Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-04-27

And the hamertons were Of the May


And the f1anertons were Of the May
flower stock.
'sDo you know-can you guess, Lucille
can you guess WHO my love is?'
''I was never good at onig1nas, q little
indistinctly,
.sDr. Harrisse. DO sou remember when
you first met me.7
'sIt seems to me that have known you
always he evaded.
Il thought that you remembered when
| first saw you here.
"Could ! ever forget you, Lucille?"
ut seems SO, smiling family. 'sBut
have a confession to make
80 have T."
You will believe that have deceived
you"
"If this be deception, let me be deceived
forever"
She smiled family.
Here DR.. Johns joined them again.
When they parted the next morning, he
said:
Il shall ses you, if may, at the first
available moment in the week. If any
thing prevents, shall write"
Sitting down to dine the following day
with his bosom friend, he said:
"Tom, yoa know everything and every
body, can you tell me where l met a
Miss Lucille LiIGsay?''
''She was the person Captain Haner-
ton wanted to marry. You remember
old Hamerton:"
ssYes.''
Forty years her senior. He tempted
her with jewels as Faust tempted Mar
guerite with Kindness and luxury. but
although she N-Gs only a poor little circus
rider she wouldn't have him. When he
died, he left her half his big estates.
heard she went abroad. She broke a
bone falling from her horse in the circus.
| suppose | must have set it. Gone, eh!
Been on tho ragged edge Of Irritation on
the voyage? Fancy 4 Harrisse marrying
a circus rider. How Beacon street would
hoWlr'
DR.. Har1isse was perhaps thankful
that his patients demanded his atten-
ton, and gave him no time to think or
visit at once. and that an important case
made it impossible, as he said to himself,
to do other than to postpone Miss Lind
say. One day he met DR.. Johns coming
away from her presence. He had an air
of suppressed excitement about him. 1t
was year since they had parted on the
Malta. ''The fellow is almost hand
some," thought Harrisse. and he is in
love with Lucille"
He acted upon his determination to
call, but Miss Lindsay was engaged with
a headache and begged DR.. Harrisse
would excuse her.
The words sounded strangely to him;
he felt dazed and miserable and angry
with DR.. Johns, as if his visit had some
thing to do with it, All at once the fact
that Lucille had begun life as circus
rider seemed trivial and of no impor-
tance compared with the greater fact
that he loved her. Let those laugh who
win.
He never remembered having been in
such o hurry before in his life. Why
had he postponed happiness so long? It
was late in the following day when he
received Lucille's reply:
Your kind words-she wrote-have carried
me back to those halcyon days on the Malta,
when believed myself as desperately in love
as you believe yourself to be today I confessed
All this 70 DR.. Johns UneI he proposed to me
yesterday morning. and he was willing to alb
solve me
DR.. Harrisse tossed tho letter into the
CRATE and went out to his patients.
1t was perhaps half dozen years later,
when looking over some old papers he
happened on the charred remnants Of
LucilleS letter, which His servant had
rescued from the fire and folded away.
He opened it curiously and fingered over
it fascinated.
confessed all to DR.. Johns when he proposed
to me yesterday morning-it read-but if You
love me-poor DR.. Johnsl | should like to pun
ish you. should like to quote to you, ''There
must be nautch girls and circus riders perhaps,
but we don't choose our wives and sweethearts
from among them" and refuse your gift-but
love you. LUCILLE.
At this date, however, Lucille had long
been Mrs. Dr. Johns.-Texas Siftings.