The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-01-26
CHAPTER YI.-coNrrrrgn.

To Sir Carlos Carew, whose life had
known no greater charm or interest
than sport, this wonderful passion of
love came like a revelation. Maggie s
easy, careless manner had wonderful
charm for him. As rule, when he
was in the society of girls, they did
their best to entertain him Maggie
leaned her dark, beautiful head against
the trunk of a tree and listened to him,
weaving the pOppies into all kinds of
fantastic forms and seeming much more
interested in them than in him, but
secretly delighted as she noted the
looks of admiration he cast on her.
When he could stop no longer, he
told her that he could not endure the
thought of leaving her unless she prom
lsed to see him again. She did promise,
and went home with her heart and
mind full of him; he had told her all
about himself, and she had given him
the outline of her simple life.
You have never seen Lord Stan
leigh, suppOseP' he said; and Maggie
answered: mo- but that she knew
Hiram West, his lordship's valet. He
resolved that he would not mention
Maggie to Lord Stanleigh, lest he
should try to win her himself. She
told him that she had nothing to do in
the daytime; and he asked her to meet
him in the woods on the morrow.
Had Maggie been ever so inclined to
talk about her adventure, there was no
one who would care to hear it. Jean
nette detested all men, young or old;
so she could not expect sympathy from
her. The girl had a shrewd suspicion
that, even if her father were disposed
tOlisten, it would be wisernot to tell him.
So day after day Sir Carlos and Mag
gle met in the woods, and every day
Sir Carlos grew more deeply in love.
He was changed man. The Rector
had predicted that it would be a hope
less case when he did fall in love; and
he was right.
Sir Carlos had no thought but for
Maggie. To him everything was CEN
tered in that girlish, graceful figure.
Where she was not, all was desolatiOn
and gloom. They teased him at Hatton
the ladies especially declared they
knew the symptoms; but no one teased
him a second time; there was some
thing in his face that forbade it.
Lord Stanleigh thought that, if the
young fellow had made a romance for
himself, it was quite time, and that it
was nobOdy's business buthis own. As
he did not even know of the existence of
Maggie WaldrOn, no suspicion pointed
that way.
Sir Carlos had known Maggie fort
night, spending two or three hours with |
her every day, when he resolved to
marry her. She, and no other. should
be his wife. The girl was delighted
with her conquest; and she laughed
more than ever at Hiram West. What
presumption it was of him TO think of |
her! She laughed more scornfully |
when he came to her one day and asked |
her to be his wife. He had saved a
few hundred pounds, he said, and had |
the opportunity of buving a small hotel |
at the seaside. Would She consent to
be the mistress of itP II she had told |
him in a few kindly words that she was
sorry for him but that she could not |
marry him, all might have been well; /
but she laughed at him.
mo" she to d him, 81 am not poing |
TO be mistress of the Travellers Rest |
or the Ship Ashore or any seaside !
hotel; my lot in life will be quite differ
ent."
Maggie" he said gently, ''do not
throw away the substance for the shad-
OW. N man living can ever love you
as l do"
81 know one who loves me better"
she replied.
He bent his dark face over her.
You are like a beautiful futtering
bird, he said; and you will be
caught, unless you are careful, Just like
a bird in net. IL have seen you
once with Sir CarlOs--yOu are not so
foolish as to think that he will marry
your On, Maggie, Maggie, much as 1
love you, l would sooner see you dead
than that he should misead YOuP"
% de will not mislead me,n she re-
Piled with a scOrnful toss of her head.
Hiram West trembled with emotion.
81 know them, my dear, those idle
young aristocrats, far better than you
do. Watch one Of them as he walks
through the fieldsi wantonly, idly and
without reason, he viii with a stroke of
bis cane cut down the fairest, sweetest
flowers as he passes by; and, my dear,
the life the soul, Of young girl like
you is no more to such as he than the
She laughed again.
.. Dc not believe it," she replied;
and his face darkened with anger.
DO bIo young anu inc IOOllSn nave
spoken from time immemorial," he
said; $50 they will speak until they
dier' he cried, wrathfully. "You laugh ]
at me, at my love, at my warning. We
shall see. But remember this, if ever I
he iniure one hair of your head If ever
he gives you one hour heartache, Twill ]
have his lifep'
She shuddered as she listened. {
Il shall never lose sight Of you OF OF
him, he continued; land, if he injuries
you, his life shall pay the forfeit. Have s
you, " he added, in gentler tone, ''nO I
kinder word 10 say to me before / gOP' J
No, not one, was the hasty reply.
Her pride and vanity alike were {
wounded. Did he think so little of her q
beauty as to fancy she could not win ]
ghat she liked With' itP She little