The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-11-05

St'opCu ~ Ass HCf JUftHIGI
lounging at the window, delighted with
tho life and bustlo of tho city streets
and vaguely longing to got ont and air
his new "cits,' yet not quite daring to
go 60 kitty's in them, because she do
clnrcd Shn'd never speak to him except
III uniform, and Mrs. Farrar was lean
ing back in her easy chair, tanning her
SELF slowly, with her eyes and thoughts
on her boy, even though liclcn Duunton
was rraulng aloud to hcr Il long, inter
csting letter, there Camo II shout from
Will that brought the blood to Ellis
faco and drove it instantly from Ilclon
DauntOnS. Confronting each other us
| they sat, each SAW and marked uncrr-
ingly tho effect upon tho other of WILLIS
| jubilant announcement.
| ''lIcrc's Jack OlmSbyr'
llciCn made her escape from the room
that night before he entered, had ncvcl
been III the parlor on the occasion of his
brief visits thereafter, yot had seen him.
Ellis never forgot how tho evening OF
his last call, when his card camo up to
her, shO remembered that Mrs. Daunton
| was searching at that moment for Il
| book in the library back Of tho parlor
| She noted that Helen did rot como ut
Onco away. as had been her wont. Sho
| fingered n few minutes over tho last
touches TO her toilet, for, even though
she was distrustful, jealous of her lover,
| she was woman enough to lCCGH no chain
| that bound him. Her heart WAS nuticr-
| ing and her face was pale rs She stepped
| into her mothers room and stopped to
| kiss her forehead, and Mrs. Farrar look
| cd at her wistfully, as though half ready
| to plead for the honest fellow sho had
grown to trust and honor From Mrs.
| DauntOn Ellis had wrung the admission
| that some years ago sho had met and
! known Mr. Ormsby. From lack Ormsby
| she had learned that he had mover
known u Mrs. Daunton in his lifc, and
her heart was filled with misgivings as
| she went swiftly down tho stairs, turn
| cd sharply at the bottom and in All in
slant stood at the library door.
Just rs she expected there. pceping
| through the heavy mcshcs Of tho por-
there's, invisible to any ono in tho par
| lor, yet able to study its occupants at
will; there, clutching the sillon folds
| in her beautiful white hands, with her
face pallid and quivcring with emotion,
with great tears trickling down her
checks; there deaf to her coming, stood
Helen Daunton, gazing spcllbound at
| the man who dared to approach her
Ellis Farrar--in the guiso of lovcr.
And Jack Ormsby had vowed that
never until ho met her had he known
what it was to love Il woman, vowed
| that his heart had been all her own ever
since tho winter OF her fathers DEATH
ever since the bitter day he had to break
- her tho dreadful news and yet, here
. fore her Dyes, was evidence that this
woman could look upon him only in un-
cuatrollablo emotion. What folly to talk
to her OF never having seen Helen Daun-
ton before! And even then an idea flash
cd upOI her. Under somo other name he
must have known her, and though no
| might deny the namo he could not deny
tho woman. Jealous, doubly jealous
She sought to bring them faco to face,
and, entering the library, qu;ckly turn
| cd Oh tho electric light and would havo
opened tho porticro and bado him como
| to her there, but Helen Daunton turned
| and fed. All Ellis could aftcrward OK
tort from her was that in her unhappy
past Jack OrmSby had bcfrlcndcd her,
stood by her in tho sorcst need, and shc
would be grateful to him to her dying
| day.
And yet" said Ellis, ever doubtful
ana suspicious, "yOu refused to sec him.
you shrank from him, and you would
not meet him. But to this there was
ho reply.
That night was Ormsby's last call be-
fo.c he went abroad. And now, with
Christmas near at hand and her ical-
ousy ever wrestling with her better
nature, and the respect, even the regard,
she felt growing within her for this love-
| ly woman who Wa so devoted to her
mother, Ellis Farrar knew not what to
think or say when she noticed the une1r.
ing signs of Malcolm Lcalc's growing
love and of the evident pleasure, despite