South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-10-05


You did first rate giving Nell a
commenda,ory HEX with the end of a
rein; hut Faith can't see through a
ladder, and WAS on the point OF spoil,
ing everything several times. Aud
he's coming 10 take dinner with us on
Thursday. .Wot larks,' exclaimed
this arca-plolter, gleefully, rs she hug.
ged herself in sheer admiration OF her
own diplomacy and tact.
'Mr. Gilbert wouldn't take a cent
Tor the cherries! said Bessie. az she
handed back her aunt's bright silver,
untouched Il invited him TO dinner
on Thursday, aud he said he'd take d
big piece of cherry pie in PAYMENT
i only hope he won't take You in
paymentf said Miss Alyea, SUSPECT.
ously, LOCKING at the bright face which
created sach Uni c,sal havoc anon Q
mankind.
No Danger laughed Bessie, witt
an undeniable wink at Faith.
Miss Alyea wondered what freal,
had taken possession of her niece:
when they insisted on getting dinner
themselves on Thursday, but hor won
der was increased TO amazement when
Bessie let down her thick knot o,
chestnut hair and twjned it into heav,
curls that she had not worn since shs
was a girl, and furthermore iished u
long-nuused pink organdy and com
manded her aunt to array herself
therein.
Il shall feel like an old fool Have
you gone crazy. Bessie protested
Miss Alyea, looking at her niece II.
Thomas Parr might have regard
ed any one who had ordered him tc
deck MS mummitiel form in peach
colored small clothes aud dance mt {
wedding.
But Bessie was inexorable, anc
Miss Alyea, on this occasion as on al
Others, was clay in the hands OF hel
indomliablc niece, and moekly obey
ci her commands.
MIR. Gilbert, my aunt, Mss Berke
ley said Bessie, CLINT OF mischief
sparkling under the lashes which veil
Cd her suspiciously demure eyes, as
she usherei their guest into The parlor
where Mss Berkeley sat, feeling eX.
tremeIy awkward in her Youthful gear
and where Faith and Nell hovere /,
awaiting the expected tab!eau viii
GREATNESS interest.
Mr. Dare stood transliXed for q mo-
nient feeling as if tue twenty years were
mist that bad rolled away. Had l}os
sic, that llttle bIue-eyed sorceress, car
rcd him to the mystical isle of lone
ago., whore his lost youth and LOST
love lived?
1t seemed so, when he saw the orr
giunl Of the old daguerrcotype before
him, unchanged even as 10 the minu
test detail OF her dress.
My Sue, he said, softly, with a
TRANSPORTED face, and opening his
arms as if he had forgotten that his
Sue had bceu false TO him.
And JOHN, returned Miss Alyea, nest.
ling in the strong arms that enfold.
cd her, as though they were her pro.
per home.
but You are married. he said slow
~, after moment.
Il married.? Never! But yo de.
serted me = she returned, struggling
to escape from his arms, az the bitter
tide OF recollection came sweeping
back upon her.
why, Sue I desert your said
Mr.. Dare, bending upon her his re.
proachful dark eyes, that were an ir.
relGtable conformation OF his truth.
The girls, seeing that all misunder-
standing was on the high-road TO a
satisfactory settlement, disappeared,
and devoted their energies to conjec-
lures and cooking.
Just see the mischief it made, be.
cause another Sue Alyea took it into
her head to be married when you
were in New York, auntie = said
Faith, when the mystery had been re.
explained at the dinuer table.
And it were the president OF the
United States, | would add another
amendment to The constitution, max
ing 1t penal oliense for more than
one person TO have The same name .
added Bessie, with wise little nod
and IN important air. az though she
were already filing tue presidential
hair with great credit, aud had only
-1frame ameuImen.sin order to have
them Immediately appended to the
constitution.
q laugh went around the table at
this brilliant departure in sociology !;
and Mr.. Dare, pa,ting the wise Little
head ihat had planned 1t, mimicked
off were president Of
These United States.
Ia cat moias1es- candy aud
Swing on all .le gates"
But The name was only one element
of The mischief he added. more
seriously, '& wouldn't have been able
90 do any harm, ir Mark Vcdder had
not played u- false. II had ONLY
known that Sue bad refused him. /
wouldn't have been 40 easily cheated
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