, 1881-06-03

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Training. don't member when ue wis
Ilttl, shaver. NOT more than so high,
how lr U-td 10 steal my tuyuTte Con
cords before they were ripe, and plug my
wat,rmy.uu- when they were green? If
Id caught him | would have given him
thushlng that WOuld have been the
making of him; but ! didn't, and con
sequeutly lac has gone from bad 10 worse,
till he Is no lit associate for niece of
mine; and once for all, | will not allow
him, after this evening, to set foot III my
house! If he does, Ill-Ill-" and here
the Judge stopped for want of breath.
and proceeded TO wipe his face with an
enormous crimson kerchief which really
looked like light tint of red when
viewed by the side of his face, from
which the perspiratiOn was pouring.
''HOW violent uncle IS" thought
Persis. Il shall have to be careful
that he does not see us together this
evening" And with the peIsistency of
youth. she made up her mind to be with
her lover whenever an opportunity
offered and her uncle was not by. ''All
old people are opposed to anything like
courtship among the younger ones, and
seem to forget their own youthful days,
she thought. Just because Dick has
brought few college chums home with
him who are little gayer than the clOd-
hOppers about here, uncle thinks they
are wild" And here.she fell to making
n list mentally of Dicks qualities and
good looks, not dreaming that she was
dwelling only on the roseate and not on
the leaden points of Richard Dunlap S
character.
Every day hath its end, and this one
did not prove an exception to the gen
eral rule. Evening came, and with it
the guests, who thronged the grand old
mansion. Persis enjoyed herself to the
utmost; what young girl with any claims
to good looks, and possessed of the
buOyant spirits that always accompany
perfect health and youth, would not be?
The evening seemed to be passing off to
entire satisfaction of everybody, until
being in the dressing-room in the latter
part of the evening, she heard some one
on the veranda Just outside the window
saying:
Deep? You're very mucn mistaken,
Trevor; she Is as transparent as are the
rest of them; without any egotism, |
might say she was perfectly infatuated
with me; Just carried away, my dear fell
low!" and as he spoke he gave such a
slap on TrevOr's shoulders that they
must certainly have given way had they
not been especially firm. ''I'll tell you
what, though, boys, 1 will give a sort of
private rehearsal fer your especial bene-
fit, and you shall see for yourselves.
can assure you it Will be quite as inter
esting as the first act or so to- any play,
and the announcement will be stunning,
and ought to bring down applause from
any house. or as in this instance, from
the trees"
''What do you mean, Dick? / never
was good at guessing my examples,
to say nothing of enigmas," said Jack
Trevor
"Well, then, in plain English, I have
arranged an interview with Miss Peyton,
to take place in the arbor Just as the last
Lancers are forming. chose the arbor
as it is so shaded with trees, shrubs and
vines as to furnish a complete hiding
place toryou boys"
"Oh, all that's what You mean, is it?
Rather hard on girl, but don't know
that ! have any objection to caves
dropping if the rest have not" said
Trevor.
81 second the motion, was echoed in
bass by several others.
''What is the subject to be, Dunlap?
First elements of love? Modern young
lady, or what?'
ooh, anything you choose. The sub
seen her blush, though, when I pro
to propose; all but that! A halter don t
suit me nnless it is studded with more
money than old Peyton has. She's a
pretty girl, though, to pass a few idle
hours with, and it is so deucedly dull in
the country here"
PersiS sat but moment inactive; in
another she was ON her feet, and in
stinctively she turned to that womanly
consolation, the mirror; but she drew
back; the reflection did not look like
Persis; the color was all faded from her
cheeks; there were dark circles beneath
her eyes, and hard lines about the
mouth.
''Did blush? Was / foolish enough
TO let that vile apology of a man see that
cared for him? Yes. yesl l see it all
nowi So there is to be farce, and you,
Miss Persis, are to be the star, are you?''
she said to the figure in the glass. but
why shouldn't Mr.. Dunlap be the prin-
cipal actor, and the one to bring down
applause from the trees? Surely the
author of such anefarious scheme should
be a much better actor than trans
parent girl like you! Let me think; the
denouement must be stunning to satisfy
Mr.. Dunlap's fastidious taste. Yes.
Well, l think L have it. / think the
audience will be satisfied"
4 few moments later, and she was
vending her way to the servants hall.
why, honey, where's We gwine?" said
q rather thick voice, as Persis ran
against trim-looking mulatto girl.
''Oh, Hannah, is that you? You are
the very one want to see. You know
those coral earrings of mine you liked
so much ?"
Yes. marin. the ones wild de red dat
looks like lub and gum-drops."
We'll, if you Will do as wish. you
may have them"
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