The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30

FOLLOW yOul wish might never SET
eyes on you again"
$50 do l. Heartily. Our friendship S
at an end.'
Miss Close walked into the bed room.
81 shall ask to have my room changed at
noon," she observed. "And I'm going to
take down my dresses and fold them right
| away"
When she had been engaged in this i'm
proving labor long enough to be Modified
by recollecting the successful recitation
she had made in the blue dress, and dis
covering some forgotten caramels in the
pocket of another, a pecking began upon
the door, which increased to pounding.
Miss Close heard it not. She continued
folding her wardrobe ready for departure
MAY l come in, Mollie!"
81 said if you tried to follow me l should
lock the door"
80 don't lock the door! It's all my
fault. We never quarreled in our lives
that it wasn't my fault"
"Well, Judy, you are to blame. And
you annoy me more than 1 can endure"
8" know do. I'm so horrid Do for
give me- ache more than can stand"
Come in, Them granted Miss Close.
II really havn't any right to keep you
out of the bedroom"
Judy came in downcast with glowing
lips and eyes, and gazed at her chum.
:" wish l wasn't so hungry to be
liked" she said, suppressing a sob.
"There'll never be any body that likes me
enough"
1--WE bring our troubles on ourselves in
this world" observed Miss Close, in that
didactic tone which always chilled the
opine of her more ardent friend.
hot +1,,
daughter, who, sometimes, condescended
to carry cards, rushed in with a bang, and
projected an oblong bit of white at Judith
Capell.
Miss Capell, Colonel Montgomerys
been waiting in the reception-room to see
you this long while, and if you don't
hurry in Sally Smith will begin her noon
practice hour there, and you can't hear
your ears for the noise"
just after the simultaneous thunder
which the entire boarding-school produced
| by drawing their chairs to sit down to din
ner, Miss Close said to her friend:
And what did the wild buffalo want in
his to-be-continued!"
"He wanted to enliven my deadly vaca-
ton here by taking me to Newark to see
the Fourth Of July parade.'
g suppose any proposition he makes will
be agreeable to you," said Miss Close sit
ting upright with the disapproval of anoth-
er's admirer, which even pattern girls will
sometimes manifest. She shot plates past
herself like shuttles as they came from the
carver's hands,
"You judge from your own former
anxious standpoint" replied judy. And
she added with the passionate pessimism Of
Judith, " but I'm with Hamlet myself.
Neither man nor woman will ever be any
thing to me again. And l will never, never
worry any more about any ones frame
work or digestion or engaged affections"
Still, when commencement hustle was
over and the lonely ache of vacation had
begun in Judith's solitary heart, when
empty rooms echoed, and she dared not
practice in minor chords for fear of sobbing
herself, it gave her throb of unconfessed
delight to sit beside the Colonel on the
Fourth of July morning He drove slender
limbed, black horses from the blue grass
region. His entire turnout was an orna-
ment to the landscape, and that landscape
was an ornament to the State. There were
green hills melting against the sky and
valleys downy soft with verdure. Dense
ranks of dewy fern brushed the carriage
wheels, and bits of wood views opened to
and receded from the eye like enchantment.
Judith's gloved hands were folded on her
white lap. 1t was the year when hats of
cactus braid were introduced, and she wore
one with peoples punched above her face
The brilliant and defiant young face kept
its side curve toward the Colonel
81 put the question to you now because
can't wait any longer said the Colonel
81 don't want to be engaged" said Ju-
dith. Engagements reduce the sum of
human happiness"
The Colonel laughed.
My roommate got herself engaged to
man, and it spoiled her have seen the
folly of such things, and | am going to
carve out my future"
"You dear child, you couldn't carve a
good-sized roast. And a fuklre is tough
thing to tackle. l have great big heart
for you, my darling, and its lonesome like
you are"
"Oh, I'm not lonesome" said Judith,
lifting an Indifferent chin. II always feel
myself in good society with Miss Capell"
The Colon Ell laughed again.
"Well, Miss Capell, you know consider
able about me. And have every thing to
give you that woman could ask for"
"And you think you have nothing to do
but help yourself to me-" said Judith, turn
lhR oh Hill lou tHIuh you can pick me
up half in pity, give me the name of Mrs.
Montgomery, pet me awhile, and then drop
me for your smoking and your mems clubs.
I've seen mems patronage of wives. I've
seen eno1gh of half devotion. don't like
men. | won't marry one.n
Don't you want to be loved?" pressed
the Colonel, still unable to suppress his
laughter.
"Yes-O, yes; I'm going to have dog as
soon as l can feed him l want to be
adored.'
81 adoEs you Now, seriously, have not
been able to think of any thing else since
the evening l first saw you. I'll make you
good husband. Look me in the ewes.
Don't mind my abrupt ways. I'll wait ten
years or I'll marry you in an hour which
ever you dictate"
Judith sat awhile and watched him cuide
his horses, and then she gazed over him
steadily. Tears were in her eyes.
"You know Pm going to throw myself
intoyour arms at last, because l can't helm
liking you,' she said
my darlingw said the Colonel, tenderlv
But don't my-darling me too Quick. II
will make me wicked to love you all. can
love you, and not feel sure you would give
your life for me in return"
But | would rive IL -