St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-29

lar, ana the beauty charm.
To my delight he took the matter as
| joke. laughed at me for having put faith
in the thing Tor moment, and ended
with these words:
MY darling, you are one of the girls
who grow more beautiful as they ma
ture. Many beautiful children make
plain. piEched, insignificant women.
You will be handsomer at thirty than
you are now-yes, at forty, Pye no
doubt"
Say seventy at once" cried. az
hope shall be, in your dear eyes. And
now, sit quiet for a moment" And,
taking the beauty charm from the cord
that held it, l fastened it to his watch
chain BY little ring that was intended
to hold some ornament, but was yet
empty.
'At last" said. II will wear this no
longer. 1t Is my first present to you,
anu, If L could believe that it had any
power to make me win the hearts of
men, should give it to you all the
more, for only in your eyes 40 l wish to
be fair, only by you do 1 desire to be
beloved" Our lips met-oh, happy;
oh. never TO be forgotten moment, in
which had foretaste OF paradise.
An hour later my uncle arrived. He
was much affected by our meeting. and
his account Of his long, anxious search
for me really touched my heart.
He met Arthur with stately courtesy,
but my dear old Don won his heart at
once. Shortly we all entered the ven
cradle carryall, and drove out to Nal.
collins Rest.
The family were all gathered on the
veranda to meet US. My aunt must have
spent a great deal of time on her
toilette. and Adelaide was prettier than
ever. In pink and white costume. She
flung herself into my arms, with a cry
of rapture, and, as felt sure, remem-
brance of the presence Of gentlemen to
admire her grace and animation. NV
aunt was more digniied: Welcome to
| you old home, Niece Anna" she said
II had vowed never could forgive you
for using me so cruelty. How your poor
uncle has danced up and down the earth
in search of you. And you have given
us both dozen OF new wrinkles. and
look at the colonel's hair:
However. you have improved so that
l cannot find it in my heart to scold you.
And now suppose you have some one
me and gave her hand TO my soldier.
who won her heart by lifting it to his
lips.
She. too, took a great fancy to Mr..
March. who will always be the Don to
me, though l never called him so. And
as for Mr.. Graham, saw in ten min
utes that he had fallen in love with
Cousin Adelaide. The children
scarcely children any longer-danced
about me, and Maum Mandy and Aunt
Sally role their eyes and lifted their
hands in apparent ecStaSies of rejoic-
Ing.
How 1 has mourned and lumented.
to be sure" said Mandy. II steddied
and steddied, and couldn't s'pose muffin
but Miss Mamie done been kill and
berry in de bresh. Lors. when dey come
and tell US dat old Flo she got de chain,
[ sartin sure she sassinate her. like de
folks said she did. Neber spect ! see
Miss Mamie again."
| is powerful 'jiced, is. an mus say
l nebber see no one grow up 50 harm
some"
Course. Miss Mamie wus always
harnsome," said that arch hypocrite,
Maum Mandy, with the soft, insinuatng
smile peculiar to herself. "'De Mai
collins always is harnSome. but some
way anoder she Is got so mighty pre-
. persesSin."
Yes, Miss Mamie. you sar inIy is
/ powerful pre-per-sessin' nowadays
said Aunt Sally. "Struck me like light
MIN fust minute l saw you get out oil
| de carriage"
/ could not help laughing. and at this
they laughed also, of course, and with
, smiles aud mods and courtesieS rolled
away.
, Mus get you alls some supper soor
as we KIM" said Maum Mandy. "Cite
ment, even if it is jyfu, tires folks ou
aud makes 'em hungry"
AS we sat at the broad supper table
} that evening | could not help remem
, bering how many time [ had slunI
; away from it Inundated by reproof
sick at heart with a sense of my owl
: lnferiorlty to my cousins. How my
| auntS GOODNESS had made my hear
ache. How l had waited in vain for In,
uncle to have time to think of me. Blu
was now too happy to feel resentment
Moreover, | acknowledged that ! alst
, had been to blame. 1 understood NAM
: things | had not comprehended then
t and was glad later on to lift the LOAF
from my uncle's heart, by telling min
that should devote myself at once t.
the restoration of MalcOlm's Rest.
5 The place where my lost mother wa
l born snail not fall into decay" l said
NOR shall you, her only living brother,
I end your days in poverty"
r My child, you are tue Malcolm, ,
ne said; generous ana noble; l thank
, heanen for you.'
| My Inheritance was now placed il
: my hands, and before my wedding day
, l had already restored and refurnishel
| the ballroom. Fine beyeled plate glas
5 was placed in the grand old frames
: the mantelpieceS were restored, the
S ceiling redecorated and the floors pol
is he'd; all the old velvet seats recovered
I The wedding was an old. fashioned
a Vlrginian home wedding; the ceremon,
i first. the ball and Ieast afterward.
Mrs, March. who had receivad m mr.
gent invitation from my aunt, had com
= to us at once. 1t rejoiced me to see he
so happy in her reunion with the hus
band of her youth. AS for my uncle, il
| his new coat, his soul at rest from
thoughts of selling land aud timber, h,
was brighter than l ever remem bereC
t him. 1t was PLAIN that Adelaide anC
, MT. Graham already understood each
other.
= Ny aunt and Minnie and Leonor,
were all SMILES and sweetness, aud tn,
servants felt. as they said, that old times
had come back again.
! And l. as l stood with my hand il
that Of my soldier, and uttered m,
| vows In words to which my heart re
spcndsd in Its every beat, felt that
, was favored among women.
: Was | the little orphan, too morbid
too unprepossessing to be loved like
others of her age. bining for tender
word, fond caress, who, in that very
room three short years before, went
nearly mad in her misery?
Later, when all tine guests were gone
and the candles burnt low in theil
, sockets, my soldier led me into the
, room again. Look at yourself, nv
darling" he said. "See what beautiful
wife l have" But |, as l looked, could
only see that he stood beside me, coulo
| mi ratnan.hor that I IL
two lived.
, Life must have its changes. As time
, glides on, who does not meet with sor-
row? think, despite the old Jokes on
the subject, that wedding is an excel
, lent finale for story.
/ SO as | ,tand, with my hand in my
dear soldiers, our hearts beating with