Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-12-10
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"Indeed, Master Harry And who
gave you the right TO lock after me,
should like to know 2" she answered
laughingly.
'Some person towhom you once gave
the right yourself, Esme"
what do you mean p' she asked,
coloring.
Before he went away he told me 10
take care OF you, and that you were to
be my charge"
And pray who may he he ? There
are great many he's i'll the world,
believe"
"YOu know quite well whom mean.
ESme, mean Bob; and l wish 10
goodness one or the other of you would
have the sense to speak out, and not
make fellows life burthen TO him. "
MY poor Harry, am | really making
your life burthen To youp | am 50
sorry but | do not understand what
you mean by speaking out"
Ii struck me that the time was come
when by speaking out might do some
good, and l determined 10 hold my
peace no longer.
w IA gct 10 "AAi LII ~ l. easnfA
you what | am afraid YOU will think 4
very impertinent question z"
NO, Harry you know | sha'n't. y
''Then whom were you talking to in
the summer-hOuse three days before
Bob went l''
Il cannot tell you"
"Well, Esme, Bob knows, or he
thinks he does, and he is jealous; and
that is why he went away. Aud would
give anything in the world to be able IA
prove to him that it was a mistake, and
10 have HIM back again.
And he dared-Bob dared TO play
the spy on me, and TO watch my actions!
Then | am glad he saw what he did
and | hope he is As miserable rs he de-
serves to be; and am glad he is gone
away, and hope he may never come
back again ~
The big brown eyes were blazing with
anger and the sunny hair lay tossed all
about her flushed face. | could not
help stopping TO think "What 4 little
beauty you are ~ even before | began
BOb's defence.
ale didn't play the spy on you, and
he didn't watch you and do not be
lieve one bit that you are glad he is un-
happy, even though you are i'll love
with Rue, rs / suppose, if those are
your sentiments, you must be-"
IN love with Rue What do you
mean, child ?''
II am not child any more than you
are. Why do you meet Rue and talk
. I.s III Ls,-,-.lf
about him, if you are not i'll love with
him. We could not help seeing you
on that day in the summer-house, for
the boat ran right up against it but
you were both much too busy TO take
any notice of us. Indeed, now that
think of it, he made me promise never
TO say word of our having seen you
together on that day.
The anger had all gone out of her
face now, and she Was looking sadly
iatc the fire.
''Poor Bobi So he thought 4 was IN
love with Rue, and went away to leave
the field clear for him 1t is a pity So
much generosity should have been mis-
placed"
had said my say, and l did not in
tend adding any more SO l held my
peace. After a while, EsIne held out
her hand to me.
''IIarry, You and have always been
friends, and do not want you TO think
me worse than | am. DO you know
that, before Rue got into d. grace with
your father, he was engaged 10 Cicely
Trench 7 No? Well, neither did /,
until poor Cicely came To me i'll an
agony Of grief one day at a fete. OF
course it was very wrong of them to
have kept the engagement secret, even
though Ruthven will not have anything
to marry OH for the next year or 50; but
i promised To do my utmost towards
making peace between him and my un-
Gle. First however | had To find out
what Rue's offence was; and he was
the correspondent whose letters ! used
to walk over to GreSsbrook to receive
last summer; and the substance of
them was that he had got TO debt i'll
some very foolish manner. Ii had come
To your fathers ears even before Ruth
ven applied To him for ASST tance; and
he was of course jnstly annoyed"
'But surely he did not turn Rue out
for getting into debt ?''
mo; he wrote and told him to come
down here anu when Rue arrived on
that day he heard all he had to say, and
told him that he had arranged for the
payment of his debts Rue was de-
lighted, as you may imagine, when your
father stopped him just as he was be-
ginning to pour out his thanks, and told
him that 1t was not for Rue's sake, but
for his own honor that he had cleared
him and then lie accused him of hay
ing forged a bill in his name.
"And what did Rue say? 2"
''He was SO mad with pride and pas
sion that he actually said nothing at
all, but got up and walked out of the
room; his father stopped hiIA to ask if
he had anything TO say in his defence
and Rue would not speak word so he
took his silence for a confession of guilt,
and told him on the spot that he was
disinherited."
81 declare l hardly know whether
Rue or Bob has the least sense-I never
saw such pair in my life ~ | said.
"Well, Harry, don't you want to
hear the end? Your father has found
out somehow or other that he made u
mistake in the matter of the forgery,
and is longing to forgive Rue. Rue
has found out his mistake also, and Is
dying for your fathers forgiveness.
And now, rs it has got so cold and late,
l think if you will undertake my com
mission for me, | shall he glad to stay
in the house this afternoon"
''Of course | will, Esme: but first
let Inc write and tell Bob that it was all
mistake, and that he can come home
again rs soon as he likes"
Indeed shall not he chose TO 90
to London without seeing me or asking
any explanation, and no word of mine
shall ever bring him back. Remember,
Harry, if you write him a syllable of
what | have told you to-day, l shall
never forgive you"
Well, the end of it was that Esme
went to my fathers study, and went
down to the lodge, where Rue was
waiting and presently Ruthyen came
up to the house, and Esme took him,
without word, into the study. l heard