Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-11
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! because he can give me what want "
much-peacs2 You know how people ar,
| writing OF me now In the papers, ant
insisting that have q knowledge
whether they think 1t q criminal knowl
! edge or not. am sure I cannot tell-oI
Jacob Lynn's death. And you must havs
guessed that something else 10 troubling
me. though you are too good to question
me about 1t. Can't you imagine that whe1
Major Larron came forward just now
when others are holding rather alooi
from me. 1 should be touched by his gen
erosity-dont you think It might bs righl
to secure such q haven for myself. IL h
will7'
Every one would say you were doins
wisely and WELL" answered Mrs Dene
coustrainedly.
And you, Nora-and your?
Il am not sure. Il there no chance
OF there being some misundsrstandina
between you and-and the man you love
He may care for you, and ask you to
marry him still"
He has asked me once. twice."
"And you refused him PIN surprise
Jane bowed her head.
Mrs. Dene understood then partly who
1t was that troubled and had made her %
unlike the shy. happy child she had been
q year before.
Moral cried Jane. impulsively. Tell
me. is Major Larron q good man, q man
with whom might have a chance Of be.
ing happyT'
He 10 good-loOking. wellmannersd-
and he loves you. Jenny" she answered
hesitatingly.
THAT 10 not what l mean. Il he
Eood?"
How should l know, dear? We all
wear our best side Outward"-awkwardl
But you know. They say-forgive me-
If l am paining you-perhaps I have no
right TO mention it-they say you were
once engaged TO him, and I wondered
why 1 did not marry himT' finished
Mrs. Dene, in q low, tremulous voice.
We'll, will tell you. and you shall Judge
for yourself whether in that he was to
blame. No. it does not pain me, dear, to
speak Of him: my feeling for him was
only girlish fancy-hero worship, I sup
pose il might be called, although 30 mis-
applied. 1t 10 only other things connect.
ed with that time that have power to
move me SO, for it was through his jilp
ing me that-that 1 won my husband"
He Tilted your" cried Jane.
Mrs. Dene WINGED. What 1t cost her to
reopen this old wound she alone knew,
yet she had resolved to tell all rather
Than by her silence mislead Jane.
Perhaps he was not altogether in ia ulr
was young and thoughtless, and f1irted
though never untrue to him at heart"
He Tilted your repeated Jane, who,
havinG In her excitement risen to her
feet. was now pacing up and down the
room.
Her breathless indignation rather
startled Nora Dene, who had outlived
her first anger. though the pain survived
still.
Then the whole story came out, nothing
extenuated, yet nausht set down in NAL
Ice. And Jane listened with rising wrath
against the man who, having acted 80 to
her best friend, had dared to ask her
also to b bis wife.
He would have Tilted me. too. proba-
bly! she exclaimed
mo. dear: He loves You a. hs never
thing at Jour hands rather than give yov
up"
"He shall never have the chance"
"You don't mean"
II mean that my answer to-day will be
no! No, no-emphatically nor
Don't decide hastily, child. Think Of
the position he can give you, the luxury
Of wealth that would be yours; and, re-
member every one has some good in him
only waiting to be brought out To love
any one, A. Major Larron loves you, 10
elevating in itself; every man IL the bet.
ter for marrying the woman he loves"
He sha'n't marry me-" said Jane, with
such q mutinous pout that Mrs. Dens wss
obliged to smile
Going straight to her own room abe
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mother, with an instructive feeling that
she ought to be the arst to know Of the
step that she was taking, and the second
to Major Larron.
Dear Major Larron," she wrote. and
smiled little sadly-bitterly, too, at the
stereotypsd beginning Of what meant 40
much to both-''do not come to-day. The
answer which have to give will cause
less pain to both II written. I will never
marry you-nevsr! Nothing you can say
will alter my decision, and it will be-
kinder to say nothing at all. Circum-
stances have come to my knowledge that
make II impossible could ever change
my mind. And never loved you-never
should love you; 20 1t IL better that
should have come to this decision-better
for me, aud for you. too; l am yours
sincerely. JANE KNOX"
ouO bIAAh0o - bh0 0AoP2tSAo3 AAU ASttSA,
with something Of her old mirthfulness..
That she, the former sergeant majors
daughter, should thus be Diminishing a
coronet in prospective. and some presen,
thousands a year, seemed irresistibly
comic. And she felt no regret, only re
lief.
1t was the letter to her mother she fol-
owed with some apprehension. How
would they take 1t at homer
CHAPTER XXXVlI.
With the morning came . letter from
Nrs. Knox, full Of yelled reproaches at
he disappointment she had experienced,
ind openly expressing discomfort with the
ife she was leading now at home alone
| Jenny determined to visit her home,
and told Mrs Dene of her intention. Dur,
| ing the forenoon she started.
"Come again, Jenny" Mrs. Dene said,
wistfully. as she pressed her lips to the
rirl's fresh face ut parting.
"Indeed, indeed, / WILL" was the eager
reply. and waiting to say no more than