New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-04

It's about Mr.. Uandaff," she said.
Mrs LANDAU waited
II don't expect to see him again." continued
Katharine.
Never see him again ?" asked the other.
al don't dare to expect to see him. Yes
mean never shall see him.
Mrs. LANDAU smiled.
How easily youth uses the word never shF
exclaimed. perhaps you will meet Owen le"
years hence and be amazed that you ever though'
you loved him"
Katharincs eyes were fixed on her aunt In
diloted wonder
Il don't think love him. know" she said
simply. II want you to tell him that love him
with all my heart Will you tell him that
"Ycs,' answered Mrs LANDAU.
And again she found her eyes filling and her
throat closing
She thought that Katharine had more to say
but as she did not speak the elder woman at last
asked
rs there anything else p
"Oh, no What else should there be? Only
that | love him with all my heart, and | shall
always love him. I wish him TO know that
told him. but should like to have you say Z
TO him some time when you are with him ana i
am away
Mrs. Llan0aft cOuld not even snlle tno"H"
these words sounded piteously young in her
ears. She looked at the face before her and said
to herself:
Possibly she will always love him. bucf
things have happened
Instead of replying she said abruptly
LET us start for the mountains this very dar
That is, We will start if we can ret that man who
owns a horse to tackle up the animal and take
us"
II turned out that the man who owned horse
was induced to tackl. up; and the two women
left the little hamlc, on the BLUM by tho ocean
Since Owen was gore or going. Katharine
would have preferred to stay there. But the.
she argued with herself, that il would he better
for her to leave any place which had such as
socations for her.
The girl was trying to fiji her mind with reso-
lutions Of the most practical kind II must he
confessed, however. that she did not succeed very
we'll But she believed that in the course OF
years she should succeed. She looked forward
eagerly TO that time. She imagined that she
could make herself over into person like some
she had seen whose nerves, il they had ever had
any, were so we'll shcathcd that nothing reached
them: whose slow, phegmatic hearts were slfelv
intrenched from any onslauGhts OF emotion
So she found herself at the end of a dozen
hours In n house pcrched on plateau In the
Catskills There were good many people in
the house
Mrs LANDAU said they had tried nature adul-
teratcd only by the marbles. now they would try
nature adutcratcd with fashion.
On their way through Boston they had stopped
NJ tNr drcssmakcr's and Katharine had been
measured for clothes suitable for young person
After few days these clothes arrived and the
girl was requested 10 put them on and disport
herself in them.
Mrs. Llandaf looked at her niece dcghtrdly.
and Katharine looked in the glass with wonder
mingled with her satisfaction.
Gowns have a great consolatory power, y
said Mrs. LANDAU.
She took the girls arm and the two went down
10 dinner. Katharine hcing for the first time In
her life dressed. rs hcc aunt snd appropriately.
In Feeding Hills there WINS dressing for
dinner in Roxy house.
Whatever the disease which afflicted Mrs.
North It had not yielded TO tho potions concocted
for IL by the doctor. When questioned by tie
rciehbora as 10 what was the matter Of North $
wife" the physician wisely replied that il was
an obscure complication; that she might re-
cover and she might not" SO that whatever
happened. the doctor WAS right
The woman who had been engaged 10 com" in
and do up the work came earlier and did mp more
and more work, ~ more and mere Mrs. Norm
found herself unable TO do il.
She used 70 III in her chair and watch her
husband when hc in the house She hadn't
forgotten her fear Of the concealed razor, and she
thought a great deal. in sfutiiled kind OF way,
Of the fact that Colbmn had pushed Deacon
Grove into the water.
Sho wondered what the Congregational
church. called in Feeding Hills " the orthodox
church, would say if it were known that ia
snos, prominent deacon had been well nigh
murdered by another church member Though
Deacon Grove had strayei often INTO Methodist
meetings in pursuit Of pretty girls, he wa'
faithful 10 his own church AMI stood high
within IT, He had been prayed for In the
pulpit every Sunday since his Illness.
Perhaps these prayers were being answered,
for certain IL was that Marccllus Grove was
recovering.
Is the days and weeks now went by, and
the time had come for Scptemhcr's melancholy
heats. il became known that Mr.. Grove had been
able &C. hobblc out in tho yard and sit there for
a while.
" was upon 'Gusty Riddles arm upon side
and cru'ch on the othoc that he had hobb'od
and IL was 'Gusty Riddle who had prepared his
chair with pillows. and she who watched
beside him to 500 that no want should he m
supplied.
In those proptiou9 days Miss Riddle laughed
more than ever. Tho deacon did not laugh I;
but it could not be denied that hc was vcir
dependent upon his nurse. And she was 50
attentive that il became a universal belief that
'Gusty would now -" finally have her chance
Just what her chance was, was never men,
Toned. but every one appeared 10 understand
what il was.
Illness is great modiGcr. and Mr.. Grove,
after many vaciatons, saw the matter ol me
divorce in what Colburn North calcl the right
tight Mr. North had been persistent IN
season and out Of season, and the man had
mIccumbed. He had begun proceedings for a
divorce and the proceedings went on ne rapidly
as was consistent with the august majesty OF
Tie Ivy I,nler tie circumstance this was all