The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-16

more tull mere every lllle sic lNtNI ilH'
she said with an apologize smile. Il am
glad she has invited one of her school
friends to come for Il visit tomorrow. You
know yourself, john she added with II
slight partisan attitude, that the Lonely
old house and wild plain is not particularly
lively for young people, however huch IL
may suit your ways.
1T certainly must he dull if she can t
stand it for three weeks in the year, sad
her husband, Gryly. but we really cannot
open the San Francisco house Tor ner sum
ncr vacation, nor can we move from the
rancho to Il moro fashionable locality.
Besides, it will do her good to run wild
here. | can remember when she WASH
so fastidious In fact, | was thinking just
now how changed she was from the day
when we picked her up
How often am | to remind you, John, y
interrupted the lady with some Impotence,
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that we agreed never to speak of her past
or even think of her as anything but our
own child? You know how it pains me-.
And the poor dear herself has forgotten it,
and thinks of us only as her own parents
] really believe that If that wretched father
and mother of hers had not been killed by
the Indians, or We're to come to life again,
she would neither know them nor care for
them | mean, of course. john" she said
averting her eyes from slightly cynical
smile on her husbands face, that it's
only natural for young children to be for
Ettlul anu ltIuN ~ liHt INV ilIlji 'SSiohS.
And as long, dear, as we are not the
subjects of this youthful forgetfulness and
she isn't really finding us stupid at the
RANCH replied her husband cheerfully, Il
suppose we mustn't complain;
'John! How can you talk such non
sense" said Mrs. reyton impatiently. But
/ have no fear of that she added with a
slightly ostentatious confidence. Il only
wish was sure -
"Of whatE'
"ott nothing happening that could IL, take k
Jobn-like our first little one. That does
not happen to one twice but l sometimes
<'What? She's only ffteaR, and it's
ather early to think aboutSh only C other
Ally this is mere fancy. She has been
given up to lis by her faniy-at least by
all that we know are left of them. nave
legally adopted her. If ! have not made
her my hcress, it is because prefer TO
leave everything to you, and ] would rather
She should know she was dependent upon
Won for the future than upon me-
"And [ can make a will in her favor IL
l want to-" said Mrs. Peyton, quickly;
Awnys responded sre a hSg f 4me to
think Of that. I trust Meanwhile, have
some news for you, which may make Snsy $
visit TO the rancho this time less dull 10
her You remember Clarence Brant, the
boy who was with her when we PICKED her
M. end who really saved her lifeE
"No. 7 don't" said Mrs. Peyton. pettshly,
''nor do want to. Ion know: John, now
distaStcful and unpleasant it is to me 10
have those dreary. petty and 'ulgaT Geialis
of the poor childs past lite recalied, "lu
thank heaven | have forgotten them eNcept
when you choose to drag them before me,
You agreed long ago that We were never 10
talk of the Indian massacre OF her pafGhIn,
so that we could also ignore 1t before heT;
then why do you talk OF hep vulgar I1 re Us
who are just as uhpIcasiiIit' ic"'' ~ US
drop the past
..Willinclv. my dear, but unfortunately we
cannot make others do it. But tins -
case in point. 1t appears that TINS poy
whom we brought to Sacraiheh'o AZ ue1''
to a relative
"And who was a wicked little innpostor-
Won remember that yourself, lohn..tor he
said that he was the son OF tolonel 6Faht-
and that he was dead-and you know, ana
my brother Harry knew that Iploliel b ilT;I.
Ivas alive all the time and that he was lylhR
and Colonel Brant was not his lather,
broke in Mrs peyton. impanently.
LAS II seems YOU do remember that much,
said Peyton dryly, 1T is only Just 10 MN
that shouId tell you that it appears he was
u 1na' m Sii impostdr. His story was true.
haya inst learned that Colonel Brant was
actually his father, but had concealed MS
Iawless life here. as well as ms identity,
from the boy lie was reail Va s'"r on t,R"
-
and I.nder that disguise he aitcrWard' pro,
ta,.t.d thr l,oy, had him carefully educated
~ ~ Ies,,it college of San jose "nd dyInS
two years ago i'll that nupuster raw III
Mexico left him conslderaple AoltuilS'
And what has he TO do with Susy
bolidavs?' asked Mrs. PeytOn, with uneasy
n,,iclness John! you surely cannot eA-
meet her ever to meet this common cre'iI-
ure again with his vulgar ways, us Wre rev
e5 associates like that Jim LOCKER, Hllu-
.I,~,it no
ASSASSIN. duelist and, heaven knows, Wlat
Kind of a pirate his father WASH at lhe
iastin his veins! You don't beheVe tnat
a lad of this type, however much OF MS
fathers ili-gottcn money he may HaEe-
can be fit company for my daughter! 1ou
,,|1-or could have thought of inviting him
I'm afraid that's exactly what l have
dona AIly," said the smiling but unmoyed
Peyton. but I'm still more afraid that
yorr conception of his present condition
i an Unfair one, like your remembrance
If his past. Father Sobriente, whom L
met at San Jose yesterday, says he Is very
Intelligent and thoroughly educated, WITH
nharrninr manners and refined tastes. His
fathers money, which they say was an
;nl.nstmput for him in Carson bank hve
vnars ago, is as good as any one S, and his
fathrr's blood won't hurt him III California
or the southwest. At least, he Is received
oycrywherc, ard Don jose Robinson was
hss guardian. Indeed, as lar rs social
status goes it mh1 be Se of 46e qI u
1 IoIn Silshce. of Pike county, and the
a ade,I child of John Peyton was in the
ioaIt his superior. AS Father Sobrente
evidently knew Caren e% b former epre eompaH
I lo,,,iIp he hardly polite for us to ignore
# Or or seem TO be ashamed of it. SO l
entrusted Sobriente with an invitation to
vonng Brant on the spot,
Mrs. Peytons Impotence, indignation and
onnosition, which had successfully given
way before her husbands quiet, master st
nnurotjc fatalism. She shook her head
with superstitious resignation;
Didn't ] tell you, John, that l Away"
had a dread of something coming
But if it comes in the shape OF SLY
young lad, see nothing slnsularly por-
tentous in it. They have not met since
thnr u,ere nllite small: their tastes have