The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-05-02
you'd like a place?"
81 must have one."

ner in the ehousekeeper's room. There |"
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
berriesp It's the colonel's daughter,
Miss Lillian Bassett.
you've come back, have you,
ParkeyP" cried a sweet, girlish young
voice. ''Did you bring my chocolate
caramels?"
1.-THE candy store was shut up, Miss
Lilly"
''Oh, how perfectly shamefuli'
And cluster of glaring red ber-
ries, aided by a 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 prettyp" said she, sand
such mad-cap. Well-perhaps mar
riage will sober her down"
els she TO be married soon?" asked
Jessie.
eve 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
we're some girls so happy, whilo 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, Lillyi Really married
And to that handsome young pro-
fessor of mathematics !" cried Adela
Maurice, Lillian's ex-schoolmate.
"Well, never expected to see you
cagedi And he's quite self made
man, they tell me"
'1 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.
s'Oh, but indeed, I've met him
twice at the strawberries, walking with
that pretty yellow-haired girl that
takes care of the linen-room," per-
sisted Miss Bella.
"Whatl" exclaimed Miss Maurice.
"One of the servants?"
''Now, Aunt Bella, why can't you
hold your tongue, flashed out Lillian,
"when you know very we'll that old
Parkhurst says she is reduced lady ?''
Reduced ladies have no business
wandering about the laurel hedges
with handsome young engaged men, u
viciously retorted Miss Bassett. "And
really think my brother ought TO
inquire into it. There she goes,
fiouncing 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 l were bad
gered like that.
sit is a dreadful trial, isn't it, to
see your lover drifting off into an.
other woman's snares ?" said Miss Bella,
wilfnlly Misunderstanding things.
While Lillian, running up stairs,
paused to catch her breath at one OF
the big mullioned windows on the
staircase.
"How should like to cram a 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 2" said
! AAAAAAany bMd4AOWAuR lCDIA'
lious lump in her throat. 'I sup
pose he happened to meet her, and
At this precise moment, however,
the couple paused beside "a 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 tamarack thickets and were lost tC
view.
Lillian stood still, her bright eyes
brimming over with tears, pane
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 al
end of it all. Tonight, when he comes
TO talk to me-to-night there must bt
an end of it 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
elear-cut features of his; and when he
came cheerily in that evening, Lii
lian's heart failed within her.
''How can he bear himself Sc
bravely?" she thought. "Where ii
his conseience-hism manly truth?"
al am glad, Lilly, to find you alone,
said Captain Moreton, tenderly, tax
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