The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-07-03

'na' is proper and pretty in the coun.
try, will you tell meP"
Certainly, Mona Your loose flow.
ing hair and short dresses, and vour
frank, familiar ways, all so perfectly
charming just here. would occasion re.
marks and unpleasant criticisms IN the
city. l want my little girl to be as fash.
ionable and as stylish as-as-well, as
Jessie Mabin."
"Ah! she is your ideal. is shei"
Much more to the same purpose,
mingled with kisses and compl ments,
was said, but nothing in it deceived the
wounded woman's heart. For Mona,
though not a fashionable woman, was a
true woman, nevertheless, and under
stood not only what had been said, but
also all thathad been left to be inferred.
1t was not possible for him to leave his
business entirely, but it had been ar
ranged that once q month he was to
pay a few days visit to the springs,
and in the intervals be refreshed and
comforted by regular and plentiful sup.
plies of letters.
The supply was pretty fair the first
week, but fell off gradually, until sew
eral days passed without any token of
Nona's faith and memory. Still, he
did notfeel much troubled. He thought
that he quite understood Nona's rea-
sons, and at any rate he relied with
implicit confidence on the effect which
Philip Hays in his own proper person
could not fail to make.
This confidence did not agree with
events. He arrived at the springs and
found Mona out driving with Jack
Christie-a young man whom he par
ticularly disliked for his pretentious
manners. He was on the piazza when
they returned, and he was certain
Mona saw him, though she kept her
eyes on Jacks face, and pretended the
greatest interest in his foolish CONVEX
s%ation; for of two things Philip was
certain-tirst, that her interest was
'~pretended," and second, that Jacks
conversation was ''foolish." Then he
felt unaccountably and, as he very well
knew, unreasonably chilled by the
greeting of the splendidly dressed
Mona, who calmly and nonchalantly
extended the tips of her gloved fingers
to him, drawing out the while a pretty
little assurance of being $50 glad to
see Mr.. Hays" with the information
that "Cecile had been expecting him
since the early morning train"
"Cecile" he said, reproachfully.
"And you too, Nona?'
"Oh dear no, Mr.. Hays. 1t is quite
too exhausting to expect any thing.
One at a time is quite Sufficient
Philip was shocked and silenced for
the time. For one distressing half
hour he tried to assume his rights as
her betrothed, but she kept Jack
Christie persistently between them;
and SO, angry and hurt, he sought his
sister Cecile.
"Cecile,' he said, "what a change
there is in Mona! What is the cause?'
"a wonderful change! l never saw
a girl improve so rapidly. l suppose
you are the cause. Do you know that
she is really the belief Jack Christie
and Ed Forsyth and half a dozen
others are raving about her. Positive !
ly they are, Phil"
Every kind Of them, but"
"Well, so it is, you know. Very
families, and all that kind of thing,
you know. Upon my word, brother, I
believe Mona will make a sensation
next winter. Mamma is quite satisfied
now"
But Philip was not No, not at all.
Very far from it. That night at the
hop Mona looked lovely and grand
for a queen, her golden hair
arranged in some picturesque style,
which Jack Christie audibly declared
to be ''just the thing" yards of satin
and lace making a track of glory be-
hind her, and gold and jewels flashing
rom her head, her throat, and her
wrists. All in vain, however, Philip
for a dance, Mona had been
engaged for every set since breakfast,
md she reminded him rather malicious.
y Of the necessity Of conforming to the
,sages Of society. So he had the salts
action of watching the social triumph
# the future Mrs. Hayes.
Three miserable days of continual
disappointment, and then Philip de-
ermined to 60 back to New York, and
ee Mona no more until she returned to
Ter country home. He babe his mother
nd Cecile goodbye, and gave the reg
lation kiss to Mona, who received it
With perfect placidity and many kind
FISHES for his pleasant journey; for, as
was to leave very early in the norm
az, the ladies did not expect to see
i'm again before his departure. As
hey passed out of the parlers Mona
lrned a moment, and a flash of the
Id tenderness made her face beautiful,
er lips parted, and she hesitated mo-
tent as if she would speak, but finally
assed on and away.
Poor Philip! He took his cigar and
1t down on the dark, silent balcony,
,,serahle anou0h. Int in ahOut half an