The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-03
RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, NOV
down the pathway by which Mr.. Frisbee
was approaching.

down the pathway by which Mr.. Frisbee
was approaching.
Lloyd, as he reached the gate, turned
back to look at the two figures slowly
sauntering along the green meadow.
ct could never have dreamed it of
her." he thought. "I believed she loved
me. And to cast me off for fellow
like that, whose greatest recommends
9ion is his wealth Oh, Hetty, that l
should have been so mistaken in you p
And Mr.. Frisbee, as he walked by
Hetty's side, admiring her girlish beauty
and her pretty, coquettish ways, and
thinking how he would "show off" his
young wife among his friends-did the
thought never occur to him, as to Lloyd,
that this girl, young enough to be his
daughter, could not possibly find in him
any attraction save his wealth?
But poor Hetty, since her father died
bankrupt, had experienced enough of
povertys ills, and heard enough from
her mother and sisters to learn to look
upon riches as the key that could open
to her the golden store of life's pleas
ures.
Lloyd could give her comfort and COM
petence, but as Mrs. Frisbee she could
have an elegant city residence, carriage
and servants, balls in winter and water
ing places in summer, with everything
else that she might desire.
Not that she was light and frivolous,
or longed for more worldly pleasures;
but for the time being the picture had
dazzled her, and in her present angry
and resentful mood against Lloyd, what
wonder that she listened to all that Mr..
Frisbee had to say, and before she
reached home had accepted The rich
widower's proposal?
And yet somehow Hetty felt in her
own heart that this was the most miser-
able evening she had ever spent.
AS the days went by Hetty grew no
happier in the contemplation of her
brilliant prospects. She turned with o
species OF loathing from the man she
had promised to wed, and her heart
went out more and more to the lover
whom she had discarded.
| They sometimes met, but he was dis
tant and proud, and it was not for her
to make advances. So she decided to
let her engagement become publicly
known, and one day went over to Mrs.
Sutton's and asked Sue Sutton, Boyd's
cousin, to be her bridemaid.
"You ought hardly to expect it Of
me, Hetty," Sue said, with some spirit.
81 think you have treated Lloyd badly"
Chow so?"
because know he loved you, and
[ used to think you loved him. You
certainly did behave in manner to en-
courage him."
"Perhaps we were mistaken in fancy
ing that we loved each other"
IF you were mistaken, Lloyd wasn't.
have never seen person so changed
and unhappy" said Sue, with tears in
her eyes.
"He didn't appear to be unhappy
last evening, flirting with Josephine
Willis"
"Oh, that was merely put on! She
flirted with him and he humored her, as
a blind. I know Loyd-how proud he
is, and that he would never allow any
one to suspect how he suffers. But
when we all came home from the party
where he had heard from Mrs. Carter
that you were really engaged to that
Mr.. Frisbee-oh, Hetty, he looked so
wretchedly, and we heard him walking
up and down his room for hours, and
tossing about on his bed! I'm certain
he couldn't have slept wink all night. "
"Where is he now?" asked Hetty, q
little tremulous.
81 don't know. He went out before
breakfast, and 1 haven't seen him since.
1 believe his heart is broken, and that
he will pine away and die, or perhaps
take his own Hfe," said Sue, with tears
in her eyes. "And he had been look.
ing at your portrait, Hetty, for 1 found
it on his table, propped up against q
book"
"My portrait? Why, he sent it back
to me-"
"Did he? Then this must be copy.
Wait a moment, and 1 will get it fol
you to see."
She was hardly out of the room,
when Hetty heard well-known step in
the hall, and the next moment Lloyd
himself entered. Instinctively she had
drawn back, and the great book case
screened her from his view. He did
not, however, look around, but throw.
ing himself in chair, leaned back with
closed eyes, and seeing him thus she
was struck with the change in his ap
pearance. His face was pale and bore
unmistakable traces of suffering, re.
pressed by the strong will which she
knew he possessed. But now, alone as
he thought himself, the strain seemed
relaxed. He bowed his face in his
hands and groaned.
Hetty's heart beat fast and the tears
rushed into her eyes. Oh, if he would
bat bend from that stubborn pride, she
would give up Mr.. Frisbee, wealth
everything in the world, for his sake
But for her to make advances-never
Lloyd rose from his seat, and walked
across the room to the bookcase. Het
ty shrank more closely into her corner
and the high-backed arm chair hid her
She heard him rummaging about behind
the books on the shelves, and then she
saw his arm extended to the light
holding up two glass vials. So near was
she that she distinctly read the labels
one of which was "Laudanum." This
he thrust into his breast-pocket and
seizing his hat, turned to leave the
room. But at the door he paused
went back to the table, and scratching
a few hurried lines on sheet of paper
left it lying open and went out.
Hetty, almost as pale as her lover
instantly sprang up, and seizing tn,
paper glanced over it, murmurint
brokenly as she read