Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

ing no time 20 be answered; first hug
cling Philip TO her heart, and then push
ing him away. that she might the better
look at him and see how much he was
changed.
"You are changed ] am certain YOU
have grown ever so much bigger and
broader. and so brown. Oh, I am
proud Of you! Iwish you had been at
church with us ton ght. How every
one would have stared at youl Oh,
/ can hardly believe tit is too Joy
fulr'
Don't you think we are almost de
trop here, Mabelle?" at this moment
said Hermann. rs de TO her. He spoke
kindly. for he had not IN led 10 see her
look OF utter CONSERVATION, and even
fright, and Grace bed made him par
tally acquainted with the facts of the
case. 80 that he thought in his good
naturcd soul: Poor little thing.
Deuccd uncomfortable for her. and |
dare say she'd like To get out of it"
"Not you.' replied Mabelle. in n
rapid. distressed whisper; "but for me
Oh, Hermann. what am 10 do? Help
me TO get out of the wayl can not in
trude myself upon them again to-
night"
She thought she perceived chance
OF escape, and was going 10 slip by, be-
tween Grace and Mrs. Mas "; but
Grace. in the midst of her transports.
noticed this attempt at a flank move
nlent. and caught Mabelle by the hand.
Where are you going?" she cried.
"Come here! Phil p, this is Mabelle
Fairfax. don't expect you would have
known her. would you?"
With which she. as IL were. thrust
forward the terri fed Mabelle, who
looked mp with a Kind Of desperate cour-
age, and behcld Philip Massey. indeed,
but not the Philip Massey Of old days,
whom she had always liked. with feel
ing Of sisterly regard and sense OF
equality which had left mo- room for en-
barrassment. This Philip Massey was
quite different, and in contact with him
she felt herself sink into the mercst
child. He was so grave and sci con
tanned. so entirely n man, so utterly r.
moved from boyhOOd and bOyhOOd' !
lollies, that she was startled. lewildered.
Not day had IaSsed. since that fatal
morning three years ago, on which
Mabelle Lad not thought ot Philip and
the wrong her sister had done him, but
she had always thought oil him as some
thing quite different from this. She
could not imagine this man madly in
love with Angela. but there was some
thing i'm the air which made her think:
ut would be- dreadful TO be in his way
when he did not want Onel / could not
bear IL, and must Get away as soon as
! can. To think that Angela Tilted him
Tor MIR. Fordycc! Oh, dear"
Ali this had passed through her mind
rs il were in parenthesis, and now she
heard Philip aging:
This Mabelle Fairfax. Yes, |
should have recognized her anywhere.
He took her trembling. nerveless
hand, spoke two or three words, asked
her how she was. glanced with n sort
of amused surprise at her evident en-
barrassment, ut her blank face and
wide-Open eyes. and then. rs ii ne had
hardly seen her, turned TO Hermann
Berghaus with such hearty greeting.
thought Mabelle, who. in cliecting her
escape, did not fail To- see Philips hand
resting on Hermann shoulder. the pro-
longed han l-tla,p. the Familiarity affec-
tomato: We'll. old fellow, am right
glad we are To he brothers after all -
She saw Grace come close up to them.
and she stole away To her room with
uncomfortable tears running down her
face.
Il can never stay here; l can not
bear it." she said again, within herself.
:" can not bear him to look at me rs il
he did not sec me, and yet l can't ex-
pect him To look ut me in any other
way. for must be very disagreeable
spectacle for him."