Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-07-25

"WhOn aiming u d1sappo1nG1ng, mar
lorie said, "I always AJAX insanely why il
IL no. No, Of course, We could not get
professional aid to keep Miss Chester
station: so we shall have to fold our
hands and look on, while the poor girls
heart breaks in that miserable court.
Col. Stuart" she added, with a quick,
impetuous change in her voice, SCAN
Nei-even Neil-ever be SO really cruel
as to bring her hsreT"
"He would not think it cruel" said
the Colonel, while he pondered the en-
phasized word in her speech. "He
thinks it cruel to leave her alone, as he
presumes her to be. You cannot blame
him for the cruelty which you see in this
act, because he sees 1t so differently"
at don't think he sees it at al, re-
turned the girl, with quick contempt;
"he only sees how disagreeable 1t Is to
be foiled, for the hrst time In his life,
and how much pleasanter it was for him
to have Miss Chester about his house.
| Surely he will never take her there,
where we can see the poor girls misery,
without being able to help her or to
share it? Ipromised to do what / could
for her, and that is what we are doing.
"That 10 not your doing" put in the
Colonel, gently, noticing how the girls
hot fingers were clasped together in her
earnestness. ST hope Adhesion will
bring her to The Anchorage, if he
brings her back at all. Adelaide will
be glad to have her"
'TOh, Col. Stuart " whispered Mar
jorie, ST wish the olew had been given
to you instead of Neil"
He smiled, but his eyes filed with .
great gladness at her words.
/ - x~<N r. h11k lat
us feel sure that he will use his infors
nation kindly at last"
Mariorie's lip curled.
81 cannot feel sure-I cannot fancy
It. 1 have as little faith in that as in
Louie's forhearance at the trial"
els abe not more lenient yet?"
"Iess so-less and less so every day.
Oh, if could but"
The words ceased suddenly, but Col.
Stuart knew what was the prayer she
urged so often and so vainly with her
sister.
suddenly starting up. "Col. Stuart,
has your wish to see him anything to do
with-with what we have been talking
about?"
He laughed his negative-partly in
the very heartiness of his contradiction,
partly to bring q smile to her face, be-
fore she should encounter her fathers
keen and suspicious glance.
Slowly Marjorie mounted the dark old
oakan staircase, as the twilight shadows
settled In the CORNERS and spread gloom
lily from step to step. Her close, dark
habit, unreliewed by any color, was like
one Of the embodied shadows clinging
about her yet her beautiful eyes were
soft and wistful, and her lips were quiz
ering like child's.
An hour afterward, she descended the
scantily lighted staircase in o softly
flowing Cashmere dress of delicate blue;
and with tender winter rose in hel
brown hair; yet now her face was still
and grave, her lips firmly and almost
scornfully set, and her step slow and
listless. What need to hasten when
there was a whole long evening to spend
alone with Louisa?
But an unexpected greeting await
ed her when she entered the drawing
room.
Marjorie" Ter sister exclaimed
turning sharply to her, "why did yor
not tell me Col. Stuart was coming ID
dinner?"
at didn't know" said Marjorie, cold
"; "I didn't like to ask him whether he
should stay if papa invited him, and, il
had, should still have thought it ex
tremely unlikely that papa would invite
him"
at had no idea of it when I ordered
dinner, and I'm as vexed as 1 can be,
ohafed Miss Castillain, taking out and
rearranging the Jet butterfly in her hair
as she stood before the mirror Ga n
always being treated in this unfair way.
care you quite sure Col. Stuart il
staying to dine here?" inquired tn,
younger sister, in q voice that was SLOW
and quiet in its scorn. "I should hav'
considered it 80 very unlikely"
"Don't be hypocrite," was the re
tort. "He must have told YOU"
"n he had told me-" said Marjorie
! quietly, as she stood with her back tx
! the table, Watching her sisters maneu
yers at the glass, al should have begge,
: him not to come"
"I shall believe that when hear yol
do it."
"I should have begged him not t,
l come" repeated the girl mmoved. ."
? should have said, why should 20,
come, Col. Stuart, when you have sucl
l pleasant home of your own? VIII,
8 should you come here? There's nothing
: but gloomy dinner of feeble soup an,
our own everlasting mutton. My fathe
? Will only entertain you with his ex
7 perience in keeping twice as many sheel
as any one else on half as much land
Louisa will only pretend to cry, ant
look as lugubrious as clown off tn
Q stage; and shall only snap at every
body and everything, and fail to &c
!, much flavor to my life even out of that
e Why, in the name of oil that's jocund
should you Gomez 1 should have sal
r that, if I had had the faintest idea tina
8 he was insane enough to think of it.
|; shall never again give Col. Stuart credi
for any wisdom at all"
With q pleased laugh, that was no
l. at all identifying to the fair, classics
9 face, Louisa turned suddenly from tn
% mirror.
y sob, Marjorie - she cried, with
q little affected shrek and clasp of he
p hands, "look who is here Oh, Co
Stuart, we did not hear you hop