The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-02-01
A GREAT TEMPTATION.
How James Forresters Fortune
Won and Lost an Heir.

A sweet, proud face, crowned with
wavy nut-brown hair, soft clear hazel
eyes, 1.-the young form, clothed in
mourning, and you have Genie Howard
that soft, fair afternoon.
She was standing in the old-fashioned
garden Of the Forester homestead, her
soft eyes fixed on the slender, graceful
form coming toward her.
1T must be she;" she murmured, land
Hugh must have missed her somehow. !"
She walked quickly down the broad,
travelled path, and the next moment she
and Eunice Forester were face to face.
.sYou are Eunice Forester" Genie
said, smile of welcome curving her
lips. 81 sent Hugh to meet you, but he
must have missed you somehow. l am
not mistaken, am II"
The newcomer raised the gray travel
ing veil that shaded her face, and looked
straight in Genie Towards clear eyes.
ssNo. l am Eunice Forester. 1t is
kind of you TOTO welcome me-"
ITO welcome you to your own homer
Genie laughed.
As Eunice raised her veil cry Of
startled wonder almost broke from &C.
MES lips at the beauty of the face her
eyes rested upon-a face perfect in con-
tour, exquisite in colcring, faultless in
every detail.
81 wonder what Colonel Erickson will
think of her?' was Genie's first thought;
and then she wondered vaguely why the
same thought had not crossed her mind
about her lover, Hugh Vernon.
The coming of Eunice Forester to the
quaint old home Of the Forresters held
. romance in itself.
The last master of it, who had only
been buried two weeks before, had lived
and died bachelor.
The reason was simply this:
The one woman he had loved in hi
life had welded his brother, Clark.
She had been the elder brothers
promised wife, but week before thu
wedding day she had fed with the hand
some scapegrace Of the family.
James Forester never forgave them
and when his father, espousing hi
cause, died and left him all his posses
sions he refused all intercourse wit
Clark or his wife,
Even when Clark died, leaving his fra
gle young wife in poverty--even whe
she, dying, left their only child, Eunics
. lonely orphan, he refused to relent.
Not till he lay ON his own death-be
did the thought Of forgiveness enter hi
mind.
He had loved the girl who prove
false to him as woman is seldom Loves
and she had wrecked his life by hs
treachery.
Dying, however, all bitterness passe
away. It would never do to carry thu
before the eternal throne, and so, NAL
ing his peace with God, he sent Il
Eunice Forester, the little waif h
brother and false love had left behir
them, but before her coming he hi
passed away, but not before he had lie
her all his earthly possessions, with Il
exception Of . remembrance gift to b
ward, Genie Howard.
A little later Eunice stood before Il
mirror in her own apartments, her ey'
fixed on her own face, a strange light
her eyes.
Suddenly . shadow fell over the love
face, denser shade in the sapphire eye
"What has my beauty gained me
dhe said. Nothing nothing, but Pc
haps may need it TO hold what n
brains have won. After al, what wroI
have doney'-walking to the winde
and letting her eyes wander over q
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