Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-08-20

nave You uOl ltaIu. do anna 'pShNN ~
in mute surprise. No, suppose he has
not had time TO write yet; or perhaps he
means TO keep il under cover; if SO, don't
tell him that gave it away-but really
it is too good to Keep"
"Well, don't keep it for moment,
then. smiling p.srplexedly, in sympathy
with his evident enjoyment do tell
me at once"
"Well, what do you think of Bartels
who went away for rest and recreation,
mind-getting lost on Ute peak, and
wandering around above timber line all
night?'
But it is quite impossible" cried
Anita, pale at the idea. donald Is over
the range, hunting bear"
Carlton laughed with cheerful incre-
dulity. Hunting his grandmother he
cried, grown quite reckless of his speech
in the excitement of his news. II had 1t
from fellow who was one of the party
and who saw him when he done it'-as
the small boy averred in support of his
story of Jonah's swallowing the whale.
This fellow stopped over for the night,
on his way to Denver, and had the luck
TO run across him just in time to hear
the story. 1t appears the Rogerses got
up a party to ascend the peak, and Bar
tells. who is staying with them, this fell
low told me, was one of the crowd. II
was rather late when the party started
to make the descent, and Mrs Rogers,
who was rather used up, hung back,
while Bartels was gallant enough to keep
her company. Somewhere among the
bowlder fields the rest of the outfit got
out of sight, and, in trying short cut
to overtake them, Bartels and Mrs.
Rogers lost the trail, and did not succeed
in getting themselves found till O'Clock
the next morning. A new version of the
babes in the wood, with callous laugh
at their plight, ''only there were no birds
above timber line TO cover them with
leaves, worse luck for tnem."
you are sure there is no mistake
about thiss" Anita's face was CHASTITY.
s'This man who told you was really one
Of the party:"
Eyes: although he did not really be-
long to, the Rogers outfit. He had en-
gagged guide to go up the Peak by him
self, when DIR. Rogers, wanting the same
man for the same day, compromised by
inviting this fellow to go with them.
But You need rot look so frightened
Mrs. Bartels. Don is all right. He did
not even take cold. asked after him
particularly. Aad all's well that ends
well"
Eyes. all's well that ends WE'LL" re-
peated Anita duly. II seemed to her that
the end of all things had come, that
chaos was staring her in the face. She
had a strange sense of faintness and op
preston: dull blur seemed dancing be
fore her eyes; and the fingers nervously
tracing the pattern of the wrought gold
of her sun umbrella top We're weakly
trembling. Her face felt as if it hat
petrified. She had a vague conviction
| that if she once relaxed her hold on thu
| little conventional smile fixed on he
stiff lips. she could never recover i
again-that she would go on unsmiline
for evermore. II thought perhaps ther'
might be letter for me here" she list
lessly added. moving to go.
mo; you could hardly expect him t
spare time for letters, with anothe
Jolly laugh. Really, it is too good
Perhaps l ought not to have given hin
away; but, upon my word, it seemed
too bad that you should not enjoy tn
joke too"
She enjoy the joke! Was the mai
cracked? Yes, it wonld have been
pity for me to have missed it, with
white Tipped smile.
Carlton stared meditatively at tn
open door after his visitor had passe
out. "Unless the signs fail, there is
bad quarter Of an hour ahead for Bar
tells" he muttered, lazily amused, IAN
J serves him right-the asst A man mus
be saved from drowning, even if one
Obliged to pull his hair in doing it; an
a good, clean drown is nothing, CON
: pared with dip in the dirty puddles {
Orodelphian gossip. One would hardl
have reckoned Bartels non compo'
either" he thoughtfully added, knocl
ing the ashes from his pipe; 'but ths
little Rodgers wretch" expressivel
pausing, while he impatiently twitche
a match across his trousers and lighte
his pipe again-"she! oh, Lordl"
With quick, nervous tread AMT
blindly hurried down the street, du
sensation of unreality possessing her, ;
if. she thought. she had died, and tn
was her ghost. So this was the end {
it! of all that happiness which it ha
seemed they would take with them int
eternity! Donald had tired of her VIII
could say when the subtle change ha
taken place. or for how long he had bee
deceiving her with sweet, plausib
words? But 1T is vain to attempt
keep a secret from one that has rigi
to know it." said Emerson. 1T will te
itself" 1t was her right to know thi
and his secret had been revealed to he
She seemed to awake with sort of ST.
bid surprise, to find herself mechanical
exchanging smiling greetings with son
+ passing friends; and presently, where
little child was crying, she stopped an
spoiled a glove fishing lost toy out {
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