The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1883-06-14

after him. This Was a new order OF
things, to dc sure.
Only yesterday Dick Lynohfeld
would Lave considered q sail down
the river alone with her the seventh
Heaven Of delight.
She must teach him better man.
n ers. He would surely claim that
sail Tomorrow then she che would
surely punish him.
Bot on the morrow Dick had ap.
parently quite forgotten the matter.
Nell watched him With increasing ex.
asperstion. He treated her with
gay gsllantry that was very unlike
his usual Difference.
He did not try 10 gain . single
tetc a tete with her. aud he hirted
outrageously With Helen Dunfui
He seemed suddenly TO have nc
qnired new tower aud 70 'hioo.
Nell wondered that sho had never
before noticed how handsome Dick
was, aud how pleased the other girls
were with bis attentions. lie had
been her humble slave for 80 long
that she had ceased to put any spec.
ial value on his delicate attentions ;
but she missed them sadly to-day
with surprise aud anger at rst,then
gradual sense Of pain and fear lest
through her own wilfulluess she had
lost him.
They wero standing together mp
on the verande late in the afternoon,
watching a group who were prac-
ticing archery upon the lawn.
Dick said she, reproachfully,
Won were TO take mo down the riv or
to- day.
II declare, 80 / was ~ exclaimed
Dick, in we'll simulated dismay.
Better late then never, ma m sells!
and then leaning over the veranda
railing he called to the others
hudson, Simons, Fiske. and ladies
what do you say to sail down tue
river The moon will bo up by the
time We return"
His proposal was hailed with ac'
clamation Of approval, and ten min
utes later they oil went trooping
down to the shore.
As for Nell, she was ready to Cry
with disappointment, for she had
expected to regain the lost groun d
in quiet sail with Dick, but it was
very evident that he thought moth
ing at oil OF being alone with her.
She had lost him now, all through
her own foolishness. And worst oI
all, she must keep mp brave front
for it would never do for Eer to
NOPE in the presence OF her guests
Not one Of the party was gay and
bright as Dick he laughed, and
sang and told stories, and Nell look :
ed, aud listened and smiled, with a
growing pain and dreariness in hel
heart.
They came home through The
moonlight, Nell walking silent,
with down.cast eyes at Dicks side.
He looked at her pale cheeks and
said tenderly, yet with a certain
light undertone
"Tired, little girl :"
Nell laughed aud did not look ur
lest he should see tears in her eyes
mo, indeed y said she.
After that he hardly spoke to heI
all the evening.
. AS the summer deepened, Nell and
Dick seemed to ha.o changed places
OF all the lordly cavalier like lovers,
he was the greatest and Of all th'
meek, deprecating maidens, she wa
, the msskest and most deprscatiug.
And strapgsst OF oil, Mother Oak
, ley made 40 attempt to bring mat
ters to q climax, although she coul'
! hardly help seeing that Nell's ca
! pricious heart had fixed itself upon
this handsome young fellow wh'
= seemed in no haste to make know
his intentions. How was Nell Q
: any one else to know that Dick ha,
' already made confident OF Mothe
Oakley and won her over to hi
' side'
Q 1t was lovely day in August g
S near to September that some G
3 the riches aud dreaminess OF Autum
seemed to have favored it.
II Nell, on the way home from th
village in her pony carriage. ha
q overtaksn Dick and was hs beside be
Q now, watching the little, gray glove
bands that held the reins.