The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-08-14
GAY DEOEIVERS BOTH.

OF course it was very wrong of her,
for We all know that you should not
talk to gentlemen who hive not been
introduced to you. But when You
are sweet aud twenty, aud are staying
nj u country house all alone, aud are
rather bored, aud handsome young
man comes to your rescue in wood,
when your poor little dog has caught
its foot in cruel trap, how can you
possibly pass him the very next day
as if he were stranger? Aud he was
so kind 10 the dog. lie bound up
his poor little bleeding foot IN his
handkerchief, and carried il in his
arms to the lodge gate. Then he said /:
"Do You often walk in the wood?'
She was feeling too grateful to him
to resent his impertinencc as she
should have done. SO she only said,
"Sometimes," aud thanked him again
with all her heart in her pretty eyes.
He looked mp to where. through
the trees, the big red house showed
its twisted, old fashioned chimneys,
and said
"My name is Lavender You are
Miss Neriuder, | SUPPOSE"
She looked Mt him quickly.
81 am Miss Nerinders humble com.
pauion. My name is smith"
1--WE are comrades in servitude, 4"
ha said. 81 am Lord Halibut's secre-
tary. You walk in the woods some
times. Then it isn't good-by. Do
they let you come out often?"
81 am my own mistress at present" ="
she said. "a lot of people will be
coming down on the 25th for the
heiress's coming OF age. They give a
grand entertainment to the tenants.
Lord Halibut is to be there. What is
he like?"
'Oh, said the young man indifier-
emily, "he's not bad sort of fellow.
There's some talk of their families
wishing him to marry the heiress.
The estates go very well together.
But he's never even seen her: he's
been 80 much abroad, you know"
81 don't believe the heress will
have him, the girl answered sharply,
and turned away with her poor little
dog in her arms.
Now, it is quite clear that she ought
not to have walked in the wood, at
least not 80 soon as the next day, or
if she walked there the next day, she
ought not to have chosen the very hour
when poor Troll had met with his
misfortune. But to the bored much
may be pardoued. aud, as for Lord
Hallbut's secretary, he had a right
one may suppose, to amuse himself.
And that meeting was not the last.
How could il have been? And when
you meet person every day without
chaperones or other tiresome people.
you soon make friends. Before the
week was out Mr.. Lavender had heard
how Miss Smith was left an orphan
and had to earn her living; and she
had learned that Mr.. Lavender's part
in life must always be that of sub
ordinate.
'Is she kind to you?" lie asked one
evening, as they sat on "A mossed tree
trunk, and watched the red sun set
across the valley. where the corn
grew,
"Oh, yes, she's kind enough" the
girl said 'at least, l am sure she's
means to be-
Shes reyoltingly clever, hear.
Beat the Senior WrangIer at Cam
bridge, or something,'
"She did. But that's not criminal ;
and Lord Halibut is, at least, her
partner in iniquity. He took first
class in Greats, didn't he? Oh. how
| do hate clever men -
"You have my sympathy. abhor
clever womenr'
They both laughed. And the DAYS
went on ;and July melted into August,
and August grew in grace till the time
came near for the coming of age of
Miss Verinder; and if, during these
days, there has been hand pressure
30 slight as not to be worth resenting,
or look SO nearly tender as to make
a mans heart beat high with hope
if he had treasured the forget-me nots
she had gathered by the woodland
| pond, aud pressed them in tho volume
OF Browning from which he had read
TO her in the woods, and if she kept 9
certain handkerchief, stained with
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