The Delaware farm and home. (Wilmington, Del.) 1885-19??, 1886-03-11
Love in a Lift.
C'oMcluded from last neck.

she asked Mlth an innocent air, which
became her wonderfully.
81 should have known you any
where" was his fervent answer.
q How crowded the Park is this
afternoon" remarked the lady, chang
ing the subject abruptly"
"Isn't it wonderful where all the
people come from! And such queer
looking people some of them arel
just look at that woman in a pink
bonnet and yellow gown"
"May call uyon you, Mrs. Orms-
kirk" he asked, when they had talked
alb out mutual acquaintance, criticised
the passerS by and chatted amicably,
after the manner of friends who meet
after a long interval of absence.
"0f course you may, | live at Meg
atherum Mansions when ] am in town.
You will generally find me at home
about O'clock. And with another
of her sunny smiles Mrs. Ormskirk
drove on.
Major Bourchier saw good deal of
MIS-. Ormskirk during the next few
weeks. On some pretext or other he
managed to drop in nearly every day
at Megatherium Mansions.
The luxurious suit of rooms occupied
by the fair widow was on the seventh
floor of the huge block of buildings,
consequently they were reached by
that useful modern conveyance Il lift.
Bourchier soon cherished quite senti-
mental feeling of affection for the cosey
little cage which carried him SO easily
and rapidly upward to the dwelling
of his chraming Rosl lie, and had he
been Of a poetical turn he would have
certainly penned a sonnet in its praise.
lie was resolved to try his lnck
again, and in spite of the fair widows
occasional fits of caprice, he believed
his chances of success were considera-
by better than they were ten years
APO. The worst of it was that Mrs.
9rmskirk had at least half a dozen
defendants and the names of her adj
Airers were Legion.
rs et seeiiii mortified to find
that the attentions of one or the other
Of this band of aspirants seemed more
acceptable to the little coquette than
his own More than once he was
tempted to risk everything on single
cast Of the line, and ask her boldly if
she would marry him. But more pru-
dent counsels prevailed and he resolved
to abide his time. Precipitancy might
ruin everything. A woman, heargued,
is seldom won by coup de main.
One evening, nearly two months
after the meeting in the Park, Mrs.
Ormskirk was present at a fancy dress
ball given by Lady Ethelinda Roster,
a sister of the most distinguished of
the fair widows suffers. 1t was the
first entertainment of the kind at
which the latter had appeared since
her husbands death. Lady Ethelinda
made So great point of the matter
that She wrote charming little uOte,
begging dear Mrs. Ormskirk to break
through her rule. Her ladyship, it
may hc limited, was extremely anxious
to bring about a match between her
broth and Josiah Ormskirk's
the WESTMINSTER revenues
not being exactly in hourshing con-
dtion.
Bourchier also received card of in
vitation; and he had the modification
of witnessing the very marked atten-
tions with apparent satisfaction. He
the pair with silent wrath
The sreen-eyed monster had full
dominion over him, md ot, all Lady
Iltheinda's guests he VI, the most
miserable. The brilliant scene, the
music, the cay crowd we're Ike dust
and ashes between his teeth. He
was about to quit the ball room III
DISGUST when as on previous occasion
lie caught glncc from Rosalie's