Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-08

uIeave me-leave mem And throwing
herself back ON The lounge, she burst in-
10 FASHION of tears. Travers, cursing
his folly, left the room.
That evening he told his aunt he
should have to go to New York for a
few DAYS. Maud heared the announce
ment calmly, and took leave OF HIM
very coolly. During the days that fol-
lowed she never spoke 'ofhim to MISS
Hamersley, except once when, IN an
.iaborat ely careless way, she inquired
whether the girl to whom Mr. IraNerS
had been engaged was very pretty. On
the other hand, she did not seem at all
ayerse to hearing her old friends
ewlogies of her favorite nephew. This
Miss Hamersley noticed, as well as
that, as the week wore on, her young
guest grew vely restless ana nervous.
But, whatever her thoughts were, sne
kept her own caunsel.
After Travers had been gone fort
night Maud came out of the house one
evening toward shutdown. She was
slowly crossing the lawn, with her long
dress trailing over the grass, when she
raised her ewes and saw him standing
not six feet from her. She stood quite
still, not startled; she was too over
whelmingly glad for that. She had
lust been thinking ofhim-indeed when,
for DAYS had she not?-and saying to
herself that of course he would not come
hack. that she could not eX-
meet it when she had dismissed him so
summaIily: and now there he was be-
fore her. Still! she spoke lightly as he
came forward and took her hand:
"You reappear like ghost, she
said. "Did you spring from the ground,
or drop from the Skies"
Trayers laid the hand she had given
on his arm, and led her toward the
parapet where they had stood together
on the first evening of her arrival.
When they reached it he said: You
know why have come back, Maud;
/ love you with my whole heart and
soul and strength, and have come TO
tell you so; to tell you that l cannot
live without you- Stop" he continued,
as she was about to speak, III know
what YOU will say, that it is too sudden,
that Ihave not known youlong enough.
Well ] don't ask you to accept me now.
| will wait-only let me think thaty0u
will care a little for me by.and-by. VIII
you, Maud?"
He leaned over her and locked into
her eyes.
Alas! Maud could have said that she
cared much more than little for him
then. But she was wis, and knew that
a man should never he gwen more than
he asks for, but rather les. So she only
murmured.
perhaps may" and Travers, with
his eyes fixed on her sW' ct face and the
roguish dimples at the corners of her
mouth, was content. Presently he
said:
Gam pardoned my misdemeanor of
the other day? Yes? TAenyOu should
let me repeat it to show that am for
given"
But this time Miss Barrow drew her
self away with much dignity.
"Not at all. For shame, Jack. Give
me your arm and we will go back to the
house. And, mind you, let me explain
to your aunt first.
And she did. But, to her surprise,
Miss Hamersley not surprised at all.
Indeed, some months later, when they
were both talking about Miss BarrOw's
approaching marriage such a CLEAN of
mischief came all at once over the older
Iady's face that the younger one sud-
denly said she believed Miss HamerS-
ley had invited Jack and herself to
her place in June with an Interior mo-
tive. "Well, frankly, did," owned
Jacks aunt. "Iou were ,twO incest
young people I knew, and it was my
opinion you should make match of it.
AS to the fact of your both having been
in love before being a barrier, that was
absurd, of course. All you needed was a
chance to unfold charming little idyl,
and i knew no better place than this for
such All idyl,n