The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

OON--NO .. ON-- of your wordP" suggested Minnie, in- sinuatingly,
 'tMOst certainly not I shall abide by what 1 have written to MT. Mariscal and Frank Carroll; if they are not suited with what 1 wrote I can not help it. will abide by my decision, and so l have told your uncle Arbuthnot, so in case 1 do not get home from my trip to Paris before the very latest date set in my letter. the wedding must go on without me-or else you, Lilias, will be pau per-"
 'Lilias is so i1npulsive, you know, Aunt Kettle that 1 do wish you would write that down so she will not forget, :" suggested Minnie, handing sheet of paper to Mrs. Arbuthnot, and then withdrawing it, adding: Suppose I write it and let you sign it. as you say your eyes trouble you to-day?" "Do so, my dear; my eyes are very bad to-day; but for them 1 would post pone my journey until later in the sea- son."
 So Minnie wrote: ''I intend to adhere strictly and literally to the terms in which I yesterday wrote to MT. Mariscal and Frank Carroll; if they are not suit ed with what I wrote 1 can't help it. 1 will abide by that decision" And to this Mrs. Arbuthnot appended her name and the date. Somewhat to Mrs. Ar buthnot's surprise, none of the family saw any thing of MT. Mariscal all that day; and she had to start that night for New York, whence she was to sail for Paris, without seeing him again. Early the next morning there came to the house, not MT. Mariscal, but Frank Carroll, who, to Lilias' intense amaze ment, greeted her as if he were her ac- cepted lover. As soon as she could do so-that is, as soon as she could make up her mind to do so-she withdrew from his enfoldiug arms and exclaimed:
 "Why Frank! How courageous you are, to venture here in such an assured manner, after what Aunt Hettie wrote to youT' :,
 f'Courageous?" he repeated. '1don't understand you; it is because received her card that I am here now. I must own that was little surprised when 1 read it, though
 "What could she have said to you?" asked Lilias in amazement still.
 Here it is-read it for yourself; only got it this morning, having been away on business, or I'd have been here last evening"" he answered, handing a postal card to Lilias.
 Mrs. Arbuthnot was one of those peo- pie who use postal card for any or all purposes; she had a perfect mania for them, and could not be persuaded not 10 write the most confidential things upon them, so Lilas was not at all sur prised that she had written her com munications to the two young men on these cards, though most people prefer to send such missives in 8 sealed en- ~elope. She read:
 ''So sorry that 1 can not see you to- night, write in haste and confusion to say that 1 am more than willing that you should marry Lilias, and I trust that she will appreciate the compliment you have paid her-from her past treat ment of you am sure she will. At any
 ate, it is my desire that she marry you and no one else, on pain of my anger" "
 To this was appended her name and the date of the preceding day.
 Lilias was mystiied, Frank iubilant, MT. Arbuthnot mildly puzzled but ac- quiescent, and Minnie smiling but silent. When MT. Arbuthnot told Frank that his wife had said something about hav- ing Lilias married within a month, even though she went away, and when Lilias and Minnie agreed with him, he was only too glad to aid in carrying out her expressed wishes: so the wedding dresses were made upi in hurry, and in exactly a month after the date of her card to Frank, Mrs. Arbuthnot's older ward was married to her true love.
 An hour or so after the wedding, Minnie said carelessly to Lihas:
 ''Did you ever hear any more of MT. Mariscal's desire to marry youP"
 ''Bless me, no! had entirely for. gotten the man! Why, sure enough, didn't auntie say she had accepted his offer and-what are you laughing at, Minnie?' said Lilias.
 "Do you remember the night went down to the library to get your watch. and you wanted to know why was gone so longP said I had paused to T6du Ine uedlHS anu UQdTTld06S III the paper; we'll, that was true, but there lay on the library table two postal cards, in auntie's own writing, addressed to your two lovers. picked them up and read them-now don't frown, postals are not private! I found that she had evidently made a mistake in addressing them, for the one bearing MT. Mariscal's name was very blunt request for him to keep away from you; the other Frank has shown you. was so afraid that she would find out her mistake before she went abroad that 1 just opened the front door and ran out and mailed them"
 Such was indeed the case. What would otherwise have been Mrs. Ar buthnot's wrath at Minnie's haste to mail the mlsdirected cards no one knows, but as she chanced, almost as soon as she arrived in Paris, to learn that Mariscal was already privately married, she never in any way referred to the matter, and as Frank made the best of husbands she soon forgot that she had ever been opposed to the match. -FrGnctS E. Wadleigh, ia1 Boston Tran. script.