Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-02-07
..HOw's that ?" Mrs Carroll inquired

it carefully away In her pocket.
"Yes, Franks going back to the city
this week, and don't suppose We shal
see much of HIM after THY"
Miss Lulu laughed, and shrugged hel
pretty shoulders.
zone would think Mr.. Merrivale was
going to emigrate to the South Sea Is
lands, she answered.
'He mig ht almost as well be going
there for all the nearness to town vii
do us.
The air of mystery about the old lady
was having a most electric effect.
"Do tell, Mrs. Harrls," Mrs. Carroll
said, laying her grey yarn stocking
down.
''lf you'll both keep it dead secret,
I'll tell you.
Franks going to be married.
A momentary silence followed. only
broken by the tick-tack OF the eight-day
clock in the corner, and the silyery lit
tie click OF grandma Harris's needles.
Then, although Lulu felt that her
very pulses seemed stopping, that fol
her the sunlight was for ever to be
gloomiest shade, she managed to utter q
strange weird little laugh.
'You don't say Frank is going to be
married !?
That is indeed news.
'Tell him l congratulate him.
Mrs. Harris peeped innocently ovei
her glasses at the sweet pale face.
''Just SO l felt, Lulu-you and Frank
had been such good friends-and that's
why [ think you ought to be told first.
.'Sakes alive
SIT really can't be four o'clock al.
ready-and me with a mile and half tC
walk, and short-cake to make for tea. .
And the little old laday hustled off,
while Lulu put on her red and brown
blanket shawl and her little Derby hat
with the scarlet wing and rushed out III
to the crisp November air-somewhere,
anywhere to be all by herself, where,she
could try to realize all the sudden an
gulsh and confusion that had come
upon her.
1T cannot be
Frank Merrivale to be married-oh,
it can't be true -
And as she walked slowly through
the apple orchard, rustling the fallen
leaves as she traiied through them, the
big tears ran thick and fast from hel
sad eyes.
Frank Merrivale lest to her-and-
she loved him so
She had been SO sure of him, so sure
by when she condescended to cease hel
coquetries upon him she could whistle
him back to her feet.
To be married
With his handsome face, his pleading
voice, his passionate eyes-and not tc
her.
With heat breaking little sob she
leaned her face on her hands, and crled
as only woman can cry when she real
iz that her true-love Is gone for ever,
and that all through her own fault,
When she heard rapid footsteps con-,
ing up the same narrow path by which
she was going down through the or
chard-lootsteps she knew SO well. thai
thrilled her with Jealous pain, Tor she
recognized them before she had the
courage to lift her face, all tear-stalned
flush and wlstiul, yet prettler than eyel
TO Frank MerriYule, as he passed her
with only smile on his face as ht
courteously, yet coldly, raised hls hai
to her-and was passing on.
For Just one second 1t seemed to hel
that her temples, her throat, all hel
pulses would burst. with the concen
trated agony Of the mon ent should
she-dare She
Frank r. she said, scarcely above
her breath, In strangely tInid pitlfu
way.
lie turned instantly.
..Did you speak Z"
Frank ! Is it true ?''
True ? Is what true, Lulu 2
She trembled perceptibly.
Don't hesitate TO tell NEEDN'T pu
off the news-I know l deserve to b,
punished so--but-you might have
known it was l who loved you bette
than any other girl could.
''Oh, FraHk-I know it Is dreadful
for ne to speak so-but L must-I sbal
die Ii L think you don't know how mucl
L love you-eyen if yol don't want me.
He looked astonIshed.
Il dou't understand you, Lulu"
Her lovely eyes flashed hum a plteous
reproachful glance.
..Frank -bitterly-''don't seel
refuge behind pretence OF ignorance
81 know, and you know, what mean
but" and she began to sob in a wholly
unheroine-like manner, ''you nigh
have known how mach L loved you.
And then, Franks eyes suddenly be
gan to shine with a glad glory that hao
never been III them before, and he re
membered what grandma Harris has
said to him when he started OIL
Take my advice, boy, aud II yol
happen to meet Lulu, don't let her thml
YOU re inconsolable.
Lulu tell me that again-say
again-you love me y
II dol do do, Frank, but 1t
too late now, since you're going to b
married SO soon.
Il married, darling
Not that know OF, until you hay
promised TO have me.
''NIu you, Lu
And with her head on his breast, Lu
la told him ali that grandma Harris ha
said.
Il understand it all plainly enough
It was a loving little strata9em to cate
Cupid, Lulu
..Besldes, am not going to be. maj
RED
| "Say-aren't We?
81 don't think we're very angry ;
grandma Harris, are we !?
And Mrs. Frank never makes cream
cake for her hege lord but that 81
blesses the day his grandmother can
for the recipe.
Enormous Guns.
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