Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28

/ 10 9ysnal summer fishing trip and met
h -. At some rural picnic; straightway
lent wild over Aer; made desperate
| toS,o. was refused as suspicious charac@
| tor nv q grim Scotch father, who re-
ien T howefer, when st. Leger's fine
oraSont;als Hwere shown. The lady was
| not rich. other in purse or worldly wis
| dom b6 only sweet, ingenious and
| heant;s6l. st. Leger's pride in this nm
avneexed bride bordered on folly-a folly
no Gok no pains to conceal from the
wsfh at large. He lavished everything
wbon her that his cosmopolitan taste
LIQUID suggest or money procure. And
she accepted his homage with hap
| piness so exuberant and naive that,
| critic as he was, he was wholly obtuse to
| the unsophisticated flavor in her his
| friend was so quick to detect. Soon
enough. no doubt, the bloom would be
brushed from her fair nature by the
| worlds rude handling.
She entered upon her city life with a
piouant enjoyment that drew continuous
attention to her. The gala times were
| chld's frolic to her. But if only Grizzie
] were there! If only Grizzie could see
this, wear that, hear the otheri This
| was her secret cry wherever she went,
| whomever she met. Grizzie was her
| sister, her dearest companion, left in the
| little up-country village, and the dazzle
| and delight of her new life could not
| wholly make up to her the loss.
| .sWrite to Grizzie, them" her hus-
band said, sand have her come. She is
such blossom as this black city has not
, seen for many a. day-except you,
DEAR
, 80, may I wrieP How lovely it
would be to have her with me when you
can't go, Robert!"
very well added you transparent
little flatterer. I've heard nothing but
tGrizzie' ever since Fe began house
keeping. l have kno Fn all along am
20, Robert. it isst that-really it
, mt. But Grizzie is 81 fond of life, and
as such quick tasA for everything
ne. She is much better fitted for
cand lady than t. steAing to his side
nd finally perching uptn his knee.
So the letter to Grikie-Scotch for
Gace-was sent, and tbi invitation met
aready acceptance. Uiaffectedly glad
vas she of the chance ii come, and in
d way backward in sayiig so.
The morning of her Errival, as st.
Lger was ON his way toE the train to
meet her, he had encountered his old
bon companion and CHIN, Windsor.
What strange sort of ply he felt for
Windsor. He looked bad at the old
days with him. which had SEEMED rather
gar at the time, as a periR Of wasted
AMI misguided existence cohpared with
thepresent Eden of homt of his own
and bona fide, beautiful WI Wind
sor vas sensible of this patrdnizing pity,
and lever more so then wheA St. Leger
mentioned the sister-in-law, IS he after
. ward etailed it to Brigham.
: Andit seemed Brigham choed St.
D Leger il everything. Wind pr was in
, furiated W it. As he left tAt gentle
mans Office after the effort tdunburden
himself he nuttered under is breath:
: 81 don't propose to make myelf one of
a silly rabble, Eaining idioticAly in the
: wake of prtty woman! Fit myself
: ont of the wa to pay court 10 an up
country girl wso probably nilbles slate
f., pencils in the Nervals of angling for a
loverr'
Nevertheless,she evening fc1nd him
y a guest in TIN. Brighams quaint and
!, pretty parlor. e had arguedto HIM
self that he wouldn't go, andthen, to
: convince himselshat he was superior
to small prejudice he had gons.
}. The only strans face there Fas that
is of a girl of twety years. Windsor
e set her down at one as the sistG law,
u Grizzie Maxwell. Beautyp hat was
# an open question.
2: She crossed the Dom. Tall Ind slim,
/ plant as whip, fill of movement, hair
r, dark and eyes las gray as glass;" as
Chaucer has it-thse were thelfeatures
st revealed at the firstylance. Would the
u face and figure beaiscrutiny? 1t mat
tered little Windor felt a t1emor at
y his heart-scarcely more thanh vibra-
" ton and yet realphysical ssnsation.
d Let him go the worI over and meet all
the women therein, lis doubtful if he
T. could ever again exprience Ike fiut-
= ter; this was the first
y Miss Grizzie was MT a silent goddess.
IS She talked continuously.
y sssA fiippant little ting" whispered
Ie Reason in Windsor's ar; sspretty to the
g eye, but empty to the rain.''
r. The eye, however, acided that as well
1t might one try to detenine the colors
II on humming-bird's eek as to define
~ her ever-shifting, eveNarying express
sion; and as wen try tbe Indifferent to
that glancing fragmen Of rainbow as
d to ignore her particularly radiant per-
ID sonality.
d Presently in all her tier and chatter
if she made stroke of vt-the happiest
st hit of the evening-in akind of rhym-
to ing game they were plang. and which
1T was now about concludl.
is "Oh, Grizzie," taught Mrs. st. Leg
IN er, so fond of this sister YOU always
do the bestr'
J. DIANA" said Brighal, in an aside to
D. his wife, windsor has lot been pre-
scented to her, has he2'
t s.Ah, no; how needles in me. Mr..
u Windsor" in lone tonic him, s.let
a. me introduce you to MissMaxwell."
That lady was sittingm corner.
D. with group of gentleIen about her
u s'three Deep as Brighansaid. At the
+" sound of her name she hse from her
n chair. At nearer range Sc deserved a
r better term than ''presy" she was
+ more expansive, more exible. more
lambert of glance than muld suffice to
id make up the soul of that shallow adj
N jective.
She did not at first catA W;ndsor,s
i. name, and blushed in tn balf-breath
in interval required to have irepe.ted
at "Jacqueminotr roses for clor,tbouoht
I'd the waiting Squire.
is At the sound of his name urcr;sa,l
X look dilated her eyes an infant f. was
of that indispensable, heat-lihtni,g aash
of recognition that will Sme isto the
most stolidly well-bred facebefon GOOD.
Id breeding can say coldly "Dwnm
has frsn