Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-01-14

PLACE BESIDE GEORGE ARUNDEL's COUCH.
ling her cheeks and the telltale, down
cast eyes scarce daring to raise their
lids.
Harry
''Wandao'
Yet not one word of the burning love
each bore for the other. Harry Eve
sham too proud to claim the girls affec-
ton till his prospects were more as
sured-she, trembling lest she should
betray her fondness, for she felt that it
was almost criminal to even love the
son Of her benefactress in secret. Thus,
these too, after a long parting met once
more, neither knowing what the other
suffered, and each for the other resolved
for the sacrifice.
They strolled down the sandy lane
arm in arm-sandy, say, for though
the snow lay like white sheet on all
the rest of the surface of the country,
there was always a bare spot near the
school house; and, for that very reason
the children hurried away to more
favored localities, and the road was de-
serted.
do not know that the weather was
particularly charming that afternoon
in fact 1 believe disagreeable east
wind was blowing-but to this infatu-
ated young couple it seemed as if they
were drinking into their lungs the
balmy breath of the Hesperides.
''This is the last stroll we shall have
together for many a day, Wanda am
going abroad
abroad" Wanda says, with a fool
ish trembling.
Eyes, and for your sake"
'F'or mine-impossible."
| ''It is strange, is it not? But none the
| less true. You see Mr.. Hardcastle and
| I have been on more familiar terms
than men in our relative positions
usually are, and in the course of our
talks have told him your history
''Oh, Harry"
eyes, dear, and he-lilke the big
hearted, glorious fellow he is-has set
his mind on unraveling the mystery
| which surrounds your BIRTH
| ''Mr. Hardcastle has done this?''
"Oh, you must not be surprised.
think he saw how interested I was
about everything that concerned you,
and"
''Go, on, Harry
"And, we'll, perhaps partly for my
| sake, he has determined to ferret out
everything; and, with this view, is send
ing me to England to play detective"
How good, how kind" Tears were
| in her voice.
rs he not? So, my dear, you see we
must not waste the moments. I have
! really come down here to gather al
possible details of your early life. Try
| hard, Wanda, and think of anything
that might be useful to me-"
Il know what you mean-you want
me to remember scenes and circum
stances prior to my arrival in New
| York.
Exactly
'sAnd that / cannot do, for oh, how
often have l raclScd my brain to conjurt
up the past. Yoa see, was such lit
tie thing
STILL" Harry urged, ''you were ols
enough to have impressions. and hav,
read in books that the incidents of child
hood, though for years forgotten, vii
suddenly flash on the memory if some
associating circumstance presents it
self"
"Ah, that is strange, Harry, and il
duces me to tell you of an occurrenc,
which happened the other day"
Say on, and remember that in q cas-.
like this nothing is too insignificant. -
"Well, then, poor Mr.. Arundel was a
his worst, and that executive servant O
his, old Bladon, was standing at the to]
Of the stairs watching the doctor de
scend. for he had just left the sick man.
chamber, and he shook his fist at tn,
retreating figure of the medical mai
and muttered: 'Nowt but book learnin'
and precious little O. that, 1 should say
Oh, for twenty-four hours of Nurs.
Marty and her herbsv Nurse Marty
The words sounded so familiar that
knew they struck a chord in my memory
and sat in my chamber and thought
Suddenly it seemed to me as though
saw a vision of a woman's face-a sweet
sad face, which smiled on me-the fac.
of an elderly woman, Harry. who We
did not look old, for all her snow-whit,
hair and furrowed forehead. But tn,
most extraordinary thing about her ap
pearance was patch of black silk sh
wore over her left eye. 1t was very ah
surd of me to conjure up such an appar
itiOn, but"
mo. no, ] am convinced it was
"reminiscences, Harry interposed. s'Bu
had you NO other day-dreamse"