The Portland daily press., 1894-08-14
THE COACHnAy.

was Eliane iu Rockers guardian AT
the age of she had lost buth her parents
Her healsl was delicate, and thought the
best thing to do for her was to put her to
a convent school in the country.
myself had three sons. Eliane when
of age, would come into possession of
$500, 600, and as I did not want to be ac-
cused of paternal covetousness 1 desisted
from taking her to my home. Conse-
quently she spent all her vacation at
school, grew up beautiful and thereby
caused nae to redouble my precautions.
She showed religious proclivities and
professed a vocation for convent life.
demonstrated against her becoming nun,
but she urged that she was happy and
wanted nothing better than to pass her eX-
istence at the convent. When of age, she
for two years devoted her whole income to
feeding and clothing the poor of JULY.
One morning, however, received the
following astonishing letter:
MY DEAR GUARDIAN am bored After
mature reflection l find that I am not cut out
for religious career. Kindly find me hus-
devoted ELIANE.
hurried to THE convent.
$50 you are bored?''
u u5dGIl, lily u6eAE tSudEul1u.
sAnd you wish to marry simply for lack
of something better to dor"
EXACTLY
"Have you considered?"
mot very much-only enough to know
that since I am bored at the convent can
have no religious vocation. I won't be an
old maid. There is nothing left then ex-
cept lnarriage-or DEATH
''How you jump at eonclusionsP'
Have you in your infinite wisdom any
thing else to suggest"
Hum! And what doiyou require of the
happy mortal, your future husband"
Nothing, except thu it he please me. ~
Every well. But VIII at does please you?
You must have some ideal. All girls
have"
mot l." she answered quietly. IRE
member, my kind friend, that know only
three men-you, our father confessor and
the convent gardener, and''--
''And?'
She slightly tossed her head. ''Well,
they are not at all what want"
I was fully aware that I, stout, bald
and nearsighted, could not be the fancy
of a handsome girl of 90 still I felt little
provoked at being told it so plainly.
She kissed me. Probably she would have
been more circumspect had I been her
ideal. Anyhow her kiss Gained me.
II shall seek and find. T"
Shegdropped me a nice little courtesy,
and we parted.
1t does not seem hard to find candidate
for the hand of a young and charming
heiress. presented quite a number of
men to her-nice fellows, too-but none
suited her. Summer was passing, and
each week Eliane sent me card with the
words, II am bored
Don't be SO hard to please, then. Make
choice, Unanswered in evaporation.
Things were at this point when my old
friend, the curate of Redon, spoke to me
of the Marauise de Pen Valloet and her
two sons-old family, distinguished name,
good connections, respectable fortune.
proposed to Eliane to spend few weeks
with my wife at Trouville. She joyfully
accepted.
ION the way said I, tive will stop at
one of my clients, the Marquise de Pen
Valloet. =
1T wager your client has son.
1.-TWO, in fact"
$50 much the easier to choose.
The marquise resided on large estate
some miles from Redon. I had been told
of her strictly economical way of living
so / was not surprised to find awaiting us
at the station an old rattletrap of car
riage, which smelled SO musty that, as we
started to get in. Eliane recoiled.