The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-15

where Lillian BaSSett 8 scarlet mantle
lighted up the snowy terrace. Why
were some girls SO happy, while others
toiled ceaselessly on in LIES 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, Lilly! Really married
And to that handsome young pro-
lessor of mathematics !" cried Adela
Maurice, Lillian's ex-schoolmate.
''Well, I never expected to see you
Gagged! And he's q1ite 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
I'm afraid he's inclined to be q
f1irt"
ssNonsense! cried Lillian, coloring
wrathfully.
'sOh, 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.
"What!'' exclaimed Miss Maurice
Gone of the servants?'
CHOW, Aunt Bella, why can't you
hold your tongue, flashed out Lillian,
"when you know very we'll 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
1 really think my brother ought to
inquire into it. There she goes,
houncing out of the room. Well, I'm
really afraid, Adela, that our Lillian's
temper isn't altogether perfect"
81 don't think mine would be-"
said Adela Maurice, ''if I were bad
gered like that"
sit is dreadful trial, isn't it, to
see your lover drifting off into an
other woman's snares?" said Miss Bella,
wilfully misunderstanding things.
While Lillian, running up stairs,
paused to catch her breath at one of
the big mullioned windows Oh the
staircase.
Chow I 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 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 to
view.
Lillian stood still, her bright eyes
trimming over with tears, a pang
transtixing her heart as if some poi
soned arrow were buried there.
'sAnd I loved him !" she said, aloud,
'Oh, how loved him! But this is an
end of it all. Tonight, when he comes
to talk to me-to-night there must be
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,
clear-cut features of his; and when he
came cheerily in that evening, Lii
lian's heart failed within her.
'How can he bear himself so
bravely?" she thought. "Where is
his conscience-his manly truth?"
81 am glad, Lilly, to find you alone"
said Captain Moreton, tenderly, tex
ing her hand in his.
She jerked it away.
81 hate sitting hand-in- hand" said
she, in answer to his surprised glance.
''1t's $3.50 spoony!'
"Well, just as you like, darling" he
acquiesced, seating himself beside her
''To find you alone, for I wanted to
talk with you very particularly. I
have secret to tell YOU"
''There may be more secrets than
one in the world, said Lilly, in low
voice.
ga secret that is not entirely my
own-a secret that may, perhaps, alter
all our existing arrangements
cit undoubtedly WILL" said Lilly,
rising to her feet in her excitement.
"You need not go on, Captain Moreton.
[ know all, and I give your betrothal
ring back to you!''
LILLY, Iwould scarcrly have thought
this of you!" he said, gravely.
''No? For what did you take me,
then? Am | not woman, with wo-
mans spirit? Do you think ! can con-
time to love a man who is false to
me?'
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