Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-11

| tufo Sno lnduC IS bne WSuI oluSlhS
merrily along the path that led to the
woods.
After walking some distance she
felt tired. and sat down to rest in the
very heart of the woods. She took
off her hat TO let the cool wind play
in the masses of her dark glossy hair.
Near where she sat grew some poppies;
| the pink roses in her bat looked
faded and insignificant beside the
crimson flowers SO she wreathed the
I opp es in their place. laughing gay
! ly as she did so.
Suddenly shadow fell across the
grass. The girl did not notice it at
first for the great boughs as they
stirred in the bree often made such
shadows; but it grew larger. Then
she raised her es and saw standing
before her a handsome young man.
| hat in hand.
Il have lost my way" he said.
Gould you tell me how 10 find the
nearest path to the highroad;"
In one moment the whole course OF
the young heirs life was changed. A
poet says, Love is no hove unless it
comes at once" As he stood there
with the com monplace words upoa
his lips the swift arrow of first love
pierced his heart
Only minute had elapsed since
he had entered this glade where the
ahaGe was so cool and the wind so
sweet, and already his life lay far
behind him. He had never been
refused any WIS., or desire IN his life;
why should he begin TO pra tice self
| denial now? He ought TO have
list ned to Maggie's answer and have
pas ed on. AS it was he stood still.
feeling that he could not move away.
The nearest path that leads TO
Armytage? 1t is certainly not this
way. 1t is quite half a mile from
| here.
In that case" he said. Il will
rest for a few minu' es before l try to
reach it. have been walking for
some hours and am tired. "
He sat down opposite her.
IL think. he said slowly looking
at her, that this is the loveliest day
Of a lovely year One ought to have
nothing TO do in the summer but lie
under the trees and dream.
Bees make honey in the summer.
time TO last through the winters
cold " she replied.
Il am glad am not n bee said
| Sir Carlos Watching the dark lashes
as they lay like sllken fringe On the
cheeG that was like the fairest leaf of
a tree.
TO Sir Carlos Carew. whose life
had known no greater charm or inter-
est than sport this wonderful passion
of love came like revelat on. Mag
! gie's cay. careless manner had "a
wonder al charm for him. AS rule.
when he was in the society of girls
| they did their best to entertain him.
| Maggie leaned her dark beautiful
! head against the trunk of tree and
! listened to him weaving the peoples
| into all kinds OF fantastic forms and
| seem ng much more interested in
| them than in him, but secretly de-
| lighted as she noted the looks OF adj
mlration he cast on her.
When he could stop no longer he
told her that he could not endure the
thought of leaving her unless she
promised to see him again. She did
| promise and went home with her
| heart and mind full of him; he had
told her all about himself and she
Ead given him the outline Of her sim
pie life.
You have never seen Lord Stan.
leigh ! SUPPOSE" he said; and
Maggie answered no but that she
knew Hiram West his lordshjp's
valet He resolved that he would not
mention Maggie to ! ord Stanleigh.
lest he shoul. try to win her himself
he told MIN that she had nothing to
do in the daytime and he asked her
10 meet him in the woods on the NOR.
row.
Had Maggie been cvec so inclined
to talk about her adventure. thore
was no one who would care to hear
her. Jeanette detested al men.
young or old. so she could not expect
sympathy from her. The girl had Il
shrcwd suspicion that even II her
father W IS disposed to listen, IL would
be wiser not To tell him.
~ tdN dtlGf udl OF NdElOs ana
Maggie met in the woods and every
! day Sir Carlos grew more deeply in
love He was changed man. The
rec or had predicted that it would be
IA hopeless case when he did fall in
love and he was right
sir Carlos had no thought but for
Maggie. 10 him everything was
centered in that girlish graceful fig
ure. Where she was not all was
desolation and gloom. They leased
him at Hatton-the ladies espec ally
declared they knew the symptoms;
but no one leased him second time;
there was something in his face that
for babe it.
Lord Stanleigh thought that if the
young fellow had made a romance for
himself it was quite time. and that it
was nobody's business but bis own.
AS he did not even know of the ex-
i4tence OF Maggie Waldron. no sus-
picion pointed at way.
SIR Carlos had known Maggie a
fortnight spending two or three hours
with her every day. when he resolved
TO marry her She and M othar