The Penn's Grove record., 1883-04-21
A Fair Exchange.

"Diana my W darling Diana -
With a low cry of utter gladness thu
young man hurried forward and claspet
the girl to his breast-clasped her anC
kissed her, and looked down jqyfulll
into the startled violet-blue eyes, bui
she, laughing and blushing in love EN-
barrassment, tore herself out of hi'
arms and stood shyly before him.
'I'm not Diana-I'm only Dolly
she said. "And yon must be Roy Doug
lass, though | did not know Diana was
expecting you home so SOON"
"She was not expecting me, planned
to take her by surprise. Is it possible
this is little Dolly You were in short
frocks when 1 went away, my dear.
You are the living image of your sis
ter, y he said, regarding her with a min
| gled look of surprise, confusion and adj.
miration.
"Oh, indeed !" answered Miss Dolly,
not particularly fattered. But she is
a great deal older than l am"
"Of course" murmured the young
man, more and more COMPOUNDED ''you
are the picture of what she was five
years ago when l saw her last"
'I am eighteen and my sister is
twenty-three, " remarked Dolly, with a
little air of superiority, looking straight
up into the eyes of this tall ~fine-looking
fellow whom she thought quite the
! most ''taking'' gentleman she had even
met, and who, she knew, had made a
clear twenty-five thousand by his five
| years labor.
"But Diana is just as prettyas ever, .
she added patronizingly, land will be
awfully glad to have You back, / sup
! pose, she doesn't have much fun, you
| see, for the fellows all understand she's
engaged Pm glad you've come for her,
at last, before she gets to be a downright
old maid. Shall | run to the house and
tell her ?n
81 have been to the house and spoken
to your mother Diana wa out here in
the garden, she said, and that Vas one
reason | made the mistake, | suppose y
he said dreamily, his eyes still lingering
on the beautiful fower-like face, Sc
fresh, 50 piquant, so perfect.
Dolly was a born eoquette, and selfish
to the core of her vain little heart. She
was fully aware of the impression she
was making; eve now she was thinking
"would it be possible to cut Diana out,
and catch this handsome and generous
fellow for herself ?"
For the Davenports were poor, and
Dolly longed for costlier dresses and
jewels to set off her beauty, she envied
her older sister her good luck beauS
Dolly had in superabundance, but
among them none such as this-rich and
fascinating. She glanced up at hin
from under her long curling lashes.
"It's too bad | got the first kiss" she
laughed, the soft color flying to hel
| wiid-rose face. "Diana will be furious.
"Don't tell her Them murmured Roy
laughing a little, too, and unable t
| withdraw his admiring gaze from the
lovely young girl. give years."
| never thought about their changing
| Diana yet of course l am older as wei
as she.n
sob, but a man man ought to b.
eight or ten years the older"
"You think that, do you, Miss Dollyt'
he asked.
"Why, of course. My lover must b'
all of that"
"Have you any n in pa 'ticular il
your minds eye, Dolly?" asked
laughing because she laughed.
''Not YET" with a little affected
sigh. Somehow the youths of on
rural neighborhood hardly come up Il
my ideal. But really | must look abou
for my sister. You must lie dying t.
see her, l know, after all these years
Why, five years to me seem like half
lifetime l wonder you've had the pa
thence to stand here listening to m,
nonsense l wont tell Diana how yol
took me for her.
Roy Douglass himself wondered VIII
he had remained by Dolly and let he
talk without demanding to see his sweet
heart. He had come into that swee
June garden, eyes and heart aglow, hi
whole soul rushing in advance of hi
footsteps, for now, at last, after sion
toll and endeayor,r the supreme hon
so intensely longed for was here, whe
he should ''feel the arms of his tru
lcve round him once again.
He had seen her, he thought, faire
than ever, standing there in the old ros
arbor, dressed in white, and he ha
stolen forward and caught her to h
breast in a burst of rapture and, afte
all it had not been his Diana, but tina
little sister of hers grown up. He wa
conscious of a slight shrinking from til
idea of the first meeting now with th
real Diana. Meantime, not six fee
away, outside the leafy arbor, sitting j
the deep, fragrant grass, a book in he
lap, showers of ~rose-petals droopin