Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-07-25
A Pleasant Romance.

1t twas only London garden. but il
was 30 walled in from intrusive eyes
was 80 judiciously planted with flowers
that it could stand the air ofcities and the
neighborhood of smoke, was 80 surround.
ed BY trees, and the walls that encircled
it were so covered with creepers, that it
was difficult to realize that it was actual
" a part of that "Old Court suburb
which is now a part of London itself.
There was an old bowling. green that
made the smoothest and greenest of ten.
nis.lawns;there were stately alleys, plant
ed with quaint shapes of box and yew,
an ancient sun.dial and q moss-grown
fountain; trim walks through trellised
doorways, that led to Conservatives gor-
geous with tropical flowers; and shady
corners, much appreciated by the young
people who came to Lady Mary Halle
woods garden parties, and that at times
were Meta Hazlewood's favorite retreat
Lady Mary was the widow of a gener-
al officer, and Meta was her only daugh-
ter, tall and rather stately brunette of
twenty-five, who had been out two or
three seasons, and had refused several
eligible offers without and very apparent
reason. Miss Lakewood did not even
give any reason. The gentlemen who
had done her the honor to wish to marry
her were not to her taste, she said, and
seemed to think that statement conclu-
sive.
Metals Indifference to suitors was the
only point of difference between her
mother and herself. Lady Mary would
gladly have seen her daughter suitably
settled-as, indeed. what mother would
not?-but in the long run the girl always
had her own way.
"Do you want to get rid of me, NAM
mar" she would ask, with one of the
smiles that were half sancy and wholly
sweet; and there could be but one an
swer to such question: Nevertheless,
Lady Mary could not help feeling that
her daughter was preverse. The feeling
was intensified just now by an offer from
Mets's latest admirer, and by the fact
that Lord Castleman seemed likely to
fare no better than those who had gone
before him.
II can't understand it, my DEAR" said
Lady Mary, plaintively. "What was
there in Sir John Hope that any girl
need have objected TOT"
"He was not to my TASTE" said Meta,
"Or in Captain Shaw brand am sure
they both worshiped the ground you
trod on.
"They would have been welcome to
do that, if they only would have abstain
ed from worshiping me" said Meta,
lightly.
ANY dear, don't be fiippant when you
really fall in love yourself you will know
it is not q joking matter"
"Ah! yes-when dol" said Meta.
"And now there is Lerd Castlemap,
and you don't seem any more favo-ably
inclined to him."
81 can't help it, mamma" said Meta,
rather YEARLY.
She rose and gathered her work to-
gether, and left the field to Lady Mary.
She was 30 tired of these endless lamen-
tations, and she knew enough of her
mother to know that she would not leave
her pet grievance till she had thorough
~ exhausted both that and her daugh-
ter's patience. So Meta put on her hat
and strolled into the garden, the shady
old-world garden that always seemed
such haven of peace and solitude amid
the whirl and din of the great city. 1t
was here that Meta generally came when
her mothers mood was too plaintivs or
too loquacious, not railing against the
kindly, unwise woman, even in her
heart, but feeling the need for little
quiet and solitude little time in which
to gather her thoughts, and perhaps live
over again the one little month in which
the garden had seemed greener and
fairer and sweeter than it had ever
seemed since. That was five years sgo
now-that one month of Metals life that
had seemed to Lady Mary 80 much like
any other June, but that had made the
very name of June musical for ever in
her daughters ears.
Il was June again now, and even in
London there was sense of summer in
the cir. The garden was at its best, with
roses Just unfolding, and creepers green.
~ twining and putting forth delicate
tendrils, g yet untouched by dust or
SCOT. The great June daisies that grow
wild In such abundance in southern
pastures and on breezy cliffs by the sea,
but that needed much care and pains to