New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-01

| Tine dayTiCht had DeeN DCITaE ITIE
and change Of aspect. Mr.. beathGoie, i inanN
Won fortaking 10 much interest in me- she said
= Il take the greatest interest in you, MIS- Mount
ford hut in she meantime / would say the same 10
anyone 40 Young Things are going on when VIII
iniure you for life. If you can by yonr submission
avert these ills, and make him happei-e'eh lo' "
In short she said again, pretend to give, mp
nntil he is no longer here TO see whether follow
nv own inclnatiOns or hisf IL may be wise ADVICE
MIR Heathcote; but Is 1t advice wmch sou Noulu
like your-anvOne yOu cared for-to take .
Il should not lie anyone cared for ne said,
hesitating-' pardon me- cannot help Offending You
TO be in opposition TO her family on such point
The color rushed 10 Annc's face and anger to her
heart but as the invisible 80 she restrained
the other She put restraint IN every way on
That may be so, that may be so you cannot tell
unless you know everything she said Ihen'
after pause, But whether 10 was right OF wrong
it is done now. and cannot alter H.. Ii Is not a
matter upon which another can decide LOT you.
Obedience at my age cannot be absolute. Nheh
You have TO make the one choice OF your nc can
your father do it. or anyone but yourself Du you
think 40 when YOU were like me she said. with an
appeal full of earncstness which was almost I'M
passOned This appeal took Heathcote entrely ,hy
surprise. and changed all the current OF MS
Il was never like you' he said hastily like
yOul mover could compare my sell never couu
pretend-I thought | loved half dozen women.
Did / ever make the one choice OF my ne no,
mol wandering man ailOat upon the world can
never be hke-such as you; there Is 100 great
difference We cannot compare things so unlike
But | thought she said, then stopped Tor ms
story which she had heard bore a very different
meaning. And what right had she 10 advert TO ~
i don't know if you speak in-in respcct-or III
cOntemptT
In contcmpt-could that be Hero is tho state
of the case rs concerns yOurself-lcaving the gen
erol question NV offer t. break the entail has no
attractions for your father, because Inc THINKS he
cannot secure Mount TO YOU II Is dong eomclhins
p1nish Won. Don't YOU know Miss MountfOrd-
but most likely you never icit li-that
To he wroth with those we love
Doth work like madness In the brain
'Lovef-that would be great. great. passionate
lovc-we have not anything Of the kind in our house.
said Anne III low tone Of emotion. II thrIc was
that do you think would 90 against H. even Tor
Here she stOppcd. with thrill IN her voice.
think YOU must be mistaken little, MI Heathcote:
But do not see how can change. lapa aSR1d OF
me-nOt the lesser things IN which coui9 hnN1
obeycd him. but the one great thing III Mhlch l
could not. Were | to take your advice do not
know what could do.
Then they walked in silence round the side Of the
house, under the long line of the ORA" ing room
windows, from which indeed me lterEi'" iiaI
been watched with much a>tonlSllncnt. h">e na1
never doubted that the heir of the hon-c was on cr
side Ii seemed no better than drSeriion that ne
should walk and talk with Anne M TINS way. y
filled her with amazcment. And IN such coi0
night too HUSH child" her mother was saying
he has hccn with papa 20 ilunston. he has hc1Id
all The business arrangements talhed over. ~"
doubt he is having little conversation win Anne
for her good.
2 What are the business arrangcmcntSf What is
cong 10 happeuf l. he irving 10 make her give mp
or would not give her any information. by and by
Ucathcote came IN alone. Anne was too much dis
tnrbcd by this strange interview "a appear when 1t
was over in the tranquil circle of thc family She
went upstairs % take off her wraps 10 suhdue the
commOtion in her mind and the light ~ hcI eye.
and tame herself down 20 the everyday level. Her
mind was somewhat confused. moro confused thAn
it had vet been as to her duty. C0,uo somehow
had seemed 20 De gently pushed out Of the first place
by this stranger who never named him Who knew
nothing of him and hD certainly ignored the TACT
that without Cosno. Anne 40 longer lived or
brcathed. She angry that lac should he 80 igl"-
rant yet too shy and proud 90 mention her lover or
refer To him save 10y implication. She would nave
been willing 70 give mp corresponding win NM
10 make any immediate sacrifice O. her father pre-.
iudcc against him--had that been cyCr asked OF
her But 10 give up the one choice OF ihcr NE, a7
she had said would have been impossible. Ter
mind was affected strongly. bat not with alarm 10y
the intelligence that something was beng done
mvstcrinusly in the dark against her that The
threat under which she had been living ~as now
being carried out Bat this did not move her 10
submit as Hcathcotc had urgcd-rather II stund-
lated her To resist.
Had Cosmo but been at hand, But if ho had
been al hand. how could ne have yenturcd 10 give
the advice which Hcathcote gavcf lie could not
have asked her 10 yield. 10 dsscmble, 20 please the
old man while his life lasted or pretend 10 give
himself up Nothing Of this could he have sug-
gested or she listened 10. And yet II Wa, what
Cosno would have liked 10 advise but TO tins state
of Cosmos mind Anne had 10 clew.