The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-10-17
MYSTERIOUS LOVE EPISODE.

MYSTERIOUS LOVE EPNODE.
"You mean, then, Trevor, that you
have the serious intention of marrying
this Miss Craigie?"
II don't think, Cousin Barbara, that
I ever mentioned the word marriage;
before 1 speak of such a thing 1 must
first discover if sweet Madge Craigie
loves me-"
Sweet Madge Craigie, indeed! Fan
cy calling her sweet! Commend me to a
man for being taken in by a pair OF
bright eyes and a silly giggle! No man
ever knew yet who was his truest friend
Miss Craigie isn't yours"
my dear cousin, you are prejudiced.
Madge has lived a great deal abroad,
and acquired manners which l will ac-
knowledge do not exactly resemble
those you are accustomed to see every
day; but she is none the less true and
loyal and womanly on that account,
while she il certainly ten times more
fascinating than most ofthe people n
meets
"Humphp growled Cousin Barbara.
Well, those who live the longest viii
see the most"
Then there was silence, Trevor Lane,
who was an artist, went ON with his
painting, and the middle-aged spinster
be called Cousin Barbara sewed her
white seam with much diligence as she
sat in the sunlight on "a old settle by
the window.
Cross-gained though Barbara was,
there was one being she loved with a
deep. feryent devotion, and that being
was Trevor Lane. And so she ought,
for he had been the kindest Of friends
TO her. Left at tba age Of fifty, without
q sixpence. Trevor Lane, who was only
her second cousin, had invited her to
come and live with him and manage
his house for him. This for the last five
years she had done right Conscientious
~, both as regards housekeeping and
the giving of such good advice as she
considered q young man required.
Trevor Lane accepted both services
with apparent gratitude, bearing the in
Fiction Of constant advice with so much
resignation, even cheerfulness, that he
proved himself to be a thoroughly good
tempered fellow.
The fact was he was truly sorry for
his cousin Barbara, who had, he con
sidered, been soured by bad treatment
il the past; and. though it was no fault
OF his, vet lie was resolved, if possible,
to make her life fair and happy in the
future. Hence every cross he answered
with q caress, every recommendation
that he should alter his ways with q
promise that he would be circumspect.
And so five years had dawdled on,
and the summer at Heathfield, about
ten miles from Londoa, where Trevor
Lanes studio and pretty home were sit
uated, came and went with but few in
cidents to disturb the current of the
cousins ways-till Madge Craigie came.
This was the evil day for which Cous-
In Barbara had never ceased to Look
the day on which Trevor Lane would
elect to devote to another some portion
Of the love she wished to appropriate
wholly to herself.
"Trevor was not yet thirty, how
could she expect ii to be otherwise ~
sha would ask herself, repeatedly.
Then she would shake her head and
mutter: IF ! could only like her; but
this Madge, this Eighty, silly Madge-
to marry my Trevorl All, mein Coue-
in Barbara failed utterly to recognize
that whoever the girl was ON whom
Trevor bestowed bis affection, she
would consider her objectionable and
~disp1easing.
For q long while there was no sound
heard IN the studio save the flies buz-
King on the window panes and the old
clock ticking on the mantei-shelf. Ire
yor himself at last broke the sienca.
"Madge is coming here this evening.
Cousin B~arbara-you will be civil To
her for NV sake will you not?"
Miss Barbara looked up suddenly and
saw the light of love III Trevor's flash
ing eyes, the glow Of deep passion Cd
his handsome face. and the sight Of Il
aeeemed to chill her heart 10 ice.
She answered coldly Miss CraiQie
wants no warm words from me-; since
yon can utter them so elibly Il Is enough
bpt for the Inst time 1 Haybeware.
HH~-&X# II 49, 1850 - A~a-LtA @ZIet-,