Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-07-31
POLES APART.


against the fraiI door post Of the
summer house till the airy building
rocked to it's foundations.
Say one kind word, Stella. My
love may not seem much to you,
but at least 1t is tile best have to
give" Ire said, earnestly, looking
very white and hurt.
Stella Howard, sitting sweet and
calm in her white gown and pearls,
half glanced toward her lmpetuous
lover, then dropped her blue eyes
again with u suspicion of a dainty
shudder.
Dicks hands were so very big
and red, and his evening dress
looked as if it came out of the ark.
OF course he was very good and
nice, and Stella did not mind his
clumsy little attentions when no
one more interesting was at hand;
but to he made love to by big,
awkward young civil engineer
working on the new railway line! a
creature who couldn't sing, or ride,
or play billiards; who entered a
room like a wandering elephant,
Land was forever bnried in diagrams
;9Eand calculations, instead OF talking
society chatter! Stella conll not
fbelb feeling "a decided liberty on
stDick Fellowes' part TO imagine
Himself entitled to love Col. How
/ aaiTsl's only daughter, and she heart
l7ily4wished she had never suggested
his being invited to diuner-at
which lie had overturned Il glass of
Echabis over her new lace tlounce
--or-consenteii to show him i'll the
soft sunset glow of that June even
ing.
II don't know what to say. I've
.told you it isn't the least use, Mr..
:tt-llg=1Layes: your life and mind are
poles apart; we can't make them
meet. Pm very sorry you should
be panied. Try to forget it al;"she
answered, trying not to show her
dlsdain too plainly.
"Forget!n echoed Fellowcs, the
blood rushing to his temples. "No,
that's not likely. tell you while
you live no man will love you us |
have done. Good by, Stella; | can't
stand any more. Heaven bless YOU.
although you are so crCell"
And he was out of sight down
the garden path before Stella could
have stopped him, even had she so
wished.
What curiously abrupt manners
he had, thought she, us she made
her way to the drawing-room thro'
the sweet scent roses to sing the
song Capt. Thurlow had begged for
in whisper as she left the table.
How odd to go without bidding
good by! And he was leaving
Churstone the next day, she knew.
Capt. Thurlow's polished manner
was u positive relief after such be-
llavior, and as lie turned the pages
OF the "Bohemian Girl, and muir.
INJURED compliance into Stella How
ards we'll pleased ear, Dick Eel
loves and his wooing faded from
her mind like dlsagreeable dream.
Only once did she hear his name
IN the two years that followed, and
that was in connection with some
scheme of some proposed govern
ment works, and he was called "Mr
Fellowes, the well-known and ris-
ing engineer"
Dick rising! Dick famous! Stel
la was sensible of a little shock Of
intense wonder.
But there was very little time for
any thought Of the outside world
after that. Col. Howard died in
AfgllaniStan, and Stella found her
self Il penniless orphan, dependent
ON the distant relations with whom
she was living. Even i'll all her
sorrow and despair there WAS Il lit
tie ray of comfort in the thought Of
Capt. Thurlow. Surely there was
one strong arm aud brave heart
that would not fail her.
But Capt. Thurlow was endowed
with d knowledge of the world,
which made made him keenly aware
of the nice difference between Miss
Howard the pretty daughter Of his
respectfully wealthy colonel, and
Miss Howard the penniless orphan.
His engagement to a Lancashire
manufacturers daughter was III
all the society papers within
a fortnight; and as Stella tried to
crush out The modification and re
sentiment from her heart which
seemed full TO overhowing, there
sounded in her ears, us If it were il
proplesy, Dick Fcllcwes' parting
words,-
mo one will. ever love you as !
have dune."
WAS it all the pervcrsity OLA wo-
mans nature that made Stella's
memory dwell so often and so kind
ly ON the recollection Of that WOO !
ingas time went ons In the Old
DAYS life held so much love for her
that Dicks seemed Il thing little.
worth he having; HOW that she Was +,
that lonely thing, Il goycrness III
other peoples holsrs,silc VIC ndcito