The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
HER DIAMONDS.

" AAS gNNS@
bit in love with each other" Lucy Bas-
sett said, reaching up to pull my wills
kers, and laying a coaxing cheek against
my shoulder. 1t would be very foolish
for You and me to fall in love with each
other, and we just wont-there!"
Lucy was a whole garden of roses
dew, color, fragrance and all. When
she looked at you, you felt as if your
whole heart was exhaling at your eyes;
and when she smiled upon you, it did
not matter what sort of thunder and
lightning there was in any other part of
the globe, it was distilled sunshine
! where YOU were. I don't know if Lucy
were pretty, brt she had a lot of pretty
| characteristics. She was all quality
like a golden wine that is better the
longer you keep it, and that gets a new
flavor every time you taste it a more
molten sparkle every time it drips over
the beaker's rim.
The beauty of her eyes was in their
expression; of her hair, in its bright
ness. Her face was a blossom, her
hands birds; and if the white wings of
her fingers futtered across your hori-
ION, you might as we'll be blind for all
seeing anything else but her. In short,
you see, 1 was in love with Lucy, if Lucy
was not in love with me; and it was
my private opinion that we were very
much in love with each other, in spite
of Mrs. Anstruther's parting admoni-
ton, that we were on no account to
commit so absurd q blunder.
Lucy and 1 were both orphans. Lucy
was own neice to Mrs. Anstruther,
whom she called Aunt Doria, and whose
prospective heriss she was supposed to
be, provided always she married to
please her.
l was nephew to Mrs. Anstruther's
husband, who was dead, and heir to
nothing but my wits-a rather slender
property, Lucy d~erisively assured me,
and scarcely likely to yield an income
equal to the probable demand of a pair
so ex~travagantly inclined as we.
$50 you see it would never, never do, +"
Lucy would say with a roguish pout of
her rosy lips at me, and Aunt Doria
needn't be one bit afraid, so far as I am
concerned.
Aunt Doria had been absent from the
Grove some three weeks now summoned
away by the illness of q friend, just as ]
had got myself comfortably bestowed
In her best chamber, with q dislocated
shoulder, which injury had been re-
ceiyed in a struggle with q refractory
steed which had tried to run away with
Miss Lucy.
Mrs. Anstruther was warranted In
consideringathe incident as dangerously
romantic In its tendencies, and she left
us together at the Grove with manifest
reluctance. She had, however, great
confidence In Lucy, and she gave her
distinctly to understand in my presence,
that if we two made such ninnies Oh
ourselves astosturn lovers while she was
gone, we should never see the color o.
her money, either of us.
Well, for some days for one, felt
like little else but grooming; and Their
gradually Ibecame conscious of a vel.
vet touch that swallowed pain, of q hov.
ering face that might have been an an
gels, of q voice deiiciously attuned
that chorused all sorts Of soothing and
coaxing speeches, with a dear"
was petted and babied and pitied to al
extent that I don't mind confessins
here. and it was the means of my pre-
tending sick q triAe longer than wa
really necessary; but ! don't thinl
many would have blamed me, under th4
circumstances. The consequences was
that I was only fairly establishes
down stairs again when Mrs. An
struther returned. She eyed Lucy an
ne very sharply, and we two bore tn
inspection with great occurrences till
CHANGING to encounter Chances, q spar
from Imcy's ROBUSTNESS jit on me, an
we went off into explosions Of laughter
that nearly took Mrs. Anstruther oil
her feet In amazement. However, sh
laughed, too, presently, and In th
same breath announced that compan
was coming to the Grove the foIlowin
week.
"Shall I CO., Mrs. Anstruther? p
asked. am sufficiently recovered
think"
Certainly not, " she answered, sharp
". Whatever mischief is done can
be made any worse by your staying
and it might be as we'll, besides, 70
n Iucv to have an O-pDOrtunfty for com