Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-06-04

was very pleasant TO look upon, with
| curling, daTk-red halr. a milk-white
skin, and deep-blue eyes, under long,
| dark lasheS.
Just now. with cheeks flushed and
hair tossed by her struggle with the
| keen autumn wind, a smile lingering
on her delicious scarlet lips, and a clus-
| ter of superb hot-house roses hsld pro
tectingly close to her breast, she was
more than pretty.
| such a time as I've had coming
homel' she said, gaily.
She was a book-keeper in the Il INK
of Fort Raynor. and enjoyed the ad-
yantages and inconveniences of home
with her dead step-mother's sister, at a
price that would have paid her bills at
the best boarding-hOuse in the town.
There's a regular Kansas blusterer
abroad to-day she went on. we were
nearly blown to pieces, my roses and
| glancing, half tenderly, half detiantly,
down at the flowers, which she knew
would be noticed and commented upon.
Ada arched her brows-brows not so
well marked as when she was in full
toilette of an afternoon.
'Huml Conrad hartman, suppose?'
The same replied jessie, with a
| lit lie lift of her firm, dImp!e-cleft chin.
There are Advantages murmured
Mrs. Barr, IN having Dutch gar
dener for an admirer. Perhaps you
have made mistake in always looking
rather higher, Ada
L fail to see how a girl can look
higher than to man who Is handsome
AM well educated, and good and true,
and working honestly for his living,
declared Jessie, and then left the room
| l..N. l.,
than nature had poised 1t.
But her stormy face grew bright
again as she ran up stairs AMI entered
the shabbily-furnished room W ere Mary
| Valdor sill lay OF the bed.
See what you and | have, Miss
| Mary she said, showering half her
roses down beside the gray head and
| worn, refined face.
Miss VaIdnr gathered them lovingly
| to her lips is she lay. There were
drops bright as dew on them when she
looked w.
You generous child, you shouldn't
rob yourself so,' she cried. But, oh,
how lovely they are, like a breath of
summer, like sight Of the South
They grew SO freely in my own especial
garden there, years ago. I haven't
seen any like them since | came to this
| town
They're the first, believe, that ever
were i'll this town. said Jessie, smiling
and blushing, where she sat comfort
ably perched on the low foOt-bOard of
the bed. Conrad sent for the bushes
10 some famous rosery ELst, and has
been coaXing and nursing them for
months. These are their very first
blossoms. and he declared that no one
but me should enjoy them; but | de
clared l should share
Mary Ealdor knew all about Conrad,
and she smiled also, as women do when
the only brightness of their lives is the
reflection from the youth and JOY OF
others
You are to be married soon, are you
not?' she asked, gently.
Jessie's face fell. She turned away,
a sudden mist binding her eyes.
Not soon; perhaps never she said.
! -yehemeutly-'it'S nothing he's
done; but three years ago, just before
his father died, he-the father, 1 mean
borrowed money on his place. Con-
rad has kept up the interest, and paid
off part of the mortgage; but the rest
falls due next month, and il he can't
pay ii everything will have to be sold,
and of course won't bring half its value
dl d lOlCtI dUCl4Oll yuSt
now. It's thousand dollars lie needs,
and it might as well be hundred
thousand for any chance he has of raIs-
ing it i'll time. II he could only hold
on to his gardens and green house Il
| little longer, lie could be sure of doing
| well; but if he 10 eS all he has like this,
he says lie will 20 away and try his for
| tune 5 mewEere else, and We viii be
| separated for no one knows how long
and p rhaps never be able to marry a
all so both of US Will have to be mis-
cradle for the want of just one thousand
dollars. And the way poor Con has
worked and saved to get out of debt,
and all in vain! | felt as if l oughtn't
to even let him give me these TO seS,
instead of selling them to somebody;
but II can't matter much now- II
seems as If nothing mattered much any
any,
The girl's voice broke forlornly, af-
ter her passionate outDurst, and her
face WAS still turned away; but before
Miss Valdor could speak, Mrs Barr
entered, and Jessie hastily made her
escape. saying she must Set her hair to
rights in time for dinner.
| Mrs. Barr had come to inquire after
and sympathIze with her poor d ar
cousin Mary. She must not think OF
going down stairs after being SO Ill III
the morning; they would bring her up
a tray with anything she could fancy
to eat. Later OH, Ada would come
and read TO her, or brush her hair, for
| the dear child was so anxious 10 do
whatever she could for her, but had not
| liked 10 risk distur ing her while she
was resting.
And perhaps tonight she would be
! able TO move into the room with the
| bay-window and the southern exposure;
| it would be pleasanter since the weather
had set II SO cold and dreary. They
would have liked to nave had her take
| It when she first came, but 1t was
really not fit, after all the dust of sum
mer, till it had had Its fall cleaning.
| Now that was well over, apd they
could settle themselves down comfort
| ably for the winter.
Though Mary Naldor was perhaps
rather overwhe med by this sudden at
tention and care, she showed no sign of
anv feeling other than courteous graft
tude.
But she did not care for any dinner,
she said; she would rather lie quiet
than have Cousin Ada stay with her,
though her offer was very kind; and she
did not feel like moving, even from
one room to another, for she was used
TO this, and it didn't seem worth while
| to make them 80 much trouble.
BY the next day it was evident that
the gentle little lady would make no
one any trouble very long. She had
terrible attack OF spasms of the heart
during the night, and the hastily-sum-
moned doctor looked grave when he
left her, and graver still after his call
| in the morning.