Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-15

! Annelsey was the signal for return of silence on his part. and, unless there was Q gatacring of the young folks from which his absence might provoke comment, he remained as little in the company of the members of the family as possible, making an excuse of press of work on the ranch. or of an appoint ment with some of his gentleman friends to spend the evening out If he did not, on such occasions, visit Julia Ennis at her ia hers residence, Lucy fancied that he did, and she treated Julia. when they met, with much cordiality and ap- peared anxious to help on the intimacy which she thought existed between her and Erastus.
 l Of Mr. Ensign the family saw noth- ing. Once or tw ce some member had inquired os Annelsey regarding him, but that gentleman knew. or appeared l to know, little about him. Ensign was still in the employ of the company. he thought; perhaps swinging pick in the tunnel; or may be at work on the Hume. Having nothing to do with the accounts or directing the labors of the workmcn, Mir Annclsey could, he said, tell no,h ng further about him.
 l Whether Mrs. Parsons was pleased at the frequency of Mr. Annclsey's visits or not it would have been hard to tell. She treated him coarteously, and ap- peared to throw no obstacles in the way l of his attention to her daughter If she noticed the dislike which Erastus evincel at his presence she held her peace and said nothing.
 As for her husband, he looked for his coming with fever sh impaticnce grow | ing out of t"e desire he had fo news from the mining camp, which now overshadowed every other thought, and caused him to entirely forget that the young man had any purpose in visiting them except to bring the desired informal tion regarding tl e progress of the work at Gravel Hill, as the cluster of shanties | at the mines had been named.
 | So the summer passed. and again the time approached when the girls were to return to school. and preparations were made for their departure
 Fl almost wish we were not going | back said Jennie, as they were pack ing, i've have had such pleasant sum- mer. am sure never enjoyed myself so much before ln all my life, and I awfully hate to go back into those dusty, fusty little rooms in the city and | boring over a lot of books that appear to have been made on purpose to puzzle ones brains without any corresponding benefit to come of it. I'd ever so much raj her stay at nome and help mother take care of the house and the poultry, and go to party once in while.
 II wonder what MT. Annelsey will do when we are gone?" she went on. Do you know, Luce, I believe he is dead in love with you? And he is get ting further and further in every day he lives. Here twice last week. He l 1,,tf fhn, ho,, f,.<>, the first visit before he turned right round and came back again, Mrs. Lucy Annelsey. wife of James Annelsey, Esq, miil;o 1aire. That sounds we'll. Be- licve I'd take him, if were you. Luce. and then can spend the winters in New York and catch millionaire, too, may be. Did he ever say anything l about coming to see you when we get back to San Francisco?
 Say" she rattled on, without wait ing fer reply to her first question,
 ''what do you spose makes 'Ras hate him so? Do you know that if he were not half in love with Julia Ennis should think him jealous of you. Why, Lucy, what is the matter? Didn't Mir. Annelsry ask you to correspond with
 him. or anythingo"
 "Ycs -hc--hc and-and I wish |
 hands to her face and burying it in her
 lap as she sat on the floor in front of
 her open trunk.
 "I w.sh had never seen him. she
 continued, between sob5. Il wish Inc
 would go back to New York and never
 let me see or hear from him again.
 never spent so miserable a summer il
 my whole life, never; and it's all be-
 cause of him; and l know poor pa i:
 worried to death for fear the mine vii
 wash down upon the ranch and covel
 us all up, and-ard- and I'm just a
 miserable as I can be and it's all hi! fault: We were just as happy as VI
 could be until he camc."
 Jennie was at loss to understand this ou break of Lucy's. She had sup nelscy's attentions: had thought, in fact
 that she was more in love with him thai ) she ever had been with any of her othe admirers. She had come to this con clusion because Lucy had avoided talk ing about him when they were alone and always before they had made con tidants of each oti,cr regarding any c ! the young men who occasionally es F corted them to a dance or r. chic whe at home or to a lecture or the theate when in the city.
 No one who knew the sisters or saN . them together even for an hour coul 3 doubt their affection for each othel } and Jennie. b lieving that Lucy reall } loved MT. Annelsey, had more tha , once caught herself drawing ment; 5 pictures of her as his wife, surrounde 3 with all the luxurics which wea! !th coul 8 purchasc; supplemeut;ng it with anothe ? picture in which she SAW herself al g bearing at one of the grand entertain D mcnts which Lucy and her husban y would gvc in her palatial New Tor
 homo. and being introduced to socic' ;, as the ..sister of Mrs. Annelsey, wE t had come from California to spend tt o winter"
 @ It never occurred to her that Lue y could be in love With anybody else, ar 8 now she fancied that some slight mi h understanding had arisen betwee 8 them, and that Lucy was troubled f. 8 fear that Annelsev would not write