The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-12

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your fathers name Clayton Wildes"
Rosine assented.
"And your mothers maiden name was
Magnolia Kingsley"
s'Oh, dear. moi Aunt Magnolia was
never married. My mothers name was
Madeline Kingsley"
"Eh?" cried the dragon.
The ford color had faded from his
cheeks. He was Juggling ~nervously at
his dark mustache. lie looked agitated,
perplexed.
My mother died ten years ago." said
Rosine, land since then I have lived with
Aunt Magnolia."
Mr.. Ellsworth regarded her grimly.
SIS that" he asked abruptly, s'your
aunt's gown you have on?"
The soft rose fire in the girls cheek
deepened.
s.How in the world did you known
she counter questioned.
A queer, wavering smile was his only
reply.
a constrained silence ensued. Cyril
gave his uncle an ~astonished glance.
80 Magnolia is an old maid?v said Mr..
Ellsworth. abruptly.
''If she IS cried Rosine, stung to de-
Tense by a remark she CHANGED to con-
slider rude, sit is because she was tree to
a lover who proved unworthy of heri"
sEh!" calculated Mr.. Ellsworth, more
sharply than before. And suddenly he
turned and walked away.
The following day he insisted on ac-
companying his nephew to the gaunt,
ramshackle, once ~aristocratic olds home
in the French quarter, where dwelt Ro-
sine. AS they were passing the vaulted
entrance to the little tagged courtyard,
Albert Ellsworth caught sight Of a ia
miliar figure moving among the potted
palms and boxes of blooms.
$50 on, ladr' he had said to Cyril.
He had paused, and was looking through
the brief venue of gloom to the bright
ness beyond.
Cyril was about to question this new
vagary, when the thought of a peculiar
possibility made him catch his breath
and do as hidden. He knocked at the
barred black door, and was admitted to
Rosine's radiant presence. And mean
while his uncle went into the courtyard.
The little old lady standing by the ba-
mana tree looked up at the sound of the
step on the stones.
sMagnoliaw he cried.
Miss Magnolia gazed at him in q dazed,
half frightened kind of way. Did ghosts
ever appear in the daytime? Stouter
than he whom she had known, and with
hair grown gray. But the same. Around
her, in a fantastic dance, the broken
fountain, the long leayed banana tree
and the giant oleanders went whirling.
She didn't faint, but she came nearer to
it than she ever had come in her life.
ibid you think / had deserted you,
Magnolia? When / left you to go north
on business I believed in you as I've
never believed in any one since. And
while away ! heard and read that you
had married that young Wilde / used
to be SO jealous of. So I went to Europe.
And I stayed there"
"But Clayton Wilde married Made
line. I always told you he came to see
her"
Eyes, / know that-now. / was a
fool to have been so easily convinced of
your falsity. You haven't changed a
bit. / knew you the moment I saw
you"
Miss Magnolia smiled delightedly. She
did not know he had expected to see
her.
81 never forgot the dress you wore the
last time I saw you" declared Mr.. Ellis
worth, waxing fervent. 81 recognized it
on your niece last night"
"Last night! Are you-surely you are
not the dragon!"
"Wha-at?'
"The-the dragon.l" faltered Miss Mag
nolia.
Mr.. Ellsworth still looked blank.
"That,' murmured the little lady,
feeling she was in for it, and might
as well make a clean breast, was what
Rosine and / called Cyril's uncle. And
Rosine was going to conquer him."
He burst out laughing.
"Well. she did. The boy shall marry
Madeline's pretty daughter. And you,
Magnolia-you'll marry me.'
"Oh, dear, no! lin too old"
Not a day"
"And ugly-now"
"Loveliest woman in the world to me"
insisted the dragon, Loyalty.
BLESS you, my children!' cried a voice
from above.
The pair in the courtyard glanced up.
On one of the inner balconies stood Rosine
and Cyril.
ssvanish, you scamps!' reared the
dragon.
81 shan't allow you to marry a south
err girl, sir!" shouted back Cyril, as he
and Rosine beat q brisk retreat.
Laughing and breathless they faced
each other in the old drawing room.
Everything is lovely, sweetheart
cried Cyril, in an ecstasy.
STREET AND WATER COMMISSIONERS
Regular meeting Of tho board OF street and waite
commissioners, held on Monday, Jan. q, 1890, al 1
O'Clock q. m.
Present-Pres.dea5 somars and Commissioner
Du gan ami Van Keuren.
Absent-NGne.
READING OF 1.-The minutes OF regular meeting her