The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1889-10-05

MISS Disney starts, looks around, and
seeing who it is who is coming toward
them, colors deeply. 1t is only a mo
mcntary emotion, however, and, con-
qucrinS it, she rises swiftly, but with
inherent grace, from her seat, and goes
to meet him, Her self possession is COM
pletc.
"lou have Gomez" she says, with Il
smile most lovely, but studiously indif
fercnt
yes" If his life depended upon it
Ponsonby could say no more. He is
feeling stunned, bewildercd, lost! Here
is this girl, whom ho had left believing
her his own, standing before him now in
all her radiant beauty, clothed in care
less smiles, and with touch of some.
thing new lis it triulnph) upon her parted
lip He turns away, sick at heart
Finding her alone later on in the even
ing, lie saysquictly: "You and Sir George
seem TO be quito good friends"
II like him very much," sho SAYS
gently enough, but with a grain of de-
fianco in her tone which he is not slow
to mark.
"rhat can SEQ for myself" ho says,
with rather forced smile. "What an
atom out of eternity is bare week! and
yeti
"You found it short, tllen?'-Slancing
at him with IL half frown.
"Ncvcr mind me, he says impaticntly.
'What of you!"
"Why should submit to an cxamina-
xI,Iip fl,
with some hautcur, throwing up her
dainty head and making smile from
Lady Newport, who is sitting directly
opposite, an excuse for leaving him.
"What Il heavenly night" says Miss
Nugent, suddenly, us, drawing back tho
curtains, she lets n rush of glorious moon
light flood the room. "And the air-how
soft and warm! Why not come into the
gardens and enjoy it, as we have done
every night for the past week? You and
Sir George. Alys, used to be the first to
propose it. Now''-smiling- -"you base
ly throw tho responsibility upon my
shoulders.
Car be it from us" says Sir George,
lightly. Glass us not among the back
slidcrs. There is something about Miss
Disney that always suggests to me kin
ship with Diana; not for ono moment,
therefore, would she, feel convinced,
dream of casting slight upon her illus
trious relative. You will come and pay
your accustomed court to her, will YOU
not, Miss Disncy?'
For a moment she hesitatcs; almost a
refusal is on her lips, when her eyes
chance to fall on Ponsonby's In his
there is open though unconscious rcbukc,
and it turns tho scale in Sir Georges
favor.
Come" she says, holding out her
hand to him with IL sweet smile prcttily
tingcd with coquctry, and together they
step lightly from the drawing room to
the balcony, and from thence to the gar
dcns-lit by the wandering moon" to
transparent brilliancy-that lie beneath,
wrapt in sleep. The others follow.
Ponsonby, as though compelled thereto
by some iron demon, moves in their
train, speaking such idle trash as society
demands, even from the heavy hearted,
to katherine Nugent. But his whole
soul is centercd on the form of the little
willful girl fitting before him, now near.
cr, now Il long way off, now fading away
altogether in the embrace of some amor
Gus shadow, only to reaper again in Il
patch of purcst moonlight.
At last he really loses sight of her
Two or three people coming up to Kath-
crime cnSross her in some merry arg,l-
mcnt and will not let her go. Glad at
heart at this chance of being once more
alone, Ponsonby moves away from the
group, stepping out from it silently.
Seeing this, katherine says gently but
hastily, $50 and sec the eastern end of
the gardens, Frank; it will reward you;
it is lovely in this light. You know it,
that little bit apart, where the old statue
Of Apollo stands half shroudcd in ivy:'
DOES he know it? How well he re-
member, how he stood there with her
week ago and had q sweet but lying tale
told him by a marguerite. No, ho will
not so there again! And yet some fasci-
li"tion draws him through the scented
dews and glittering beams to the spot
where, seven days ago, he had at least
been happy in the thought that he was
without 4 rival; and now
Now' He had reached -lpollo's shrine
with do"iIc.tst ewes; but the sound of
ooSTISrED.