The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-31
WHICH TO MARRY.
~ WILLIAM H. BUSHNELL.

oeTt Ellis sat alone in the room
as pleased TO call his study. Ii
however, used more for smok.
'aan any other purpose, he being
of the wise men who leave
behind when business for the
a8>sis over.
>pw his neglected cigar burned
nserouSiy near his fingers. He
snOt thinking of his clients inter
put his own. All of mind and
8'KN were concentrated upon two
NQPgraphs lying before him; ; in
sfNNlng the form. face and EXPIRES.
4 reprolueed ; in endeavoring to
Fsetsr.ysS much was this
K&kase that he failed to hear the
YuAle of his sisters dress as she en-
kereh, closed the door, stood behind
| hith and looked at the cause of his
distraction.
For few minutes they remained
thus. Then Jeanette---nOt Ellis any
longer, as she had welded few
months previousIy-Jeanetle Mason,
asked in half-bantering, haf-earn-
est voice:
(which, Robert. which ?"
"You here. Jean ?" he questioned
in establishment. II thought ! was
alone and-the deuce take that cigar,
it has burned me nearly to the bone"
and he threw it spitefully away.
And mind. Rob, one of these does
not burn you more deeply-burn
your heart to ashes"
"Do you speak from experience.
Jean ?"
Very far from 1t. With me mar.
riage has been no failure-has been
the fruition and gIoritication of love.
But which of these are you dreaming
of making "a wife. Rob-"
"What have you to say to this
one ?" and taking one of the pictures
from the table he handed it to her for
closer inspection.
1t was that of girl, below rather
than above twenty years, blue-eyed.
golden-haired, with skin as the lily
and lips as the rose, slight of form,
with dainty hands. whose unstained
whiteness and smoothneSs forbade
lfh 1siIoo ,Nf Ia bnr
/ "1na-, continued her broth.
er, "is Miss Annie Belford. young,
finished with a slight sneer upon
the Word) at fashionable female
academy, rich, and acknowledged to
be beautiful, / met her last summer
at Long Branch, caught her as she
was being swept away by the under
tow, and 80 become easily acquainted
land won her everlasting gratitude.'"
"What of her character. Rob ?"
"The very problem | was study
ling. | know she rides fairly well,
can play ard sing, and can dance
gracefully for an unlimited number
of hours"
"Wen ?"
There was something in his open,
manly face. in his accent, that told OF
more than casual interest. 1t
alarmed his sister. for with the quick
intuition of women she felt the girl
would not be the wife she desired for
her brother.
"The other" he answered. reading
} the dicision in the bright hazel eyes
and flushing trifle Indignantly, sis
, plain Mary Jones'"
"Plain enough, certainly, ifjudged
! by the worlds standard of female
! loyelinsss. but of the kind to grow
beautiful with love and time. Did
you also save her life, Rob""
"No, the circumstances were re-
yersed. She saved mine."
"And won your everlasting graft
tude p"
fresScarcely. You remember / was
hunting in the mountains of Penn
sylvania a few weeks since. No,
was not about to be devoured by
bears or have my bones picked scru
pulously clean by wildcats, but los
my way, slipped upon mossy rock
hung suspended over dangerous
precipice and would have soon gon'
crashing to the bottom had not thi
young iady-hum, she must be abou
my own age-heard my shouts, COM
| to the rescue and by strength of arm
drew me up to safety"
IA mountain -" with d confas
ed pause at her inability to com man'
the word she desired, "Whatever tn
term for female Hercules may be.
mot SO. She was city produc
: tion who chanced to be visiting som
distant relatives and skelching. Lool
at the picture, Jean, and give M
your opinion"
! The picture was of a girl who ha
reached the age of twenty-five, tall
] rnfhor a Tuno in Honro than a Dsyoh