The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-03-27

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rcareFessnr1ss, Or was guilty of a prac-
tFa Joke upon highly respectable and
imaginative parents. 1t was patent
another, nurse and visitors that she
had misplaced the infant souls, by the
lime The ttihlrene were six months old.
When thcy were grown, 1t was stand
Ire Jest in community just then adj
dicted to "I'inafore, that the facetious
mother Of MS all had linked these
uailens up ~
fin 'fr tt4ei4ship- seemed absurd, even
pcasnaI acquaintances. Not a feature
Or tri24-es tone or manner betrayed it.
gey was q tall brunette and Junoesque
in build Tho curl of the short upper
tip- w;s-1qf4it4 81 iaeaEnate, her deep. gray
eyes had black shadows in their depths;
sbe bore her head afoft and walked as
queens Should; her contralto voice had
asith.tone. Of depressed passion, so in
consistent with the trite propriety of her
speech, that people were surprised and
Br0yqft'tt when they could elicit nothing
else; She looked like Medea whose
gerycales were deadly, and portended
Rmpest Her family knew her as an
lmialh horse.-her friends as the
#eekest, aud sh vest Of social lay-fgures,
Conscientious to a fault, patient to q
miracle.
You have no more character than
bowl Of vanilla junKett' said Sara, fierce
y. 10 her one morning, as they talked
over party they had attended the pre-
Yions evening.
Most people spoke of Lucy as "Sara's
sister despite her superiority in size,
and the fact that she had preceded her
tFirr=ttt4a= the=merld+ by half an hour.
The lesser ruled the larger, as Ttania
ruled Peascod and Cobweb. Sara was
the fairest Of blondes, and petite. Her
hair would have been faxen but for the
golden eliHts upon the waves: her eyes
we're wide and pure blue; her lips cherry
ripe' her cheeks had the violet flush, at
! once soft and clear, one revels over in
the heart of Katherine Mermit rose.
From sunny poll to twinkling toes, she
was alive and electric-the sauciest,
daintiest, daringist sprite that ever
turned a lovers head and shocked a.
duenna.
While Lucy sewed now upon long
white seam, her exquisitely-molded hand
drawing the thread out in slow lengths
with Rhythmic regularity, her sisterand
sovereign, perched upon the head of
lounge close by, twittered like sun
:bleached linnet.
"NIilk-and-water is sauce tartdre by
comparison" she continued, nipping and
rending with her pink nails water-lily
snatehed from bowlful upon Lucy's
washstand.
Dan Hyde had sent them, an hour be-
fore, and the present TRADE sprang up
from this circumstance.
why, just couldn't keep it to my
selfanother minute. Dan would MUIR
der me if he knew | had let out his
secret He charged me not to breathe
1t 10 anYhody-least of all to you-you
ungrateful, non-spsceptible alabaster
slab! He calls you his still, pale angelr
l>dont believe angels veins run iced
glycerine. Lucy Knight! if you don't
-httSh,-or- prick your finger, or break
yUUrneedle, or do something abnormally
like other people, shall fall upon you
and tear you, limb from limb verify
betirve this flower has more human
feeling than you. You take the news
thatone of the finest fellows in town
loves you to distraction as coolly as if
had said; Lucy, do you know that
water-lilies have yellow centersp"
Lucy did not lift her eyes, or intermit
the setting of minute stitches of uni
forid length.
II do. not see that there, is any thing
for me to say she answered, in the.
deep monotone that never more than
limited at leashed feeling. "You are
very kind, am sure, to tell me all the
pleasant things Mr. Hyde said to you Of
mt, and he was very kind to say them"
In wrath that would not wait for words
70 convey it, Sara flung the maltreated
lily at her. 1t hit Lucy's cheek and fell
upon her white work. - She picked it
Up, looked at itas If to see whether or
not It couldabe repaired, and apparently
dect'ling that it was hopelessly injured,
dropped 1t into .the waste-paper basket,
and went on setting minute stitches.
cara swung her toe against chair and
upset it,
- don't see what he sees in such. a
construction Of starch and plaster to care
iof, she icrked out. SIT did not seem
So Ruposterous While he was telling me
IN the conservatory-and the band was
paving soft love music--how he had
lo3fd YOU for three years, and could
hcA'r get near enough to you to inti-
mat" HE truth. He looked so miserable,
ana Tragic, and nice, that | couldn't
ne ? saving what a perfectly lovely dis
POSITION you have, and how helpful and
unscliish you are, and how devoted am
" you and that nothing would please
n,e more than to have him for a brother.
inere. ! am glad of it!'' in savage sim
eegffy s.
'.lay had run. the point of the needle
lRhler her@nal. Her brows contracted,
asa hers Whitening lips were pressed
ssPseiy together, as she dipped the
"eansded member in the bowl of water,
ana then stanched the blood with her
handkerchief =
ct y dog bleed. doesn't it?' remarked
sara cool and malicious. .sThat does
surprise me somewhatm
IN the next second she collapsed into
az unexpected bunch Of blue foulard and
lfSen lflit upon the white work, and
lp'lSins her fearful face in Lucy's fichu,
Sss9ed her to forgive her for all the
s w. abominable things she had
Lucy fondled her silently, as she might
Ivy kitten or frightened rabbit.
a. know you don't mean all You say,
sOar. size said with unmoyed gentle