Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1898-06-08

You ! nov your old flame i, to be mar
rir.l in ay?
Is IL ? Which?'
You had a good many, ladn's yoi
Well, que 81
Let ne Sc. Madeline II mney
Oh, you tell me, ter. L Il to tiret
to que S. II at railroa has Ill, en- nj
all pieces in tie last Hundred II lies
well, then, if you're too ireL to ex
EFT yodr mind-Edna Barsoml'
%. And she marries- -
'B b Brist !, of all men. OH enough
to be her father, isn't he?
Cortr II had teen away five years
in the West, and had just ma lie 'ope
journey in order to- sp'-nd two ~ three
week, at home with his II oil er and
sister. lie had come bac it seemed
to Lin, mrch more than five Y, ars older
than h was when he ! IT, There was
upon him now the steadying pressure
of large responsib liti's, for LIE was
very near to being the lie d Of large
business enterprise. All that he saw
even the faces of his m .ther and
sisttr-reminded him # what he had
been when his eyes last fell upon those
| scores and th, SO faces, and he found
himself, as he stretche at full length
on the lounge, wondering how he
could ever have been so frivolous, and
JOY ously careless of con. equences in
every thing, as he had leen in the days
that now seemed to Linn to belong to
The dim distance Of history.
so wom,n car forget ometimes, you
see his sister was continuing her talk.
Bob's thoughts were wandering back
to the past. Pres. nty he exclaimed
somewhat suddenly, by lingo! Clare,
[ Lelieve lad some hing. Let me
see. When do You say Edna is 10 be
married? May?'
Middle of May, believe
And this the middle of April By |
jjngcl / wonder wh't"er 1 ought to |
fake it to her, or send ~
That's your second 'by Jiugo' in one
minute. SIND IS at? Wedding pres
entl'
Eth? Yes, of re l must send a
wedding present. I Inev Bristol quite
well. He's al Ter man than 1 am,
isn't he?'
That ov'niDg G. lvh Caitr, l. unpack-
ed a big leather trunk in the privacy
Of his own room. H took out tin
box that Loo ked as if it Lad been de-
signed originally to hold cash. He
unlocked that box and took out pack
zee after package of carefully tied up
papers-rec'lrts. cane elled notes,
memoranda of many kinds. Under all
.heie was leathtr-ca-ed daguelrotype |
f | is mott err Last of all, under the
'ase, was some tissue paper, and neatly
oleed in the Tissue paper, were q pair
# very much f ,dc hid gloves.
Cortrel took cut the tissue paper
oacka. G, replaced The daguerrotype,
he various lunt les Of memoranda,
ancelled no.,s, &c pts. and other
business docum' nts, locked the tin
OK, and :at down 10 think.
He laid The fade gloves on the
tile wiring table before him
REV up chair, resting his elbows on
he table, and sup tied his head on
is two ! amos. As the faint odor Of
he disinter ed gloves came to his
ostrils, a smile h f OF amusement, half |
f tenderness Played over his face.
But the que ton is, how the deuce |
m | to do it?' lie sid aloud to him. O
elf after some minutes of this brood 6
lg. I
The smile on his face grew more and
lore tender Presently he sighed, and 4
len lie spoke again to himself +
That has has nothing to do with now, 4
Id man. That was long ago. Yes, 9
on can't keep these things now. You've
OF it to do.
Il Ina Bars I'M rt.inly had been q n
tile disoonc rted when the news
lme to her that her swe theart of five |,
cas- before had suddenly made his
ppearance in the town just at the +
me when her engag cement tc Bristol
nd been made pubic, She was not q
wildly conscious of any 70 ling for d
alvin c, rtro'l that could have been i,
onstued as disloyal'y to h'r fance, O
a. she know only to- wei. how reck- Ii
ssly tongues vii wig in a small town,
here each MANS wOn ans busi- y,