San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-16

sald YOU mad rIdden Dy on black morse,
and my cousins were very much interest
ed"
"You will find that you cannot cross .
road in this place without every one know.
ing 1t, and knowing why, or making rea-
son. All the village will be discussing
you over breakfast this morning, and they
talked about you all last evening. My conf
ing here was a tremendous event. Bah
country places are stupid, dismally stu
pidw
"They must be - and lima looked a lit
tic dismayed. 81 have never lived long in
the country"
81 know that. No one would ever take
you for a provincial, Miss Costello. As
for me, have not passed seven years Of
my life in this place." am a citizen Of
the world.'
81 know that" said lima nodding-
"They call me foreigner here"
"South country is foreign to Cumber-
land; and you don't speak like home
bred English girl. You have been more
used to foreign language than your own
that is the reason"
"That is how you speak," said lima. s1
am no judge in my own case; but you
speak your words crisply as Italians do,
and the infections of your voice are not
English"
Darrell laughed, this Transatlantic girls
frankness was bewitching; he would not
have been at all surprised if she had told
him that his coat became him, or that
she admired his rings. He bowed and
thanked her for the compliments bestOw-
ed.
Suddenly lima looked at her watch, and
then clasped her hands in dismay.
ooh, Sir Philip, must hurry home to
breakfast! 1 am late already"
"You will let me escort your"
Sand take you out of your way? Not
for worlds! There are no bears in these
woods, are there"
"EXcept Cumberland BEARS" said OAR
| rell, with some bitterness; "but they are
harmless enough, poor clodhoppers! But
escort / know is 4 fiction. VIII you grant
me the pleasure Of your company as long
| US possible?"
"Oh, yes, gladly! 1t is no favor, you
know Why don't you come in to break
| fast with us? Aunte is friend of yours,
| you said"
There was a flash in DarrelPs eyes, and
culver of his delicate lips which told CT
smiling
| ton! think will act upon it,"
"Pease do" said lima earnestly, think
ing of the terrible story Rose had told her
| of this man who was so desolate, in spite
| of his ancient name and wealth.
The pleading upward look of the large
| brown eyes, the soft, "Please do" were
magnets more powerful than she dreamed
| of in her innocence. He would have been
| less than man who could have resisted
them, even though he "read between the
| lines" for Darrell knew that some one
must have told his young companion all
about the curse, and doubted not that she,
| flouting it, only wanted, in her sweet
| childish way, to make him happy.
"Can l say NO to such an applicant"
he said, passing his arm through his horses
bride as they moved forward.
81 hope you cannot" returned lima
| ssYes? Oh, how nice that will be-that
is, if you would really like to come, Sir
| Philip"
81 should like to come above all things
else"
| lima was quite satisfied, and moved
along by her tall cavaliers side till they
came to the Grange, where Molly the cook,
/ looking out OF the Kitchen window, was
| not little astonished to see no less q per.
son than Dark Darrell himself advancing
with his horse along the path between the
| Characteristics, with Miss lima by his
| side.
"Why, Jennie" she cried to the house.
maid, "there's the lord; and If Miss lima
| isn't talking away to him as if she'd ha'
| known him all her life-and she such
| beauty too! Well away; she may be
| directing her weird, and not know it! just
think if the lord should take n fancy to
her, poor dearw
Jennie, who was young, shook her head
| portentously, but remarked that "they
furriners" were mostly mad