Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-07-28
HEARTS UNVEILED.
BY JAMES 1. BAIRD.

10 TIE Olu CIluICu, NueIc euC upeAoAo VI
Phillip Veroy and Louise Farris were
that morning to be celebrated.
Louise Farris was the only woman
George had ever loved. She was the
soul of his every anticipated joy, and
why he was now going to see her
welded to another, scene that could
but affiict him, he could hardly tell.
Yet he went on until he stood In the
aisle of the church amid the throng that
had assembled there to witness the GER
emory.
He quietly seated himself in pew,
where, with the utmost seeming tran
guilty, he remained till the ceremony
was ended.
As the newly welded couple passed
down the aisle followed by the eyes of
the admiring spectators, Louise's eyes
and Georges met and a sudden flush
suffused her face, as if conscious of hav-
ing wronged that anxious one, now SO
calmly looking upon her. That such
was the case George really hoped,
though now she was gone, her destiny
linked with that of another But al
most in the same instant, as if to dispel
his delusion, merry laugh rang out
from her clear sweet voice that sent a
pang to his heart.
George arose and took his leave, and
soon after found himself on board a
steamer just starting for Europe, whittier
he had determined to go after learning
Louise's and Veroy's betrothal.
Very much to his surprise as well as
regret, he found that the married couple
were also on board the same vessel on a
bridal tour to Europe. He would have
sought passage on board some other
vessel had opportunity afforded and
thus avoided their presence, which
could but add to his modification.
George and Louise had grown up to-
gether in the country, and learned to
love each other as, hand in hand, they
strolled among the vine-clad hills,
through dew-gemmed meadows, and
along the fiowery margins of purling
brooks; their every thought and dream
being of each other, sweet and pure as
the fragrant atmosphere they breathed.
And although they did not talk of love,
yet that was 4 thing SO powerfully felt,
and so well understood by both, that
words were not necessary to declare it.
But while George was now entertain
ing serious thoughts of claiming Louise
as his own, rich uncle of hers hailing
from Boston visited her parents, and
being pleased with her beauty and in
telligence, besought them to give her
up to him, and he would do great part
by her, and if she married to suit him,
rs he had no heirs, he would bequeath
her his entire possessions. With this
fattering proposal, after much persua-
sion on the part of the uncle, the parents
and their daughter We're at length III
duced to comply.
A separation soon followed with its
grief and tears, and though it served to
brighten Louise's prospects, it cast
gloom over Georges once bright antici-
tons.
After the las of two weary years,
George was enabled to follow Louise
to her city home, which he gladly did,
that he might again enjoy her society.
But, alas! his Louise was no longer her
former self. Wealth and fashionable
society had chilled the warm-hearted,
congenial country girl, and transformed
her into the stiff, affected city belle,
and although she recognized him, it was
il very formal and reserved manner.
And her uncle, to more completely fill
up the measure of unkindness. forbade
him his house, and strictly enjoined
upon Louise to hold no intercourse with
him whatever. However, he struggled
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affections, until at length he was forced
to give up all hope by the appearance
on the scene of another more attractive
sutton.
This new suitor was Philip Veroy, q
fortune seeker, claiming to be citizen
of New York. He was fashionable, gay,
and reputed wealthy, and knowing
Louise to be prospectively so, he quickly
turned his admiring glances upon her;
and as his attentions were acceptable to
her, an engagement soon followed.
The uncle and aunt were delighted
with this gay and complaisant sutton, and
every inducement to his union with
their neice had been brought into play,
and agreeable to their wishes, after q
short courtship, they were united as
above related.
The steamer, having slipped her
cables, moved majestically out to sea, and
very soon, with all her merry inmates,
was fast lessening the receding shore.
Despite the hilarity of her joyous
friends Louise did not feel quite heart
free. Something of a painful nature
embittered every rising JOY. Too often
her thoughts went wandering back to
her parents, her once sunny home
among the hills, and especially to the
true-hearted, but forsaken George.
Why these saddening memories were
90 constantly before her, just now, she
could not divine. Poor Georges pres
ence seemed ever before her, and to
accuse her of cruelty and folly; and so
heavily did these impressions bear upon
her mind that her pensive mood was
marked by her friends.
Georges presence on board was vet
unknown to Louise. He confined him
self TO his room, not wishingi in his pres
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