Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1898-01-20

that, when he had said farewell to
Eton, she did not go out of his life.
She was his boyish ideal of lowell
ness, and, though in the beginning he
mad not dared dream that she might be
anything to him save distant star to
worship her manner afterwards led him
tc hope. How the look in her eyes
came back to him to-day-the soft
pressure of her hand for good -bye-the
| thousand and one sweet nothings that
had made q fool of him,
He knew that Raeburn's parents and
hers wished for match between the
two young people, but he knew, too Tor
fancled he knew, that no engagement
existed. He had had no reason to be-
lleve that careless, sport loving Rae
burn thought of Ethel Stuart save as
a cousin; and Ethel did her best, with
out words, but with smiles and long
lashed, starry glances, to beguile the
boy into dreaming she thought some
times of him.
One day, at garden party at Rae
burns, just before Hope was to join
his regiment, he lost his head, and
told Ethel that he loved her. She
arched her eyebrows, and was sur
prised.
Oh, no; she had never guessed that
he had cared for her in that way. He
must forget. Then she held out her
hand and, and he took it dazedly
and rushed away with his head down,
hardly conscious of what he was
doing.
He had been too proud to leave at
once; and little later, as he wan
dered miserably alone in thick shrub
berry, he came upon Raeburn and
Ethel, his arm around her slim waist
her fair, curly head nesting against
his shoulder
Glow could you suppose, you silly
old dear, that T should ever care
for little boy like that?" she was
saying.
Then they both laughed out happily
And Hope, sick at heart, tingling with
hurt pride, could not forgive the
laugh, either to Ethel Stuart or Henry
Eaeburn, the friend he had so loved.
The laugh had been cruel, he thought
, -detestable in both.
, He strobe away, vowing he would
J never see either of them again, and he
had kept his VOW. In India he had
read of Raeburn $ marriage with Edith
, Stuart
Later he had Glanced upon the
news of the birth of daughter, again
OF a son; and after some years of the
, mothers death. But Hope had never
: answered the letter that followed him
on that mad day Of his departure, and
no other had ever been sent. Raeburn
had become a distinguished Judge and
, was happy enough, no doubt, in his
, success and his children AS for Will
/ frid, Ethel Stuart had been his last, as
l she was his first. love; and for years
: now he had regarded himself as q con
iirmed bachelor
: With a sigh and start Colonel Hope
. woke suddenly from his reverie The
: laughing voices Of his nephews came
' TO him from the river bank, and stroll
. ing down, he scalled to them.
4 Come on, boys. he said. "There's
l still much for you to see." And he
, led the way toward the school build
/ ing.
With some little difficulty he dis
0 covered the house where lie had liyeG
l in his Eton days, and ascended the
e steep spiral stairs Of stone to find his
s old rooms. But all was changed with
: in, for the place had been remodellet
i and it brought certain relief to ge'
Y away TO the famous Eton Chapel
a matched only by grace by that O
e Kings College at Cambridge.
On they went through the schools
f the famous men carved on the walls
/ and the rostrums from which the boy:
J. made their public ora.ions
S Thus it was that they came at last
n to the celebrated little class room
s where the head-master presides owe
= the Sixth Form. and where the wall
e of panelled oak were completely GOV
! cred with the names OF past pupils
n once cut by the boys themselves. nov
y done by the head-master' servant
:. ! who in1mortalizes the youth Of Etol
: in oak for moderate fee.
$ where's your name. Uncle vii
II frid:" asked the elder nephew. Bu
IS it hardly needed that question to Sc
l. the soldier half wistfully searching 10
e the we'll remembered name among III
hundreds that had gone before or com
" after
rt 1t was Saturday afternoon an
y several parties of visitors, ineiudin
e, some smartly dressed girls, were be
.g ing shown round the schools. Brigh
Of eyes rested admiringly on the face an
s. figure Of the big, handsome otf Ger. bu
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