Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-06-02
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY. JUNE 2, 1882

noyoAu ulW-a HAe.SeparaClng atmosphere.
diamond glaze. "Why did you never
tell me, )" said he, 'sthat Bessie Travers
was engaged2''
5 WAS it any affair of Yours?"
3 II suppose, he said, bitterly, sit would
be no affair of mine if you married old
Popis0n tomorrow
Have you made it sop she cried. And
looking at him she wondered why she had
ever quivered before those bold black eyes,
that high color, that mighty manner of
his. a great gladness filling her heart to
think of the noble breast she had to lean
on, the rest and comfort of her protector.
And as she went to sing for some one the
new air, Ozark was the day and dreary
the night" James Macarthur felt as if the
earth had moved a little under his feet
and that the song was written for him.
Perhaps it was because she had defied
him SO that he pursued her now awhile to
see what it meant; that he stopped an
hour next morning on his way down town;
that he came in at night-fall with head
ache for her to brew him the cup of tea
she used to make; that for weeks he hung
about her, with his old ardor kindled by
that still remote manner of hers. and his
old silence enforced BY doubt if the fruit
were as ready to fall into his hand as be
had thought, the doubt and the remote
ness enhancing ker value so that it began
to seem to him there was not another wo-
man in the world, and he forgot money
and ambition, feeling at last that she out
weighed everything he had ever valued,
and he was made only the more earnest
by her preoccupations.
MARY" he said ore noon, coming in
on some pretext, bending oyer her tender
ly, his eyes glowing, his voice softening,
81 am going away tonight. When l re-
turn will you hear something have to say
to you 20
No, indeed" she said, laughing, You
have nothing to say to me either then or
at any other time, and 1 shall not be here
myself, perhaps
II should Think he said, ''you were
going to promise yourself to some one else,
if did not believe-if I did not know
that you loved me. Is that so? Is that
SO? Marry some one else ~ he cried. II
should rise from my grave to forbid the
bans %
But she answered by catching Tom as
he went by. and waltzing down the room
in her brothers arms.
1t was few hours later, while her sis
ter was making fve-o CLOCK tea, that Mary,
passing the telephone as it rang, paused to
take it's message and turned hurriedly to
send Tom on an errand, in answer to
which Mr.. Popisen and DIR. Dean left a
ph9ton at the gate within a half hour and
came up the veranda. where the family
were sitting.
81 was going to treat you all to little
SURPRISE said Mary then, demurely, Thy
being married to Mr.. Popison by-and by,
and going off in the ph@ton for our bridal
tour across the river. But as the tele-
phone just announced the arrival Of some
one who will forbid the bans, thought
we would not wait"
Aud with the red sunset pouring over
the amazed and bewildered family, DR..
Dean pronounced Mr.. Popison and Mary
Dunlap man and wife, and they had gone
in their phaton for their tour across the
river to the noble old Popison mansion
under its elms before the arrival of the
man who had telephoned:
"Am speaking to Mary Dunlap? Yes?
I have lost the train, and shall be with
you in an hour, when I shall expect a
circumstantial answer'-whieh circum-
stances gave him.-Horper's Bazaar.