Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-09-24

as YOU don't love INN, M sa1lsl,eu.
III hate him." she said very low,
m hate him-hate him. And now he
has spoiled om first hour together.
The slow tears formed and rolled mis-
erably down her cheeks
INV sweetheart - cried Will, half
beside himself. Don't cry. He can't
spoil everything for us SO long as we
love one another as we do, we do! Has
he been bullying your" he added fierce
" after pause devoted to those imbe-
cilities that make the lovers heaven.
"No. And you are not to quarrel
with him, Will. If you do IL won't
marry you -
But shall make you. How about
this coming out ball when you III lmme-
diately 40 in? Because we can't possibly
wait to be married more than month";
"Father wished it," said Mamie;
cts good deal Aunt Lirriper's doing
l think.
"Gay old girl" said Will, bursting
out laughing, "sho is three years older
and wickeder than when saw her last,
and l should have thought that to be
impossiblo!'
"Father wouldn't 60 to the sea this
year." said Mamie, whose worst enemy
could not have twitted her with pale
checks now. 81 think he was sorry he
sent you away, though he never said SO. -
"He deserves to be sorry said Wlll'
with immense energy. ut WASH MS
fault Trelawny didn't carry you Off
f,inty hearted old wrotch-and l never
will forgive him. So Miss Grcgorias is
here? Isuppose you are as great friends
as ever. was hard on that poor girl,
and often and often I've thought of 1t
since. When you re truly wretched your
self, you remember how you've made
other people suffer and feel ashamed
yourself. "
He stood up, straight, long limled
young fellow with something eager and
earnest in his brown face that used not
to be there, but we'll became it.
eve must try to pass some of our
happiness On, darling he said. IL
feel this morning as if had enough for
the whole world, y
Like the old woman who, when she
first beheld the sea, said that at last she
saw what was enough for everybody
said Mamie as she tried to remove the
mold marks from her white gown.
willie aren't you hungry"
Frightfully,' said Willie, and NOV
cd her heart to pity by the relation OF
how he had roamed the park and OBJ
Irrigated her window blind in vain.
Poor boy!' she said, then danced
step or two, and said:
you'll come in to breakfast, OF
course?" And both burst out laughing.
"And to break the shock, " said Will,
Offering his arm with exaggerated re-
spect, 1--WE will take public walk
round the premises, selecting for pref
erence those portions where your father
is sure to see and admire us. y
And they did. And Lord Straubenzee,
shaving himself close to window, and
happening to look out, cut his chin in
his extravaganza delight and executed
sort of dance that simply appalled, Cole
man, who entered while it was pro-
crossing, and thought his master had
suddenly gone mad.
But a glance ont of the window OK
planned the situation, and, all class dis
tinctions forgotten, the two old boys
literally bcamed ON one another.
II always did like Sir William,' said
Coleman in the servants hall later,
while the love story up stairs was caus-
ing many fiutter under neat cotton
II, - 81 on no
a very good job, for accidents will hap
pen." And he nodded with a profound
sagacity that scorned to explain itself
to the numbering wits around him.
And in the sealing wax red dining
room viii had come up to Miss Grogo-
rias as she entered, and i'll the manifest,
incest way told her how glad he was to
see her again, and looking so well, too,
and his warm handshallo had thrilled
through her whole body, and the pride
in her had triumphantly asserted his
right to be loved, and with no shame to
herself, so strong was he, SO dear, SO
kind.
Il can't Iwon't harm you, she said
to herself then, but later in the day,
when she had incautiously wandered
rather far afold, Blake Trclawny swoop-
ed down on and bullicd her.
"Stop those fools,' he said, his black
eyes with their topaz lights cleaning
dangerously. Il don't know how you
10 it, but do it you can, if you choose;
you brought her into my arms yester-
LAY, but not long enough He Rugged
them on his breast as if he still felt
her there. "Ihcy'rc billing and cooling
like two sick turtledOvcs out yOnder-
callow idiots--and not ono Of them can
even teach the other what love means. -
Il will not, said Tagar, setting her
uack to the great bole Of the beech tree
under which they stood. 'They are en-
gagged, they will be married -
"Pah And your influence with herr
as IS nothing in the balance with
his. Go your way, Blake Trclawny,
and set your heart where You have a
chance to win. -
Il never look back" he said, land
never change. Hank ye! There is some
thing i'll your past that you dread to
have revealed. will rip that past up
from end to end, and shame you before
the whole world, if you will not do my
bidding in this thing.
Hagar laughed.
lyon Cornish gentlemen she SAID
with all accent on the last word, "do
not you, who profess to be SO wise in
love, know that you may drag wom-
ans body to your arms, but you cannot
compel the spirit within her to drink
of love? And something more than the
husk, the she'll, would be needed to con-
tent such man as you.
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