Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1891-09-17

woys had q great many things on her
mind, and when she had unpacked tho
treasured Jar and placed it on dainty
table In her pretty parlor-wtth self
congratulatory thought that 1t was 30
respectable TO have things that one's
relative had brought from Chins-she
wholly forgot the curious load that the
mandarin had ON his breast. She missed
her silken hose, Of course, and pestered
Aunt Phoebe with messages about them.
In Midtown, as you may imagine,
Randall waited for the answer to his
letter. Awhile he waited patiently, then
impatiently awhile, and then dived into
his law books with that "oomposure Of
settled distress which lovers have known
In every ago and cline. He aid not
dream that tho slant eyed mandarin
would be guilty Of tho ungentlemanly
trick OF intercepting love letter.
But the fun loving mandarin knew
what he was about. BE was not with
out experience In these matters, and he
wanted TO punish C1ementino o trife,
and bring her to the proper condition Of
seriousness.
ARd Clementine was feeling tho dtua-
ton with all the sobriety that was desir-
able. She had suspected all summer
that Randall had tender feeling for her
which she felt qualified TO reciprocate,
but she was proud girl, and could not,
by feathers weight, influence the bal
anoe Of his attentions Therefore. be-
hind her smiles, she had been not little
wounded that he had allowed her 10
como homo without having given ex-
pression TO his sentiments.
SO she, too, now took on o sober coun-
tenance and bentshed thought aud regret
BY Joining several. new clubs and taking
membership In two or three moro chari-
table organizations.
Just before Christmas Randall one day
experienced in his breast sort of i'm
perative intimation-perhaps direct from
the slant eyed mandarin, who knowst-
that he might hear Of something to his
advantage If he should go down to the
city and call upon Clementine; 30, after
some futile resisten CO TO the message, no
betook himself thither.
He was graciously received by Glenn
entine-that is, graciously enough for
young man who had played the trifler
with her invisible affections-and be
seated himself IN q oozy chair near the
pretty table which held his old friend
the blue jar.
AS he talked with Clementine-a little
constraint being apparent on both sides
he toyed with the lid Of the jar, and
the slant eyed mandarin appeared to
wink at him three times very knowingly.
Under some occult lut imperative
pressure Randall removed the lid and
touched with his finger the silken texture
Of some mysterious contents.
Curiosity further constrained him,
and he pulled from tho bosom Of the
now jubilant mandarin pale blue ar
ticle Of singular description for psrlor
ornament. and following 1t, he extri-
Gated pale pink strip OF similar shape
and structure.
Turning TO Cementine for eKplana-
ton Of these unforeseen Hpparitions, he
found her speechless with wild eyed as
constituent, and, without word or
gesture, she seixed the old blue iar and
hurried from the room.
Randall smiled the first real, soul felt,
refreshing smile that he had INDUCED In
for several months, and vowed by the
pdgtail Of the old slant eyed that ne
would stay rooted to the spot until
Clementine returned.
What she said to the genius Of the
jar as she few up stairs with 1t only the
mandarin can reveal.
AS Randall paced the parlor, pulling
his mustache and wondering II Cemen-
tines keen sense Of humor would carry
her safely through the trying hour, she
came shamefacedly into the room, bear
ing in one hand tho blinking old man
DARN, and in the other the pleading let
ter he had borne 30 long hid in his clever
old bosom.
Randall met the dear girl more than
half way, and as she whimpered gently
on his shoulder, ne promised never,
never, never to tell.
And when they were married, If you
believe me. that ridiculous old ginger Jar
accompanied them on their wedding
trip, and Randall packed tho bosom Of
the grotesQue mandarin full Of Clemen-
tines bridal roses, there to fade, and
there forever to remain.
Now, as Randall never told, and Glenn
entine never told, the entire RESPONSE
bility Of this revelation lies between you
and me and tho ginger jar.-Emma
Carleton In Romance.