Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-02-20

wOIld make quick work OF MIN, Jerry
thought: and with the tip of her pretty
nose in the air, she ell at once yolun-
teered a piece Oi Information which
she had not hitherto been eager TO i'm
part.
81 know nothing Of these places,"
enc said. II am Just come up. My
home is in the Highlands OF Scotland.
Wonder of wonders. the effect was
precisely contrary to that expected.
The Highlands OF Scotland? The Scot
tish Highlands were his Paradise, his
Elysium. His whole face lighted upat
the mere mention OF their name. He
was horn Highlander himself, born
and bred within the wilds OF Lochabcr.
OF course he had known that Miss
Campbell must be Scotch, probably
from Argyllshire with a smile-but
he did not know, he did not think, he
Thought girls cared for nothing but
London. and and but did she really
care for tho heather, and the sea. and
the tartan, and the pipes? He was
learping the pipes himself. He be-
longed to a Highland regiment. and he
was learning from his own pipe-ma or,
the finest ripe-ma. or in the service.
The pfpe-ma;;o had himself composed
a - ui ksteJ' and a ''Hornpipe, and
was to play one or other of them. he
was mol sure which, at the Northern
Meeting that a ltumn. Did Miss Camp.
bell ever goto the NorthesHeNdeatipg9
No? Well. be could hot Say he cared
for it very much himself. itwas.getting
so awtullY big and c0ckneRhed.s - Still,
he should 60, as their pine major. was
to compete-and so on, ana so on. ;
Never had he more apRreciative
Ef. q q tyr, y~IT1 ~ N hf.
lad 3 school boy Enthusiasm which de-
lighted and exhiliarated Geraldine and
which came like a breath. of fresh air
after the false, artificial yapofs which
before. had-been supposed to be her
proper atmosphere.
It. was not, moreover. lost upon her
that she had been twice misled within
one short half-hour; so granny was not
wrong in thinking experience w,s
gained, to which, We may here add,
every succeeding evening brought its
quota. ---.-,
Bellepden was never, at the balls. He
was not dancing man, and never had
been: so that having ,persistently de-
clined invitations. hitherto.- he could
not now have turned round and accept
I'd them, even had he wished--for none
were sent him. = =, 80
Neither did he so wish? he. only dis
liked to hear young. Raymond inces-
sanity reverting to things that had
happened the night tefore. or the
mig ght before that, whenever it hap
peued-and 1t happened pretty often
that he was in company with the two
cousins. He met them ON most morn
ings in-the Row, pretty often in the
afternoons, too, at one. place o. another
perhaps he noted where they were
goingl-and now and then in Mo mt
street. Not by themselves, OF course;
but what was grandmother, or ex-gov-
erness or cousin? Only some one
standing by for propriety's sake, some
one too, sure to be engrossed with the
pictures, or the music or the art treas
ures, or whatever it " IS that Geraldine
had, by the way, gone to see, but
which Eellenden- very much, doubted
whether she ever did see. She never
looked, at them after he was there, at
any rate. she did not look at him
much, neither. Her eyes, her ears,
her questions and answers were for Ce-
cil- or 90 it seemed to Cecil's rival.
Still Bellenden waited. There were
timss-solitary moments-when he dld
not feel quite SO sure about this as ne
might have been. He had sometimes
been himself shot a glance, a flash OF
. the eve, O furtive, swiftlywithdrawn
searching. home-thrusting look. which
puzzled him. -. ...:..
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