Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-03-25

thank you! Why, every single thing l
have owe to your
There is no owing between our
fathers children answered Agatha,
yielding herself to n shower of grateful
carcsses, $50 there's nothing to pay
back and 4 want no thanks; only
please keep this secret till am gone. -
It'll you ARE gone" echoed Leonie,
ruefully. 10, Agatha, to have YOU
kinder than ever, Just before you 90, is
dreadful! l hope you may be happy,
but shall be miserable! When that
horrible man comes, I'll try not to be
wicked, but-I-shall- dctest himr'
CHAPTER II.
When Mr.. Orde really did return,
then, Miss Leone accorded him a ieal-
ously-cool reception, vastly amusing to
those accustomed to her natural warm
hearted frankness; but. fully occupied
in attention TO his fiancee, the gentle
man appeared perfectly callous TO this
ungracious treatment. SO, perceiving,
to her amazemcnt, that shc was reced-
ing into the unusual position OF nom
entity, the younger Miss Temple was
piqued into becoming her old self, let
ting fall her droll mask of ceremony,
and slipping again INTO the old bright
ways that made her what Agatha called
''the sunshine of The Reeches" Hat
ing her SISTERS future husband was
unprofita BILE work; now, in q fit of re-
pentant amiability, she resolved to
please him.
by the time this happy transforms
| a. 4
back a month, and had discovered the
value of the prize he had come homo
to fetch.
Five years had changed the girl
friend he had left into a beautiful
woman, whom he WA bound to love,
not by promise only, but by keen ap.
probation of her worth, grown now
and ripened even as tho herself. And
for weeks his task seemed very easy,
while to Agatha, increasing knowledge
of her betrothed increased her happi-
ness. OF a surety, the co irsc of their
love promised to run smooth. Proud
Mrs. Orde's mir of digniiicd gratula-
tons over her sons excellent match
grew day by day; the village grew
deeply interested in the coming
wedding, and the bride elect began to
be busy exceedingly over plans for her
wide circle of humble friends we'll
doing while she should be away. Jest
ingly. Gcoffrey Orde would tell her he
grudgcd the time she spent in con-
fabulations with Aunt Helen over the
many trusts to be left in her or the
rector's hands, but the eager confidence
with which she would seek TO draw
HIM into her projects, and her delight
in his approval, disarmed him of any
passing chagrin and left him no shadow
of excuse for complaint
They were all of them certainly very
happy per iectly content. And yet
How a cloud rose on this fair sky, none
knew exactly. Those whom 1t over
Swallowed most acknowledged it last of
oil. For it was SO easy, so right of
Leonie to glide into treating her almost
brother with the free winsomeness that
kept her childish spite of nineteen
years. He was of necessity almost as
often her companion rs Agatha's. She
had been fond OF him long ago, aud -
was 1t not her duty to be fond of him
now? To what precise depths this duty
led her she didn't stop to measure,
until, alas! they were unfathomable.
And Godfrey ride, his word and
honor pledged 10 Agatha, felt himself
safe to bask, pleasantly amused, in the
animated presence OF her younger
sister, never finding out, till Mays
warm weeks were entered, and his
wedding fixed for tho first day of June,
that he was turning traitor to his troth;
that the charm Of Lconic's gay nature
was stronger than the sweet gravity OF
that to which he owed allegiance. But
not to himself would he allow this
possible ut first.
IL think" urged his mother, anxi-
ously, one night when they were leav-
ing The Ecechcs, III Go think, Geof-
frey, rs Agatha sings n, duets with
you, you would be wiser to sing fewer
with Leone"
"And WHY" said her son, shortly.
"Wcll, Agatha-may not ike it.
Other people may-at least, they do
notice IL"
agatha is entirely above any
wretched jealousy" said MIR. Orde, i'm
patiently.
"Still shoul,l tc sorry" his mother
vcntured on, ''that YOU should even
seem to slight your wife that will lie.
People might say you were marrying
for money, and Agatha doesn't deserve
that, Goeiircy."
"With or without money, she de
serves the best any human creature car
give her," returned Godfrey, warmly
"Don't fancy l underrate her, moth
err" And with that Mrs. Orde had Il
be satisfied, though the ambiguous
speech loft her disqnieted.
Still, he meant 10 bc-nay, he vowed
he would hc--loval. and sfrono In aelf