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

adoption by 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
pilloN. and cried herself asleep several
nights in succession and in saying her
prayers when she came to the words,
Bless everybody" it was a good while
befara she cou'd bring herself to repeat
them withou5 a mental exception of
Kenreth's cruel uncle.
a first Kenneth's mind was filed
WITT desperate schemes for carrying off
Katie to some undiscovered island,
whe~e without molestation, they might
PLAY : Mr. and Mrs. Robinson Crusoe,
and w pair of happy hermits to the
end " the chapter
i It time soon effaces the sorro VS. of
the wong. Kenneth was put in boys
scho", where ambition to excel, and to
head tile rush in every bout at football
gave ample occupation to his thoughts,
and lest little time for brooding over
by-@nne ills. The Crusoe plan was
either quite forgotten, OF its carrying
out deferred till some indefinite period
in the future. And Katie, too, before
a mouth had passed, could play, and
romr, and llugh and shake her yellow
curls gleefully as in the days when
Ken. eth, her devoted knight, used to
guarl her pathway home against the
besetments Of surly dogs and butting
billy goats.
Years went by, and Kenneth Warde,
after Il brilliant career at college and
couple of years of travel, returned to fill
his u1cle'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 OF 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
whispered, she had lent a not-unwilling
ear. But whether it was through filial
obedience, or because she was prudent
enough to discern the superior ad-
vantages of match with man of
Kenneth Wafdes 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 fancee's presence, bethought him of
going to spend a 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. g.
I suppose it was an accidental any
rate it SO happened-that Kenneth'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 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 deserted island. He
hadn't changed bit-only to grow ever
so much handsomer, she was on the
point of adding, but checked herself
with a 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 a laggard
at his own wedding. If the truth must
be told, it would hardly have broken
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 a regretful
sigh as they thought secretly of what
might have been. But Kenneth was a
man Of honor, and struggled manfully
to maintain his loyalty. He had prom
lsed 10 marry Grace cambridge, and
must keep his word; and Katie Dene
respected him too highly to wish him to
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