The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-10-27
the study this afternoon I picked mn

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the study this afternoon picked up
piece of paper that had f"llen from her
blotting pad, on which she had been maxi
ing a variety of calculations relative to tho
cost offurnishikg houses, and in ono cor
ner were some pencil memoranda, among
them Icing one to the effect that, deal
topped tables. with mahogany legs, would
do very we'll for the first year" am told
OF the House Register and has set a pencil
unfurn,shed house, in suburban
district. suitable for young
married couple" She says she brought
away the paper from her aunt Sarah, with
whom she took tea few nights ago. For
myself do not at all approve ola young
sirls visiting relative who was separated
from her husbpnd in three weeks.
June IA do really begin to fear that
matters in this house are assuming a some-
what serious complexion. Mr.. Lindsay now
makes point of attending every meal; and
Lola says she should he i'll if he were to miss
dinner. have had to get Mrs. Williams to
speak again to Lola; but I cannot ask her
to speak to any one else, although \ word
ofcounsel and adviceis, fear, needed else
where. Less work IS got through in the
study than was being done fortnight ago,
although we are fortnight nearer to the
examinations. Why is it that, within the
last few days, Mary seems TO have avoided
ME, while she and Lola have more than once
been on the verge of IN open quarrel? Ethel
does not look at all we'll, and her usually
sweet disposition has undergone q visible
change. Mr.. Lindsay has taken to fre-
qnen,ing the study. and has met Ethel and
Lola more thau once in I cir afternoon
walk. If he really has preference for anv
one of them, why does he not avow it? But
he is attentive to each, and, 80 far as one
may judge, to none more than to another.
Yesterday; just as entered, he left the
study, in which ! found Mary alone. Mrs.
Wiliarns and have spoken together, and
both agree that it is we'll his leave will ex-
pire within two weeks. Still, there has
been, SO far as I and Mrs. Williams
have seen, nothing that could be called love
making; but though We have discovered no
cause, the effects are unmistakable. Mrs.
Williams will not speak to Mr.. Lindsay
without positive reason of cOmpnint, but
ought not to speak TO Miss Grindle?
June 1910 day Mr.. Lindsay has taken
Ethel and Lola on visit of inspection to
his ship Wellington. It had been arranged
that we should all so, but an unexpected
engagement with my class detained ME, and
Mrs. Williams (who. however very I'm WISE
~, as thought, Was unwilling to let the
visit be postponed) was confined to her
room with q severe attack of neuralgia a
complaint from which, am sorry to say,
she is constant sufferer. At the last
moment Mary excused herself on the
ground that she was late with her English
essay. When Lola heard of M;.rys refusal
she made use Of slang expression which
my brother, Charley is in the habit Of eA-
ploying when skeptica'ly inclined toward
anything that is told him. She calculated
"Walker!"
June 1S.h--Lola, after coming home,
told me- that she managed to get separated
from the others on board the ship, and
that while she was lost anosg "forecasties
and binnac!es and things" Ethel and Mr..
Lindsay were alone together for nn hour.
June 21st-I will tell Miss Grindle to-
morrow. Ascere occurred here this evex-
ing which spoke for itself that the present
state Of things onght not to continue.
Ethel had said at breakfast that she was
going with friend of her mothers to a
concert at st. JAmes's Hall in the evening;
and accordingly, at dinner, Mr. lindsay
appeared with a handful Of hothouse fow-
er@, which Ae begged to be allowed to make
into bouquet fAr her. Ethel HAD hardly
said. with smile and blush, that she
would be very pleased to accept them. when
Lola, without word of warning, got up
quickly from the table. aud run oat Of the
room. Ethel took the flowers and went TO
the concert-lr. Lindsay complimenting
her on her appearance as he handed her IN
to Ransom. Going to senrch for Lola, I
found her in her room sitting en- low
chair, with her feet on the dressing-tabie
sobbing violently. ought to have scolded
her, and did make the attempt, but she
cried so passiorately that wis first obliged
to comfort her and dry her tears. BY way
Of ro sing her told her of an engagement
she had made with her aunt Sarah for that
evening, but she entirely refused to 20 out,
and was disrespectful enough to speak Of
her aunt S rah as an "uld fool" II was
late before brought her to reasonable
fmme of'mind. Yes. will certainly tell
Mss Gr;nd|e to- morrow.
June 22d-I had no sooper left Lola last
evening and returned to the stndy. than
Mr. Lindsay came t., elve me back the His
tory of Greece had lent HIM. He stayed
for half an hour and we talked the whole
time about the battle Of Thermopyln. He
seemed to ME more animated, earnest and
gave most intelligent opinion OF the con-
duct of Leoni''as in that memorial engage
ment. On gong away we shook hands,
and he said that it was genuine pleasure
for him to talk Oh any subject with one
whose mind was so we'll informed and i'm
pressicnabie.
thought of this after he had gone, for
he seemed in what he said to have let a new
light in upon his own charac er. He has
always shown himself pleased to talk with
mo. and he seemed at his best last night,
when we talked uninteruptc6ly aloue.
May it be that, while he enjoys laugh
with Lola, lie fluids higher endowment in
rational and intellectual converse? There
is n point in the character Of Leonidas !
think could make more clear to him. I
should like topursue the subject. I will
lend him my history of Greece again. 1t
wonld be pity that he should go yet. l
will not speak to Miss Grindle-at least not
until have explained to him that point in
the character Of Leonidas.
June 26th-1t is nine hours since the
ceremony was finished; but my hand still
trelnbles while write that Mr.. Lindsay
was married this morning, in the presence
Va NAAs uAA DlS. " 1IliuLlS, tO-N1tTJ U16E-
yon!
Lola was right; Mary is deep. For-sur-
prise on top Of surprise-this turns ont to
be not six weeks love mash, but the CON-
pleticn of m affair OF seven years standing.
They were engaged before ever he went to
sea; and be came here never knowing " HON
he was to find; and they knew each other
the moment they met when he entered the
room. that night he first dined with us
Nay! she knew him before, when his name
was told to us by Mrs. Williams. And yet
not a word to any of us from either OF them.
Joking with Lola, tender with Ethel, earnest
with me about Thermopyle: and Mary
silent all the while, eager only 10 finish
her English essay. And not even to ask us
to the wedding!-but perhaps that wes kind.
Mrs. Williams too, only to be told last
night when wanted as witness at the cere-
mony! Mary, who kept her own counsel,
and when she did speak only jested with
Ethel and Lola, balancing their chances of
success, giving herself the humber role of
locker Oh Mary is at this moment Mrs.
Arthur Lindsay.
believe I was the filst to offer nv con.