Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-26
CHAPTER ".
TOVF CREPT IN.
Love took up the glass Of lie
And shook Il In bis glowing hands,
Every moment lightly shaken
Kan itself IN golden sands.

and hands are full, and TO Maurice the
summer flew by and he was almost
startled when the first crimson leaves
told OF the approach OF autumn and
sterner duties BY the middle OF Octo-
Der he must go back to the city and be-
gan in earnest the practice of the law, 10
which lac looked for fame-no, june is
not exactly the word | should have used,
but s4ccess-for every man, or woman
either, who is conscious OF an inward
strength likes to wreStle strong
ly with some one thing in lie
and TO conquer If it only he
TO prove to himself that he is
man. So % the leaves on the maple
trees grew more crimson and spotted the
deeper and stronger grew hls resolve 10
see more of Helen and IN some way make
her conscious of himself. Nellie IS
right, lac would say sometimes. "a
lady Will not think Of her serving man as
lover will 60 away
But thought Of the soft, brown eyes
and waving hair kept him at his post
Those August days were very tanta-
lizing. 1t worried him 10 tho depth Of
his soul to feel himself growing more
deeply in love with her at every pretty
playful action as she spOrted With the
children, 10 feel his heart bOWlng 10 her.
his queen, with gentle reverence at her
beautiful devotion to her father. and
know that be Was unseen, almost un-
thought Of, bv her. And 50 the long
DAVIS grew unbearable to him sitting all
alone IN his little room flor he had gone
back TO his Office, and, moth like. be
lowered about his candle and burned his
wings
The first touch Of her hands upon tho
old piano summoned INN 10 dream and
smoke on the grass outside. tie knew
the time OF her evening walk and open
ed the gate as sine went ont Every
thing around her frightened into limit
and beauty to please her. A rustic
bridge spanned the little stream, the
oh much-loved horses took on fairness
and sickness, and, IN short, her home
was q new and beautiful one 10 the
young erl. 1t is strange how much one
strong. determined mind can Influences
those about II. WITH Mr.. Maurice mt
tine helm every department grew into
order, aud peace and calm reigned
where disorder and irriabihty had held
sway.
for the first time in her eighteen
years Helen knew what II was to feel
Young The light flashed in her eyes,
the roses deepened on her round cheek.
aud long hours were spent in the open
air with her father, who no longer drew
away the sunshine with tales Of hls own
trouble and inetiicIency.
Things might have gone Oh 50 forever
so far as Hcens part IN the story was
concerned, for she was rs unconscious MS
a child Of the fact that any ot all these
changes were due ia any degree to her.
But more discerning pair OF eyes was
coming on the stage the mother
piercing orbs.
It was not an hour after her arrival
before she understood the situation and
forthwith pronounced the new hired man
a marvel of pushing andacl'y.
never saw anything like tit Is like an
inroad of the Cloths and andais. don
know my own KEYS. VIII you please TO
tell me. Helen. u6,cb is Hl smol,-h,,sc
len, know u used TO be- a brass key,
used ever since toe days Of your great
grandmother hut. all, is it Hts thing = ~
~ her daughter selected strong steel
key.
The old one broke mother, and Mr..
Morris Tut on n new lock.
The cxtravagaLce said her mother.
"It should have been sent to the shop
and mended.
eve did send it. but it never got
mended. Mr. Morris thought some
one might 60 in and take the hams II
they were left open.
" Nv servants world never do such n
thing. hut men Of ms class are always
vulgar and suspicious. will put him
bach Oh his right footing soon, l can tel
you
am sorry TO say that ladies of even
the bluest blood can be very tart when
they think the occasion lustliies 1t. and
Helen often felt the hot blood surge 10
her temples ot her mothers words
poured out over MauIice's unoheuding
head.
When he first came they had sent his
meals 10 his room, but IN some way they
had gotten 10 ssk him 10 the table
during the time he nursed DR.. Mason,
and Of course he had not been anXlous
to resume hls solitary meals. lie
knew, however when he hat aat
at the table once with Mrs. Mason
that henceforth IT would ho unpleasant
for him. 30 when the meal WAS over
he waited till Helen had lett the room,
then with his old-tlme courtlIncss OF
manner begged Ur. Mason to he 80 Kind
as to send up his meals IN future, then
bowed himself ont of the room. Mira.
Mason meant to accomplish this very
thing. but the elegance of his manner
awed her at first, and then aroused her
bitterest indignation that miller should
assume such manners.
"Thev are not assumed, my dear
they are the mans natural manners, and
come to him whenever he IS IN earnest
or excited.
- suppose he was much in earnest
to day. then for lie had the air OF an
offended lord.
"Yery Justly offended" said her
snouse. have known Maurice only
three months but | consider hlm-more
than any one | have ever met-one of
Natures true n0bieBeH. The Old man
said this with all emphasis that WAS quite
unusual Of late. The Wife's answer was
to 20 behind his chair and say some
thing very quietly about the ACCESSIBILITY
of having good-looking, insidious young
strangers about the house. and that NO
meut Helen came IN flushed and beautiful
from her garden. and to finish tho
whispered sentence the mother ouiy
glanced at the daughter and an under
s,suding was re-estabhshed between the
conjugal hearts.
CHAPTER V.
A DECLARATION.
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