The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-12-11

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almost wish he may not get it! Shall L
20 straight on and not wait for it? No!
hat would look too foolish.
While she was still discussing the diff
iculties of her position, the young gen.
rleman returned. flushed and painting
with his exertions, and restored her the
sunshade and her missing leaves.
He would have offered to carry them
for her. but to his astonishment, she
.ook them from him without even a
mile, and the stiffest possible "thank
gour'
She turned her back on him, and
walked rapidly away.
What queer girl! Her manners
certainly does not match her looks, ;"
thought the young man. who was no
other than our goodnatured friend
Edwin Holland. He had been struck
with such a keen sense of admiration
for Miss Katie, that her abrupt manner
of receiving his little service considera-
bly disconnected him.
Next evening he was walking on the
Pier when he saw her again, walking
with an older lady. He would have
passed on without the slightest sign
that he recognized her, but Mrs. Gray
stopped him, and said, courteously:
Il must thank you very sincerely for
the service you rendered my niece, yes
terday. 1t was extremely kind of you
to take so much trouble"
.tOh, pray don't! 1t was nothing
nothing at all, =" answered Edwin, con-
fused at the unexpected meeting, and
feeling, with much veXation, that the
capacity for intelligent conversation
had deserted him.
The ladies bowed (Kate with pretty
smile that made her look prettier than
aver) and passed on their way.
From that day Edwin haunted them
like a shadow: he was madly in love
with Kate, but could find no opportuni
ty to make her acquaintance.
Sometimes he wished that she would
fall into the sea, that he might plunge
IN and pull her out, or that a terrible
storm would come on and frighten her,
so that she would gladly accept his pro-
lection. But nothing of the kind hap
pened. Things went on in provoke
ingly even and matter-of-fact way,
while his holiday was swiftly expiring,
and he knew that he would leave his
heart behind him when he left Swans
combe.
And Kate? All! proudly as she had
kept to her resolve, she could not help
feeling a strange interest in the hand
some young fellow with the good, earn
est face, who seemed instinctively to
know where she would be. vet whose
gentlemanly instincts kept him from
the slightest intrusion.
Mrs. Gray watched the affair with Sc
cTet amusement; she wanted to see her
pretty niece marry well, and she had
ascertained that this young monster" "
who had thus appeared on Kate's very
first walk alone, was the junior partner
in a well-know London firm; if, there
fore he had taken more than a passing
<ancy to her neice, it would be capital
thing for the girl.
On the very last lay of his stay at
Swanscombe, feeling desperate, Edwin
called on Mrs. Gray, though he turned
hot and cold as he stood on the steps,
and felt relief he could hardly analyze
when he. saw that the lady was alone in
the drawingroOm.
He went away triumphant and victo-
riOus, and returned to town with face
so bright and manner 50 CHEEKY, that
his aunts were forced to confess that
the air at Swanscombe had evidently
agreed with him.
Mrs. Gray said not a word to her
niece of her admirers visit, and she
saw with satisfaction that Katie missed
him when they went out, and that she
did not now show so much anxiety to
go out by herself.
The autumn was over, winter had set
in. and Katie was at homo again.
''Have another plate laid this even
ing, my dear; have invited young
friend to dine here" said Mr.. Leigh to
his wife as he went out one morning.
There was a small dinner-party at
the Leighs that evening, and Katie was
in the drawing-room, trying to enliven
her friends in That trying time just be-
fore dinner is announced when her
father entered with the new guest.
katie, my dear, this is Mr.. Holland;
I'll leave you to amuse him for awhile. ="
Mr.. Leigh turned to his other guests,
and Katie looked up with a pleasant
smile to behold her unknown cavalier of
Swanscombe.
1t was Katie who was tongue tied
and stupid now with astoniShment; but
it did not matter, as Edwin found plen-
ty to say. and talked away as if they
were old friends. to the great indigna-
ton of two of Katie's other admirers,
who We're ready to knock him down
when Mrs. Leigh asked him with much
sweetness (having heard from her hus-
band of his unmistakably good position)
to take Katie down to dinner.
That was very happy evening, and
was followed by many another like it.
Soon after Edwin wrote a glowing
letter to Mrs. Gray informing her of
his engagement to Katie and his per-
feet happiness.
When they We're married in the au-
tumn, his aunts were obliged to confess
that his bride was not one of the paint
ed creatures who alone, existed in their
imaginations, as denizens of the sea-
side.
But Mrs. Gray often laughs when
Edwin and Katie visit her, and tells
him that. after all her mothers warn
ings, it was very sad that the naughty
girl should have found monster and
insisted on making pet of him.