The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-12

complexion was light, but fresh and rosy,
and Indicative of blooming health.
All the gallants of aristocr attic Fairview
were madly infatuated with this beautiful
maiden, who, indeed, seemed as unmindful
of the fact that she was indeed beautiful, as
though she were not reminded of it perhaps
a bundled times day.
But, though wealth, pomp, and beauty
paid respective homage to her charms. and
ir was an undlsputed fact that had the
capricious maiden so willed she might have
made her choice among the vast company
of the young scions of wealth who fawned
upon her, and who would give their ali for
single ray of hope, she cOldly turned from
them, and though maintaining her habitual
air of gentleness, offered no encouragement.
And this very ''eccentricity," as it might
be called, only served to draw the lucklesS
yet vainly hoping throng of ardent suitors
on, only 10 have their ambition most cruelty
wrecked by some new and characteristic
move of the capricous maiden.
This fact finally led a disappointed de
spairing swain, who had piled his suit most
arduously and gained a signal defeat, which
very naturally served to make hin not a very
little wrathy and vexed in spirit, to exclaim:
by the great horn spoon! never since
Diana was there created such woman. |
could have sworn, week ago, that 1 the
luckieSt and most favored man in Fairview;
but now, We gods Pm the most miserable.
She is perfect riddle"
But the riddle was one easily read by
prOsiac mind.
Born and bred from infancy in the midst
of atiiuence, pretty Minnie Stockwell had
become tired and heartily sick of the vain
pOmp and display of the wearying society
life size led, the empty compliments and
fawning fiattery which awaited her wherever
she went, and lOnged for that mode of life
which, though humber. was, nevertheless,
in itself the assurance of more genuine hap
pineSs.
In truth, she was heartsick OF the present
life, whose dross was hateful to her, and
sighed for change, but looked and looked
in vain for her ideal of man.
But no, not in vain, for her dreams were
almost If not fully, realized in one person
who dwelt in Fairyiew.--one man whom she
assured herself was a man.
That was the hero of this story--impul-
sive yet noble hearted Tom Hathaway.
But though Minnie Stockwell felt that
such man she could love and be content to
share lifes burdens with, yet she was withal
possessed of a certain degree of dignity and
reserve which served to keep her from be-
traying this fact to him.
For Tom Hathaway was about the only man
in gay Fairview who bad not cast himself
before the shrine which had proved so dis
aSir0us IN So many If the prOudest repre-
senia ives of wealth and society, and this
fact h al impressed capricious Minnie singu-
larry.
But il was not because Tom had noticed
and admired the g and capitalists daughter;
no, indeed, for Tom Hathaway had as true
an eye for pretty girl as ally man, but the
tact of there existing wide gulf between
fine stations of the TWO.
10 hnf tho uapnflacc
figuratively speaking, OF a poor machinist.
while she was the daughter of one of the
milliOnaires of aristocratic Fairview---a
wide difference in the eyes of society. This
was why namely, the mere fact that he felt
il would be hODeless-that hac kept reck-
less Tom from participating in the tourney
of love, and this very thing il was which in
sured him a better chance of becoming
winner than any who had yet essayed the
contest.
The proud capitalists daughter was led
into making him a study whenever she met
him, and the result convinced her that In
handsome yet pennileSs Tom there was
more of her ideal than she had yet met
But, naughty by nature, she would not
reveal this to him, and be, equally naughty
despite his poverty. and, indeed, on that
very account, would not betray himself.
Thus the two lovers, for such they were
in soul, were kept at everlasting logger
heads, a state of feeling which would have
existed mercy knows how long, had it not
been for alucky happening which happily
served To bring about an understanding be-
/ tween them.
A horseback party had been planned by
the ladies of the Crystal Lake Club, and
Tom was one of the escorts upon a certain
damsel, by name Miss rockingham.
Lively and talkative she proved, and also
an admirable horsewoman, managing the
high-spirited thoroughbred which she rode
with skillful hand.
Minnie Stockwell, with Hartley Brandon
as escort, led the cavalcade. and a gay
party they Termed, as, in their bright hunt
ing costumes, they galloped across the
fields. About Fairview extended an ad-
mirable tract of country for the hunt, and
of this Fairview was well aware and took
due advantage.
Their ride upon the present day led out
over the old turnpike to Baltimore, and,