Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-03-23
THE PINK SCARF.

"And whose, pray, Miss JealOusy?'
"Mamie Lewis. You love her, and
you can't deceive me. My eyes and
my ears cannot be deceived, although
l am ashamed to say that my heart
once was
eva Maynard" began George
Turner, edo you know what you are
saying? Do you know that you are
doing me cruel wrong, and doing
yourself wrong at the same time?"
II only know that l trusted you
and that you deceived me. That is
enough for a poor girl like me to
know
"Why, Eva, how wildly you talk.
You are everything in the world to
me. Mamie Lewis is nothing. She
is a heartless and thoughtless fiirt.
Why are you jealous of such a girl?"
II am not jealous. | have seen
you talking and flirting with her over
and over again, and l heard her boast
to Mrs. Perdue that you were her
abject slave
George Turner's countenance be-
trayed no emotion except pain, and
he said:
That l have been compelled to
converse frequently with Miss Lewis,
as matter of common politeness, l
admit. That l ever fiirted with her
l most emphatically deny. As for
her foolish boast it is not worth think
ing about
Mamie Lewis was the daughter of
the postmaster of the pretty village
of Roseville, acted as his deputy, and
was most heartless flirt, and had, at
different times, aroused the jealousy
of nearly every young lady in the viii
lagc. At the same time she had fallen
deeply and desperately in love with
George Turner-sometIing of which
he was wholly unconscious-and was
crying by every art in her power to
win him from Eva Maynard.
Eva knew the state of Mamie s
feelings, and hel jealousy whispered
that George returned the passion.
Mamie's boast, made purposely that
! Eva might oyerhear it, confirmed her
fears and almost broke her heart.
George Turner was young man OF
handsome form and face. fine educa.
ton and culture, and of extended
reading. He was law student anC
had nearly completed his course. Bu'
George Turner was almost penniless
Eva Maynard was the only child o.
the Widow Maynard-her father hav
ing died in her infancy. The Widow
Maynard owned a cottage and Il pla
of ground just north of the village
with Il pretty lawn overlooking tn
railway track. An investment tha
yielded eight hundred dollars a yea
supported mother and daughters il
comfort. Eva and George were en-
gagged, and they were to he marie,
rs soon rs he was admitted to the bar
Every one said that the match was
} highly proper one, and predicted
bright future for them. Mamie Levi
alone envicd Eva Maynard her love
and her prospective happiness, ant
resolved to secure for herself the on
and destroy the other. She possesse
rare beauty and many outward a,
complishments, but George Turne
{ was wholly impervious to them. ii
loved Eva and was absolutely true fo
her.
During the day previous to til
evening when the above recorded col
; versation occurred at Eva's lower gat,
George Turner had received lett.
-, from a solicitor in London, informin
him that his maternal uncle had I,
D Gently died, leaving him a small pa
e rimony, and that his immediate pc,
sonal presence was necessary to S,
cure it. He possessed barely sufticiel
money to pay his passage to Englan'
Il with few dollars over, but he in
/. mediately made preparations to tai
y the eight O'Clock train the next NOR
: ING for New York, where he wouI
II embark the day following on the ou
q going steamer.
st He had gone to Eva to tell her tt
d news, talk of their future plans, al
d receive her sweet farewell to che
him OH his voyage.
y, Then, for the first time, the shade
@ came between them. Eva, with h
le heart torn and lacerated, doubted h
= fidelity, and all his protestations
IL love were unavailing. His pleadin,
= were in vain, and at last they part
in the tender moonlight with cold fo
,e mality on the part of Eva and man
tenderness on the part of George.
I'd The broken Eva returned
d. the veranda, where she sat and wei
r. despite the comforting words of b
a mother, who, ignorant of the tr
ut state of affairs, imagined that /
Ike grief was only the grief of parting.
III George Turner slept but little, a
had intended to call again before
ID train started, but at the last nome
discovered that he had forgotten Sol
nd important papers that it would
as necessary to take with him. He
down and hastily wrote:
~ "DARL1NG EVA: l had hoped
#, see you this morning and hear fir
,at your own lips that you do not do,
nv love and fidelity. and take