Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-27

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been folded up and put away, like Gar
ments out OF season, in drawers and
| trunks, with camphor and lavender.
They were Rot, as a general thing, for
| Southern wear, however indispensable to
comfort in the climate Of New England,
where poor Mildred had lost her health.
Kate Theory ever since this event, had
lived for her companion, and it was al
most an Inconvenience for her to think
that she was attractive to Capt. Ren-
I yOn. 1t was as if she had shut
up her house and was not in position &c
/ entertain. So long as Mildred should lire
her own life was suspended; If there
should be any time afterwards, perhaps
/ she would take i up again; but for the
/ present, in answer to any knock at her
/ door, she could only call down from one
/ OF her dusty windows that she was not at
I home. Was it really in these terms she
/ should have to dismiss Capt. BenyOns II
/ Mildred said it was for her he came she
must perhaps take upon herself such a
| duty; for, as we have seen, Mildred knew
/ everything, and she must therefore be
/ right. She knew about the statues in the
/ Museum, about the excavations at Pom
/ peil, about the antique splendOr of Magma
! Grecla. She always had some
! instructive volume on the table beside
J her sofa, and she had strength enough to
hold the book for half an hour at time.
/ That was about the only strength she had
4 now. The Neapolitan winters had been
remarkably soft, but after the first month
or two she had been obliged to give up her
| little walks in the garden. Itlay beneath
her window like single enormous bou-
qNet, as early as May that year the flow
ere were so dense. None Of them, how
ever, had color so intense as the splen-
didblue of the bay, which filed up all the
rest Of the view. 1t would have looked
painted, if you had not beer able to see
the liGtle movement of the WAKES, Mildred
/ Theory watched them by the hour, and the
breathing crest of the volcano, on the 9TH
er side Of Naples, and the great sea vision
OF capri on the horizon, changing its tint
while her eyes rested there, ard won
dered what would become of her sister af-
ter she was gone. Now that PerciYal was
married-hel was their only brother, and
from one day to the other was to come
down to Naples to show them his new
vie, as yet complete stranger, or re-
Yealed only in Che few letters she had
written them during her wedding tour
now that PerciyaI was to be quite taken
up, poor Rates situation would be much
more grave. Mildred felt that she should
be able TO judge better, after she should
have seen her sister~in-law, how much
Of home Kate might expect to find with
the pair; but even if Agnes should prove
letters, it was wretched pros
pect for Kate-this living as
mere appendage to happier people. Maiden
aunts were very well, but being maiden
aunt was only a last resource, and Rates
first resources had not even been tried.
Meanwhile the latter young lady won
dered as Well-WOndered in what book
Mildred had read that Capt. Benyon was
in love with her. She admired him, she
thought, but he didn't seem a man that
would fall in love with one like that. She
could see that he was on his guard; he
wouldn't throw himself away. He thought
too much of himself, or at any rate he
took too good care of himself-in the
manner of a man to whom something had
happened which had given him lesson.
OF course, what had happened was that
his heart was buried somewhere-in some
woman's grave; he had loved some beau
titul girl-mueh more beautiful, Kate was
sure, than she, who thought herself small
and Oakland the maiden had died, and
his capScity to love had died with her.
He loved her Soemory-that was the only
thing he would care for now. He was
quiet, gentle, clever, humorous, and very
kind in his manner; but i any one saws
Mildred had said 10 her that if he came
three times a week to Posillipo, it was for
anything but to pass his time he had told
them he didn't know another soul in Ma
pies J, she would have felt that this was
so idiotic-that people always
thought it necessary to say. 1t
was very easy for him to come;
he had the big ships boat, with moth
ing else to do; and what could be more
delightful than to be rowed across the
bay, under a bright awning, by four
brown sailors with Louisiana" in blue
Ia Chi
and in gilt letters on their fiuttering hat
ribbons? The boat came to the steps of
the garden of the pension, where the
orange trees hung over and made vague
yellow balls shine back out of the water.
Kate Theory knew all about that, for
Capt. Benyon had persuaded her to take
turn in the boat, and if they had only had
another lady to go with them, he
could have conveyed her to the ship, and
shown her all over it. 1t looked beautiful,
Just a little way off, with the Amerl- |
can flag hanging loose in the Italian air.
They would have another Lady When
Agnes should arrives then Percival would
remain with Mildred while they took this
excursion. Mildred had stayed alone the
day she went in the boat; she had insisted
on it, and, of course, it was really Mildred
who had persuaded her; though now that
Kate came to think of it Capt. Benyon
had, in his quiet, waiting wayne turned
out to be waiting long after you thought
he had let thing pass-said a good deal
about the pleasure it would give him. Of
course, everything would give pleasure to
a man who was so bored. He was keep
ing the louisiana" at Naples, week
after week, simply because these were
the COmmodore's orders. There was
no work to be done there, and his
time was on his hands; but of course
A. bOh aH fo q
tinople with the two other ships, had to be
obeyed to the letter, however mysterious
his motives. 1t made no difference that
he was a fantastic, grumblIng, arbitrary
old Commodore; only good while after |
ward it occurred to Kate Theory that, for
a reserved, cOrrectman, Capt. BenyOn had |
given her a considerable proof of conf |
dence, in speaking to her in these terms of |
his superior officer. If he looked at all |
rot when he arrived at the pension, she !
l 4 him a glass of cold "orangeade." |
. L.31 Ought this an unpleasant drink |
4hliOl Gu 1 ~ - messy, but Kate adored it,
Isl So oStie Renyon always accepted it.
an iTI,o dov sneak of. to change the sub
;act sSs nalIed hGr sisters attention 4" !
rne extraordinary sharpness of a zigzag- |
cling cloud shadow on the tinted slope oil
Vesuyius, but Mildred remarked in answer |
only that she wished her sister would
marry the Captain. 1t was in this Ia
miliar way that constant meditation LED
Miss Theory to speak of him; it shows
how constantly she thought of him, for, IN
general, no one was more ceremonlous
than she, and the failure of her health
had not caused her to relax any form that
it was possible to keep up. There was
kind of slim erectness, even in the way
she Law on her sofa; and she always re-
ceiyed the doctor as if he were calling for
the first time.
81 had better wait till he asks me-
Kate Theory SAID. Dear Milly, II Were
to "a some of the things you Wish me %
do I should shock you very mucn'
II wish he would marry you, then. You
know there is very little time if wish to
see it,
"You will never see it, Mildred. Idon't
see why YOU should take so for granted
that / would accept him."
EsYou will never meet man who mas 50
few disagreeable qualities. He is prob
ably not very well off. don't know
what is the pay of a Captain IN the
navy"
ssIrs a relief to find there is something
YOU don't know Kate Theory broke in.
sBut when am gone," her sister went
on calmly, sswhen / am gone there VIII De
vIa,,tv for both of VOu.D