The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-08-04
EVANSVILLE, w. VA. TUESDAY, AUGUST n

us ene ulct ulu. MT. AnueSloy, you
are grave, sorrowfull What" She
hesitated, questioning him only with
her eyes.
"Grave, sorrowfull" he echoed, in
accents of pain. "Is it, then, amarvel
that / should be thus, learning as do
for the first time that have no place
in your heart? You could not have
known how l love you, Milly, or you
would know how deep, how bitter my
disappointment is"
His love- The sweet words sent q
thrill of delicious emotion quivering
through her whole frame; the soft,
bashful color rose and wavered fitfully
in her check, beneath his sad, loving,
passionate glance. But the timid,
faltering, yet eloquent answer in her
dark eyes was blended with n search.
ing, troubled, inquiring look. "He
had no place in her heart!" For a
moment thor eyes met, then strange
light gradually dawned upon her mind
yet, could it be? Halt bewildered,
she put her hand to her brow.
81 do not think / understand you"
she said, falteringly.
There was brief silence, while no
regarded her with strangely per-
picked air.
"You do not understand me, Milly P''
no said, at length. sis it dream,
then, that your father was with me II
moment since, telling me that, after
all, my hopes were groundless-that
you regarded me indilfcrently-that
you rejected tho love / have so long,
80 tcnderlY cherished for you? Did
he not say that you would not wed
me, Milly?"
''You. Mr.. Annesley?" She trcm-
bled and blushod, uttering the words
with n faint tone OF astonishment.
"Will you come with me to my father
n moment?" sno said. And with n
thousand tnmultuous, contradictory
thoughts and emotions in the breast
of each, they sought the library to-
gether.
Mr.. Clare, seated Mt table, looked
up, pale and surprised. Coloring more
deeply than ever, Milly laid her hand
upon his arm.
Father" she said, in low tone,
"was twas it Mr.. Annosley of whom
you were speaking last night?"
"Was it Annesley? Yes!" he an
swered, with n glance of surprise and
inquiry.
"Then-" Milly slowly drew from
her pocket tho note she had received
the evening before-''then L have
made mistake" she SAID, faltering-
ly. Captain Dudley left this note
for me only little while before you
came. thought you alluded to him,
instead Of"
Her trouble and confusion in
creased. Unable to finish, she turned
her head away. Mr.. Glare, glancing
quickly over the contents of the mis-
sive, had comprehended all, Mt once.
With smile, he rose from his chair.
chilly, Annesley ~ no exclaimed,
in well pleased voice !; sit seems there
has been n mistake"
And so, indeed, there had. And
Milly learned as n certainty now, what
until moment before she had not
even uspected-that it was Mr.. An
nesley, who, on leaving her the previ-
QUO evening, had met her father in the
village, and, requesting n few mo-
ments' conversation with his old
friend, had sought permission to offer
himself to his daughter-not Captain
Dudley. rs she had thought.
$50 it was Captain Dudley you re.
fused. Milly-not Mr.. Annesley?" ho
SAID, softly. "What will you say to
me?"
dare say you can guess what she
said, reader; we all know pretty we'll
that the answer was detrimental to
tho interests of CoDtain Du1lov nc bo
found when he called that morning on
Miss Glare, and was, much to his as
constituent, refused.