The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09
MS LIES olg Holiday.

S40 Aa0 0ove1 y0t O00n IN love. He
had worked hard and we'll and had
made . fortune which even b. felt
would enable him 70 marry without be-
ing recklesslv imprudent, and hs began
10 think il was time TO decide upon .
vito who would satisfy his somewhat
fastidious requirements. She must be
Of stately and noble presence
had rather an idea Of flne woman; not
too young nor too emotional; Wayne
was . person who hated scenss-in
short, she was to bsFa woman mads to
order, and he found il more difficult to
discover her than he had 1t first sun
posed. - w.;
II WAS with . feeling Of something Is
akin to failure Is his well regulated
mind ever INDUCED in that he ordered
his portmanteau packed e
nights visit +~> 4-. .s'r . fost.
y. ...sswtsR.sn.Sea. and tors
.,mself Away from tho Vaccinations ii
club and Office life to ply & lonig; prom ,oiia
ised visit d bis old friend, Dr. MAJ.
shall: he had seen nothing Of the Mar
shalls for years past, though there xas
. tic Of old associations between THEM:
and even something Of aadder interest.
Five years ago, when wayne's uncle Of.
fered him berth in the tea business.
Of which he was now the head, he ex-
tended like offer to Huntingdons
younger brother, Jack; but Jack, a.
ways something Of . hot-headed fellow,
took offense at some word or deed Of
his elders, and refused the offer. Soon
after he took some post ON the east
coast OF Africa, and went out with high
hopes Of the fortune he was to bring
back and lay at Hetty Marshall's feet:
Huntingdon heard Of The engagement
with some contempt, for the folly which
possessed two young people without Z
penny; but when, three years later,
news came ofpoor Jacks death out in
Zanzibar, the little bride that was to
have been passed out of his mind, and
it was only when An invitation came 70
him from the Marshalls, who were 1t
Newton-on-Sea for Hetty's health, that
the thought of her existence crossed
him again.
He had not even seen her since she
was little child in pinafores, and when
he was brought up, on the evening he
arrived, to the side of o crimson ham
mock swung between two tall pine trees,
and introduced to slight, pale girl,
whose great blue eyes were raised to
his with pathetic gentleness and
sweetness, feeling such as in all his
thirty-tive years Of sensible life he had
never before experienced shot through
him with q thrill of wonder, and a.
most bewllderment. He took in his
own the small, fragile, white fingers,
and then laid them down almost reyer.
emily on the soft customs amid which
she lay.
I suppose IL any one had asked him
then and there whether he believed in
love ct first sight, he would have an
swered ~ contemporary - ever; and
yet, for all that, he was Is deep in love
- ever man yet fell ct one blow. He
told himself il was PITY pity that
only grew as the days passed BY, and
he saw how frail and delicate . creature
her great trouble oftwo years had left
her, it seemed to him it was his duty to
try and atone to her for all the suffering
and loss she had undergone; - il his
life ought to make up to her for jacks
death, somehow. Strange, that duty
had never had sucha zest and Q pleasure