Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-08

ably fastened. What Cid you sea- il
for, SAM she inquired, Hugrily' u
wanted TO see how il looked
We'll, supposin you did you couldn't
have told Laura t you'd never g q the
thing, and now you can
"That's Sc, " answered notified Nelly,
and sam chuckled TO think how true
such an answer would he, in spirit us
well as letter. At Nell's direction he
wrote the address and inclosed the note
to Jenny nauvray, asking her to post il
from Rome, where she would be when
the double epistle reached her.
In due time the verses returned to
Laura; her heart beat wildly as she per
ceived the foreign stamp, the Roman
postmark; she was heartily thankful
that she had gone TO the village post
Office herself, for her father would have
been sure 70 comme-- % the letter.
She took il at once TO her room and,
locking her door, sat down by the win
dow and carefully slit the envelope.
Judge OF her CONSERVATION, She turned
to the envelope and inspected that once
more; the postmark was distinct; SO was
the great u, that filed the azure round
Of the seal. What could this mean
was ii deliberate INSULT or had he SO
lost his manners, his feeling, by asso-
chatting with n rough herd Of artists
that he took this way to let her know
he cared for her no longer?
There was another and worse alterna
tive; she had read in novels. often, how
young mel coming into the possession
Of money became d|issipated: could Jack,
hey Jack, have taken too much wine and
under its degrading influence sent her
this disgusting, cruel set Of rhymes
Laura's face famed with anger; then
She threw herself on her little he'd and
cried bitter. hot tears; cried for her
past and her future. She went down TO
dinner with very red eyes indeed, and
told her father that she had q headache.
Indeed she had; and q heGrtuche too!
She was GLAD now that she had lost her
lorret-me-nOt ring months ago; ii
dropped of ber finger while she was
pulling wster-lilies out of Swan lake.
anu she n"u of4eu over Ihe LOSS SAD y,
"Ui o She fe!oicpo IN II' Snt ooulu
have sent that back III q letter, she
"oulu nave oeeh oo-1geu 10 return lti
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OAS si"l' III ''' H"uSo.
Gam L'amoh' "AIsJIIng along The
streets OF IraVefSe' HJJle kne" what ne
Iau a'he' NtLJ "aLueu IN VAIN 10Y
Laura S ~cohuoehce Win regard TO 'Jhat
sweet SWEEP valentine, IRON you know
"ho' as she hao IuIIy expected The let
ter to run; but Laura gave no sigh
sam gr1nneu 10 hlmseII after hearing
No-'S e4PIeas n'i LII P"'ion'e d. vHAs IN
uo"ru-oi s1lonoe anu muOOe'eu 10 HIN
So--.
u guess not. mat amt the sort Of a
10 TEL Oh not mueh-
Yet alJef all sam Ike Jle rest OF us,
was but a mole grubblng in the dark;
ne brought about results far from his
" expectation above ms WI under
standing even. though he went AL his
days II ignorance thereof; conscious
only OF d sllgnt Ve1aJ1on, he
thought OF The matter as he dld once IN
awhile 1or the next year, That has pre-
clous bit ot,mlsohlef had come TO naught
Nellie SAID nothing 10 Laura, ever; she
thought the letter tad no doubt been
lost, and when news came two years
after Of Jenny Dauvray's marriage to
Jack Davenport She was glad she had
eve questioned Jenny as to the mat
ter; really Miss DauvrHy had forgotten
all about the thing after il was mailed,
and did not answer Nelly's letter for three
months, and then only in the briefest
and %stitiest fashion, for even then she
wa becoming absorbed in Jack.
But the obnoxious valentine did Il
good work for Laura had it never come
she might have gone on bemoaninr her
recreant love-, hoping against hope for
his return. till the news Of his marriage
would have smIUten her TO the heart
Now she was as much disrusted ms
rrieved; she could not cherish us an
idol d man so coarse, 50 cruel, so com
worthy only OF b mere scnooI-boy. loh