Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-25

Young, handsome, proud, immensely
wealthy, she was courted by inpecun-
ious titles and the mothers of eligible
sons. U.s. jGr .ts .....l.E.s 7 -.
Her Cousin John, with praiseworthy
self-denial, made it his business to
bring captives, and lay them ut her
feet, seeking eversto please her eye and
her intelligence IN his selections.
But it was a difficult task he had set
himself. The one defect in Alice's
character land it was only d surface
defect, after ALL was her ambition and
a too great belief in the power OF
wealth.. E5 a,,. ..'<
Dearly would she have liked to be
called countess" or marquis" could
that have been accomplished, and her
uncle's estates have remained with her,
and undivided; but as this could not
be, she deemed it better to be only
baronet' lady, and to hold the estates
entire. Sz$is &@%
OF love, Alice knew nothing-noth-
ing OF it's mighty power or it's infinite
weakness. She might learn; but neither
time nor John Carson had brought her
teacher yet. Sa5
"Allce," and Carson touched his
cousins arm, permit me to present
to you Mr.. Allen Anderson
Alice looked up to meet the search
ing gaze OF a pair of brown eyes, flash
ing, jeweled, enthroned in a bronzed,
bearded setting; not a handsome face,
but something better-good, honest,
earnest.
That night when Alice went to her
room, she sat down and. gazed out ov-
er the sparkling sea-waves; and-it
was very ridiculous, she told herself,
and so it really was--they seemed to
be singing, and the burden Of their
song was, "John Anderson, my 10
joint"
/ The days sped on, riding, boating,
walking, and still, in the quiet hours
of the night, the soft sea-waves kept
on singing, John Anderson, my 10
joint
And by-and-by there came an hour
when they varied the song, and utter
ed, in q deep, tender, musical voice,
"Alice, / love you, love you!"
II Allen Anderson had been there at
her side, still repeating it, Alice could
not have heard it more distinctly, and
somehow it was more than she could
BEAR. 1t was wretched, miserable!4
She turned from the window, as she
had from him, and throwing herself
ON the sofa, wept bitter tears.
They were all for him-oh, yes, en-
tirely so! The sad look in those brown
eyes had been 80 pitiful when she
spurned his plea, giving him to under
stand that she considered such words
from a poor, untitled man to an heir
ess as impairment and insulting.
Brewton was a resort where the
slaves of fashion reveled for awhile in
freedom from the bonds Of formality;
all were free to come and 60 as they
chose, untrammeled by society's iron
letters. .r III TX r.
The neighboring barracks, with it's
gay garrison, perhaps was largely re-
sponsible for this state OF things.
However that might be, it existed.
One OF these delightfully."- free Gus
toms was, that any lady who desired,
might, without fear OF offending the
prophecies, row herself out upon the
beautiful. smooth waters OF The bay,
in one. Of the many slsiffs provided for
such purposes. There We're several
ladies brave enough and skillful en- Tough
to enjoy this unwonted bit Of liberty,
and Of these Alice, was one. H..
This was how it came to pass-that,
early on the morning following those
bitter hours Of pity over the misery
she has caused to leap up into those
tender brown eyes, she went down to
the beach alone and pushed her little
boat out apo1l the silverY waters. ~. !
She was inn mood for converse
ton; she knew she should snap at any
one who came to her with careless,
hippant talk. Every thing seemed SO
dark, III spite of the sunny skies, and
it was so cruel to laugh and joke when
when Well, she hardly knew when,
or what, or why, only life was SO
miserable, and her world had turned
""topsey turyey ' 's} G s@i 4
\ Tt was too bad that she should be
made to feel SO like !, 1, criminal, just
because she preferred q man with a
title, and to Keep her uncle's estates
from being divided, to one who .evi-
dentl y was not rich, and acommoner.
But bad as iitt was, while the dainty
oars rose and fell mechanically, they
kept say ia low grumbling jerks,
81 ohm Anderson, my ] o-J Ohm, in d
curious, monotonous rhyth that
nearly drove her wild, and when she
looked down into the water, a dark,
bearded face, with such a n1ournful,
pained expression on it, gazed back ct
her. B Really. it was too bad was
outrageous, Just because she preferred
| Ah! but did she prefer I:
Alice started as this question sud
denly rose before her the first the uni
versal teacher had succeeded IN calling
TO her attentio ion.
She knit her broad white browa, and
threw back her head in scornful inn
patience, and, then, right before her
on the gliste ning water, she saw some
thing that excited her wonder rs sa B
s A low, Hat platf ornl, like . raft, with
q pole set up Id the centre, and at its
top a circular disk. JIG WAS evidently
inch red there; hut Tor u hat purposeY
And what & meant that little skill
noored alongside IS il
Some one must have brought It
there, yet no one HsIs to be seen. 81 81
sloNa some hesit bon Alic 6