Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-09-26

ieaneu against the OOOr- miss Earle
on my friend, and / was very much
alarmed at her pallor.'
D'Orsay smiled. and made a gesture
with his hand as IL II was an offeRse
easily forgiven
at each other. Edgar, Drowned and
bearded, with erect mien and noble
face, took the gaze of that slender and
graceful man, with his patrician face,
his deep and powerful gray eyes, and
from that moment the two instinetiyely
hated each other.
"Will you go for the doctor, Rom
ald2" said Mrs. Earle; something
must be applied to allay the swelling
and the pain"
Edgar left the room, and Mrs. Earle
looked admiringly at the handsome
stranger. feeling unknowingly that per-
sonal magnetism which he exerted in
greater or less degree over all women
and many men, advanced toward him
and said:
Accept my thanks for your kind
ness to my daughter. She would have
suffered still more, but for your atten-
tiOn."
II am very glad could serve you
or her." he replied. "Forglve me If l
persist in remaining until L know the
doctors verdict. Such accidents are
very troublesome sometimes"
Lucia, lying there with closed eyes.
heard his sweet, deep voice talking
with her mOther-heard 1t without
knowing or caring what were the
words; but she vaguely felt that there
was something powerfully attractive in
those tones, as there was in the face
I that had hant Sn lnIfaitnnGly ahnya her
D'Orsay knew better than to liHger
| too long, and when the doctor had said
| it was a severe sprain, and would take
weeks to recover wholly, he bade them
adieu, and rode up TO the only hotel in
the town. The landlord was obsequi-
Gus, for in this season guest was rare.
II will take your best room for a
week or two," carelessly said D'Orsay.
| and lugged up to that room his sketch
book and portmanteau.
lie had intended TO stop only for a
| hurried dinner, and then push on TO
| the city; but with his usual ease, he
had said to himself that he could find
a few winter sketches here and there,
which would be something new. He
threw himself down before the fire IN
| his room, and waved the servant away
who had come in with a light.
The mans face was not so much evil
rs reckless and selfsh-and that, i'll
| deed. is evil enough. a selfish Sybarite
he looked, despite his hOmely surround
\ ing, as he sat with his feet stretched
/ toward the blaze, his white hand slowly
smoothing his golden, Vandyke-shaped
beard, his eyes having dreamy smile
in them. He took out a eigar-casC and
/ lit a cigar, saying:
| "TheSe little country places are not
so bad, after all What a piquant game
that young ploughman will make IT.
| Well, let me have n bit of recreation
in the shape of harmless lirtation,
then back to town and 10 work. -
Then, musingly watching the smoke:
''CuriOus how that girl Nill settle down
into "A humdrum old nlat-cn, by JOyeV'
| D'Orsay tramped over the fields with
his sketck-boOk under his arm, and
during his stay in the country made
two or three mastery sketches, for the
man was talented, and had already
| mounted high upon the ladder. But
| almost every evening found HIM In the
room which held Lucia Earle, showing
her sketches, talking glowingly of his
future and his art, reading to her, sit
ting on a low seat near her lounge.
every movement graceful; every glance
.
gesting more 10 the girl who lay and
listened, her heart aroused, her whole
life moved deeply, never satisfied
There came flush and 4 fever to heI
life, a terrible longing for some vague
indefinite something which banished
forever the calm content, the certain
Joy she had known before he came
while she looked forward to life with
Ronald Edgar. She looked forward tC
that now, but with an uncomfortable
dullness that seemed almost regret
The gIrl drank the cup which this mar
held to her lips, without strength tC
refuse It. What could the innocent
the weak and unSophIsticated country
girl do in combat against a danger sh,
did not even known That D'Orsay
took good care she should not know
No one, surely not Lucia or her mother
knew the kind of a man who had come
to be a constant aud expected visitor.
Even Mr.. Earle, gruf and suspicious
at first, yielded to the charm o.
D'Orsay's manner, and was loud In hi
praise.
March had long since come, bearing
in its last days faint and sweet pre-
mOnition of the June that was in Sc
near future. There had been al
early thaw, and patches of gray meadow
and field appeared under the warn
SUMS rays. Back OF the school house
upon little knoll. half a dozen pint
trees made a favorite spot in summer
and apparently the soft wind tempted
D'Orsay TO walk back and forth ther,
when Lucia's shool was dismissed.
Edgar, walking by, saw him there
and in a moment more the children
came flockIng out. The little. elegan
figure, with its sketch-bOok eternalll
under Its arm. paused in its walk and
leaned against tree, watching 10
Lucia.
Edgar, his eyes flashing hre, all tn,
unhapplness he had known for the pas
few weeks goading him on to MAJ
fury of jealousy and suspicion, walked
on out of sight, but not out of sight o
. the school house.
II seemed to his throbbing eyes an
brain that Lucia would never com
out; then he began 10 hope 1t was no
an assIrnation-that she did not know
the artist was waiting for her, as h
? had at first thought she did, and
r pleam OF hope dawned in his soul as n
! thought
During the five minutes he stood, b
went over again in his mind, as he Wa
!. continually doing now, all the phase
= OF the changes In Lucia How OF lat
, she had actually avoided him, hs
, shrunk from his look, had colored an
, | withdrawn II he had touched her eve
> so lightly-how last night be had bet
4 | ged for a parting kiss, and she ha
murmured something about not worthy
. and he had fiercely asked were he
lips then anOther's?" She had nc
q replied. save 10 hide her head on b
= arm and beg him to be patient VIII
: her. How long was this to lastF
4 Finally the school house door opene'
: and she came out Edgar's heart De;
suffocatlngly. She glanced up at u
e little grove, aud D'Orsay came ooWI
J, walking fast. Tie stopped tenderly al
dsvotedIy toward her, seemed to S: