Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-11-04

MoyIscallan woods in September
How often Teddie Blake had pictured
his homecoming through the green
plades that stretched between the cas-
tie and the rectory. Those sylvan
aisles were the rally place Of all his
favorite dreams, for did not Nellie
cross them day by day, and would it
not be here that he would bring her
to tell her the secret which he thought
she must have guessed long ago. Rec
tor O'Malley would let him speak at
last, for the long waiting had borne its
fruit in recouping the Blake Golfers,
while Teddie knew that the Burroe
Pass affair, of which he himself thought
aud spoke so modestly, was not likely
to be forgotten when his name came
up at the Horse Guards A thousand
times he had gone over all this III I'M
agination, lingering, meanwhile, the
little fiat locket that hung at his watch
chain-and now-and now, he was
creeping back to Moyliscallan like
thief, having given no word Of warn
inc either to the rector or to his agent
at the castle-creeping home just to
see Nellie's face again once more and
then to 90 away anywhere and die. lie
was still weak and wan from the fever.
Mrs. Diamond had tried hard to per-
suade him to remain a little time in
London for a consultation with a first
rate doctor, but the determination to
see Nellie at Moyliscallan once more
was the only desire that remained to
him in life, and till it was accom-
plished his shrewd little friend saw
that there was no good talking Of any
thing else. So he hurried over to
Ireland and had reached Thomastown
the evening before. Today he had
taken car over to the village Gin the
old days it was the shortest and pleas
attest four miles ever known and,
leaving the driver asleep in the sun
Mt the cross roads, had turned into the
wood that is a short cut to the two
principal houses in the parish. lie
had no very definite idea Of what plan
TO pursue. Now that he had reached
his Journey end, it seemed as if all
power had left him. Perhaps some
where among the trees, crossing from
the castle grounds to the rectory side,
he should see Nellie passing by, and
he would slip down upon his knees
among the fern and look at her
George strangeways wife-ond-oh,
this faintness Mercilul God is that
Nellie?
"Teddie, is it really you?"
Teddie was on the moss, stretched
fiat, save that Nellies arm was under
his head; Nellie little, bare, ,sunburned
hand unfastened his collar-he could
onlv look aud smile The green MOy-
Iscallan leaves were overhead, dancing
against the blue, Nellie's face was
very close, and he thought he must
be in heaven.
How could you come like this and
take US by surprise, and you SO i'll,
Teddie ?" the girl went on, reProaeh-
fully "if hadn't been going across
tothe castle this morning early and
come on you lying here in heap
Going across to the castle?" Ted
die found time to utter, his eyes on
NelHe's left hand. "Don'tyou live at
the castle now altogether 2
"And what should l 60 and live at
the castle for, when I've good home
of my own, intruding on newly mar
'ried people, as if I didn't know better ?
Besides, Aunt Ellen isn't home from
her honeymoon yet, and Uncle George
what, are you able to sit up? Take
care or you'll"
She could not finish the sentence,
for Captain Blake was sitting up with