Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-07-24

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Miss, Fortunes Romance.
1t was a hot day in May-onc of
those early hot days that are so, e1-
listing -and Miss Fortune Way
III a. tired with that provoking
~ nd Of shopping that consists in
smatching things" turned into IL
fashionable ladies' restaurant for
rest and refreShment. She was ~
calm, sequable girl, not readily lrri
tated, but twas % trifle annoying
tpsllave her quiet interrupted by the
rnstling, laughing, and chattering
ofthe very two girls whose com
pany at that hour she would most
81 all have deprecated.
For she was dusty and heated.
and not in her freshest toilet, and
Ida Vincent and Kate Croye had
inst stepped from their carriage in
all the lustre and freshness of ele.
CANT spring costumes. They, of
course, could afford to be pleasant;
it WAS mich hard r thing for
fortune to smile and say: '.It is
really youY am glad to see YOU"
They sat down together, and be-
gan. to eat ices, and discuss toilets
and summer plans. awe were go
Ing to Europe" said Ida, with Il
charming frankness. "but some one.
is going TO tho Branch, and of
course we follow in his wake
Mamma thinks he admiles me and
lam under orders to capJivate him."
81 know whom you mean, Ida;
there is really no need for yon to
affect secrecy. 1t is Ray Syming-
ton.- My mamma thinks he admires
me, and | am under orders to cap
tivate him alSo.n
Sand pray who is Ray Syming-
lton7p
Gas if you did not know, For
tune! Why, your father is his law
yer. He has been back for a month,
and WAS at The Mobiles and the
billiards and"
sissN0w | know whom You mean,n
9tid Fortune. "He used to come q
great deal to our house before he
gent abroad. That IS six years
since. | was only a school girl then,
l3'S; sawlat remember of Ray Sym
!, Ma
kmade to order. However, lie does
not concern me; L have fringes on
my mud at present. So Will say
good 10y, girls"
"Wait Il quarter OF an hour, and
we will fake you rs faraS Atkins"
Thanks; | canuot wait; am to
meet mamma and Gertrude at Ma
dame Declrer's. Atlieu."
Fortune WAS walking down Broad
way again, and this time without
the least sense of heat or ialigne.
She was calling to remembrance
some autumn days six years ago,
when she had first seen Ray SYM
lngton. What IL happy September
and October It had been! She had
come into town early i'll order To
enter school at the commencement
of tile session, and had been alone
with her father. During these
days Ray had been much with them,
and she had sat listening happily
TO his travels by land and sea, and
heard him discuss with MIR. Way
land scientific subjects i'll which
both were interested. How often
! had she brought them tea or coffee
while they sat talking, and what
/ pleasant words and looks he had
given her!
Nay, there had been something
more than this. One night when
MIR. Wayland had been called out
on business, and they two sat alone
by the little open lire that the chill
/ October night made necessary, Ray
had held her hand and said, sor-
Iowfully: "Fcrtune, will you for.
get me when | go over the Sea,and
neverremember the plcaSantnlghts
we three have had togethers"
"If they were pleasant, why do
do You go away9' she asked, softly.
s.You almost tempt me to ask to
stay; but you are SO young it would
be unfair. l am all old mall, child.
travelled and disillusioned, il would
be unfair. You must see che world
/ first, Fortune; and theli-and then
! If yon remember me,ah, how happs
[ shall be! Give me the rose at
your belt, dear child. Perhaps you
will think OF me till it wiLhers."
IL shall never forgets ou."
But Ray either mlsdonbted the
Young, inexperienced heart: or he
feared to trust the future with it.
He only kissed the rose, land kissed
the hand that gave it, and Ill an
hour there was All end of Fortunes
young romance.
Perhaps just in this very hour
her good fac had turned toward
,[hcr. for what she had failed to find
and failed to doallthe morning now
came easily to her hand; and even
such straws as finding the exact
trimming wanted may show that
the contrary wind has changed and
a favoring gale sprung up. she