San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-29

young man, and / should be sorry with
all my heart to be on any but the most
kind and friendly terms with him: but
yet for his own sake, and-and for
your sake, my dear, do think he be-
gins to come here too often. Upon
my word, | do, Gabrielle!" said Aunt
Susan, with an anxious quicker in her
brow.
"For my sake, Aunt Susan!" repeat
ed Gabrielle slowly, in a tone of such
proud and utter amazement that it
quite made Miss Dunstan vince.
MY DEAR" she began again hurried
ly, you know you are only a pair of
young creatures; you can't persuade
anybody that you are wiser than other
people-and since the beginning of the
world, am sure, Gabrielle, you know
what has been the result of two young
people getting thrown together. Not
that mean there's any harm in it, in
many case,-nOt at all; but, dear, you
ought to remember that / am here all
by myself, and if anything of this sort
should come about while your uncle is
away, and if he didn't like it land L
know he wouldn't), it would be laid up
on me, and | should never forgive my
self. Indeed l shouldn't, Gabriellel"
said Aunt Susan, with almost fearful
earnestness.
"Then what do You propose to dop"
inquired Miss Lynn, with perfect COM
posture.
"My dear9" exclaimed Aunt Susan,
quite taken aback.
"Will you speak to Mr.. Warrington,
mean, or should you like me to do it?
And what ought we to say to him? Are
we simply to tell him not to come any
more?-Or are we to give him our reas-
Ons for it2 1 should like to do what
ever you thought best" said wicked
Gabrielle.
Gabrielle, how can you laugh at
me-" exclaimed Aunt Susan reproach-
fully, when you see how anxious amp
when you see that that young man is
quite weight upon my mind?"
. HE is not a weight upon my mind,
Aunt Susan"
Then, my dear, l can only say he
ought to be, for you know-you know
quite well-what he comes here for"
"He comes because he is idle. and
because he likes play better than work.
have told him so many a time"
Il dare say you have; and you may
go on telling him so many time more,
but that will make no difference in the
end. You may tell him what you like,
but as long as you give him the encour-
agement you do he will continue to
come here just as often as he does now.
And it is no use for you to try to de-
ceive either yourself or me. Gabrielle,
for you know what he comes for, and
you know he comes because you en-
courage him. Oh, my dear, what
hn -,
come home, and find that / had been
letting you drift into an attachment
Drift into a what, did you say?"
Gabrielle asked abruptly.
Into an-attachment," said Miss
Dunstan, rather hesitatingly.
II, Aunt SusanY"
"My dear" in a tone of pathetic ex-
hortation, lis not that what we have
been talking OFF"
''Of Inc drifting into an attachment"
Miss Lynn sat upright upon her chair,
and looked into Aunt Susan's face with
look that almost took that lady's
breath away.
II was only supposing such a thing
you know" she began deprecatingly.
"But you had no right to suppose
such thing!"
"Well-but people can't help think
ing of such possibilities, Gabrielle"
"You ought to know that it isn't
possibility at all, Aunt Susan"
MY dear, "-hesitatingly-'I should
be very glad to believe that it was
not"
Il would rather have my right hand
Miss Lynn sat still when he was
gone, in her luxurious low easy-chair,
close to the window, which was open, in
the midst of the scent of flowers, with
the light from the sunset on her sum-
mer dress and her idle hands. She was
leaning back, doing nothing, thinking
of not very much. Her day was done
her evenings entertainment ended.
She looked out of window with little
yawn, and then the clock struck nine.
only nine! L can't go to bed yet; L
wish l had something nice to do"
thought foolish Gabrielle.
Miss Dunstan was moving up and
down about the room,-putting the
books straight that Gabrielle in the
course of the day had been carelessly
turning over, gathering together Ga
bTielle'S scattered music, picking up
her handkerchief and the knot of flow
ers she had dropped an hour ago upon
the floor. Miss Lynn was in the habit
when she occupied an apartment of
sowing her property broadcast over it
"a habit shocking in the highest de-
gree to Aunt SuSan'S sense of orderli-
ness; but she had tried to cure Gabri-
ellie of it, and Gabrielle had proved in
durable; so, instead of correcting her
any longer, she had fallen now into the
new way of rectifying her faults with
her own hands-a change in her system
of education for which idle Gabrielle
had been, and still was, infinitely CRATE