Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-07-23

on the other,
Now try to be exact and logical for
once, yoang lady, and tell me what
grounds you have for believing for an
instant that, to put it as you do, l do
care for you."
JAMES eyes answered him.
AS if that was reason that could
satisfy any logical mind Why, you
goose, it might be that hate you and
want to have the opportunity to lead
you miserable life But come-I will
tell you all about it,"
And don't laugh st me-"
Laugh at you Bless the child ! If
you would only look at me instead of
tearing your handkerchief into small
pieces'-Janie deSisted with blush
''you would see that am as grave as
as Dick there-pointIng to Janie's
white dog, who was regarding them
with steadfaSt eyes from the middle OF
the pathway. "Now | will proceed
with my explanation. Many years ago
L was staying in Bagdad and fell i'll
with magician" JANE looked up
with wide-open eyes. "Queer people,
those magiciansl This one was good
fellow in his way and he told ME that,
if | went down to Thorndale on the
fourteenth of July and visited my
friend the Squire, should meet Il
young lady in a green muslin dress who
was the queen of all the fairies. Her
must wed, and then obtain possession
of the fairy revenues and live happy
ever after. You wore a green muslin
tho nf rhA
fairies, and am marrying you for your
money!
Janie's merry laugh made Dick dash
round them wildly, expecting a race
But the girl was not daunted in her in
quiries. She tried little coaxing.
II want so much TO know. You
locked at me so on that first evening.
and you weren't in love with me then
"'Dead shepherd, nolC I md thy sac q
might,
Who erer loued that lored not at first
Sigbt?'
Do you intend to correct Shakespeare,
mademOiselle? 2"
'Did remind you of anybody you
once knew ?" persisted jamie.
Her question startled him into grav
ity.
"Have you heard Has any one told
you Il"
What was I to hear Al, then
there is something Won't you tell me :
| could not bear to hear it from any one
else."
s'My darling, meant to tell you it
is better you should know. And yet,
my jamie. love you so dearly that l
could wish the past away and you my
first love :"
"Oh, knew could not be that II
doesn't pain me bit TO think you cared
for somebody else. L knew it was so.
But please tell me-"
Il will" He hesitated still, bending
forward to smile into her earnest plead,
ing face. "When you have heard my
story, darling, you will know how
dearly love you; for am glad to have
lived through it all. You have not only
made my future bright one, sweetest.
| but it robs the past of its worst gloon
/ to look at it by your side. 1t is a long
/ story, jamie, and L will begin at tht
very beginning, that you may under
/ stand 1t ALL
1t seemed a difficult story to tell, fOl
he sat for three or four minutes in 81
lence, looking straight before him, hi:
dark handsome face very grave. There
was a strange feeling IN his mind thai
the past had come back again timt
slipped back eighteen years, and he wa!
again a penniless tutor. For once be
fore in the beautiful long-ago he had sa
on that same bench one summer after
noon. with the same trees waving x
and fro above, and a girl with sof
brown eyes-Janie's eyes-beside him
and they two had been all the world L
each other.
To break the spell, he took the littl'
hands lying loisely clasped on JAMIE z
holland dress and looked tenderly int
the childish downcast face blushing ros.
red under his eyes.
at was your aunt / loved, jamie
Look,'-and he pointed to two initials
carved on the oaken rail they lean
against. Ssh. W.'-Helen Wllmot
Everybody called her Nellie. You hav
heard of your aunt Nellie, darling Z"
"She died long ago. Her grave is il
the CDurCuydIu- =.
Eyes, long ago. 1t is a long tim
since-eighteen years-and yet 1t seem
but Yesterday. You are very like her
she had Just your eyes, so softly brown
1t was your dear eyes that struck m
on that first evening. You have he
very look"
"And you loved each other ?" aske
JANE gently.
"Yes. Midsummer madness 1t wa
indeed, and we suffered bitterly enough
You don't remember your GRANDPA
ther? 2"
.'Oh, nor'
"Of course not. Well, won't spea
evil of your ancestors but he was
hard man. Your father and had bee
friends at school and, when L left co
Iepe. I came down here to coach up hl
Younger brothers for the Civil Servlc
examinations. / had always dabble
in painting, and spent all my spare tim
in the woods studying trees. VINE
there was some talk of the only gu
coming home from school, Mr.. WllmC
asked me if 1 would give her lessons l
painting. OF course there was nothln
[ for me DuJ 10 COllocuL-iiO1 0h~e
relished the prospect, for you kno'
what YOUR uncles are like, jamie, an
they were the same then-handsom'
headstrong, brainless fellows, with 9
much idea of art as thoroughbre
greyhound and pictured their siste
: tbe same kind of creature. Your L
, tber was away with his regiment, an
the bows could tell me nothing aool
her. Their holidays had been at dl1e
/ ent times, and they scarcely knew ne ne
For the last six months she had Dee
stayipp with an aunt in London, al
:. now she was coming home for good.
, am dwelling on this part OF 1t becaul
, I want YOU to see how naturally ever
thing came about. There was no w
man in the house; your granumoth'
. had been dead for years, and Nellie w
|. tbe only girl. You can fancy now u
coming was talked of and looked I
and prepared for. At last she &c. cam m
II was Unexpectedly after all they hs
aarliar train than they e