The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-01-19

usual dancing partners for the
waltz just :hca in progress.
AS they whirled swiftly around
the room, Ina caught sight of her
guardian at little distance, dane
ing with Il stately-looking lady,
apparently somo five and twenty
years of age. She was handsome
as well as stately; she had large,
welI-opened eyes ofa reddish hazel
color, heavy masses OF redbrown
hair, arranged IN the latest fash
ion, well.cut features, and II re.
markably fine complexion, which
was owing-to nature or art?
Her friends said nature her enc.
mics said art.
Who is that lady ? asked Ina
Of her partner, as they paused To
rest.
Don't you know her?' He look
ed surprised. Have you never
been here before p o..
Never. Why do yon ask, Mr..
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oh, L beg your pardon! But
/ it seemed odd that Glenn had
never brought you here-doa't
you see?-or Mrs. Hillyard. She
stands in the place ofa mother to
you, of course, and he must seem
as much like a father as q guar
dian, should think, at his age,
for he will never see FIVE and
thirty again, will he? And so, as
you live in his home, and are his
ward and like an only daughter,
I wondered why he had never
brought you here before to SEQ
his future BRIDE
His bride! Is he to marry
marry her?' said Ina, lifting her
bouquet to her face to hide the
sadden palIor which sho felt must
be oversPreading it.
She looked at Roland Glenn
with all her heart-her wrung,
aching, suffering heart-in her
eyes. What was this shallow
trifer beside him-this 'societ
man, who, rejoicing in his own
verdant youth, dared to remark
sneeringly upon Roland's age?
'rhlrty-fve! Even if that sur.
misc was right? At forty five
at ffty-Rolsnd would still be
the grandest, the pobIcst man
she knew, in outward appearance,
as wei! as in heart, and mind and
soul. o. ...-
Her guardian-yes. Bet, stand
ing in the place of a father to her.
-oh, never could she look upon
him in that light! She wished
wildly that she could do so, when
thus in an instant, by chance
remark, the veil of years was
thrown aside forever, and she was
made to understand that tbe feel.
ing with which she had looked
upon her guardian from childhood
was not as reverent friendship
such as she had supposed, but
young girls first pure but passion
ately adoriug love.
She faced the thought courage
ously when she was free from her
partner. Bot her eyes still fol.
lowed the tall figure Of Roland
Glenn from the quiet corner in
which che had ensconced her.
self. ...
She saw him looking at her,
too, now and then, with an anx-
irus, harassed expression. And
twice she saw the red-brown eyes
of Miss Issdore Stearns turned up
on her with q 6cry CLEAN of
anger in their depths.
What could she have done to
vex the proud beauty and heiress,
secure in the possession ofa lover
like Roland? thought Ina, pitt
fully, as. her head dropped upon
her hand.
And her tired eyes closed a mo.
ment, to shut out the lights, the
crowd, and the shifting hustle of
that gay circle, in which Roland,
once married, would speedily be
engaged, and lost TO her forever
Mrs. HilIyard and Ina returned
alone in the carriage that even
Ing. Roland remained, and would
probably outstay the last of the
guests, Mrs. HiIIyard observed.
They will he marie" at Christ
mas, / suppose, she went on.
! And then she will take my place
in our home here, and I shall
60 back to my little cottage and
farm lie Orange county, where l
shall oxpect to see Won Ina. for q