Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-07-29

heightened considerably, aud it was in
doleful tones that he inquired:
''Did you not expect to be remem-
bered?"
ooh, no." she answered, 81 could not
expect it. She has done so much for me
already, has always supported and edu-
Gated me, and will provide me with an
outfit if" with a little blush, 81 were to
marry"
Somehow the conversation tagged after
this disclosure, and not long after
| Alphonso, with the most elaborate
courtesy, took his departure.
When three weeks had elapsed with
! out a call from her Adonis, Edna
acknowledged her aunt's wisdom and
said, with a nervous little laugh;
"Who would think that so much de.
ceit could lodge behind those melting
eyes? Why, they were like the lovelies
| chocolate caramels."
81 am rejoiced to hear you take it so
lightly" returned her aunt tenderly. 81
think your vanity rather than your heart
is hurt"
81 think so, too; but if you only knew
how unutterably, infnitesimally small it
makes me feel. l know now that my
personal valuation is nothing"
"Do not think it" interrupted her
aunt hastily. "Only yesterday DR..
Graham, the wealthiest man I know,
SPOKE of his love for you and anxiously
inquired if I thought you were fancy
free"
SIS he, too, looking for some of your
money!" asked Edna, bitterly.
"Now, indeed you arc wronging noble
nan. Without reason, too, for he is
quite as we'll off financially as you will
be-"
"Perhaps he wants to add some to it.
I can trust no one, not even myself.
When Alphonse, whom thought almost
divine, has proved false, what can l ex-
pect from the surly old bear, who, only
the last time saw him, called me "a little
heathen2'"
''Try him. He will bear any test"
said her aunt.
81 will do it just to satisfy YOU" an
swered Edna indifferently, "though I
have as little faith in his love as I have
in his medicine"
So it happened, during the doctors
next visit, after some of the usual wordy
warfare, that Edna repeated her little
formula and added that she would like to
be independent, and meant to look about
her for something to do. Gould he help
her to find position?
The doctor looked very grave at this
communication, thought few minutes,
then said he would willingly assist her
and asked what kind of position she was
capable of filing; and drawing out
little note book he prepared to take
down her answer.
Edna's eyes cleaned maliciously as she
thought what triumph she would have
over her aunt when she announced that
the doctor was as little in love as Alphon-
so, only adding to the Insult by offering
to patronize her. Then she said very de-
murely:
81 might take place as lady's maid,
a child's governess, or possibly that of
companion"
The doctor regarded her contempla-
lively time, then said:
81 think can help you if you are
equal to all the requirements; for know
a person who needs companion"
"What would be necessarily" asked
Edna, in voice fairly trembling with
mirth and little anger.
SIN the first place the person | refer
to is subject to various moods. Could
you play gay, solemn or plaintive music
to charm the different humor!"
eyes," said Edna. 81 think may
safely say I play we'll almost any kind of
piece"
"Secendly, the person has terrible
habit of tearing off buttons. Are you or
are you not handy with your needle9"
The doctors voice wIxed stern in the
delivery of this important question.
Again Edna answered affirming her abil-
ity to perform her necessary task.
classify" said the doctor, rising and
her, "the one great require
ment that far out-weighs all others and
one that the person Graves for with all
his heart, with all his strength, is that
you love him little"
He held out his hands to her with
look of love so intense and passionate
that her heart thrilled strangely in re-
spouse. She closed her eyes and pressed
her hand over them, an old trick of hers
when in thought.
The man stood patient and motionless.
Minute after minute passed, till at last
Edna moved. Advancing, she placed
both hands in his, and, with a tender
smile Illuminating her face, whispered:
''Take me. New York Journal.