The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24

music lessons. Already 1 have been prom
i5ed two pupils, Mrs. Hartley's little girls,
and no doubt more will come. Papa thinks
Mr.. Welton viii be able to get you some
thing 10 do in the city. and don't you
think we had better walt 2 year or two,
dearest Herbert? 1t will be wise 1 am
sure, to postpone our wedding. Mean
while We can both work, and meet often,
and be true to one another, and the time
Will pass quickly enough. Oh, after all,
dearest what does money matter, as you
have often said to me, if we love each
other trulyl"
And then. after two days, there came
Capt. Rawle's reply:
Dear Mary-At the risk of giving you
pain it is better that 1 should be perfect
ly frank with you. 1t is quite out of
the question that our engagement can
continue. 1 am too poor a man to ven
ture upon matrimony under the sadly al
tered circumstances, and 1 am totally I'M
fitted for work of the kind to which you
allude, even If a situation were already
awaiting me in the city. l have no bust
ness capacities, and l have, moreover, a
very strong disinclination to venture upon
what is called love in a cottage 1t Is
much better for US both to face the facts
and to accept them. Our marriage cannot
possibly take place, either now or in a
few years time. I should not think it
right TO tie you down to a long engage
ment, and to tell you the truth l should
be very sorry to pledge myself to any
thing of the kind. IL is much wiser to
wish each other farewell at once and for
ever. 1 shall always remain your true and
sincere friend, and retain a grateful rec
objection of your affection and your many
kindnesses to me. Yours sincerely, Her
bert Rawle."
Mary Ross was very i'll, indeed. after the
receipt of this letter. For days she was
1gTf, e -.
loss of her money had left her brave and
untouched, but the loss of her love
brought her to the point of death.
AT length youth and a naturally good
constitution pulled her through the fever,
and she came back slowly to her manned
and altered life. And almost the first
news that had to be broken to her when
she was strong enough to bear it, was
the news of Capt. Herbert Rawle's mar
riage TO Mrs. Trelawneyl He had gone
back quickly enough to his first love, and
in the desperate state of his affairs had
been fain to content himself with her
hundreds in the place of Mary's vanished
thousands.
When her health was restored Mary took
up the burden of her life again unrepin-
ingly and bravely. Her parents went to
live at Hampstead, in an old-fashioned
house surrounded by large pleasant gar
den, and here for many years Mary was
the light and life of the simple home
life. Mr. Ross had begun the world again,
and went daily into the city, Mrs. Ross
looked after the housekeeping and the
cookery, and superintendent the domestic
arrangements of the small establishment,
and Mary gave music lessons to several
little pupils in the neighborhood, and made
and altered her own and her mothers
dresses in the evenings For long. long
time she carried about very sore heart,
and ceased to believe in men or love
at all.
Yet there is no evil under the sun for
which Time has not a remedy, and when
six years had come and gone and Tel
Wilton asked her for the third time wheth-
er she would not change her mind and