The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-20

"Take care that he is not teaching her
now to fall in love-" said Mrs. Mainwar-
ing.
"That child No."
"That child Yes Be quick and stop
It,"
~ will really will. Just now it is
hard to attend to anything but Evie and
Sir Philip, but when that business is set
tied Dollie shall always be with me. Did
you see how he watched Evie at lunch.
comp
mo, l thought he was rather vexed or
disappointed about something"
81 hope not. Evie may perhaps have
been making some of her stupid speeches.
But he loves her, am surel I am so hap
py about it that 1 am not able to think of
anything else"
$50 it seems," thought Mrs. Mainwar-
ing. So she spoke to Dollie herself and
gave her much good advice. From Dollie
she learned that the landscape painters
name was Fleming, that he was young,
good looking and clever, lived in Edin-
burgh, was quite gentleman, and not at
all the kind of man that Aunt Cecilia
seemed to imagine.
Two days afterward Aunt Cecilia was
rather unexpectedly summoned home, but
before going she again spoke to her sister
about the danger of allowing Dollie to sit
for hours sketching in the glen. Being
informed that Dollie had been forbidden
to go there, Mrs. Mainwaring advised her
sister to assure herself that Dollie had
understood and was obeying this order.
This Mrs. Carnegie did, and then once
more gave her whole mind to Sir Philip
and EVE. 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 uncle of
Sir Philip, who was then in Sunderland
shire, dispatched this telegram to him.
cam i'll and must have rest. Have large
party here and can get none. Come at
once and help me, or shall die outright.
Why are you so long in arriving?"
Ten minutes after the telegram came
Sir Philip followed Mr.. Carnegie to the
study-a study in which no book was ever
opened but that which he had gone to
fetch-Bradshaw Mrs. Carnegie thought
she knew what Sir Philip had gone to do
and tried to be patient while she awaited
the result.
In quarter of hour her husband came
and said: "My dear, have had great
surprise-a very great surprise-it almost
amounted to shock"
"What nonsense, Charles! You must
have known what was coming"
"Why should II You didn't"
"Indeed / did. l have known for 10
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 interested, she sent out emissaries
in search of Dollie. No one could find her,
until at last an under gardener, being
much pressed by Mrs. Carnegie herself,
said, with evident reluctance, that Miss
Dollie might perhaps, he thought, be paint
ing in Ladywell wood.
To reach this wood a cornfield had to
be traversed, and just as Mrs. Carnegie
was half across it she saw Dollie in the
distance, bidding farewell to gentleman
with sketChing bag on his back. The
unhappy lady stopped short in horror.
"This must, she thought, ''be that odious
artist Cecilia Mainwaring was so afraid
of. How can Dollie dare to see him, when
I have forbidden herr"
"Dollie," she exclaimed, "this is shame
full have been trusting you all this time,
and you, it seems, have been breaking
your word %
"Oh, no, have notl l have not been
near the glen, and have never seen Mr..
Fleming until this morningl Don't look
like that, mother, 1 am speaking the truth
I was on my way to tell you all about it. :"
"Tell me nothing of that kindl Iwant
to know nothing"
"But you must know, mother-you will
be forced to know. Mr.. Fleming has ask
ed me to marry him, and I have said l
will"
"You have! Well, girls do stupid things
sometimes. But the sooner you undo this
the betterp'
"Ah, you are angry because you still
think that he and have been deceiving
you" said Dollie tenderly, "but, mother,
we have not. We really have not seen each
other since you spoke to me, until today,
and how he found out where was sketch
ing don't yet know"
"And you never will. You will not see
him again"
ooh, but let me tell you how it all hap
pened, and you will see how different ev-
erything is from what you imagine He
came to Ladywell wood could not re-
fuse to say a word to him once he was
there, could II Besides, think he came
on purpose to ask me to marry him. -
"Say no more about that, Dollie; it only
vexes me. You must have known that
you would never be allowed to do it,"
"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 good girl and
do your best to dismiss this from your
mind at once and forever, and go to your
room now and write and tell that man
that you intend to do So
"Where is Dollie2" asked Mr.. Carnegie
when he and Sir Philip came.
"She was here few minutes ago, but
she has been sketching in the sun, and it
has been too much for her. She had to
go to bed with a frightfully bad head
ache"
"Then l shall not see her unless stay
till tomorrow" said Sir Philip after ex-
pressing much sympathy.
"Oh, you must not do that-you must
not offend your uncle. Besides, Dollie may
not be well enough to see you tomorrow.
Sir Philip sighed woefullv.