Daily globe., 1883-08-03
JILTED TO HIS HEARTS
CONTENT.

death OF Aennoth's parents and his
adoption by a wealthy uncle, who took
HIM away to live in the city, separated
the Juvenile lovers, leaving them both
for the time incolsolable. Katie whis-
pered her griefs in her dollie's ear as
they iay with their heads on the same
pllloE. and cried herself asleep several
nights IN succession and in saving her
prayers when she came to the words,
Bless everybody" it was good while
befrra she cou'd bring herself to repeat
then w!5hons a mental exception of
Keareth's cruel uncle.
a first Kenneth's mind was filed
wit. '!h3perate schemes for carrying off
Katie to some undiscovered island,
whrvc without molestation, they might
plac 8 AIr. and Mrs. Robinson Crusoe,
and w pair of happy hermits to the
end q" the chapter.
i It tine soon effaces the sorrows of
the v"1ng. Kenneth was put in boys
schoH', where ambition TO excel, and to
head tie rush in every bout at football
gave ample occupation to his thoughts,
and lest little time for brooding over
bY-gnne ills. The Crusoe plan was
either quite forgotten, OF its carrying
out deferred till some indefinite period
in the future. And Katie, too, before
mouth had passed, could play, and
romp. and laugh and shake her yellow
curls S gleefully as in the days when
Ken. eth, her devoted knight, used to
guard her pathway home against the
besetnents Of surly dogs and butting
billy -@oats.
Years went by, and Kenneth Warde,
after Il brilliant career at college and
couple of years of travel, returned to fill
his u.cle's heart with pride. He must
have quite forgotten the little Katie of
his boyhood for not only did he fail to
go and seek her that they might set
about their search for the enchanted
island or some retreat equally romantic,
but he actually courted, and was in due
time engaged to Miss Grace cambridge,
dashing belle, whose father and Ken
neth's uncle had long been laying their
canny heads together to bring about
that precise result.
Miss Grace had been the idol of Seth
Ransen. handsome cousin of hers, to
Whose suit, it was rather more than
whisY cred, she had lent not-unwilling
ear. But whether it was through flial
obedience, or because she was prudent
enough to discern the superior ad-
vantages of a match with a man of
Kenneth Wafde's dazzling prospects,
Miss Grace reluctantly dismissed her
cousin and accepted the new suitor with
promptness which poor Seth, like the
deposed Wolsey, thought somewhat
sudden"
When everything had been arranged
between Warde and Grace cambridge,
even to the setting of the wedding day,
Kenneth, who was not so foolish in love
but he could exist brief season out of
his fiancees presence, bethought him of
going to spend few weeks in his native
village, which he had not seen since the
day he had been carried off in a fit of
heroic sulks over his separation from
Katie Dene. OF course he laughed at
that fooiishness now.
I suppose it was an accidental any
rate it SO happened-that Kenneth's S
first visit in the old place was to the
Denes'. He didn't know Katie at first
could hardly realize, indeed, that the
yellow-headed little tom-boy, whose
quarrels he was always taking up, and
with whom he used to quarrel now
and then himself, could have grown in
to SO bewitchingly beautiful a woman.
Katie seemed a little hurt that Kenneth
should have so totally forgotten her.
She would have known him, she said,
had they met on a deserted island. He
hadn't changed a bit-only to grow ever
so much handsomer, she was on the
point of adding, but checked herself
with blush.
The time passed swiftly, and Ken
neth's visit was prolonged till prudence
whispered it was time to think of re
turning, if he would not be laggard
at his own wedding. If the truth must
be told, it would hardly have broker
his heart if something had happened to
keep him away altogether, for he and
Katie were spending the days very hap
ply, barring now and then regretfu
sigh as they thought secretly of what
might have been. But Kenneth was {
man Of honor, and struggled manfullJ
to maintain his loyalty. He had prom
ised 10 marry Grace cambridge, and
must keep his word; and Katie Dent
7.ac1oar--1 hin, II oh HIM 4/