Smyrna times., 1893-07-19


ing at the recollection of the interview.
'She gave me plump enough mo- but
| am sure she had not intended to. I
am sure she meant to accept me, only
she could not make up her mind to
take such blunt fellow. And think
all the more of her tor it. l saw all
along that she did not care a straw for
me, but thought she might marry me
because"-
He broke off little shamefacedly
without completing the season. His
mother was too thoroughly shocked at
the double catastrophe of her sons
wanting to marry that girl-that poor
school teacher" and what was more
unaccOuntable, that she had refused
him, to say anything; so he continued:
''If she had promised to marry me 1
should have despised her for it, She
could not hide her contempt from me.
l wish-well, | am glad it is settled"
He stood up and gazed out of the win
dow. What l came to tell you.
mother" he resumed, 'is that am 60
ing away. | shall sell or rent the store.
| may go into business somewhere else
i don't know. Perhaps l shall not do
anything for year or two; but shall
leave here"
Tom, are you going to let that
school teacher, stranger, drive you
out of your own home?
mo one is driving me, mother.
have fancy to see little of the
world, that is all. But don't take it to
heart so. | shan't go to night, mother"
You don't remember me Miss
Barry ?"
The speaker came forward and smil-
ingly offered his hand to the lady who
had just entered the room.
Indeed do, Mr.. Morse And am
very glad to see you"
Without a shade of embarrassment.
Alice took the offered hand, and bid
ding her caller be seated proceeded to
talk in a friendly unaffected wav.
There was no consciousness in her
manner. Why should there be? Five
years had passed since she had spent
that long night in pondering whether
or not she could be this mans wife.
During the last three years she had
scarce thought Of him as many times.
All that folly was ended long ago. Be-
sides, this was another person it
would be absurd TO feel constrained in
his presence because she had once re-
fused to marry certain Morse-of
MOrseVille. This faultlessly dressed
man and amusing talker bore no re.
semhlance to her former lover. And
yet be did only she had never known
him in the old times
He was living ia New York, he told
her, and had been for the last year
He had travelled before that, had spent
a year in California, part of one in
Texas, and twice crossed the water
but he meant to settle down now and
attend to business. Could he call on
her occasionally? ? He nad few friend.
in the city; She would really be dis
pensing charity ia receiving him.
After he had gone Alice Barry sal
, down to think, but at first only won.
dered vaguely why this stranger haG
called on her. She associated him SC
little with the past that she did not re
: gard their meeting as an acquaintance
renewed.
, The five years had made very littl,
outward change in Alice. She was
still a school teacher through the in
, fuence of friends she had obtained 8
position in New York, and was stead
lily rising in her profession. She fell
that teaching was to be her life work
, and gave to it the best she had to give
Ones best seldom fails to win some sue
cess, and her methods and opinions
} were already quoted in teachers cir.
: cles. The future looked far more
hOpeful to her now than it had looked
five years before. She no longer found
, her labor a drudgery. Love and mar
riage had drifted from her, but life
, seemed full and complete without them
She had found it complete. But ar
{ added restlessness and discomfort tool
possession of her tonight. She sa
: long before the fire and pondered ovel
the resurrection, as she termed Ton
, Morse's temperance. No insinuatior
. of the kind had passed her lips, yet sht
? knew that his transformation was en-
8 tirely due to love of her. In the ole
: times she had given his feelings littl,
: consideration. Of self-sacrificing low,
r she had supposed him incapable. Nov
r she wondered at her own obtuseness,
Why, here was a man whose powe
\ OF affection was so great that, to viii
g the plain, almost commonplace woman
g whom he loved aud idealzed, he hat
t cheerfully saciaced home, friends, ant
/ the traditions of his youth. Her owl
r nature seemed warped and narrow il
q comparison with his. And yet she ha,
secretly considered herself his superior
r Well, she repaid Toms FIVE years @
} striving with another sleepless night
Q If he had known it But what did
v few months more of waiting matter
q He knew it after they were married.
Catarrh Cannot be Cured
o with local applications, as they canno
reach the seat of the disease. Catarr
> is a blood or constitutional disease
and in order to cure it you must tax
Q internal remedies. HALLS Catarrl