Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-09-03
TOR THE LOVE OF HER.

She was radiantly beautiful, and she
knew her power SO well Throughout
all the Irish county where she lived
there was not woman, no matter
what her rank might De, 50 admired and
courted as lovely, mockIng, bewitching
Ada GaScOyne-
Only four years before. her father, a
retired naval officer, had come TO reside
III the garriSOn-tOwn of OldfairS in the
following summer he had been Joined
by Ada, then just eighteen, fresh from
"A Partisan hoarding-School. where She
had passed, she said. the greater part of
her previous life.
1t WAS a balmy June morning. and be-
for GOING in TO Join her father at
breakfast, Ada fingered in the garden
TO gather rose or two for the little
vase that always stood by his plate. Fa-
ther and daughter were full of pretty
little cOaXiDg ways to each other and
she came up the steps or the immature
terrace now. in her white morning-dreSs
with its pink ribbons, Eummlng a gay
tune, and looking as bright aud win
SOME as if about TO enter the presence
of lover.
Papa" she said through the open
window, without raisiug her head from
tile flowers. Il hope you don't forget
all the engagements we have for this
week. This is only Monday, you know,
and to-day We are TO go to the garden
party at Sir John Townley's; Io-mor-
row night there is to be dance at the
barracks; and on Wednesday there is
tie iye-O'clOck tea-feStival-whichy you
hate So much-at Mrs. DOoner's. Papa,
are You listening :"
Size had risen from her iioWer-gather-
ing, and, even as she spoke, entered
through the open glass door. 4 cry
broke iBvOluntarily from her lips, and
the roses and mlgnOnette fell unheeded
to the ground. Captain GascOyne was
lying back III his armchair. with closed
eyes aud a death-like palior over his
face. One hand was stretched cut be-
fore him on the breakfast-table, as If
uncOnsclOuSly, the long thin fingers
grasping an open letter. Yes, there 1t
ldy-the fatal sheet of note paper that
contained in its few lines so much of
terrible sicSening interest 1t had never
been intended TO meet her eyes but, IN
her CONSERVATION at finding her father
thus, she had approached close to his
chair, and he, III his temporary faint
less. never heard her.
He had kept the secret so long and so
carefully from his darling, knowing but
too well how it would crush her; and
there, in an unguarded moment, II was
all revealed 10 her-how cruelty The
handwriting was SO large, SO painfully
distinct. she could not mistake a sylla-
bic ora sentence; they burnt themselves
into her brain, and never in all her after
life could she forget them.
My darling child !"-and the old
man sprang to his feet.
Papa, IL is not truei 1t cannot be
true = she cried, in tones of bitter en-
treaty, so d fferent from the merry ac-
cents of a few minutes before. 'Say
it Is all lie! My mother alive until a
few years ago, and-that !''-and she
pointed with shudder to the letter,
which he still held.
My poor Ada -
He felt he could have undergone any
thing rather than see her with such a
look OF hopeless misery and shame. For
twenty Years he had borne his disgrace
alOne-aye, and her share of it too. A
breath of 1t he had never meant to
touch her. He had registered VOW to
that effect on the dark day, SO long gone
by, when he first learned his wlfe's
guilt.
I've can bear it together, papa, she
whispered. Tell it all to me to-day
nOw-and then let us never speak of it
, afterwards, even to each other.
Yes, as you know something, it is
best YOU should hear it all. But this
chaplain's letter was not the only one
this morning. There was another
where is itf 1t was from young Town
ley. All, my darling, there is much
brightness for you in life, in spite of
this, [ hope"
This letter intended giving you to
lead after You had had your breakfast, +"
sald Captain Gascoyne, with a melan-
eholy effort at playfulness, ''as could
not answer it without consulting you
and hearing what reply | was to give. "
But she pushed the proffered note
from her with shudder, and hid her
-N'NS ft--eAAAA7S AAo oAlOuihCl lOfCl /.
her hlgi-bOTn honorable lover, heir to
one of the Oldest barenetcles in the
South Of Ireland, so proud, so sought
after, whose attentions to Captain Gas
coyne's daughter had already provoked
much diSfavOr IN his own aristocratic
set" whose naughty mother had only
lately deigned TO smile and accept her
sons choice.
Il Will not read il now," she said.
ANY time before post-time will do, l
suppose :"
He 0egs US both to give him his an
sWer this afternoon at the garden-pa; ty;
50 you must decide soon, my child. You
90 not appear much surprised, or very
curious as to the subject he writes about.
Well, to say the truth, it was no sur
prise 10 me either-only what expect
ed; and, if have to part with my pet,
am glad 1t will be to a man who loves
her and who is SO honorable and re-
spected as Reginald Townley."
Papa, please don't ~ She put up
her hand as If to stop him, with half
suppressed sob. "You forget what a
Change this-this news must make /;
and he must be told. l will never marry
any one unless he know all, unless he DE
aS anxious as ever that l should
marry him in spite of it,"
Then, my darling, have done you
wrong by not letting you know the
truth always, by allowing You to hold
fa.se position? But l did it for the
oeSt; and she wished it too, your poor
foolish mother. Yot must learn to
lhlnk OF her forgivingly, now you know
Oh heI sin
Hush Don't sneak of her vet