The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-05-18

trimming over with tears, panc
transfxing her heart rs if some poi
soned arrow were buried there
"And | loved him !" she said, aloud
ooh, how I loved him. But this is nm
end of it ALL Tonight, when he comes
to talk to met hight there must be
an end OF it all !"
The young professor was certainly
very handsome man, with his brill
liant blue eyes, his brown HAIR, shot
with golden CLEANS, and those straight,
clear-cut features of his; and when he
came cheerily in that evening, Lii
lian's heart failed within her.
GLOW can he bear himself so
brayely?" she thought. "'Where is
his conscience-his manly truth?"
81 am glad, Lilly, to find you alone"
said Captain Moreton, tenderly, tax.
ing her hand in his.
She jerked it away.
81 hate sitting hand-in-h hand" sale
she, in answer to his surprised glance.
'It's $3.50 spoony!'
"Well, just as you like, darling" he
acquiesced, seating himself beside her.
''To find you alone, for wanted to
talk with you very particularly. ]
have a secret to tell you.
There may be more secrets than
one in the world" said Lilly, in a low
voice.
"a secret that is not entirely my
own-,a secret that may, perhaps, alter
all our existing arrangements"
''It undoubtedly will" said Lilly,
rising to her feet in her excitement
"You need not go on, Captain Moreton
[ know all, and I give your betrotha
ring back to you'll"
Chilly, Would scarcrly have thought
this of you'll" he said, gravely.
"No? For what did you take me,
then? Am not a woman, with wo-
mans spirit? Do you think l can con.
tinue to love man who is false tC
me-"
"False to you, Lillian? But I an
not that. Sweet, whether you marry
me or not, I shall go on loving you
, Loyalty to my life's end p
Glow many girls do you love q
, once?" bitterly asked Lillian.
81? Why do you ask that question? p
, because l saw you this very after
, noon in the pine walk with another
, woman. I saw your arm around he1
) waist l saw you stoop to kiss her /"
ooh, you saw. me, did you? Their
my story is half told already. 1t il
but a short time, Lilly, since knew
it myself. "
She stood looking at him with large
| surprised eyes.
} How dared he speak so lightly -ant
to her?
r Lilly, that sweet young girl whom
t Mrs. Parkhurst has. employed in tn
a linen-room-DTis Moreton, she call
g herself-is my own sister, and she ha!
concealed herself from me, fearin!
that the knowledge that she was in tn
! institute in such a capacity woul
= prejudice my future unfavorably
a She was a governess in New York
/. she was coming here as companion t.
Il poor old Mrs. Bucknor, who was kille
e in the fre-and Mrs Parkhurst
ignorant of any relation between us
a brought her here. And, noble heroin
+ that she is, she would have gone ava,
d without betraying herself, had ] no
IS Glanced to meet her by accident. Sh
: thought ] would be mortified, but il
t stead I am proud of her beyond tn
a power of words to express.
"'But Miss Bassett?' said she.
g "And then I told her that this ever
ing you should know all. have keE
n my word. Now 1 await your verdict
h Have / not reason to triumph in sue
t noble sister as this?"
- Lillian burst into tears; she hid he
face on Moreton's breast.
}. ooh, WILL" she cried, what
dreadful goose / have been to dout
u your Lowell Go and bring her here q
|, once. Tell her / want to see my dea
d new sister. Tell her that, hereafter
3" her home must be with me. There
IS plenty of room in the new house fc
IS your sister. But first, viii, kiss m
" and tell me that you forgive MI
d quite.
o And so the brave young girl, WI
S, had subordinated her whole life to ht
M brothers success, was promoted to h
S proper place on life's ladder.
81 could have been happy anywhel
" had | known that Wills future vi
l. assured, said she.
And Lillian laughingly told her tn
TO she could be as happy in the new CO
n lege as anywhere else.