Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-07-19

his shoulder in the dewy morning,
as he danced with a host OF pretty
girls in the evening, AS he tossed on
his sleepless bed.
/ "Halloa. old fellow, what's upy"
said his cheerful host, slapping him
on the back. I've got the prettiest
set of girls together; and, by Jove !!
there's not one of them you'll take
the trouble to firt WITH
Hugh smiled.
! II forgot to tell you that | am
engaged to be married.
"The deuce you are Who is it p"
my cousin, Miss Chesterfield"
with a suppressed Groan.
wish you luck BY George, the
most charming in creation !"
''Humph don't know about that.
/ was thinking of her face. Oh,
that | were a bachelor!n
"Oh, that I had married in my
cradle 20 muttered Hugh, sloping
off.
The next day, Capt. Fortescue
received letter from Lady Morn
ington, to say that all her guests had
left her except Miss Chesterfield,
and ifhe wished his engagement to
be considered as more than farce,
he must come at once to The Chase
to give his fancee an opportunity to
seeing whether she had given her
consent too hastily.
"Rather too serious for a farce"
said Hugh to himself, az he packed
up his things and started for the
south.
Lady Mornington received him in
her own boudoir, and gave him a
good scolding.
"I'm not at all sure that you are
not too late. Lord Frippington is
desperately iu love with her, and
rode over this morning to tell her SO.
They are now talking it over in the
garden"
"Then l had better not interrupt
them," subsiding into chair, with
an air of the utmost resignation.
GOOD Heavens !-are you mad ?
Get up and run of as fast as your
legs can take you. Five minutes
may make all the difference!n she
exclaimed, impatiently.
"Then l may as well stay where I
am. If she doesn't care for me, let
her have him, by all means"
"Hugh, I'll never speak to you
again! You've treated that poor
girl abominably."
"Oh, if You wish it, I'm off," and
with an exasperating want Of speed
he took himself slowly out of the
room.
There was glimmer of a white
dress in the shrubbery so he followed
it reluctantly, thinking of that other
night, when the moon was shining,
and he stole kiss from the lips of
his love. Yes, she was his love,
and when he married Marian. for
the sake of his honor, his heart
would be always Mays.
A man passed him walking fast,
with his hat drawn down over his
eyes.
Rejected! Lucky fellow" unused
Hugh. II wish / were in his shoes. -
| He moved aside the boughs of a
willow with an unwilling hand, then
sprang forward, for May was stand
ing before him, with bushes on her
cheeks, and happy light in her
eyes.
"Yov've come at last,n she said,
shyly, when her hands were in his,
and he, looking down into her face,
with indescribable longing and pain
Eyes, and / wish to Heaven /
hadn't. l ran away from temptation
only to find it again. May,you must
understand !" his agitation growing.
81 don't understand" the tears
rushing into her eyes, as she tried
TO snatch her hands away. "Why
did you come back, if you didn't
want to ?''
"They told me Marian was here,
and no one else.''
'If you mean Miss Wyndam, p
very coldly, ''she left fortnight
ago."
II am talking of Miss Chester
| field"
The blue ewes ODened wide.