Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-11-14

very, = asSented Etsie.
tive been considering the advisable
ity of leaving Mrs. Barry's myself, !" vol
unteered Mr.. Beavoir.
Miss Singer looked her establishment.
'tFact. I've seen cottage which I.
think would suit me exactly"
Really Well, as you are good
enough to coniide in mo, Mr.. Beayoir,
l must return the compliment. I, too,
am here to rent cottage"
"Quito coincidence avowed Mr..
Beavoira
"The dearest little place!, said Miss
Singer, enthusiastically, "with Queen
Anne porch and wee bit ola verandah,
and garden-not much bigger than n
pocket-h to be sure, but Just
the spot to raise verbenas and sweet
peas"
Mr.. Beavoir failed to recognize from
her description his ideal residence, SO he
said:
81 may as we'll tell you it is tho little
cottage opposite our boarding house."
"oh!" cried Miss Singer.
"Ehin ,,.:Si.sy
"That is the house am here to take.
1t suits me exactly"
With alarming suddcnness Mr..
Beavoir's fricndliness froze solid.
"rhat is why propose renting it-it
suits mel"
"Have you been through ita"
"No."
"Well, Twas early this morning. And
it has no end of cupboards, and tho
darlingest kitchen"
''I care nothing nbout the cupboards
or the Kitchen" declared Mr.. Beavoir,
with good deal of masculine disgust.
81 like the size. aud the style, and the
southern cxposurc-th that is why I'm
gong to rent it,"
"You9"-indignantly.
"Ir-stolidlv.
"But was here first to-day" fairly
sobbed Elsie; ''and if that horrid agent
had been in I'd have had tho key and
the receipt for tho months rent before
this"
'tI made up my mind about it last
evening"" said Henry, firmly.
$50 did l." gaspcd Elsie.
''And mean to have it, he asserted,
more firmly still.
Whercupon the little woman stared at
him with whole world of anger, re-
proach and disappointment in her bright
blue eyes, and then suddenly burst into
tears, pulled down her veil, and hurried
out of the Office.
And Mr.. Henry Bcauvoir, left in tho
supreme possession of tho ground and
the sandy-haired clerk, felt himself n
Blucbird, Nero, veritablc monster.
| When the agent came in he stated his
intention.
"The house will not be quite safe ana
habitable before the first week in May,
on account Of the fresh plastcring."
"Then I'll pay you years rent in adj
van &C from the LIST of May" decided
He nry. "It will take me till then, any
how, to sclcct furniture, servants, ETC. I"
When he went down Lnsallc street fif-
teen minutes later he carried with him
the key of the cottage, the receipt for n
years rent, aud the consciousness that
he was q specimen of the unpleasant type
specified in children's story-books Us IN
ogre. The worst of it was he retained
the unpleasant Conviction all day, and
even carried it up with him toVa
Barry's at supper time.
He bowed formally to Miss Singer Us
they took their customary seats at the
table. Colby she returned the saluta-
ton. Somehow affairs were not SO pleas
ant as they had been last evening. Then
the cordial conversation on old fashioned
flowers had made them forget the tough
ness of the meat and the lack of aroma
of the coffee
After supper he walked over to the
house and went through it. From tho
dining-room window two sad, stormy,
woe-begone eyes watched him. When
he returned to the boarding establish
ment the key and the receipt were burn
ing his pockets like live Goals.
He came into the lamp-lit empty draw
ing-room, empty save for the figure Mt
the window. Straight to the window he
went.
'A1iss Singer!"
"Yes"-icily.
'Pleasc take these"
Then, as she turned and looked uncom-
prehendingly at the articles extended, he
explained
"Thc key of the cottage and the re-
ceipt for years rent"
''AIr. Beavoir!"
II wish you would, upon my word, I
doW-tinlidly, eagerly. "I was brute
to-day-pleasc dol"
al couldn't think of such q thingi"
"Elsic"--he came nearer-''your namo
is Elsie, isn't it2 I'll take and keep tho
cottage if you'll take and keep me- Will
you9"
What did she saya Well, for awhile
the conversation was quite inaudihlo.
Then he said
1--WE can cultivate vcrbenas aud swect
peas in the garden"
Sand gillyGowers, too," she decided.
"Well, if there is space" he ssia
"Plcnty," she replied, promptly, sand
for border of pansics, also. You know
you like pausics, Henry"
NVoa Elaio ~