Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-11-09

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thought then hal never seen =
prettIer girl, aud certainly l lave
not changed my mind since.
'Daisy this is your cousin, MI.
JONES'" said Mrs. Payne. "Now,
YOU can have a good visit to ether.
We got On from the very first. l
an the easiest fellow in the world
to get acquainted with, if you will
give me half a chance, though do
close up like a ella n when | coma
IN contact with an unrespOnslve.
My mother and her mother, it
seemed, had been schoolmates to-
gether, though l didn't ever re!
member ever having heard my
mother speak OF it. Strange thing,
too, that IN all my lite | had never
heard that the TiIlo'sOns we're re-
latious of ours. And yet ours Is
Is such a large family, it was hard
ly to be wondered at.
But we didn't have to cOnflne
ourselves to talking over family
matters. We found common ground
enough that was more profitable.
l had not been home for a year,
and she told me all that had been
going on in art and music mean
time. She was thoroughly con-
versant and IN sympathy with
these subjects. Size was herself a
student of the piano. 81 there
was enough to talk about.
l looked at my watch. l was
after eleven O'clock. How the time
had passed Three hours had slip
ped away and / hadn'C realized it.
What better proof that had found
my newly discovered cousin alb
sOrbing. 1t was a new sensation
for meme, who, with my surfeit OF
fair cousins, had always been in
cllned to take the society of wo.
men at discount.
"Why, do believe l am actual
ly little in love with this girl,"
SOlilcquzed on the way back to my
lodgings. "But it will do 10 harm.
She's my cousin" SO interested
was I in the subject, however, that
at that late hour | sat down upon
reaching home aud wrote letter
to ny mother in New York, telling
her all about Daisy TlllOtson. She
was an acq isilion to the family, |
said.
| Lad arranged TO take my cousin
to the Luxembourg gallery the
next day. Tjen we would go to
tue OPERA III the evening. TniS
was IN, plan. | called for her in
the morning with "A carriage. Think
of me riding in carriage! Why,
like a true bohemian, had always
hated any thing less pleOeian than
a public omnibus or bicycle. But
then, "she's my COUSIN" l argued
to myself, "aud l must make bel
stay In Paris memorable. It's al
on her account"
Yes, she certainly did look pret
ty, that fresh, inspiring April morn
ing. She must have studied 10
look her best. | took this to myselI
as a compliment. In turn, | Lac
myself gwen unwOnted attention
to my toilet aud had spent some
htlle time trying to decide whicl
cravat | should wear.
What romantic and uDcon
ventOnal 81 situation fate has ;hrus
as into, Miss Tlllotson." ! remarked
as the carriage rolled off tOwar'
the Luxembourg. "Here are tw'
young people who have neYel
known and scarcely heard OF eacl
other before, cast suddenly to
getber, far away from home an
left to each other without spOnsO
or chaperon. 1T sounds too book'sl
to be a reality"
eyes, rye been thinking of it..
she answered, "Out you know we'r
cousins, AMI that's different"
"After ALL l persisted with th
: idea of teasing her-fOr rn a con
firmed tease-"are you perfect
! sure of thati You never knew nj
Jones is a common name. Their
. my be half a dozen painters
Paris by the name of Jones. Ii
fact, | know one myself. Yo
picked me out at random. PerhaI
I'm not your cousin at all. Mayb
the other Jones is the fOriunat
, one"
"Oh, you're just trying to teas
t me-" she responded, "and lshan
he teased. l know you'd lik
b pretext % get rid of me, but j.
3 quite a privilege to have a cousi
. IN Paris who knows everything, an
n Pm not gong to let you go
elsIly, Mr.. Jones.
\ "Mr. Jones, indeeG," said