Middletown transcript., 1881-08-19

smiling graciously.
Z" 1t surely is Mr.. Carlyon,' . she said,
as she gave him her hand. "We were
old friends, l think, I" she added, coldly
courteous and Malcolm Carlyon's
heart gave a dull, smothered throb, as
he thought how completely she had
forgotten the little episode in her life.
cit is like a woman, to put such a
memory forever out of her life, y he
thought, bitterly, as she passed ON, as
if further unconscious Of his existence.
81 think I shall go home," Mrs.
Carlyon said imperiously. "There is
nothing here to amuse me, and l
fancied Herbert was not as well as usual
when nurse took him to put him to
sleep. Get my wraps, Malcolm, and
take me home
He was willing enough to go, and
the thought of his new baby-boy, not
yet three months old, made him forget
Maud Glyn and the past.
While she, walking away ON General
Howard's arm, said to herself sharply
q He has forgotten it But 1 have
never forgotten, and 1 never can for
get ?''
And when score of years, with all
their lights and shades, their pleasures
and pains, had been marked off her life,
she had not forgotten.
" Mamma, I have come to tell you
something. Will you listen ?n
Mrs. Laurence Glyn looked up from
the letter she was writing, with the
fond, tender smile she always gave her
beautiful daughter-a shy, sweet girl
of seventeen, so like what the mother
had been at the same age.
"You want new dress, or some
other necessity, from the non-pOssession
of which you are suffering so terribly ?''
Her soft, white hand, jeweled and
strengthful, smoothed the girls fair
hair, and she smiled down at the
flushed, hushed face.
g Not new dress, Lilly, or trinket
or another new pet pony? Child, what
is it ? Not-and quick, strange look
came into her eyes" you do not mean
Herbert Carlyon p
"That is what I mean. Oh, he says
he loves me, and"
g And you told him what, Lilly ?"
Il said it must be just as you said,
Mamma Lilly replied.
"And you-care for him? You are
such child-the merest baby! What !
do you know of the love that sways
hearts, and makes OF wreck a human
life ?n
Lilly looked up in her mothers stormy
passionful eyes.
II know I care great deal for him."
she said, simply.
"Yet you will tell him no, Lilly :?
When he demands your answer, tell
him your mother says no Lilly, you
have always been a dutiful daughter,
and in this expect your usual obedi-
ence. For years have been waiting,
and now my turn has come Tell
Malcolm Carlyon's son l say no no!
no ~
The girls lip quivered, and her face
paled.
"But, mamma, it will break my
heart for love him, and he loves me
just as well.'
Mrs. Glyn laughed coldly.
"That is all nonsense about your
heart breaking. 1 tell you I know
that hearts do not break so easily And
as to love-you are two babies to talk
of such thing. All the same, COM
mand that you tell him what my
decision is.
But, oh, mamma"
Mrs. Glyn passionately interrupted
the piteous remonstrance.
''I tell you I have only lived for this
hourl There is, no but, about it, Lilly
: it is nothing but no to Malcolm Car
lyons son.''
And Lilly Glyn crept away, to cry
out her sorrow to herself.
Twenty-four hours later, servant :
took to Mrs. Glyn card from gentle
man waiting in the parlor, and she
went down, with cold, passionless {
face, and deliberate repose Of manner, s
to look upon Malcolm Carlyon's face !
for the first time since her widowhoOd
ten years before.
He was so like what he used to be
of course showing that he was twenty s
years older-but, she thought, even
than in his younger days.
Nevertheless, her well disciplined {
heart did not quicken or lessen its /
steady beats, and she bowed courte- {
ously, not even wondering if his {
thoughts had gone flying back to the {
last time they stood alone in Maud !
Tudor's home. &
Perhaps 1t Is needfuI for me TO
apologize for intruding, Mrs. Glyn,'' +
he began but she hastened to assure
him his presence, although a surprise, t
was no more an intrusion than dozens f
Of calls she received daily. 6
cit is a very serious matter that S
brings me- he continued, with grave +
and you will allow me to l
introduce it at the beginning. l have I
come on behalf of my son, whose hap f
piness is at stake, and who has been l
refused by your lovely daughter, in a
obedience to your command. Is this i
correct, Mrs. Glyn ?'' V
He stood looking in her face, still p
very enchantingly fair. Il
4" 1t is entirely correct, Mr.. CarlyOn. o
Your son has been refused by my v
in obedience to my explicit p
Il