Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-26

the respects which my humble duty to her
demands?"
All then, Orrin lowered proudly, and the
pretty Juliet smiled with something of her
old archness.
''Saddle your horse" cried the young
lover, 'and ride to the east. If you do
not find wee, fresh nest there, I am no
prophet. What! steal a wife and not have
home to put her in!''
And he laughed until the huge brown
rafters above his head seemed to tremble,
so blithe did he feel, and so full of pride at
thus daring the one great man in the town.
But the Colonel did not laugh nor did he
Immediately answer. He had evidently not
heard of the little cottage beyond both
thicket and stream, and was consequently
greatly disconnected. But just when we
were all wondering what held him so re-
strained, and what the words were which
should break the now oppressive silence,
he spoke and said:
ga wee nest is no place for the lady who
was to have been my wife. If you will
have patience and wait a month she shall
have the home that has been reared for her.
The great stone house would not know any
other mistress, and therefore it shall be
hers"
''No, no." Orrin began, aghast at such
delighted at prospect which promised her
both splendor and love, uttered such a cry
of Joy that he stopped abashed and half
angry, and turning upon her, said: care
you not satisfied with what can give you,
and must you take presents from the man
you have affected to despise?"
"But, but, he is so good" babbled out
the inconsiderate little thing, 'and-snd I
do like the great stone house, and we could
be so happy in it. just like king and
queen, If if
She had the grace to stop, perhaps because
she saw nothing but rebuke in the faces
whose voice ran in spite OF himself an icy
vein of sarcasm, observed, with another of
his low bows:
''You shall indeed be like king and
queen there. If yG do not believe me,
come there with me month hence, and l
will show you what disappointed man can
do for the woman he has loved" And
taking by the arm the old man who with
futile rage had tried more than once to
break into this ominous conversation, he
drew him persuasively to his side, and so
by degrees from the room.
"Oh," cried Juliet, as the door closed
behind them, ''can he mean it? Can he
mean it?''
And Orrin, little awed, did not reply,
but l saw by his face and bearing that
whether the Colonel meant it or not was
little to him; that the cottage beyond the
woods was the destined home of his bride,
and that we must be prepared to lose her
from our midst, perhaps before the month
was over which the Colonel had hidden
them to wait
do not know through whom Dame
Gossip became acquainted with yesterdays
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laying their heads together in wonder over
the jilting of Colonel Schuyler and the
unprecedented magnanimity which he
has shown in giving his new
house to the rebellious lovers If have
been asked one question to-day, have been
asked fifty, and Orrin, who flies into great
rage at the least intimation that he will ac-
cept the gift which has been made him,
spends most of his time in asserting his in
dependence and the firm resolution which
he has made to owe nothing to the gener-
osity of the man he has treated with such
unquestionable baseness Juliet keeps
very quiet, but from the glimpse l caught
OF her this afternoon at her casemeet,
judge that the turn of affairs has had very
enlivening effect upon her beauty. Her
eyes fairly sparkled as she saw me; and
with something like her old joyous aban-
donment of manner, she tore OF branch Of
the Towering almond at her window and
tossed it with delicious laughter at my feet.
Yet though picked it up and carried it for
few steps beyond her gate, soon dropped
1t over the wall, for her sparkle and her
laughter hurt me, and 1 would rather have
seen her less joyous and little more sensi-
BILE of the ruin she had wrought.
For she has wrought ruin, as any one can
see who looks at the Colonel long enough to
note his eye For though he holds himself
erect and walks proudly through the town,
there is that in his look which makes me
tremble and hold my own weak complain
ings in check. He has been up to his house
to-day and when he came back there was
not a blind from one end of the street to
the other but quivered when he went by,
so curious are the women to see him whom
they cannot but reel has merited all the
sympathy if not homage of their sex.
Kalph Urphistone tells he Tonight that