Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-29

and 81 deciding. shS washed her face.
smoothed her silvering hair. set her cap
daintily on her head. and went down
stairs, where the luncheon was far more
CHEEKY than the dinner had been on the
previous evening.
And the DAYS passed On-life at the
Cottage seemed very bright 10 all but
its mistress. who could not reconcile
herself % the fact that she had been de-
ceiyed; not even though il gladdened
her heart TO hear Arthur laughing mer-
rily. as he sometime did Mt his cousins
sallies. or tO see him take an interest he
never took before in the farm and It's
workings
Agatha's pale. beautiful face would
come between the mother and the
change her presence seemed 10 have ef.
fected, aud Lady Best felt that she coult
never love Agatha. even though Arthur
whole happiness was centered in her.
But il she had lost a son she had
gained n daughter. for. approaching
Hannah merits a she did To the fullest.
she felt that she was each day learning
To love her more and more. Mann
times was il on her lips TO tell her how
grieved she was ut the direction Arthur
fancy seemed to have taken. but pride
held her back.
At last. almost before they could be.
Jieve in its approach, st. Partridge ar
rived, and with it letter from Mr..
Milton, saying he should be back In
less than n week, that he would take the
Cottage on his way. see his sister, and
escort his daughter home.
What tears and heart-burnings did
thfu Latter. ,,v.,Ipaaf LIa~Doh o,-s
IDENTIFY in despair at leaving the Cottage.
Arthur became as respondent as he was
two months ago; only Agatha seemed
To have no regret.
"Of course not, since she expects &c
stay here always, not with me, though.
She will not live here with me-" ragged
Lady Best to herself.
And in this mood Arthur found her
one morning when he sought her in the
little morning room she calk,l her dem
He broke the ice without any pre-.
liminary skating over it.
Mother. will it not be n pleasure &c
you if bring you a daughter TO vel
Gomez
"Oh, Arthur, if you only knew how
have dreaded this question:"
dreaded il, mother? / thought YOU
would be delighted.
"How could YOU? A penniless. lack.
adaisical, intriguing" the rest of heI
sentence was u sob, interrupted. how.
ever, by an exclamation from Arthur.
"Pcuniless-Han Why, her only
fault in my eyes is that she has money,
and my uncle may think"
Hannah? You don't mean to say il
is Hannah you love? Oh, you deaI
Arthur-my own boyr'
You did not think il was Agathai
/ Why. she has been engaged to my OLD
/ college chum. Laurence Wilmot, for the
last year. They had little breeze Just
before she came here, which | had the
pleasure of making up. | could not tell
you because the whole thing was q
secret on account of his uncle. The
old gentleman, however, has given ia.
and they are to be married very soon -
Lady Best soon forgot all her anxiety
and the unhappiness OF the last few
weeks in her present Joy; and of course
she promised to negotiate matters with
Mr.. Milton when he should arrive, and
she did SO most eifectually, for he
seemed as pleased as she was; and from
the day that the marriage was finally
settled she began TO unbend and find .
place for Agatha in her capacious heart,
showcring upon the girl in very graft.
tude for finding that her love for Arthur
was all mistake-many kindnesscs
and presents as she bestowed on her
well-belovcd Hannah.
And when. AT last, the two marriages
took place at Milton Hall on the same
day, the uninitiated would almost have
thought Lady Best was the mother OF
both the brides CaSScVS MagaziHe.