Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07

He opened his eyes with half-wan-
dering look, as though delirium must
have overtaken him.
At this instant the hunter returned
with assistance, and half hour later the
wounded man had been borne to Myra's
home, the wound dressed, and the
knowledge given that it was merely q
flesh hurt, painful but not dangerous;
yet his recovery was tedious AFFAIR.
He grew moody and abstraeted.
1t gave him more time to think of
Nellie and his loss. Myra thought, even
while she wondered Why his eyes fol-
lowed her with such strange, question
ing look.
Once she entered his room with some
freshly-cut flowers in her hand
''Where shall put them, Mr.. STAN
ley?' she questioned
"Mr. Stanley" he answered. 'Did
not once hear you call me Carol Or
was it sweet fancy waited from dream
land?"
Don't" she said, as though he had
hurt her, and hastened from the room,
bearing with her the flowers, and it
seemed to him the light and sunshine.
Had he been blind all this time, and
was he just beginning to see?
A grand ball was to be given at Gra-
ham Court, at which Nellie insisted that
Myra should be present.
The invalid was fully recovered now,
and he too was summoned to the feast.
Miss Graham had plunged into con-
slant gaiety since the breaking of her
engagement to Carol Stanley, but it had
all failed to fill the empty place in her
heart.
On the evening of her ball, she picked
up the paper sent down by the after
Moons mail
CHANGING idly over its pages, she sud
denly started at seeing the name of the
man to whom she SO lately had been be-
trothed.
1t WAS published decision of the
court that, owing to some disability,
the title could not. descend to Carol
Stanley's cousin, but, together with
the estates, must remain in his posses
sion.
He was, then, Lord Stanley still.
Fool that she had been
But the decision had been made pub
lie but few hours.
He would never dream of the acci-
dent which had bl ought it to her know
ledge.
Tonight, while he still thought her in
Ignorance, she must win him back.
1t was late when he entered the spa
cious drawing rooms.
81 have been waiting for you, she
said, in her sweetest, lowest tones.
"You honor me too greatly, Miss Gra-
ham, he replied.
'Let us go into the conservatory,
she added. '1t is cooler there
He offered his arm.
From a distant corner of the room,
Myra saw them.
: ''She need not have feared" she
thought, bitterly, only the next moment
, to reproach herself with her selfishness.
81 will not begrudge him any happi-
: ness" she said to herself.
= "Have you forgotten the last time We
were here together, Mr.. Stanley?" Mel
lie was asking at this moment
, 'No," he answered, gravely, looking
quietly but surprisedly into the beauti.
e full face beside him.
4 "Can one ever retrieve a mistake,
: she asked, "when one finds it out?"
r 81 do not know" he replied, toying
t with an exquisite rose beside him, as ht
r continued:
"Can one cause the rose blighted il
f midsummer to bloom again in the frosti
: of winter p
An hour later Carol Stanley led Miss
Y Lynne to the same spot.
81 love you, Myra," he said. simply
q 81 thought my heart was dead when
( met you. 1 know now that it ha'
never lived. My darling. will you b
my wife ?"
n "Oh Carol, are you sure, sure of your
4 self ?"
81 have been made sure tonight. " h
!. answered, drawing her close to his heart
and breaking off the splendid rose will
which he had toyed an hour before, T.
place it in her hair.
She was too happy to question hi
4 words or their meaning-to happy eve1
to let Miss Graham's cOngratulatien
= sting, when she said, scornfully
"a heart caught in the rebound. Di'
l not tell you SOL"
Too happy even to be made happ'e
when she learned she was to share n
humble lot with the man she loved, bu
that her wedding day made her Lad,
Myra Stanley.
Tom Ochiltree's Hat.
| was sitting in the court yard OF IN
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