. while she raised the heavy hea
to her lap. :'Carol, speak to me J! sh
moaned. 'sCarol, Carol y