Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-04-03

employed it with Ethel. and it had
misled her and her mother. He was
now making FREQ with Geraldine, and
she, foolish chill, was once again fall
ing into the snare. Was it for him to
stand by and see his dear, sweet, love-
not.
CHAPTER XvI
''YOU ARE PATIENT MAN, SIR FRED
ERICK.
If Geraldine had only known what
was passing in the young mans breast!
She fancied, as people have done,
and W IL do to the end OF time, that
whatever might be her own doubts,
an fears, emotions and agitations,
they were safely hidden in the inner
most recesses of her heart, secure from
every one $ ken but her own. 1t was
. her one comfort that no one-not
even her poor dear-dreamed of those
nightly musings and the daily strug-
G .. and that Cecil, Ce Ill of ali people,
Cecil, to whom she had so long been
after her manner, sub ect, of whose
opinion she still had cold dread, and
for whom she still entertained q cer-
tain uneasy respect that Cecil should
have made the tumultuous upheaval Of
her soul the sub ;ect for his calm, dis
! Passionate dissection, would have been
sufficient to let us see what 1t did do
when the trightful truth burst upon
her.
All that Gay Cecil was on the watch
His hand was the one on which she
had TO depend for support, as she
stepped ashore upon the green bank,
so well known at Henley, whore the
, favored few are permitted to excite
the envy OF the multitude, where they
can feast spaciously and luxuriously,
In the long, cool grass beneath the
shade. unencumbercd by the vulgar,
and where they can at ease promenade
presently, un ostled by the clamorous.
Cecil was his cousins escort towards
the spot where Aunt Maria's we'll
trained servants had already almost
completed their tempting arrange
Inents. where the lamb, and chicken,
and lobster and salad. the salmon and
cucumber, the pie and the rate were
repeated up and down the snowy table
cloth, and where the champagne bot
| ties were ID to their necks in the ice.
pals behind the tree.
Geraldines place was selected In the
shadiest corner. behind which there
was niche: not yet to be filled up. but
into which some one would by-and by
insert himself: some one who was so
! openly and palpably her cavalier for
f, the nonce, that none of the other
young men OF the party burst so much
as offer her piece OF bread, although
there was more than one present who
would fain have done so.
Did she want to 60 on the river,
! luncheon being over? Cecil's own lit
tie cushioned boat was lying ready ,and
he would be too proud to take her.
| No? Would she prefer the Guards.
! inclosure? The ''Isthmian" inclOsure?
The Hungarians were playing in the
latter: but either inclosure was open to
her. as Cecil had passes for both.
! What was she to say? Any inclosure
that inclosed her, and excluded him!
Hardly.
Would she then see the next race
right place, the point from which .
nne open view. unencumbered by
house boats, might De obtained?
oh, she was too tired to walk.
| Would she take seat? There were
seats in abundance among the trees;
and to be sure there was a glare on the
river, it would be cooler and pleas
anter to get among the trees-even as
he spoke, she had turned away from
| him with an exclamation. She had
! fancied she saw Bellenden.
! Previously, no idea OF the extent an6
magnitude of the festival had entered
into her mind. and she had supposed
that. once there, she would have had
no difficulty in being found by one
minded to find her. A regatta was not
a racecourse, she had argued; and she
had been at regattas before-having
, witnessed few dull yachts cruising
about in the Firth of Clyde, and stood
among few hundred spectators to see
them come in (which they never did,
+, but of the great regratta of the south,
OF the crowd, the din, the confusion
and strife, the Babel of tongues, the
difficulty of movement, and the almost
impossibility OF meeting without pre-
vions APP ointment, she had had no
sort of conception, while Bsllenden
had been equally ignorant. Had he
ever been at Henley Regatta before he
would have known, indeed, to confino
his search within certain limits; but
he had not learned his lesson, and had
somehow picked up vague impress
sion that the ladies' quarter was near
the bridge, on a largo and thronged
platform, an 1 finding none of the Ray
monds there had somewhat discon-
certed him. He had, however, pro-
ceeded with his search, secured the
water, assailed the inclosure. peered
over the decks of house-boats, and
been everywhere and looked every
where but in the one place where his
dove had hidden herself, and in conse-
quence he had of coarse searched and
secured in vain
Finally he had given it up, and gone
home in disgust, but meaning to have
compensation in Mount street pres.
emily.
Geraldine had evidently been kepS
! h 1,, he Povnnnau
Georges in coIlusion; either she had
not been at the regatta at all, or she
had been kept out of sight on purpose;
In either of which cases there would
be no sort of use in his going down
again on the second day. The train
had been q purgatory, the rush at the
ticket Office. and the scramble tor q
seat something to shudder at, the
whole affair noisy, vulgar, unremu-
nerative day. He had not seen thing.
he had scarcely met person he knew,
he had never endured four hours Of
greater martyrdom.
And, after all. very little would have
been obtained, even II he had found
Geraldine In her present company.
The Raymonds were obviously holding
her fast for the son and heir, and she
was for the time unattainable. 1t
would have been but a word, or at most
brief half hour by her side-and that
probably with Cecil, or some deputy of
Cecil's on the other side. 1t would be
but that if he went on tho second day;
and on the evening Of the second day
the ladies were to return to town. He
decided to stop in town, and present
himself in Mount street during that
evening.
| The moment the decision had beeh
arrived at. it assumed form that made
up for all the past. Bah! the idea OF