Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-11-09

ing. that ne was young, good-loolsing
and clever, lived in Edin burgh, was
| quite gentlcmau and not at all the
kind of man that Aunt Ceceliu seemed
to imagine
| Being informed that Dollic had been
! forbidden to 60 there, Mrs. Mainwar-
| ing advised her sister to assure her
self that Dollie had understood and
was obcying this order, This Mrs.
/ Carnegie did, and then once more
] gave her whole mind to Sir Philip and
Evie Why did he not propose? The
day of his departure was drawing very
near
/ 1t came two days earlier than had
| been anticipated A rich old bachelor,
/ Sutherlandshire dispatched this
/ telegram to him.
Am i'll and must have rest Come
1 at once and help me or shall die out
right Why are you SO long in arriv-
mgr
Ten minutes after the telegram
| came Sir Philip followed Mr. Carnegie
| to the study--n study in which no
/ book was ever opened but that which
he had gone TO fetch -- u -adshaw
Mrs Carnegie thought she knew
what Sir Philip had gone to do and
tried TO be patient while She waited
the result
In a quarter of nm hour her husband
came und Said "Mv dear, / have
had a great surprise very great
surprise 1t almost amounted to Il
shock"
What nonsense, Charles! You
must have known what was coming"
Ill
Indeed ] did. J have known for
ten days that Sir Philip wanted to
marry Evie'
,'But he doesn't-it is Dollie.' -.
Even if sir Philip did happen to be
in love with the young daughter he
was still Sir Philip; so after Mrs,
Carnegie was sufficiently recovered to
fit new heroine into the romance in
which she was so much intercs ed she
sent out emissaries in search of Dollie,
No one could find her, until at last
an undergraduates, being much
pressed by Mrs, Carnegie herself
said. with evident reluctance, that
MISS Dollie might perhaps, he thought,
be painting in Ladywell wood.
TO reach this wood cornfeld had
to be traversed. and just as Mrs Car
negie was half across it she saw Dollie
in the distance, bidding farewell to
gentleman with a slsetching- bag on
his back. The unhappy lady stopped
short in horror.
"Dollie," she exclaimed, "this is
shameful have been trusting you
ali this time, and you, it seems, have
been breaking your word?'
'Oh, no, | have not, | have not
been near the glen, and | have never
seen Mr.. Fleming until this morning,
Don't look that way, mother; / am
speaking the truth. l was on my
way to tell You all about it..
"Tell me nothing of that kind
want TO know nothing"
But you must know, mother-you
will be forced to know Mr. Fleming
has asked me to marry him and have
said | will"
You hayei Well, girls do stupid
things sometimes; but the sooner you
undo his the betterl'
Mother" Dollie began, but her
voice failed her
Make no appeal to me, Dollie /
am sorry for you, of course, if you
care; but you won't care long. Be n
good girl and do your best to dismiss
this from your mind at once and for
ever, and go to your room now and
write and tell that man that you in
tend to do So
Where is Dollie?" asked Mr.. Car
negie when he and Sir Philip came.
"She was here few minutes ago,
but she has been sfetching in tine sun,
and it has been two much for her.
She had to go to bed with "A fright
fully bad headache
"Then ! shall not see her unless
stay till tomorrow" said Sir Philip
after expressing much sympathy.
"Oh, you must not do that-yor
must not offend your uncle; besides
Dollie may not he well enough to see
| you tomorrow
Sir Philip departed and Mr. ant
, Mrs. Carnegie repaired to the study tt
| write to MIR. Fleming
Their daughter, they said, nigh
, have been temporarily led away 10y
persuasion, but now saw, as any one
+ with any judgment must see, that /;
t marriage with him was out of tn,
question, They inclosed letter from
l her which would inform him of tn
t true state of her feelings, and truste,
that he would see the propriety o
e leaving the neighborhood at once,
1 "But can you get her to write tina
= letter." asked MIR. Carnegie
"Oh, yes replied his wife, an,
Il went to Dollie's room, which she di
not leave until she had succeeded.
o He wrote TO her but his letter wa
s returned by Mr.. Carnegie unopened.
c Fleming became desperate, and be
:, ing powerless in other ways, Gale
e the wisdom of the serpent to his al
1t and wrote; 81 find it so hard to bt
lieve that YOUR daughters mind ca
s. have changed so suddenly that l Ell
2, treat you to let me see her alone fc
s ten minutes. If you permit this, an
+. she then speaks rs she has written,
20 give you my word of honor as gel
+, tleman to accept her decision rs flint