The Opelousas courier., 1886-07-24
FAIRLY PAID.

ACaNS VI YouF SENSES, 4 always gOlH y0
| intended to wed a man with blue eve.
and golden hair, and yours are dark.
Besides, you are t~wenty-seyen and
medical student, two things / never could
tolerate in the man I honor with M,
heart and hand" And lovely little Lot
lie Rexdal laughed a very wicked little
laugh as she pushed the end of her red
silk parasol into the soft soil under an
old apple tree, at the same time CHANGING
saucily upat her companion, a scholarly
young man.
aWhy do you ask me? she resumed.
Because I wanted to be made fun OF.
10 be ridiculed by the little girl / love, q
replied Vane Winton, smiling sadly al
the pert young lady perched on the back
Of q rustic garden-seat, her brown frizzes
falling roguishly into her dancing brown
eyes.
Nov that doesn't sound a bit like our
own grave Vane, who studies medicine
and c~uitlvates an ice cream complexion
IAN Toe cream ~complexion2" asked
Vane Winton, a little mystifed.
sYes; that's Lottie RexdaPs term for
Students compilations. You book-worms
study away until your faces take on the
hue Of that sweet compound" answered
the roguish girl.
III you would only be grave for q
while I might talk to you,n said vane.
Yes you know I'm such d rogue that
should put you to the blush d thou
sand times . day, Y chimed in Lottie.
am willing to run the risk
ALI but ] shall not agree to- any such
sacrifice. Marry some steady, sensible
girl. Alice May will be here in one hour.
BE polite, and captivate her. Miss May
isso highly cultured and grave that she
win surely not be less than sublime in
your eyes. I'll tell you"
But Vane did not stay to hear more.
He walked of, leaving gay Lottie Rexdal
laughing merrily.
Lottie was the ward Of Vane Winton's
kind father. She had been orphaned at
q very early age. Al maiden aunt had
then adopted her. When Lottie was but
ten, and her education not half complet-
ed, her kind relative died. But before
that she had sent for Mr.. Winton, her
girlhood's lover, and made him promise
70 receive the little orphan girl. The
kind ma consented; and so Lottie be-
came an inmate of Vane Winton's home.
Yane was the only child Of wealthy
parents, and at the time when Lottie
came to bis fathers house he was away
Oh the Continent.
When be returned three years after
wards he found his award-sister, 'as he
had called her in his letters, away at
some school for girls. So il happened
that Vane and Lottie had never met until
sin months before. Vane was ) fine
scholar, but he had never studied any
profession. Now, at the age Of twenty
seven, realizing perhaps that Git is never
too late to mend, = be was fitting himself
for the ministry.
Vane was trying To study at his home
that summer. Sometimes he found 1t
impossible hi do u amid the tempest
aroused by mischievous Lottie Rexdal.
She threw open the unused piano, and
made the house ring with her clear, bell
like notes. She filed the library with
flowers, tossed up Vane's bookaga and even
scribbled 90 them. She rode every horse
Oh Tile place, rompea with Prince, the
great shaggy dog, tore her dresses, went
b~ateaheaded, and turned the wide hall
nto d skating rink.
6he was utterly spoiled By both Dir.
and Hrs. Winton. 1T drst Vane had
been shocked. But The more he studied
her Original character, the more lie be-
come reconciIed d it. Tolerance gaye
place % admiration, and that. il due
time, u iove. HI had always Tell i
vague longing % discover i oma ID
whose character bio hoped ID ind origi
aality ma freedom from aGsction. RI liz
could only teach Lottis e love him,
what i splenah woman she might be-
c6sns
H would wait patiently andhopefully
he reasoned 81 HE walked AWAY. TAX