Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-27
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sfI must have one."

| ueI III tHt tuOuSeheepef bIOoIu. lueIo!
as they drove in between two massive
stone gate-posts, into an avenue of
rustling tamaracks. ''Do you see that
pretty young lady gathering holly
berries? It's the colonels daughter,
Miss Lillian Bassett."
"You've come back, have you,
Parkey?" cried sweet, girlish young
voice. ''Did you bring my chocolate
caramels?"
1.-The candy store was shut up, Miss
Lilly"
"Oh, how perfectly shameful!"
And n cluster of glaring red ber-
ries, aided by not unskillful hand,
hustled through the air, and hit the
housekeeper exactly on her nose. But,
instead of evincing offense, Mrs. Park
hurst only laughed.
''Isn't she pretty" said she, "and
such a mad-cap. Well-perhaps mar
riage will sober her down"
'Is she to be married soon?" asked
Jessie.
"We don't quite know" said Mrs.
Parkhurst. '.But one of the young
professors admires her very much,
and we think she don't quite dislike
him."
Jessie looked wistfully back to
where Lillian Bassett's scarlet mantle
lighted up the snowy terrace. Why
were some girls SO happy, while others
toiled ceaselessly on in life's shad-
ows? Why was life such problem ?
For awhile, however, the wheels re-
volved smoothly. Jessie's references,
forwarded from the Wilberforce Pro-
tective Agency, proved all that could
be desired, and she was engaged to
take charge of the linen-room.
During an outbreak of scarlet fever
she found herself particularly efficient
as nurse, and Mrs. Parkhurst soon
began to wonder how it was that she
had ever got along without her.
Married, Lillyl Really married !
And to that handsome young pro-
fessor of mathematics !" cried Adela
Maurice, Lillian's ex-schoolmate.
"Well, 1 never expected to see you
Gagged! And he's quite self made
man, they tell me-"
81 tell dear Lillian, said Miss Bella
Bassett, the sharp-nosed maiden sister
of the genial colonel, "that she should
not make too sure of anything in this
world. The captain is very hand
some, and all that sort of thing, but
Pm afraid he's inclined to be a
hirt."
Nonsense !" cried Lillian, coloring
wrathfully.
"Oh, but indeed, I've met him
twice at the strawberries, walking with
that pretty yellow haired girl that
takes care of the lnen-room," per
sisted Miss Bella
WHAT exclaimed Miss Maurice.
Zone of the servants?"
"Now, Aunt Bella, why can't you
hold your tongue, flashed out Lillian,
'when you know very well that old
Parkhurst says she is areduced lady ?''
Reduced ladies have no business
wandering about the laurel hedges
with handsome young engaged men,
viciously retorted Miss Bassett. "And
l really think my brother ought to
inquire into it. There she goes,
founcing out of the room. Well, I'm
really afraid, Adela, that our Lillian $
temper isn't altogether perfect"
81 don't think mine would be-"
said Adela Maurice, ''if 1 were bad
gered like that"
'It is dreadful trial, isn't it, to
see your lover drifting off into an.
other woman's $ snares?" said Miss Bella,
%ilfully misunderstanding things.
While Lillian, running up stairs,
paused to catch her breath at one of
the big mullioned windows Oh the
staircase.
Glow ] should like to cram big
bath sponge into Aunt Bella's cen
serious old mouth !" said she. "Only
TO think Of"
Suddenly she paused. Down on the
lower pine walk, where the west winds
had swept the path dry of snow, Cap
tain Moreton was pacing up and down
with the gold-haired young girl at his
side.
"Well, why shouldn't they?" said
brave Lillian, swallowing the rebel
lious lump in her throat 81 sup
pose he happened to meet her, and"
At this precise moment, however,
the couple paused beside Il group of
dark spruces. She could distinctly
perceive her lover bend his tall head
to kiss-yes, to kiss the yellow tressed
lassie. And then they passed on into
the tamaraek thickets and were lost 10
view.
Lillian stood still, her bright eyes
brimming over with tears, pang
transhxing her heart as If some poi
soned arrow were buried there.
"And | loved him !" she said, aloud,
"Oh, how | loved him. But this is AN
end Of il all. Tonight. when he comes
10 talk to me tonight there must he
an end of IL all !"
/ The young professor was certainly
a very handsome man, with his brill
liant blue eyes, his brown hair, shot
with golden CLEANS, and those straight,
7 elear.eut features of his aud when he
came eheerily IN that evening, Iii
lian's heart failed within her.
How eau he bear himself so
bravelyY" che thought. Where il
bis conscience his manly truth9'
"a am glad, Lilly, to lind you alone, %
said Captain Moreton, tenderly, tak
ing her hand IA his.
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