The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-05-17
NONE so BLIND.

When Captain Thompson built q
modest seaside dwelling he had no end
of wife's sisters coming to stay with
him He liked it, or them some of
them. If only one would come at q
timel He was getting too old to enjoy
the stiff breeze such a company created
He preferred Bella, | prefer her my-
self. She may be twenty-six; a sensi-
bic, gracious woman. Where pretty
sisters are, somebody's nice brothers
will be, Older men and graver came
to smoke with the Captain. One of
them was aeertain Royal Mcmillan,
who, from crude youth, had mellowed
into a rare Kind of man, they said who
knew. The tide in his affairs that leads
to fortune had not long been flood; but
he took frequent periods of what more
ambitious men would call spendthrift
recreation. Being a homeless man,
without ties, he was easily persuaded by
merry-hearted Mrs. Thompson to stay
with them awhile; then another while;
then all the while he pleased. He was
certainly a pillar Of support where the
girls were concerned, one to whom
nothing was trouble or difficulty a
born man Of affairs. The girls, admir-
ing his stately figure, charming tenn
per, and-the income-were inclined to
love him, also; even the more, when he
evidently detected this disposition and
was amused by it. But at last, drawn
OIL IN other ways, they left him to him
sell, unless, when he now and then fell
to the companionship of Bella, who
chaperoned the parties when Mrs.
Thompson did not 90.
Wellas they knew each other il was
rare occurrence to be walking, as they
were a certain superb morning, on the
hard sands, the long, green rollers
breaking twenty feet away at. their
right five miles before them Of delight
inl tootings the lighthouse the goal.
Theywere friendly enough To talk OF
not, as they pleased. and as Bella was
me only one who shad not sought OF
avoided him, he felt easy in. her pres
ence; SO easy that, like his old jacket;
ne didn't thinkiabott it. {8i sbN
Az ilrst they talked of the West, and
MCMILLAN, who was sometimes retro
spectlVe, when he could get any one to
listen, had been rather unmerciful in
anecdotes of his boyhood, when he sud-
aeniy broke i long silence by saying:f
rs there anything more fdiotic than
the behavior Of two, people under the
ueluslnn called lovep = Look at the
couple before us. They have forgotten
we are behind; or, 40 they suppose they
'are acting like civilized peopieP's q fsF
An old maid is idyflic,, y she said.
10 me it's touching. But she sud.
uenlE UaVQ a cftt,,,,.oC..J
oonIagious fnirth, in which he Joined.
lis -, II Il anything particular, Miss Sum.
q was reminded of something
80 was i ido, YOU know feel con.
Lieted by secret guilt. / suspect wc
nave both been foolst II YOU will NOT
laugh much, Ishould like to tell kind
W adventure of my own
ror,h I can ;sympathizeto any extent in &
4 suppose Toniwill call ital omance.
! wonder myself how it ever could have
nappeneda II was at the Centennial
~ hau been lounging about the grounds
al uay-l delighted in the peopE Ee-Larit
was resting on a shady bench. wher
mere appeared a remarkable pair
III L. u ATl-f1 kNttiS httis COlclUucu,
5ihey, too, sat down forest. He was 4
ulsllnguished-looking man, With Whit
inllstaehes; she the most beautiful cir
r'sV ever saw in my life. Your pretty sister
,,iiseIenllnqs me of her sometimes; but
5 slis -~as.a ereature divines sat ahc
S,,S Snssou1red 1r her with my Western. gaze
smnhe her companion asked me some
d' duesuons' And when she, turned hel
yyes YES iall on mine, as she did, presently
s,o mens down-under the waters HI
.,So on. 7 said she. III
mers?' 41iss ''uiii
wv, was going to suggest it,
,,"ell, l do not know how to 90 on
ta49nt ~ giving you the idea that she
,MAS TOO easily wooed. You Northerr
,S. YEMEN are frosty and perhaps Won car
n DO, perfectly"
Was able 70 be Of some service tc