New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-21

V.
young gerry argued. And you are not
going to tell ne, Prudence that you don't care at
all for meP You have az good as SAID you llked me
before now don't think that you would have let
things 90 as far as they hat you would nave
let me get so fond of you "a you know nave 0een
| getting-if you had not meant to give something
You forget. Mr. Keith that people are sometimes
little weak replied Miss Hart 10 TINS appear
ara then at last she cast her eyes mOdesty 10 the
ground was very weak if ever said hKeu
YOU ,o
But unless it had been true you would not have
said il at alr exclaimed Keith tuumphanty;
and the truth of it Is all | want you To ao". II
you let me know that YOU like me, yon can I'M
agine,' cred tho young man, that am gong 10
give you up. Prudence, do yOu IKE me- anu
with the last words which came from MS ilps WIN
a tremulOus tenderness, he yentured u touch ueI
hand and after moment even TO take IL III MS
own. -
She submitted to this movement for few
seconds but after that space OF time she gave
little Just audible sigh, and Dire" herself away
This IL very foolish, she said abruptly: :,.
Foolish do you call t' CALCULATED Keith, with
all his face on fire 1t seems to me lke-like
standing on the threshold of some new world
We'll, and may not the threshold OF new world
be very risky pace TO stand on 7 inquired MISS
Hart i am coward. you see, Mr. keith, ana
am afraid OF the unknown. Come, repta; IL Is all
foolish. Let Us forget this last hall hour
How can you tell me to do that, II you believed
that 1t possible ? the young man broke out
passOnately.
=. have to learn that yet he replied Surely,
Prudence | have told you nothing this morning
that Won did not know before You allow that. do
you not : And dear, he went on ardently, after
moments silence If you have known that indeed,
and If you have still gone on meeting me- now can
believe that all this time you nave meant 70 say
No to me at lasti You cannot have meant II there
is so much between No and ! es GIVE me one word
OF hOp-, and 1 will wait-yOu 40 not KNOW 10"
patiently will wait-tor the rest
And then she made no Immediate answer 10 MN
but, after a little pause, she hnalIy dld gave hIn
Il was very cool.and cautious word. but, such as
il was it raised him to the seventh heaven. but
| asrIme went on, am afraid the poor LAD 1onuu
that he had entered into rather stormy paraulse
and that If Miss Hart had disturbed MS rep0se III
the days before he declared himself 10 he her loVe
she racked him with almost unbearable torment
| IN these other DAYS that came alter them. FOR lie
soon discovered that his expectation OF receiving
| any extended fayOrs from Der hands after MS ele
! vatlon was a deluslOn of the most absolute KIND
| She gave HIM not more than she had gwen him
! before but less. She treated INN with Drusquerie
! with codness sometimes even with cOnteH pt; she
made hun Jealous by paradIng her apparent pre-
| ference of other people tn himself anu When ne
reproached her with these crueltles sue Uolu hilu
| cooy that she practIsed them for MS own goOd
! that he might learn prudence, and wean his anec-
| tons from her. -,
For Won know you are very foolish to care about
me, she often told him demuTey. There are a
great many other girls that 1t would be far better
! Tor you to like And she would enumerate these
inaldrns sometimes, I'LL sue uIONe lin Win WIN
i will marry you. or no other woman in this
| world he told ner one day Win VcneMenct. Anu
then she laughed and suddenly stopped ner teaslng
talk and. looking in his tace with softer LOOK IN
her eyes than she often let him see
| Well. | don't think you Will ever marry me- she
! said abruptly; but. If such an unlikely thing
! should By chance happen. will try not TO make
| Won unhappv-vou good Old Keith
| And on ths-fOr she gave HIM few such tender
! speeches-the foolish fellow was so moved that'
ceiling an entire inability To express bis gratitude
IN woId he fairly Trn down ON 1s Hn nee bm
| with all kinds of incoherent blessings stumbling
over one another on his lips.
! And so with little visible change. things went on
! tlll the summer had passed its height Long be-
! fore this Prudence had made herself mnch at home
! In the Werner famlly. and had won hlgh opinion
| for her virtues from Mr.. and Mis-. Werner alike.
! From Nauel she had perhaps not quite won so Aign
/ an opinion. Tor MabePs acquaintance with her be-
ing more intimate, led now and then to certain sus-
plclons that made that young lady nou9tiul about
! the iunermOst character OF heI ne W ttlehu: YET
| even Mabel was attracted by her too much 10 be
| disposed readily TO tSluk III OF her' IL seems 70
me that she il not quite straightforward, she had
said hcstatingly, once or twice To Keith VINO nav
ing his own thoughts, 100, on that point hau not,
! perhaps been able to do much TO allay ms sister
| DerplexItyl; but to her mother she had not SAID
even so much as this. She hearted girl,
and hardly liked to hit at suspicious that she could
not prove for If mamma thought there was any
! thing odd about her she would never let her stay,
she argued and il would seem so hard To send her
! away Besides. | may be wrong. and she Is 80 nice
| m many WAYS, and don't believe she means any
harm Ii is only that thlnk-she does not tell
the truth she would say, little troubled and yet
| unable to resolve that, If other peoples eyes were
! shut II was her business To open them. 80 sue
kept silent; and Prudence went on her way reIolc
But on a certain morning. when autumn had
| began aud the beech trees were growing Ied ana
| draining their leaves upon the lawn, the posunan
! brought letter to Miss II art, from when uneX,
pectrd results ensued. IL was letter addressed
| IN a mans hand. and when she received lt at the
! hrea l-fo.t-tabip Prudence blushed little, and
| ,Ilpped il INTO her apron pocket unopened. ana
when the meal was ended tock her departure from
| the apartment rather hastily: after winch Tor a
! runl " nobody saw her any more.
! After an hour or two had passed, however, Mrs
! Werner was seated by herself IN the dinlhg-room
| with her desk and her accountbOOks before
her when Miss Harris gentle fingers opened the door.
! and her soft step having brought her 10 Mrs;
| Verner's side, down she unexpectedly pumped
there on the toor. giving the elder lady, who was
| busv with her bills, rather turn. "
! What's the matter my dear she said quickly,
ION. dearest Mrs Werner nothing is the matter
answered Prudence sweetly. She had pretty
color her cheeks, auc IN mel eyes the solest look
| less you should be angry; but You won't be that,
| think because | am so happy: have come to tell
| YOU first of all. Dear MIS- werner, am-A @lH
Married. Prndrncer cried Mrs. Werner quite
| taken aback for she had Thought she knew all the
cirs concerns, and had calmly come TO the cCnclu-
SION long ago that she had never had lover IN her
life. -, 49,
| swered Prudence softly laughing. tor never told
| Won did : But IL has been such long att9chment
| oh, such a long attachment! ahd-and there
wpr. difficulties: but he do what he likes now,
! and nv only trouble, dear Mrs. Werner Is that l
mist leave you all at once. Yes at once, for he Is
| go-nr with his regiment TO Canada almost lmme-
eIa- civ. and-and there will be SO many things to
| do you know
! exclaimed the matron. feeling almost seandanzed
nj the rapidly with which Miss Hart vas preparing
10 ransact the whole affair. You can't be married.
| in moment my dear child
.0L. no: but he asks me to 90 and stay III London
with his brother. explained PruGehce WIN ano.ner
| sueet and modest smile. HIS brother Is married.
dou't know his wife, but that doesn't matter, does
~ And they have sent an invitation TO me To 20
| IN them and they want 10 have our wedding from
| their house. Are they not kndf But l tnink