New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-12
THAT CAROLINY GAL.
GROWN Up.

Ransom, Oct. 6.-Marletta Vlhslo" mas Bro""
into a tall girl who has an eye to dress. and VINO
has steady company. Some call 1t having
beau liz came every Sunday evening and re-
manned until II. This is what constitutes stiddy
company"
When "A beau has arrived at the ability To visit
Sunday evenings, and the fact becomes known.
H. is tantamOunt TO the announcement Of an ell
pa9emcnt The girl il then believed to I've fin
ing In other words, she Is supposed 10 be
making tabIe-cloths, pillow eases and other
articles necessary for housekeeping
II a girl is known TO have an admirer. you do
not usually ask if she is engaged; you inquire
70 sbe ia "Gx,np- You will he understood
There is q certain respect accorded 70 young
woman in this position Although she IL not yet
married. she will soon be. She has secured, or
olr,ost securcd the man. Girls who are not
fixing. try, in her company, to seem as if they
did not envy her. They talk gayly; they rally
the engaged one they say they have never seen
the man vet whom they wotld even think Of
marrying The lucky one appears t. believe them.
Marietta was very fOrbcaring in her man.
nor notwithstanding the exaltatiOn Of her posi-
ton She wrote 10 her brother Bill, who was at
college, that one OF the best things about being
engaged WAS that it. made mar haul IN her horns
a little" Marietta frankly confessed that she
didn't know whit she should have done with
mar sccinr Bill was away if she hadn't been
engaged. She pi:!rd poor par. When sh" and
Theodore were married she wished par would
cone and live with her, and let mar Z" II alone,
and srr how she liked it, Par almost rIIrd every
time the marriage was mentioned. In return Bill
would write that his father must be- induced IN
some way TO brace up ana call his soul his own.
But while he wrote those words he knew that
Mrs Winslow's husband had lived too Ion- with
WipSlutv In IN, nblp NOT Ia consider his
soul as his own particular property
Even dnrinc her courtship Marietta had never
failed in the ardor Of her devotion 10 Daily.
She went flI Ia tell her beau that She
did not love him well a. she dad Daily. NJ
this information he laughed, having the 'le
mascullnr belief in one womans love for another.
Nevertheless. Marietta told the truth. Ever
since those ,lnvs when Daily had shut Mrs. Wins
low into the rrllar and Bill had made hi, mother
forgive the child. there had been III Marlctta's
i.rllng, toward the Southern waif ferv"r. and
passion and Romance hy the side Of which her
affection tor Thcodorc somewhat prosa".
thnush II WAS genuine affection all the Same.
loun. t;raham. Generally rallied lhndor.' was
such a GOOD krtcir" that Mrs. Wlnslow TOW
"knur,r,.~ as she ral!rI II, IA good deal 10 the
,irl Who had Lad the good fortune Ia attract
h.m. HIS father owned a large farm over Farm
ham way, and he had only this son. ana 10
,lnuuh,rrs The GIahail, were always likely
and Away, "scrabhln' :-bctirr ,'i!l, they wrr"
" iotrhandrd
1hndor showed his good fa>t" IN fancying Mar
r,,a who chad lost her frrrhlrs. and WIS now
almost brilliant looking, with her bi% eyes ana
her red ,aucy mouth. and her tendency 10 array
herself brromlngy She did not snow ans rA-
pr,sslvr JOY when he spoke '" her. and thai was
an attraction. She even dared 10 snnb him >olnr-
times The h"vrlty OF 'rlnG >iiuh'cI was an"'h'r
nttrlrtiun IN these Nrw land towns II II Il
melancholy fact that Noun- men are ':eat~ 10"
we'll There are 80 few ot them. counlraivcly,
,hn, they are considered prrciol, because they ar"
rare: and they are admitted acronncN.
|, wa. Il mild ,aI n oct"l"l. l. wH> a!sp
Sunday. and !oHnr Graham had come "N'i 'hI'
,la, l.. mi-h' talk" Marietta 10 driN' III hi>
r.,v hu..y. \ buzz /. a thing that !,rrlsrrrs
seem tn consider particularly American. ana par
'IculaiIy improper. thai - wien "c"P''' Nv
.oung man AMI yonnY W.nia'
am lad there Aa> ~ lorrlsHrr with III, note
bank near enough - see 40 OcrIpan, ot this
,r..y tor ,lr ro,r.b"ok would surely l"N" c"'i-
,,,,d ,L, record ct tin, Tact that Ia" man
arm MAS about the wonan's >nou. nis lhlnk'
II - of the inference also set down. !" 4" pilh''h
- SOON =, tire Traveller r"'il" II" '" h> pm
l,hrr-th.uk. | say. of thr Inference III REAR"
10 thr morn,, Of Rhis"h
The horse was going ii Great deal ~ las CIV"
Will. cIupplu. u u"nthtul Of oak h'Nr> or 4 '"l-
,,rr and ihr,r b, the NAY side ami zls/t--ns tn'
carriac, after hI'n.
M,rlr,,n WAS luokin. ah>rn'N along Tie road.
1i,,,lo,r Was lvoiiln. ~ Marietta. The hl@h"AN.
,y, for th-n pIc>rn'r. had been rhtiI"lN SOLITARY
,,ur. they entered Hp"r II. mat this WIS H.
u.,,,l condition IT,, ,r..s each side of the h"f>'
=, la Il
l,.,. ,h,, d.rr.tlon i.y rca>ors of this fnd.
MARIETTA WAS Iust thinking tha, here WAS ih"
rl,.,. where chr and naily had Ridden the bry'I"
,,, U,. Win.luw WAS IN rlr cellar. Her EYES
.,,,I,,,ll. became i\cd on Tie hr'hr~i curve III
,, ,,d vh,rr a white hound with large black
n,,ct,, upun II had come into view, walking
,..ur,lv and >utling n different clumps of faded
brakes
Marietta sat straight, ami >urpr>" came into
her fare.
II IT., believe that's her hound. >hc exclaimed
"r Is certainly Il hound. responded the Young
man. a little irr,acd that a hound should at
tract attention from hln.
And shes with hlm' now cried Marietta,
d" IT, me srt "ut quick
Tia. horse was pnllrd in. and. before Graham
could help her, his companion WAS on The ground
and running rapidly toward ti@Hrc which had
now appeared round the sam" curve from "hl'h
the lu. had come.
The ,oang man ,ro"l IT h> horses head and
watched the TWO Thai H. are was that Of II eirl
who wa, very slender. very erect and VIII" moved
with i ruriuts freedom quite ,!lNrrrui from the
movement Of amy "nr Lr lld rtrr seen. II WIS
a motion as tree a. the motion 1T mn afhl"i"
youur man who never thinks at lis own limbs
but II st..r>rd nothing ma,ru.lrr.
He saw the tw" embrace with l"rvor where
they met lew rod, away. lie heard voice
SAY:
only came this neon could not wait any
longer to see you.
He heard Marietta cry ont in fcrvrnt happiness
"Oh Daily" and SAW her fling herself again