The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-11-06

- CarrlStOn u e.
consented to look
upon me as a friend, and talked to me
freely and unreservedly. Then found
that her nature was as sweet as her
face. Such conquest did she make OF
me that, save for one chimerical reason
should have felt quite certain that
Carriston had chosen well, and would
be happy in wedding the girl of his
choice; needless of her humble position
in the world, and absence of beftting
wealth. When once his wife, felt sure
that If he cared for her to win social
success, her looks and bearing would
insure it, and from the great improve
ment which, as l have already said.
noticed in his health and spirits, be-
! lieved that his marriage would make
his life longer and happier.
Now for my objection, which seems
almost a laughable one. / objected on
the score of the extraordinary resem-
blance, which, so far as a man may re-
semble woman existed between
Charles Carrston and Madeline Row.
| an. The more | saw them together,
the more was struck by it. A strang-
er might we'll have taken them for twin
brother and sister. The same delicate
| features. drawn in the same lines; the
same soft, dark, dreamy eyes; even the
came shaped heads. Comparing the
two, 1t needed no phrenologist or ply
siognomist to tell you that where one
excelled the other eXcelled; where
one failed the other was wanting
Now, could l have selected a wife
for my friend, | would have chosen
one with habits and constitution
entirely different from his own.
She should have been a bright, busting
woman, with lots of energy and COM
mon sense-one who would have ratified
him about and kept him going-not a
lovely, dark-eyed, dreamy girl, who
could for hours at a stretch make her.
self supremely happy if only sitting at
her lovers feet and speaking no word.
Yet they were a handsome couple, and
never have seen two people so utterly
devoted to each other as those two
seemed to be during those autumn days
which spent with them.
soon had clear proof of the close
ness of their mental resemblance. One
evening Carrlston, Madeline, and
were sitting out of doons, watching the
gray mist deepening In the valley at
our feet. Two of the party were, OF
course, hand in hand, the third seated
at a discreet distance-not so far away
Co.
enough off to be able to pretend that
he saw and heard only what was in
tended for his eyes and ears.
How certain topics, which / would
have avoided discussing with Carriston
were started, hardly remember. Prob.
ably some strange tale had been passed
down from wilder and even more soil
tary regions than ours-some ridicu.
lous tale of Highland superstition, nc
doubt embellished and augmented by
each one who repeated II to his fellows
From her awed look, l soon found thai
Madeline Rowan, perhaps by reason oi
the Scotch blood in her veins, was as
firm believer in things visionary anG
beyond nature, as ever Charles Carris.
ton, in his siliest moments, could be
AS soon as l could, stopped the talk
and the next day. finding the girl for q
few minutes alone, told her plainly that
subjects of this kind should be KEPT
as far as possible frcn her future hus-
bands thoughts. She promised obedi.
ence, with dreamy eyes which looked
as far away and full of visions as Car.
riston's.
by the bye" 1. said, "has he evel
spoken to you of seeing strange
things?"
Eyes; he has limited at it,"
"And you believe him?" -
'"Of course do; he told me So"
This was unanswerable. "A prett,
pair they will make" l muttered, al
Madeline slipped from me to welcom,
her lover, who was approaching. "They
will see ghosts in every corner, ant
COLLINS behind ever curtain"