Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-04-10

ever, together with her brother, had taken
| in the Significance of the unloading fur
niture at . first glance. i didn't know
that you were acquaintsd with the dear
old fshwifs. By the way, whore did she
vanish tor"
Aunt Joan, indeed, had beaten hasty
retreat into her cottage, directly upon
recognizing the occupants, both Of whom
she disliked and looked upon as specious
upstarts.
II thought shs was standing at my
side, said Gwendolins, looking around.
Yes, Madame bonneville, Aunt Joan is
q very old and good friend Of ours. Your
entertainment was very grand. Are you
visiting already, so soon after the trouble
and care it must have cost your
No; Alphonse and are out merely for
the airing We usually take at about this
hour. Besides, day after tomorrow we
60 to London for week or more, and
wish to store up the freshest recollections
! of these lovely views. But this looks as
though you were contemplating q sum
mering at the edge Of the sea.
And sheglanced at the van, which was
Just being driven of, the last Of its load
having been carried into the cottage by
the two fishermen, who we're now stand
Ing DocA IL eAAo AAseAo 6hkueAs WIN eAoAA
mother.
1T is something more than summer
! ing; my father and l have no longer q
home at Mr.. Marlowe's, said Gwendo-
line, and she eondescended to few more
words in explanation.
Can it be possiblef' exclaimed Adele,
with show of indignation. And after
| you had lived there all these yearsp
What could have prompted Mr.. Marlowe
to such meanness?"
Il can't imagine" said Gwendoline,
stimulated by her own bitterness into
saying more than she would otherwise
have done, unless it is that | have been
80 unappreciative and ungrateful as to
decline an offer of marriage made by Mr..
Croak, who is, as you know, very in
innate friend of Mr.. Marlowe's."
@C'est horrible! But see the lawyers
disappointment and spite through it all.
! Your spirit does you credit, Miss AL
worth By the way, hear that you once
lived at Jasmine Lodge"
Hardly, though I was born and my
mother died there, said Gwendoline. Il
was still but baby when my fathers
misfortunes lost him the beautiful villa,
together with everything he possessed.
/ hope you won't deem me patronizing,
Miss Alworth," said Adele, with charm
ing air of frankness, but wish you
would consider our grounds at your dis
posal during our absence, together with
all the flowers you may choose to pluck.
Il thank you with all my heart, ex-
claimed Gwendoline, with flush of
pleasure. IF may accept the privilege
for my father also, it will be an addition
al boon. He fairly worships flowers.
The gardener shall be notified to hold
himself at your disposal, joined in Bon
court, lifting his hat again, and then, aa
Adele smiled and waved her white hand
through the DUSK. the landau rolled
awav
1T was an uncommonly dirty trick,
even for the bankers doing" said Bon
court, presently, as though rather think
ing aloud than addressing his sister.
The girls spirit is in keeping with her
beauty, which is certainly superb"
1 Adele did not express the secret sense
i of relief she felt at knowing that Miss
1 Alworth was no loE ger to reside under
the same roof with Noel, but merely said
Certainly she Ia not to blame for hav-
ing refused the hideous old lawyer, even
under the most dazzling Inducements
That creatures personal appearance al-
ways makes me think of what the mon.
ster Marat must have been at the time
Charlotte Corday hdnted him out Of the
world with her dagger"
\ AN unmitigated Caliban, to be sure
But you don't know all of this little girl
pluck. was about to mention it to you
when you stopped the carriage"
i Tell me now"
While you were changing your dress
this evening Lord Squanderall came
back for his dog-cart, after having escort
ed Miss Alworth home on foot. He was
greatly disturbed, and, being uncommon
" fresh-little better than sieve, in
fact-he was not long in blurting out the
cause Of his trouble to me before be
drove of. Can you guess itp"
Not, surely, that he also had proposed
to Miss Alworth, and been rejected"
il Just that, and nothing else, by Jove!'
Il 4Cieu Is the child q natural born fool?'
No; but she must be trump of the
rare sort. And the richest part of it ID
that she must have done it only shori
time before giving the lawyer the mitten.
Think of It'll A real lord and legal Midas
rejected one after the other, in perhaps
less than an hour, and by q penniless
girl, with an imbecile father on hel
hands! Why, she presents positive
! anomaly in this English societyl"
Adele set her teeth hard, and did moi
reply at once. She could now no Longer
doubt that Gwendoline was secretly il
! love with Noel, the uncertainty of whose
homage to herself was constantly caus.
ing her so many torturing thoughts when
he was absent from her side; for in what
other way could the young girls reiec-
tion of such suit as Lord Squanderalps
be explained
She did not absolutely hate Miss AL
worth as yet, but she shuddered to thinl
Of the Jealous fury that would inevitably
possess her in case Of the conviction be-
ing forced upon her that her lover, hel
Noel, and this nobly poised young CIR
were really in love with each other.
So our young lordling, then, seemed
greatly cut up BY his reiectionas said she
at length
*All gone to piecesl And he exhibited
more genuine emotion than / would have
given him credit for. He said she hal
rejected him simply because she didn,
love him, but had also volunteered th,
announcement that, even were it other,
wise. she wouldn't marry him, because o,
his devotion to the bottle and cards. Ha
was ever heard the like Of ii in littlt
beggar Of no more than nineteen2"
They say that she is unatfectedly re-
ligious," said Adele, with thoughtfu
gravity. 4Well, suppose that put q
end to Squanderalfs folly in thinking O
marrying below his rank.
But il didn't, though. He was hi
!, right in the center. Ill reform, Bon
.. | court. said be, In driving OIL, ssI'll becom,