Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-02-16
FLORA HARTON'S REVENGE.

II lOlt, Wlldu WAS lllt ndluc Ol lIllI
young city exquisite who was laid up
here last summer with a sprained
ankle? Do you rememherY'
Uncle R'lph spoke carelessly, and
without observing the deep crimson
flush that spread itself over Flora's
olive cheek.
"Guy IIlvpnham," she answered,
the very words seeming to catch il
music from her accents as
she slowly spoke the sylIables.
"I thought So" Uncle Ralph an.
swered. 81 knew it was some sort of
an outandish name"
"Why did you ask?' Flora ques,
toned.
lies married--that's air
"Mlrried! Flora IImton was pale
enough now. Married, Uncle Ralph.
it isn't possible!'
81 don't see why it should not he pos
sibe," answered Uncle Ralph dryly.
AT all events, here it is in the paper;
'On Wednesday, December 9, at 81. An
toniuus' Church, New York, Guy lIt-
venham to Mary Alicia, only daughter
OF the Ia Parker Forbes, Esq
lie tossed the paper toward his niece,
with the vague impression that all WO-
men liked to read marriage notices.
and went ont of the room. FlOrito took
it up and peruspd the brief lines over
and over again, with wild troubled
ewes. like one who caZps through the
misty phmtasmagoria of a fryered
dream.
When Flora Tarton returned from
her WA k that afternoon. with the red
sun sinking behind the snow.fripned
woods and the air full of chill frosty
freshness, she had wrestled with her
fate and conquered it.
"How pale YOU are, Floraw said
Bruce Osborne. a tall, handsome Young
man who WAS sitting in The "keepiup.
room.r anparpntly waiting for her
homeward return, and who rose tc
erect her with a smile so briant that i,
iDumined his whole face.
"Palel am II"
Flora looked strangely lovely while
she stood there. And as Bruce looked
at her, the purpose that had lonl
been slowly forming itself in his minG
became A conyjctiou-he would woo
and win this woman TO become hi,
wife.
And when lie stood at the altar. will
Flora Harton by his side he knew
nothing of the old love for Guy TIA
venhpm which had smouldered itselt
away to ashes in her heart No; tina
was Flora's own secret but she WA,
not a woman who was likel, to forget
81 will live to he rpvenpei upon On,
U,venham vet" WAS fine a,l-pngIo,sin,
reelection or her heart oven as She tool
nnon herself fla hnlIowod Vows whicl
made nar tha wife of anothar man
Mrs R,uce Oshorne was thn helle n
tha snosnn the nevt winter in Nav
York and when CIV Uavenham re
,nrned from his Emrone,n wnddin,
trim with his fair Aaxen. haired Iittl
Via bancing lilo n mnrnifcent dnl
mnnn his arm he fe,t a cnrions thrill
odroawho,o ahomt tho ran;ons Of h;
he,,t 40 be wss nrespnted Nv som
nueen Of fashion, t6 tho roianivo % sta,
Nv NV ara nId rr;onds" oho ea;d u,;tl
ont tbo slirItost inJio,tiom U Of FAM ony errr onr
tion % pbaisoaver '''' - "' VIM
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tbonnGt CIV UaTenham "
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m nroud Tondmess ot tho little fairy VIII
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