Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-09-27

and they've been practising all the
sprhS. Well, l could do better with a
com AMI some tissue paper"
Avhif from the syringa she wore
wasyafted to him.
IL face, in the dusky light, was
briet and yet soft.
s. was thinking about her surveyor,
proSbly, and laughing in her sleeve at
him We'll, let her.
Por Cary felt suddenly weary of his
anse lie was in love with pretty
glrlTho did not love him-that was
all She coulI not be blamcd-he
woui not blame her. lie could nate
the nan she did care for, but he could
not late her.
% while the band labored unmu.i-
callyon, he bent toward and talked to
her gently.
He told her of the really fine open
an Concerts he had heard at Brighton
Beach. lie described the odd, varying
scene-the mass Of people who thronged
the walks; the long, crowded hotel
pazzls; the circular pavilion from
which the music pourel forth; and
bounding it all, the great still water.
liz fund Alice looking up at him,
as ne ended, with keenncss in her
eyes and softer smi c.
q have never been anywhere" she
said, almost in a whisper. 81 don't
know anything. wonder, Mr.. Loomi,
I've wondered more than once-that
you care to talk to me! l."
But she said more than she meant to.
IIcsvnew that her checks were hot ana
her eyes confusedly lowered.
His heart thro bed hard. He got up
abruptly.
"That remarkable march they're mur-
der.ng is driving vorybody away" he
remarked. "Shall We follow, Miss Ly-
MANI"
Il think So" said Alice.
Her fingers pressed his offered arm.
A man, who had b.ea listening in his
halted lggy, wheeled about as they
stepped into the road.
lie was driving a colt, and a frisky
one.
Was it the marvellonsly bad music
which made the horse jump as he
turncdl
Alice was on the point of asserting it,
but he swervel so close that she sprang
back with a scream.
Somehow the whirlilg buggy struck
her 1t flew down the road the next
instant, but Alice lay in prone heap in
the dusty road.
Cary L9omis gg1s,;.ng.a.a IS he bent over
her
"AliceF' he cried. "Alice, darling
are you hurt?'
lie raised her to her feet, his arms
about her.
mo, nor she protested. "TLat
back wheel struck me as it flew around
that's all; it diln't even bruisc me.
Oliy Pm dusty enough" she ended,
laughing.
81 am sosorry! he murmured. 'You
sprung away from me so quickly that
coull not save you. You must be
hurt"
Il haven'ta scratch" " she retortcd
IL think viii take your arm, Mr..
Loomis.'
e. IA '-'sewiildiercd way he withdrew
and offered it. Then:
Il owe you an apology, Miss Lyman, y
he said, stifll}, as they went. d
called you something. l was so star, led
that called you perhaps you did not
hear mel"
"Yes, I did," she murmurcd, with
head averted.
"Well," he burst forth, desperately,
ian apology did lsay? Well, Iapolo-
giza, Miss Lyman. But I only said
what was in my hcart-I only said what
| couldn't hep Miss Lyman. Try not
to biaino mel You Will have a right tc
tell the man you are promised to, if you
choose, and he will have the right tc
horsewhip me-but l coulln't help it
Try 10 forget it,
"a don't understand you said Alice,
turning toward him al last and squarely.
''What eau you mean, Mr. Loomis3 Tho
man Pm promised tol I'm promised tc
nobody"
But she was promised to somebody
soon and in short order.
''Siark, said Cary-he was too happ,
to be sharply discerning and he regarded
Mr.. Stark with bland eyes" Stark
you were wrong, let me inform yoV
about Miss Lyman and that surveyo
from P,tbsburg who boarde next dool
70 her lshc is not engaged to him
she never was, Stark, enl never viii
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