Smyrna times., 1884-04-30

after her. "Poor Miss Broadlands,"
others murmured as she passed; never |
"pretty Miss Broadlands." There was
no longer such a person as pretty MISS
Broadlands. She sat down on rustic
seat in a secluded part of the park,
and reflected upon the fact. Nurses
with children in tow passed and re-
passed, the swans swan llZlly ABOUT
the pond, the swallows dipped low for
insects, the sunset burned brightly in
the west; now and then a pair OF
lovers sauntered by. and she shivered.
Was it not her own fault, after all,
that she was no longer pretty Miss
Broadlands? Had she not taken her
fortune in her own hands? Had she
any right to play the part she had
chosen, even in a good cause? And
was this the punishment? Had she
lost everything but what she had pre-
tended to lose? Just then a shadow
fell across her path, and Constant
Stanley asked
May sit here with you for little
whileP'
"Yes," she answered, and she lifted
the heavy folds of her veil and con-
frOnted him. "You will not care to
sit long. You will never make my
smile, my glance, my bloom immortal
on your canvas. You would not care
to paint Inc through the icons now.
Do you remember the night you told
me was more beautiful than ever"
~ remember" he cried. "Shall
change my allegiance because fortune
changes her side?"
"YOu can't help it, don't blame
you. You love beauty"
81 love you dearly" and he kissed
the scarlet cheek.
Miss BrOadlands had found her true
lover at last-a lover who valued
neither wealth or beauty, and whom
she had tested more heriocally than
she had meant to do. Had fate taken
the affair out of her hands?
"a thousand congratulations, my
dear Stanley" said Mr. StanhOpe one
day, meeting the artist, "Ah, you are
doing a fine thing for yourself, my boy
Hist, not wOrd-I'll tell you a secret
You fancy you are marrying a beggar
Ell? Nothing of the kind. On YOU
wedding day | shall transfer Mis-.
BrOadlands' fortune into your hands
intact 1t is all a ruse, this poverty o
|
No. You've taken it all for granted
and it's frightened her lovers away
YOu-you've stood the test.
mo jokes, Stanhope," gasped Con
slant.
Jokes! This is a solemn truth
thank your starSm
AS for Stanley, he felt as if col,
,, wind had blown them apart. TIL
woman whom he believed all trutl
=. and sincerity practicing a deep lai
scheme of deception! Since neithe
her beauty nor her money had wo
! him, what was it he loved but the loft
, ness Of her nature, and was there an
nobility in playing part, even to ties
, n lover? This was not the wOma
;. with whom he could spend happ
: lifetime in glad confidence; this wa
not the woman he had loved. And S
, it happened that he left only a fe'
! lines of explanation for Miss BroaC
lands when he set out for the ends
the earth alone.
:, AS for Miss Broadlands she returne
J, to the old homestead again. She hG
4 recovered her money" people salt
Il "but she will never be pretty Mii
Broadlands again" 1t was years afte
ward that the picture Of Delilah,"
an unknown artist, made a great st
in fashionable art circles. Miss BroaC
> lands went to see it among other
- There was the perfect smile, the liqui
|, eyes, the flower-like bloom, the e.
y quisite features immortalized.
y He remembers, after ALL" 81
= thought. "He remembers"
y y Nobody else remarked that it was
:, portrait of pretty Miss Broadlands.