The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-30

tho cottage mirror, for sho had not worn,
gay color sInce her fathers death five year
before.
Lizzie's blue dress, scarlet shawl and Ga,
Sunday hat were oddly out of place upol
the slender figure, and setting of the pale
refined face Of Alice Hill.
! ''Dear me, said the old woman. II hon,
you'll soon cnirk up bit, Miss Alice, ani
take of your black. The cd gentleman
has been dead year, now. Them rose
do suit you beautiful"
Alice glanced at the staring red flower
reflected in the mirror, and smiled as sh,
said:
81 will take great care o. Lizzle's hat
Mrs. Mason. Goodbye, and thank YOU
1t wac nearly dusk, and there was
quarter of a mile to walk before home wal
reached, 80 Alice hurried throgh the grove
where the trees had already shut out tho
lingering daylight.
She had tied small veil of CAV tissue
over the gaudy hat, as she left the cottage,
and she hoped, If she met any acquaintan
ces she would escape recognition.
When she was half way through tho
grove she heard quick footsteps coming
from the village, and moment later a
voice said, "YOu are punCtual," and She
was caught for a moment in G.dfrey Hills
arms.
| She knew his voice, and struggled to
free herself, before realizing that he had
mistaken her for the village beauty.
"Pooh |" he SAID, releasing her. "Don't
put on airs, LIZ. Were you going to the
house?"
Yes" she answered, family, indignant
Har1 :oJrI
seeing his error.
81 must GO. too before long. though I
had far rather stay here in the wood with
you, sweetheart"
'Your sweetheart IS at the house, Alice
said, trying to assume the jealous tone of
an uncducated girl.
"W hat That chalky-faced girl in
black2 Not bit of 1t. Didn't love you
long before she came to take what is
mine Z"
And curse followed, coupled with her
own name, that thrilled Alice Hill with
horror.
'But they say you will marry her." she
persisted, calming her voice as we'll as she
could.
",rhey say right I will marry her, and
have my own Then when she is dead,
you shall have your old beau again, Lizzie,
and come 10 the great house, my wife. 1t
is only waiting year or two"
''But she may not del" gasped the hor-
ror stl icken girl.
She will die I'll have no fine lady
taking what is mine-mine, l tell you /
But What ails you7 You are shaking as
If you had an ague fit. pve talked it all
ov,r often enough before, and you never
went off into such shakes 1t Is nothing
new Pm telling YOU"
-would--not--
herr" the poor girl gasped, drawing har
veil closer.
'Come now, none Of TINT" was the
rough answer; ''ycu're not going back on
me now, after all you We heard of my plans.
You've sworn to keep my secrets, or I'd
never have told You them. But what is
The matler?"
| And here Alice found herself shaken
with no gentle hand, to her great ind,gna-
| ZION. But her fears over mastered her
| anger. Godfrey was heir. at-law to her
newly acquired fortune, and if he suspect
I'd her Identity, in those dark woods, she
did not doubt. after what he had already
said, that he would take her life.
81 am not well," she said freeing herself
must hurry on. ait for me here, until
do my GRAND at the house and come
back"
''Be quick, then," was the gruff reply.
And II she was in haste, the scoundrel
might we'll be satisfied ut the rapidity with
which his comp anion left him.
She scarcely knew how she reached her
home, tore off her borrowed fluery and
wrote to Godfrey Hill, declining the honor
he had proposed to her, but giving no other
r. ason for her refusa! than the statement
that she did not love him sufficiently to be
MS.
"Mamma," she said, coming into the
drawing room, 81 have written 10 Godfrey.
refusing his offer, and sent the letter to him
by james. 1 have remembered who and
what he is."
MIR. Godfrey Hill'e amazement was un.
bounded, when returning to bis home, in
the village hotel to dress for his promised
call upon Alice Hill, he found her note
awaiting him.
But he did not renounce his hope of
shaking her resolution until the next day,
When he met the tru, Lizzie Mason in the
shaded grove, and in the course of their
lover.like conversation, that damsel told
him who had worn her gay hat and red
shawl ON the previous evening.
| 'An' she sent a lve-dollar bill with the
dress, because it got wet." said the girl.
'An' that call real handsome of her.
Why, what ails you 2--you'rc white as
chalk"
| "Nothing-nothlng. You were not in
tho grove at all, then. yesterday
! mo; l couldn't get off till long after
dark and 30 stayed all nlpht. l knowcd
you'd he mad, waiting for me, but
couldn't help 1t this time. Why
| For her lover had started for the vii
lage without even the ceremony of a good
Dye.
| He lost no time on his way, till he stoot
in the Office of Jermyn & Jermyn. his
grandfather's lawyers.
| White as death, with q voice hoarse ant
Tuck, he said TO the old partner:
"You told me my grandfather left me
len thousand dollars upon certain condi
tions
"Quitc correct. The conditions are thai
you leave Bellows Falls and never rctnrr