Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1895-04-19
Won Back by an Accident.

with a strange lurid glow like tho re-
Election of some vast conllag alton and
blottcd out the brilliant coloring Of
the landscape in dead neutral tint Of
gray. 1t would not be derk, however,
for nearly an hour to come.
cit looks as if tho Bishops Wood
We're all on fire." thought a girl who
was seated on styl9 on the border oil
Bloxover Wood, n wide cxpanse OF
copse and woodland stretching across
the s'oping hills to the cast of the val
ley, with almost as broad a sweep as
that of the Bishops Wood on the
sleeper slopes which walled in the
western horizon. She was slender,
graceful girl, with soft, coniiding blue
eyes and dclic te lower-liko com
plcxion, and with piquant suggest
ivelc Of expression. She was attired
in smart covert coat of melton cloth
over salmon AMI white striped cotton
skirt-eXpressive ut once of the pres
ence of autumn and regret for the
summer which was past On her head
was little sailor hat with salmon rib
bons. Her well-gIoved dainty little
hand was toying with light ground
ash walking stick.
She turned towards the Inan who
was leaning against the stile, quito
close TO her, gazing into her face !;
and with the very action the soft eyes
became hard, and the pretty mouth
set in an expression that was far from
pleasing.
"The fact is, jack" she said, with
a laugh that WIS all bitter, 81 am not
worthy of you | don't love you as
you love me. 1 love you just enough
to be miserable without you, but not
enough to be miserable with you. It's
all thut wrotched money. You sec,
E YOU ya BSJ AS{aE kPQYR @4at it ictid,,
which makes You 50 comfortable as n
bachelor, would mean more penury if
you married a penniless girl like me,
and, oh, Juck, you can have no idea
how heartsick | am of counting shil-
lings as other people count pounds,
and wondering how on earth we are
going to make ends meet from month
to month"
''But surely money alone will not
bring you happinessl Look at the
many rich unlovod and unloving wo-
men whom We see around us. Do they
find that diamonds bring them any
consolation for want of love? Isn't it
better to live on smaller income with
the one You love than starve for want
of love with riches al around you?
Love must be better than money"
eyes, Jack, replied the girl, half
tendcrly, but still with bitterness, "if
love were all. Or if we lived in a
Garden Of Eden, where costumes
might be had for the picking and
house rent was a thing unknown. But
as it is, it is easier to live with money
alone in big house than with love
alone in small one. All that talk
about love in cottage is really non
sense, YOU know. Love will not stay
in small house. He is cramped and
frozen by his environment, and the re-
suit is jars and Mt last rows. And then
one day love flies ont of the window
and does not return"
'Do people never quarrel in big
houscs?" inquired jack in low voice,
which was shaken with emotion.
eyes. But there is plenty of space
and they have their own rooms and
need not meet until the clouds have
passed away. But in small house
they must meet, or leave it, and
Jack, can two human beings sit To-
gethcr without saying word, and i
both think they have grievance, car
they keep their tongues off it?"
"All this is too modern for me.
replied Jack moodly. 81 can't an.
nlyze and predict what would happier
if we quarrelled. l only know that
should be perfectly happy in a small
house with the woman | love, and
think two people who love one anothe.
truly ought to be able to live happil,
on eight hundred year without quar-
relling because it is not eight thou
sand. l."
Certainly Jack Holford was not a
all modern or else he would have I'M
derstood that to girl like Maud Sew
mour, who hal known poverty in it
most trying form all the days of he
life the chance Of catching Il million
airc like Cecil Higgins was an almos
irresistible temptation. If Mr.. Hig
gins had not appeared on the scene
or if he had not openly shown his ad
miration for her and pointedly ez
pressed it to their hostess, Indy sciva
who, of course, had passed it ON t
Maud 'in confidence" matters woul
have been different. Then she woul
have been content to give her han
where she had bestowed her hear
and happiness might have followe
the marriage. But now her mente
equilibrium had been upset. sh
drsamt Of jewels in heaps and gold i