Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-05-18
RNRS. FORRESTEsRZ,

| Dallas throws her n glance of deepest
reproach.
AS If my feelings for those two could
be named in the same breathv'
To return to this poor girl, for whom
L am dreadfully sorry" said Mrs. Ire
| vanion. You must promise me not to
| write ono pord to her"
! II, however, took at least another naIr-
| hour, during which she brought every
| possible argument to bear, before he
could be persuaded; but ultimately, Mrs.
! Trevanion got her own way, and Dallas,
looking very mournful and with some
. thing like tears in his blue eyes, gave her
his word of honor and his hand on 1t not
/ to write to June. -,
Once he had made up his mind that the
| case was hopeless, and talked it over
again and again with his friend, he be-
gen gradually TO recover ms spirits, and
was able to re-embark on his Irritation
with Lady Dangerfield. At the end Of a
| fortnight, having been much in her lady
ships society at Goodwood and Cowes,
he had come to the conclusion that to mar
ry at his age and under his circumstances
would be to tie a milestone round his neck
I and drown himself in the depths of the
social sea. But he still thought that, if
he did marry, he would like to marry
June.
Meantime, Mrs. Trevanion's prophecy
with regard to June had been absolutely
verified. Her despair had given way to
sense of stinging shame and anger.
Pride, of which she had no small share,
came to her rescue; she resolved to pluck
Dallas from her bleeding heart, ay,
though it bled to death.
Although June smiled and dissembled
before others, the anguish she suffered in
secret told upon her, and, with a mothers
quick instinct. Mrs. Rivers saw that
something was not well with her darling
She never dreamed of Dallas being the
cause of June's altered looks: she was
convinced that Tom was responsible for
the change. Did June really care for
him, and was she piqued because he had
suddenly gone off on a yachting trip, or
had they quarreled, and was that the
reason Of Toms abrupt departure?
She could not bear the thought of her
child having secret from her; she could
not even realize such a possibility.
AS for June, what would she not have
given to fling her arms round her moth
er's neck and sob out all the agony of
her wounded spirit on that dear breast?
If it had been anything but shame-dead-
W, uisSrace1ui shame, as she, poor child.
regarded 1.-THE task would have been
easy enough. But this dreadful secret
she could never, never confide.
Mrs. Rivers turned over in her head
fifty ways of broaching to June the sub
ject of her altered looks. She had so
delicate and sensitive mind that she
could not ask blunt question even of
her own child. At last she summoned up
resolution to say one evening, as she and
June sat i'll the twilight:
MY darling, l do not think you are
looking quite yourself. Does anything
ve1 or trouble you?'
The dim light kindly hid the burning
blush which covered June's face.
NO, mamma, dear" she answered, try
ing to speak naturally.
You and Tom have not been quarrel
ing, have your
"Oh, no; indeed we have not"
Are you vexed with him for going
awayY'
Not in the least"
Then silence fell on the pair. Mrs. Riv-
ers was conscious of a sense of disap-
pointment. She felt certain that some
thing was amss with her child, and ii
was bitter to know that June was con-
cealing it from her.