Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-01


an orphan, her own mistress Altogether
Her heart was vet white. unwritter
sheet, and the first who made love II he,
was very likely to win IL. Vague lone.
ings for that peculiar tenderness which
only lover can offer already possessed
her soul, and she was just the sort Of q
little woman to forget her own advan-
tages and feel very grateful for love and
admiration. The doctor was tall and
fne looking, and she caught herself
Dlushing as she looked into the glass
after his departure, and thought what q
soft look had come into his eyes as be
Hoped they should meet again. =
Meanwhile Marcus Moreland had been
thinking about hermore than she guessed,
and that evening there was another in
PRODUCTION.
Marcus did not make big eyes at her,
nor try to show his superiority to his
neighbors, neither had he any gold
watch to consult. He was younger than
the doctor by ten years, and very much
Of boy still, and the rising moon found
May, her little cousin Tom and Marcus
all sitting together on the lower step of
the porch, talking of blackberrying, as
three children might.
The heiress wore linen dress and
knot of blue ribbon in her hair. Marcus
forgot she was an heiress. It was only
dear little girl, just the incest creature
he ever met, who looked at him so
frankly with her blue yes-real blue
eyes, not blue gray. He went home in
the first stages of love, and sat at the
window looking at the moon, thinking
of her nearly all the night.
May had never had anything like a
beau in her life. Shut up with an In
valid uncle in great city home that was
like q prison-seeing no one but the
doctor and nurse, and now and then
some old gentleman whom her uncle was
persuaded to admit on the score of old
friendship-she had no idea that she
might be belle.
Life was all new to her. Even her
cousin was a new-found relative who
had taken a notion to her. when the
friends gathered at the old mans funeral.
People who had never remembered
little May until the news of her heir
esship brought her to their notice had
been so very kind since. The liberty
she enjoyed made the quiet country
house very happy place; and now two
admirers dawned upon her horizon at
once, and made life perfectly splendidn
to May, much as the situation would
have bored many an experienced belle.
Matters naturally assumed this form as
the time passed on. May had two lovers,
and hardly knew which she liked best
Marcus did not make love-he did not
dare-but he looked it. The doctor
made love scientifically: he had pumped
the farmer, who believed that the young
lady's fortune was something more than
common" He had even extracted from
the married cousin statement that
father had left everything to May
He had three months to work in be-
fore the heiress knew her own powers,
and had learned from one gay winter
that lovers follow money thick and fast,
and he was determined sort of fellow
where there was anything to gain.
Marcus had no plans. His boys heart
ran away with him--that was all. He
could not keep away from Mays side,
nor forget her when they were apart and
so summer passed and autumn APP
preached, and the city folks were going
home, and the district school was to be
opened, and Cousin Helen's husband,
hard driven Wall street man, came down
to spend week before he took his
family home; and all this delightful time
was nearly at an end.
Marcus was to be examined for his
position as teacher of the school, mere
form, with his fine education.
The doctor, as learned gentleman,
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coming school ma'am for the girls de-
partment.
"a pleasanter task, = as he said, jest
ingly, elf he expected to see anybody
there but old Miss Cynthia Alderny and
older Miss Baker"
May heard good deal Of the school,
especially as Farmer Parsons was another
of the committee, and she felt an interest
in it, too, as Marcus was to teach. It
seemed so odd to think Of
Cousin Helen's husband went about as
men always do, and heard more in day
than the ladies could in year. He re-
turned one evening with solemn face,
and informed his wife, in confidence,
that the talk of the whole place was
Mays fortune, and that the doctor, who
had done nothing but run after rich wo-
men since he came to the place, was said
to be latter it. "
A regular fortune-hunter, my dear,
said the husband ssYou must use your
influence with poor little May"
May meanwhile had been in her favor
lite grove, and there had Marcus More
land betaken himself so say good-by.
Poor boy, he had had bitter hours of
late The truth that Nays love was the
one thing worth having upon earth had
dawned upon him, and with it the
knowledge that he had no right to offer
himself to an heiress How he hated
money! It stood between him like some
awful spell. IF she had been the poorest
girl living, he could have said al that
was in his heart to her-not now.
So the poor boy uttered q few falter-
ing words and went away.
1t was folly for me to think he liked
me much, said May, as he left her
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