The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-05-13
and should have filled Guy with the live
liest DELIGHT

leSt OeugnC.
But they did not, f,r within the past
fortnight events have happened that had
made an entire change in the destiny of
the man who read the sweet innocent
avowal of reciprocal affection.
For one day legal communication had
come to him informing him of the death
of distant relative, who had left to him
the half of his large fortune upon one
condition-that he wUuld ask the hand
In marriage of young lady-the tesla
tors niece-whom such q union would
make co-heiress with himself In case the
specified marriage should not take place,
the entire property was to revert to the
latter
The deceased had been an entire stran.
ger to Guy, and his surprise was great as
he perused the lawyers letter. Beyond
all other qualities in Guy Hartington's
character, ambition had always held the
foremost place.
His mother had married a poor man
against her family's wi.hes, and had been
cast off by them, and ,shus it had been
only after hard strugr,e with adverse
circumstances that Gay had gained his
present foothold upon f,rtune's ladder.
But what of the love that had created
itself an abiding place in his heart
Should he drive it forth and sell his affec-
tions and every honorable instinct for the
sake of gold?
The conflict between greed and con-
science is sharp; but it is brief, and the
former conquers, and letter goes forth
to Daisy that crushes for time all the
sweet hopes that have made a garden
within her breast.
But after while her bright head raises
itself bravely once more, and feeling of
intense thankfulness blends itself with
the regret with which she thinks of the
dear adopted uncle, who had been the
benefcent genius of her life, and even in
dying had rendered her an inestimable
service
When she had spoken to him OF Guy,
their romantic meeting and subsequent
friendship, and of his attentions and evil
dent regard for her, she had learned with
surprise that he and her adopted uncle
were related
Soon after, feeling dissolution near, and
wishing to try Guys disinterestedness of
purpose and nobility of character, the old
gentleman had made his eccentric will
A week later Guy starts for England to
visit, for the first time, his late relatives
home and his own prospective inheritance,
and to make the acquaintance of the
young lady who already figures in his
mind as the future Mrs. Guy Harrington
His destination reached, his eyes dilate
as they take in the extent an magnif-
cence Of his late cousins stately home.
A pompous butler leads him through
the wide tiled hall to the drawing room
A lady rises as he enters.
For once in his life Guy Hartington's
sef-possession deserts him, and well it
may, for in the graceful form and sweet
face Of the beautiful girl before him,
tily. he recognizes Daisy Weston!
She meets him calmly 1t is Guy, upon
whose crimsoned fece chagrin and en-
barrassment sit plainly visible.
His punishment for his mercenary spirit
has truly been swift, and Guy is only too
glad to escape as soon as he can the
scornful glance of those lovely candid
eyes, without the slightest attempt at ex-
tenuation.
But if be expects to find sympathizer
in his friend, Harold North, he reckons
wrongly.
"You say fortune has played you
scurvy trick? l say she has served you
right" he exclaims. "You threw away
prize to gain one Of her glittering bub-
bles, and 10 it melted into thin air.'
"Keep your moralizing," says Guy, i'm
patiently.
q no yUn MOI rf
pany.
1t is four years before Guy again leaves
his native soil. He has changed since we
last saw him, both outwardly and in
wardly.
Once more he is in England; in Lon
don, it's queen city. One day in an art
gallery, whittier he has gone to while
away the time, he overhears the follow
ing
Have you seen the picture every one
is raving about by the new American ar
tist ?" some one near him asked another.
"No; where is it %
"There, where the crowd is. 1t is
portrait of his young wife. | can assure
yuu she is a queen of beauty and grace
Come and see it,"
His curiosity aroused, Guy followed in
their wake, to find himself before the
painted semblance of the one being whose
loveliness has been so indelibly impressed
upon his mind and heart that no endeavor
has ever sufficed to drive away it's haunt
ing memory.
1t is Daisy herself, purely fair and beau
tiful, and attired in her lace-draped satin
robes of bride. All, yes, some one said
this was picture of the artists young
wife, Who is the fortunate young man
who has won what he, to his eternal re-
gret, has lost.
STOPPING, Guy Harrington reads in
tiny characters upon one corner of the
canvas the name, Harold North"
COULD CRAVE. ALL OVER 1T.
Eyes, yes. you've got a handsomely