The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-01-18
A WOMAN NOW.

added la siorny, after a second or two
of hesitation Guy .d&I0WIck looked
earn stly at her.
"Sut why notf'
81 dont love you returned the le-
year old damsel, with extreme iranknes5.
ada you are cruel
"No. i ain not. At least don't mean
TO be cruel Oh, Guy! what mac you
fall in love with me? We are having
such q nice time out here playing cham
pion croquet games and getting up tab
feaux and chara les an going on pIcnicS.
And now it's all spoiled.
Ida, said Guy, passionately, setting
his teeth together, "You are mere hid.
You haven an idea what love means
apart from chocolate creams and now
bail dresses" he added bitterly. What
made me fall in love with you! Because
j couldn't help 1t. And now you refuse
to give me back so much as hea-tthrob
IN return"
"And can't help that" retorted Ida,
naively. "Don't look 50 cross, Guy. You
frighten me-"
because I am in earnest Ida. Try to
think OF this as a woman should. Try for
once to lift yourself out of the trivial
world that surrounds you, and tell me
from the very depths OF your heart if you
do not think you can love me"
Little Ida Morny began to cry.
81 don't want u love YOU she sobbed.
'I don't know why should get married.
I'm very happy as 1 am. Mamma says
il is time emo Ighl or girl TO think of ma
trin when she Is twenty-five years
old. And i am only sixteen"
There" interrupted Guy, bitterly,
"that VIII do. looked for an ocean of
deep, solemn sweetn IS in your heart /
| find but a shallow, pool, rejecting back
the shadow of transient events-and
that is all. Goodbye Ida. Forget that
/ have made fool of myself-f you
| CAM
And he strobe away. biting his lips,
and tearing at his long black mustache as
he went.
Ida looked after him with quivering
| dimples ami scared, velvet blue eyes.
| Il don't know what he means" said
this little, -blossomed bud OF woman
hoo /, to herself. I'm sorry | have OF
fsnded hun, but / couldn't help i'll"
And she went back to the hotel for her
hour OF guitar practicing, feeling a little
| bewildered and a little resretful, Just as
| she did when her pet greyhound ran
away from her
Just at the entrance of the laural walk
"a wild, slavan spot that ov rlooked the
blue gleam OF the lake, Hortensia Carey
met Mr.. HardwicS- 4 tall, Juno Like
| woman OF thirty, with soft, swim ming,
Oriental eyes and a face that was dream
| OF beauty in itself!
Hortens!a Carey had come to Silver
| view axe TO get rich husband. Hor-
] tsnsia liked tine ardent young Southerner
\ and she didn't like that insi- N hcant
| little mite OF an Id Morny," and Hor-
t.nsia, snugly shielded behind the trees
| an tushes, and hear / every word of the
declar ton OF love and it's refusal
! "-trike while the iron Is hot" said
| Hortensia, u ,rselE There's many a
heart caught in the rebounl and why
| t,r,y Hur,l yVi~l- -,
30 she glid Id forward with upturned
eyes shining softly beneath their long
lashes.
HaIr. Hardwick, are you sad. Yol
LOOK troubled" she murmered sympa-
thetcally.
There's not much IN the world but trou-
ble."
"An1 you gay thatr' FRIED Hortsnsia.
"Youi Now, L, who an only a woman,
might Z ,er IL with reason -
Guy l)oked into h,r Cleopatra face,
Strange that he never before knew how
beautiful il was.
"Will you % my arm down this steer
hill?" said he. And tell rle what you
mean by those la-t words ?''
| Hortensil knew low TO avail herself o.
the 20 den tlds OF 0-Yortunity. Guy
Lard wick was ju-t in the mood Ehc1 /
nan wants relief from himself. nc
tle u7shot of it VS. that ho invited Lel
| to 20 out rowing c1 the la G .er suns I
'.Don't = me, ii there is any one el-t
you prefe-," sighed Hortensia. II al
accusto ned to put myself in secondar.
position"
"rheie's no one I,would prefer to you,
said Guy, slowly. "No one, at leas
now
"Not engaged !" cried Ida Aiornv
dropping her croquet maliet "Guy Hard
wick ens@sed! l don't believe a word O
it"
Il saw the ring myself on Hortensi,
Careys finger said Mrs. C?pcnwc.l
. ne told me- Cho's proud o. II, and W, /
| sha may be, - Mr.. .ardwicls il hy q,
odds the finest young fellow at the la'.,
tins season. don't quite ike IIortens I
but ehe IL very handsome. They vi
make splendid couple. Quick, Ida
the ere waiting for you to Play-it is you
turn"
And Ida gave her bail a thump witt
the mallet vitality damaging her d rtn r.
play, oud not in the least knowing wha
she VS. about.
She went homo and looked into he
mirror.
Yes" said she to herself, 81 though
50! l IN only a little insignificant Great
ure, " ID pale cheeks, sens less blue eve
| and hair like flaxl Miss Horiensia Care,
a. queen. Shes worth loving-but
didn t think Guy would have forgottel
me so Soon"
An then Ida began to cry, she didn'
quite know why.
81 think Pm tired Of Silverview Lake.
she sail to herself. al mean to write I
Uncle Theodore TO come and take m
home l suppose they'll be married a
once, and Mss Carey won't return Z
Vermont at all. / won't go TO the wed
ding"
Oi course the contemplated nuptials @
the wealthy >outherner and the beaut,
OF the season made plenty of gossip an
conslIera Die sensation. 1t found its W =
into the newspapers no one knew boi
Except perhaps Miss Hortensia hersel. !
II porters iotted down the number G
MSS Carevs dresses and Jewels. the pro
b3ble number of thousan Is per anru
winch constituted the bridegroom in
co ne AMI llortensias superb lace act
iy appeared on the front page of /. :,
Illustrated papers OF the day rs the Bird
| OF the Season
Guy VAS indignant enough-but II D,
tensia only laughed.
Never mind, dear Guy said sh
People will talk-and, after all, the
don't mean any HARM
Lut one beautiful summer mornin
Mss Carey's seat at the breakfast tabl
was vacant-and scarcely had that "a
been observe when some one cried out
Why, General Vincent il gone, too
lndcniahly it was awkward Tor th
bridegroom elect. Still more so whom
note, sent from the nearest post ..ic,
gave hiia 20 understand that the lov,l
Horsonsia had given back her heart I
the general, an ancient suiteT OF hers. VIII
In recently fallen heir to a larre fortun
in Cuban plantations and Jamaica spic
WOO IS.