The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-07-29

Evelyn, quickly. Don't you like hei
love2"
Il never saw her in my life"
"Then why aro you SO pr,judiced q
gainst herr l know you are oy your look
and tone. So, sir. confess"
Mr.. Powerscourt laughed, and then re
sumed his cigar.
My dearest. all know of her is, tina
she behaved most shamefnlly to poo
Fred Orme-turned bin off in the mos
heartless way; and he never will get owe
it, neverl Aud he Is not the first of hei
list, by great many No, don't lik,
your cousin, my dear. She Is heartles!
co4uette. She is thirty years old, ant
she is very plan--at least, l hear so, eyer
from the men who rave aboHt her most
Even poor Fred admits that. Ilowevtf
since you have asked her here, will Try
to be polite to her, as would to any
other guest Of yours. or course she will
not stay longf"
mot long" answered Evelyn. begin.
ming to repent of her experiment even
before it was really made. and not daring
to confess that she had asked her cousin
for month.
So, when Ellis PoWerscourt came he me-
the next evening, he was not surprised t6
be introduced to Cousin Norma" who
had arrived by the afternoon train, and
who welcomed him with a sweeping curt
sey only, rs if she knew instinctively OF
his dislike and was prepared to meet and
to re urn 1t in full.
All through that evening he watch
ed her furtively, and with the greatest
Gu 'ioSity. Plaiu they had call'd her,
very plain. Well, yes, II Sas truei There
was no beauty in the irregulerly featured
face. But, in its place. was something
that the most perfect harmony often lacks
--zI suddeuj indestflbable light and glow
an animation as sparkling as it was
evanescent, that gave her wonderful
and almost dangerous charm. But-a
heartless coquettel That was the worlds
verdict, ahd till now 1t had been his own.
But during that evening she made not
the slighte st attemptt to gain his attention.
He caught her eyes lingering upon his
face with an absorbed, admiring gaze
once or twieeI but the eyes dropped and
she colored like d gifl when She saW that
he noticed her scrutiny After tLat, for
q long time, she did not look his way
again.
Size admitted him, then. A certain glow
OF srtifaction thfilled through him at the
thought But perhaps she thought him
only II handsome coxcumb, without any
brains. He would show her her mistake
So, joining the two ladies, from whom he
lad heretofore kept aloof, lie commenced
to talk.
He was well read, well informed, and
so was Norma Strong. Subjects came p
for discussion between them, of wbic !
poor Evelyn knew little or nothing, but
which the other two fingered over with
the k ehest animation and delight They
sang, and the clear tenor aud the tlelici-
GUS contfulto mt tied into each othet like
moonlight into music. They rode, and
Norma WAS splendid hurseW oman, while
Evelyn could barely keep her seat during
a respectable trot. They drove, aud
Morna's place was ever at the side of ht +
hosti in short, before two weeks had
passed over her head, POOR Evelyn saw
her mistake thoroughly, repented her
experiment bitterly, and would have
given worlds if the eray-eyed enchant-
ress had never entered her home.
How was all this brought about? Only
by few words, and single glance of
the dark gray eyes, on the first evening
of the lady's arrival. Ellis Pow erscourt
was sitting silent, after long and inter
esting discussion on literature and art
VAS at an end.
Such hours are the wine of life," he
said, softly, as if to himself; "all else ia
bnt the dregs, aud yet the dregs are Of
tenest at our lips!"
You feel tbis!" said Morna's soft, low
voice, the gray eyes looking into his,
Reader, have you ever met one Of those
dangerous looks-a veiled, impalpable
caress
You have the soSl to feel this empti-
ness, this yearniug while the world calls
your life happy, and your home happy"
This is what t. soft gray eyes said, on
that eventful night.
Aud Ellis Powerscourt, unhappily for
himselt, read their meaning all too well
From that instant subj current Of sym
pathy existed between them, unspoken,
yet understood and f,lt by both.
And from that moment the young
mans iniatuation was complete. She
und, rstnod him; she knew how great a
capacity for good lay dormant in his soul.
She would have helped him onward and
upwnri, had fate given. her to him for a
mate, instead of the'childish. pretty Eve
lyn, who had never known him, as this
strar ger knew bin now. hearlless co
queite, indeed! They slandered her vile
ly who called her so! Never was there
a nobler soul, m're candid nature, a
warmer or more loving heart. than this
woman possessed Oh, if fate had but
ben kinder to him, what life his might
have been, with Morns ever beside him
to cheer and help him on!
Poor little Evelyn! If tears and sigbs
could atone for an imprudence, surely
hers must have been wiped away fore yer,
about this time What tortur,s the poor
little soul underwent at this period of her
life no one, save her Maker and hers IT.,
ever knew. The struggle benefited her,
in one sense of the word. 1t cleared
away, and forever, the mist of romance
and folly in which her soul was envelop-
ed. II taught her to value life's happi.