The Republican journal., 1881-02-24

ing on courtshlp was too daring flight
OF fancy for any one but Bolton. With
children, however, Camlion was complete
ly at home, and he would spend hours of
uproarous happiness in nursery, tum-
bling his gigantic frame about on the
floor amid the screams of delight of the
small people. He treated them with ar
dent reverence and abject forbearance,
and they led him unresistingly captive
Our class day came round at last-the
longest and loveliest day of summer
with its "spreads' in the mems rooms, its
dancing on the college green, its illumi
nations in the evening, and its various
other diversions. Miss Capel was there
and beyond doubt she was, in appear
ance, at least, nearly all that Frank had
declared her to be. But for my own part,
while recognizing the bewitching bril-
lance of her face and manner, | found
her slender lips too satirical and her clear
brown eyes too unsympathetic to com
mend my entire fealty. She was one of
those women, who, as a bare return for
condescendlng to exist in the presence Of
a man, demanded from him a devotion
scarcely diStinguishable from slavery. She
was witty, rapid and at once subtle and
daring. There was in her, | tancled,
more OF intellectual appreciation Of pas
sion than of passion itself. She seemed
to think that the proper place for her
arched foot was on he neck of the rest
Of humanity. She had never been op-
posed, much less rebufted or humliated ;
she expected that your eye should fall
before hers, Her figure was tall and
nobly proportioned, graceful, erect and
alert. But | was brutal enough to think
that some OF the ear-boXings that she
had doubtless administered to her slaves
at home might have been Wholesomely
returned to her own defiant head. Fred
Bolton, on the other hand, considered her
''divine," and squired her about most in
veterately, she accepting his homage in
good part, and laughing with him, or at
him, quite atfably. For several hours he
was a general object of envy. At length
catching sight Of Camlion, he whispered
a few words to his beautiful companion
who glanced at our serene Hercules, and
nodded her head. \ moment later he
had been brought up and presented
''See you again in half an hour at Har-
ward Hail." said Bolton, and was off,
chuckling to me, ''We've cooked old
Camlon's goose for him this time, at all
events"
Perhaps he had, though not in the way
he imagined What induced Miss Rosa
lind absolutely to lay herself out to capti-
vate Camlion of all men? Was it from Il
subtle feminine perception that no woman
had yet won him, While yet he was worth
any woman's winning? Was it, perhaps,
that she was really impressed by some
thing in the mans noble simple nature
that revealed to her possibilities she had
never till then suspected? ? Or was it a
mere Whim, because she was weary Of
being worshipped, and wanted to have
the novel sensation Of finding herself on
the soliciting side? | cannot say; but,
at all events, she did it-how effectively
and lastingly no one knew until years
atterward. Meanwhile, it may beremark-
ed that she and Camlion did not make
their appearance at Harvard Hall, where
Fred waited for them until his patience
was exhausted. On the contrary, they
kept together by themselves the rest Of
the day and evening: and it was not until
the lllumlnatiOns were over, and most of
the merry ymakers had dispersed, that
Bolton came across them, wandering
armin-arm under the trees at the out
skirts of the college grounds. They met
his rather discounted greeting very COM
posedly.
IL thought you two must have decamp-
ed for good" lie exclaimed, with re-
proachtul look at the lady "lou know,
Miss Cape, you were engaged to dance
the first waltz with me at the hall, and
atterward to come to my spread, and
81 found better employment" inter
rupted Miss Capel with glance Of su-
perb insolence.
Her white hands, which Belton noticed
were ungloved, were clasped over Cam
lions mighty arm, and now she looked
up at him, in the bright moonlight, with
what seemed to Bolton an expression of
secret intelligence. Camlion bent toward
her and said something, but in so low a
tone that Bolton did not catch it, Miss
Capel then turned to the latter and de
manded brusquely whether he knew where
her brother was.
81 came to escort you to him. was
Beltons reply.
She allowed her hands lingeringly to
leave Camlion's ARM they confronted
each other for moment, their ewes meet
ing.
"Don't forget" she said to him at length
almost in whisper.
Il shall be there" he answered. lifting
his hat as he spoke.
After another pause she turned away
from him slowly and moved toward the
college, quite ignoring Belton, who never
theess walked beside her. He addressed
several remarks to her, to which she
vouchsafed no answer whatever At last
being pqued, he said:
"Well, Miss Capel, | hope you've en-
ioyed your visit to Harvard and the men
you've met here"
81 have met only one man here" she
replied, facing him imperiousy And
this was all he got from her that evening.
Next morning Camlion was not at
breakfast; but some hints of his adven-
ture of the previous evening had leaked
out, and Bolton had to sustain a great
deal of chatf about the manner in which
he had been ''cut out" AS for Miss
Capel, it was known that she was stay
ing with her brother and mother at the
fremont House in Boston, After break
fast, curiosity or idleness carried me
e'iouhNt w NulllllOllo iOOul L was sur
prlsed to find him hurriedly packing bis
trunk, his usually healthy looking coun-
tenance very pale and drawn. | asked
him what was the matter.
''Fm going home," he said II got a
telegram this morning something very
bad has happened to my father" Present
ly he resumed: "You were introduced
Toto Miss Cape, think Will you see
her before she goes, and tell her-say |
would have come if it had been possible
and hope | may see her again some
day ?"
promised, wondering, that l would
do what he asked, and soon after babe
him good-by We did not meet again
for some years. When | called on the
Capels to deliver his message, they were
not in; and did not have another oppor-
tunity Of discharging my commission.
In the course of few days the newspa-