The Sunday morning news., 1891-09-20


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s'IF YOU GAZE INTO THAT FLOWER AWHILE
'sThen do you hive aloneT' she said,
with an involuntary touch of compass
sion in her tone.
''Yes; do you think that sadw
ssOh, no, not at all; plenty of people
prefer TO live alone. But / shouldn't
like it; It would not suit me"
s.It suits very well till one sees some
person one would like to live with"
People must love place very much
where they have been all their lives,
she said.
Yes, and I love Justinlee; it is worth
loving. wish you had seen it; it is an
old house, with additions built to it, not
regular, but very picturesque, and from
the windows you look over great
stretch of sea and land"
81 ann sorry" said Will, who had CONC
up to them through the garden, s'that
was kept longer than expected
sWeH," said Mr.. Jameson, 81 am
sorry that it is time for me to go. Per
haps if you have nothing better to do,
you will walk with me to the station?D
II shall be very glad, said Will;
'and, Katie. you might come. too, OF
have you been walking today already
But come, you don't look tired, and il
will do you good.
s'Oh, yes, she said, "I'H go.n
When Mr.. Jameson bade Mrs Ber-
tram good-by she said she hoped he
would call on them again any time that
he was passing to The Hawthorns. which
he very heartily promised to do, and
said it was likely that he would be often
there in the course of the summer.
The trio were not far on their way
when whom should they meet driving
but Miss Wright? She saw them ap-
preaching, and drew up her horse as she
came ear. After they had spoken she
turned to Mr.. Jameson and said mo
wonder, James, that you despised my
help u certainly are independent OF
human aid.
YES" he said, ''in the matter you
spoke Of. !"
'Quite so, in the matter I spoke of.
How are your turnips looking?"
Every well indeed; they only need a
shower to be all could wish"
81 am glad of that Couldn't you
come up with me and stay till to-mor-
row? I really had no hope of seeing
you till November"
Thank you, no, not tonight, but I'll
come next week for day or two
Every well" she said, and drove on.
Mr. Bertram came back, sure that his
mother was mistaken entirely as to the
relations existing between Miss Wright
and Mr. Jameson; and Katie, she
thought Of Mr.. Jameson, her thought
as yet being like the faintest breathing
on a mirror, but as he came and came
again his full image rose to the surface
and remained there.
One day VIII said (for even yet the
thing had not occurred to HIM: 81 won
der, Katie, what brings that man here
so often?'
Kate blushed. "It must be his own
| good pleasure" she answered.
VIII said no more; the matter stood
| revealed to him at last, and he had a
| queer, stinging feeling that the sister Of
whom he was SO fond, and who had been
about him like one of his own hands
| all his life, was weaned away from him.
| Yet he could have chosen no better broth
er-in-law, and he knew it.
On the 10th of October, the anniver-
sary of their first meeting, Mr.. Jamie
son transferred Katie Bertram to Justin
lee. They went on no wedding tour, pre-
ferring to live the memories of the
| honeymoon in their own home, and
| postpone the tour of Europe till they
should grow rich; it is well that people
should keep some new pleasure before
them to bear them up under the burden
of riches. But the aunt whom Mr..
Jameson had been on his way to visit
when youth and beauty in distress APP
| peared to him, presented the bride with
a slimptuously bound book of travels
| entitled Forty Days in the Desert" She
must have thought this an appropriate
| gift for people entering on the honey
moon, as she repeated it on the occasion
Of Miss Wright becoming Mrs. Bertrara.
which event occurred in the course of
another year. The presentees enjoyed
the joke; there are times when even a
Diiid1 JOAS - 20 o"SSb Al&lilsi La the-
well, desert.
Mr.. Bertram had before his marriage
got partnership in the mill, and Mr..
Wright, having bought The Hawthorns,
proposed resigning that place Of resi-
Hence in favor of his daughter and her
husband, but VIII declined it; he knew
that being obliged to such a man as Mr..
Wright meant always taking his advice
when offered, and having it offered very
frequently. Sarah was quite willing to
live in the managers house till her hus-
band could afford better one. Mrs.
Bsrtram Senior continued to live in her
sons house. except when she visited her
daughter; and Il, as is said, mothers and
daughtersin-law always disagree, this