Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-07-13

know that hateful woman has got some
dreadful influence over you, and is al
ways plotting to cause unhappiness be
tween us. Here | have been away and
was coming back happy and delighted to
see you. and | am made wretched the
instant | set foot in the house, and all
through herr
mo. no." said Tom. BE just. Put the
saddle on the right horse. All through
Madge. If she hadn't come sneaking and
spying up here this morning she wouldn't
have got my back up and made me say
what I did, and which she most ricbls
deserved. As for the other poor GIRL no
one was ever more mistaken In this world
than you are about her. Why, she speaks
OF you in the kinde.t way
And" proceeded June, working her
self up more and more, and tears again
rushing 10 her eyes, now you have de-
rriycd me of my only friend here, ana
the only person | have to amuse me. l
hope You will he happy"
At this last stab, given merely in
naughtiuess Of temper. Tom rose, might
ily crieycd and wrathful He never said
anything he did not mean merely for the
momcntary pleasure of wounding. but,
on the other hand he rarely could be
brought 10 rctract anything he had once
said.
Then" he said, If that is the case,
heaven hclp your husband and child"'
And. with that, he strobe from the room.
leaving June with a sickening sense OF
general misery.
June had some sound good sence when
Il was not obScured 10y temper, as the
skv is blue though the clouds hide its
color. And presently she told herself
that this state of things must be stopped,
and stopped At once.
So. suddenly she rose. and fed down
stairs to Toms room. He was sitting
staring gloomily in the fire, absorbed, no
doubt in reflections as miserable as those
in which she had been indulging upstairs,
but he had a refuge and resource which
she had not-his pipe.
June had not come to argue, to fight.
the quarrel over again, and possibly to
make Il worse ending than before; she
had brought a flag of truce, and left ali
cxpIanat tions for future time. She sat
herself down on his knee, took the pipe
from his mouth, put her pretty arms
round his neck and her red lips to his, and
said. with a faltering voice:
My darling, don't let us have any more
Observation-Disclosures!
And with that, Tom clasped her pas
siouatcIy to his heart, and a sob rose in
ais throat and for the moment they forgot
everything but that they loved each other.
When June paid her promised visit TO
Madge next day, she felt rather perturbei
and uncomfortable in her mind. Madge
would Of course expect to hear that she
had vanquished Tom in single combat,
and had come TO take her back in triumph
to the Hall, from which yesterday she had
been so ignominiously turned away But
June was painfully conscious that IT was
she who had been vanauished, for, fear
fUl of any rupture of their newborn har-
monv. sh. had not mentioned the name of
either cousin to Tom. She knew instinc-
tivelv that he would not give in; If he
made any amende to Madge, 1t would
ouly be on condition of his wife doing the
same to Agnes.
Her ladyship, therefore, was forced to
answer Madge's eager cross questioning
somewhat lamely and haltingly, and grad
uaIly there came into that shrewd young
Iady's face an expression of profound dis
appointment.
Then" she said, in a mortified tone,
you did not take my part, and you have
not been even with Tom"
my dear child" replied June, desper-
atelv. IF you are married to n man, it Is
impossible to live in a state of strife and
quarrcling with him, unless you want to
break your own heart. What is to he
gained by my being on bad terms with
Tom
well" replied Madge, "I don't undep
stand il. | should have thought you, who
are fifty times cleverer and have fifty
times more spirit than Tom, would have
turned him round your finger. Why, any
child could do it."
Two days passed, and, though Sir
Thomas and Lady Neyil were apparently
On the best Of terms, neither was really
nj ease June missed Madge and wanted
to have her back at the Hall, but was
afraid to broach the subject, and Tom
knew that she missed her cousin, and felt
vexed about the misunderstanding, but
was convinced that he would be doing
wrong to Agnes and conniving at an III
Justice if Madge returned TO her old rela
tons at the house while Agnes was ieft
ont in the cold.
On the third day June, feeling the hope
Iessness of the situation, said, in a mat
tcr-of-fact voice at luncheon, in the pres
ence OF the servants:
shall we ask them all at the rectory
to come up and dine tomorrow"
And Tom responded most heartily, and
with an enormous sense of relief:
'Ay, my dear, do"
Her ladyship was the more dlsposed 10
make the concession in that her husband
had met her wishes about taking house
in London in the kindest manner. That
lie did not like the idea was evident, but
So far from combating the proposal. he
had given in to it at once, and agreed that
his mother should take house and make
all necessary preparations. He would not
give any promise about going up much
himself, but If June came down every
week he and the boy would manage to get
along for the rest of the time.
Lady Nevil wrote an affectionste note
- Sirs Bryan asking them all to dine the
following evening. She thought 1t no
improbable that her cousins would refuse
TO come. But both had reasons for not
wishing the estrangement from the Han
TO be prolonged. and were, besides, anA
ious that their parents should be kept IN
ignorance of the .unpleasantness when
had occurred This, however, contrlbut-
ed to make the evening a thoroughly I'M
pleasant one for their host and hostess.
Madge met Tom in the most supercillous
manner, scarcely deigning to give him her
finger tips, and behaved afterward as
though he did not exist; neither speaking
nor looking his way all the evening, but
devoting herself to June. Agnes, on the
contrary, redoubled her attentions to Iom,
md hung On eyeyy word With A. pext1pe-