Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-09-26

considered bOylSh Impulse was
deep and lasting affectien."
"Oh, he would have fallen in low.
with any girl who lived next door,
Emily said. lilo has forgotten al
that by this time"
II am sure be has not forgotten
you Will see; YOU will have to con
TESS that you mi4judged him.
For a few days Mrs. Trelon was
the happiest Of women, but one at
ternoon she saw Emily drive past
with DR.. Murray, and the sight
alarmed her. DR.. Murray was the
friend of all the Raynor family; he
went to the house constantly to see
Mrs. Raynor, who was an invalid
but it bad not been his custom te
drive Emily out: Could it be posi-
5bles that there were grounds foI
Z Dicks suspicion 9 had heard
lin Paris that Dr.. M urra was g
ssuitor for Emily sshantl: while slls
mother LIVING next door had seen
nothing, had heard nothing. She
was suddenly filed with misgivinss
and when she a second time saw
Emily seated beside DR.. Murray i'll
his trim carriage, she resolved to
learn the truth. Accordingly one
evening she took Dicks letter and
went to the Raynor's, where she
found Emily OH the veranda with
the obnoxious, clever, socie5y-hating
little doctor. Ho was not so very
little, but he was stout, and middle
aged, and bald-not to be conpar-
ed to a tall, slim man like Dick.
He went away presently, and Mrs.
Trelon, after trying in vain to fnd
out what she wanted to know with
out asking a direct question, finally
showed Emily the postscript to
Dicks letter. My dear, what
shall I tell hin7" she said
81 have been engaged to DR.. Muir
ray just week." Emily answered,
with perfect composure.
Mrs. Trelon WAS stunned. She
sat silent Ior a long time, holding
the letter in her ncrveless fingers.
"Just a week." she repeated at
last. "Then it was before you knew
Dick was coming homei-If you had
known"
at would have made no differ
ence," said Emily, with " soft laugh.
"Dear Mrs. Trelon, am very sure
Dick has forgotten his boyish love
affair. He asks aboutme ofcourse,
for l believe he will always have
the same warm affection for me
that | shall always have for him.
But he will not break his heart be-
cause Allen Murray is to marry mo.
No, no. He will wish me happiness
and laugh at the amatory episode
OF his yonth."
"He will not laugh" said Mrs.
Trelon, piteously. "Oh, Emily how
could you?"
CHOW could I fall in love with
Allen7s Because. he is the best and
noblest and dearest man in the
world, 1 suppose. Does anybody
know any better reason for falling
in love9u And she laughed again,
softly; but Mrs, Trelon looked verJ
disconsolate, and was not to be
comlorted.
"My poor Dick" she murmured.
Mrs. Trelon wondered how she
should break the news to her sou.
Would he ask her about Emily
forthwith or would he learn the
truth from Enily's own lips? She
had not answered this question to
her own satisfaction, she had not
laid out a plan Of conduct, when a
telegram came from Dick. He WAS
in New York; he would be home
that evening. Then minor consitl-
erations were swallowed up in the
great thought Of dinner for him.
At last, dressed in a shimmery
gray silk, Mrs. Trelon sat in the
drawing-room, and awaited her sons
coming in sort of stony despair
The carriage wheels crunched on
the gravel, cherry voice sang out
"AIl right" the hall door opened,
and then Mrs. Trelon was clasped
in Dicks arms. She sobbed help
lessly. and she smiled tenderly as
he rebukel her for the weakness
that made him love her the better
He had a thick mustache now, and
there was all authoritative air about
him; he was a boy no longer.
'You have not grown a day old
er," lie said as he drew his mothers
hand through his arm and led hel
to the dining-room. "This is the
place for people who want to keel
young passed Emily Raynor az
| drove from the station and
why, what is 1t, mother?"
Nothing, Richard, And how
did Emily look at you7"
GAS young and sweet as she did
when | fell in love with her twenty
years ago."
Mrs. Trelon stl6ed a sigh. EFYou
were always fond of Emily"
"And 1 always shall be-" Dick
SAID, "although Thought she treat
ed me badly once; bnt she was
wiser than |, after all. 1t was quite
right of her to test the love OIL
twenty-three. I shall tell her that;
I shall endeavor to show my graft
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