The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-07-14
TIE GOVIGlsNESS

88 BY all means insist upon Mr.. Carols
Scoming, Ralph-it would hardly be q
h success in my opinion ut least without
shim. If Mr. Carol will only come and
be pleased with us ail, and especially
you, Juliette-
.# Mrs. Cunningham's son Ralph inter-
sr1,ptcd her just little Indignantly.
t "Nrothcr, aren't you ashamed? For
2rest would not come near the house even
Ito obligc me if he thought you meant to
angle for him because he happens to be
fSrich, handsome, and desirable. Still
wish he would take a notion to you, only
II perfectly despise fishing.
58 Ralph went off in search of his friend
I. Carrol, to find him in his rooms, stand
ling before n marble top table, on which
@lay parcel he had just opened and
which contained white silk slipper
most exquisitely shaped md daintily
small.
IS GA womans slipper Oh your table,
ICnrrol. Where did you get it?"
N Cunningham picked it up curiously,
5fadmiringly, and laughed amusedly.
@ "I picked it up OH tho deck of the
$boat yesterday that I have fallen i'll
5love with the woman who can wear such
IAN aristocratic slipper-and that it is
$henceforth my business to find its fair
Sowner, and to lay my fortune, my name,
8my heart, at her feet"
# Ralph laughed and replied:
IS "hry mother and sister send Their
warm regards, inviting you, and hope
8Syou have not quite forgotten your Old
friends on whom you used to call years
8ago, when Julie was quito child.
J,There is to be q week of fun rampant to
celebrate Juliette's twenty first birthday.
SDo consent, and have your valise packed
in time for the five fifty-fvc train.
"You offer terrible temptation to a
fellow, Cunningham. It's just here
Ralph. If stay, shall lose no time
4 finding my other slipper and its owner
I and wenrer, if 60 down in quiet little
y $country-"
"See here, Carol BY Jove, what n
Stool + am My sister is noted for her
sspretty foot, and mn dead sure she and
Jessie came to the city yesterday, and
SSten to one sho bought slippers for the
3 entertainment and a hundred to one she
d lost one Of 'em; it's just like her
"Your lovely little sister Juliette,
/ whom remember had the pretticst OF
faces AMI fairest of forms when / saw hel
- A1ast-iet's see-ncarly six years ago
Bless you, Cunningham, I'll 60"
"And take tho lonely unmatcd slipper
Carol, by all means"
"By all means, and Cupid bless mo II
the hunt for my Cinderella"
And Mt five fifty-fivc tho train carried
the two handsome men, toward ClitflAwl
Villa.
"And that is Julicttc Cumingham'
Well"
And looking through the intervening
room between where he sat and into
which he was conscious, both by hearing
and feeling, that woman was coming
Mr.. Carol saw q slender, graceful exqui
site girl coming rapidly towards him al
unaware of his presence.
A girl with face rs pure and white
as ivory, with magnificent drsky hair
and heavy straight brows.
Just then in dismny q laughing LITTLE
mischief of six or seven came rushing III
c,,rls and sash flying, white teeth shin
ing and blue eyes hnshing.
90! Mr.. Carol, please, please hid
me? Ralph said you were here, an'
Miss May wants me to practice, and
won't practice, when we've got company
Mamma and Julie are coming, hen
'em they'll send me off to that horri
old piano-oh, please let me stay cnus
like you."
Carol laughed and put his arm rcas
suringly around the childs waist.
"You haven't told me who yon are
but cnn guess You ave Jessie, aren
you2 But who is Miss May?"
He drew the sunny little head TO hi
breast caressingly.
"Oh she'smy gov'ness, and--oll ,aln
sho sweet? 1 just love her, Mr.. Gu
rol."
"rhen I nm jealous n
She looked gravely Mt him.
"Well, I'll love you too, II yon'
promise you won't tease me md pull m
crrls like Ralph does, nor"
And Mrs. Cunningham sailed in rus
ling her black silken skirts, and greete
him effusiyely, whileJuliette, charming
ly frank, welcomed him ardontly, an