The Newtown bee., 1898-08-26

sight of the northern sea and the north
ern pine woods in snow and ice, They
slammed in BOSTON only a few daye Cath
crime should see all she wished of it on
her return-and while here, Guy, MRS
Winthrup's favorite nephew, came home
! from two years' study abroad and was
Immediately booked for the run down TO
the coast. Several guests were going
| with them, and others were TO follow
later. Guy was to be one Of the la st.
After making this aecision-Miss Man
ming was too dangerously charming if a
| young man were not free to marry, he
was eager for the day to arrive when he
had said he would go, and took onasof
the earliest trains, though it invotved
his walking from the station! His aunt
would never dream OF his starting until
| Q. he well knew. AS he walked, he be-
gan, to think of Gathering, and the wist-
full sweetness in her brown eyes and
was so absorbed that he almost ran into
q fellow Just ahead Of him on the road.
1.-THE man turnefSwith a#mutBered oath,
his breath reeking with mean whisRey, a
dirty, disreputable creature, but Guy
apologized goeN naturally. After he
was out Of sight Guy was conscious that
he remembered the face, though he
could not identify it. Could he have
served as 8 model? Then, all at ONCE, it
eame9Daeks--Af few evenings before he
had waited in jam and crush on the
street and just in front of him had been
this same man, There was certain
likeness in his, face that had arrested his
glance, but seluded his remembran
then. The effort to trace it was becom-
ling annoying, like small gnat buzzing
in his ears on a summer day, VINE IN he
found himself in Mrs Winthrops hall.
Catherine was coming down the stair
way-a picture for poets 6feam
There were three tall windows which
cast aR opaIescent and shifting splen det
kindiing her hair with exquisite glints
and waking a new light in her eyes
while the long shafts of shadow bet weer
made her gracious mystery, and gave
\ a, tender darkness To-! her glance, Hel
head in its light and graceful poi De ri
minded him Of flower ON its stem. She
refused his laughing teutfeaty chat she
should remain there forever, and then
hearing Mrs Winthrop had gone out on {
foraging excursion, he suggested tina
she should not waste the morning in
doors, but let him show her the pine
/ WOODS. - a9Ir-os -.111r[ -
oaSheuttered a littie1cry,ot pleasure ant
swiftly. vanished upstairs to. reappea
soon in walking dress Trimmed will
= far Her face was aglew with cage
ID delight when they reached the frozel
forest. st." IL f. v So. .45' +:
Chow like an enchanted wood fash
ing with gems when the sunshipel burst
forth, and ahowing,a gray, steelY |glim
mer under tue clouds! but did you Sc
the moonlight last" nnight4oinan the. . now
That long Stretch of,ppen gfbun6 nigh
have been theafield of the cloth OF sill
y Ver - q - ~ a NJ 60, .5S.
: He. smiled in. sympathy. 1'sLebk q
! these stately spinesd = They are ipln me
knights in steeled arrnoFa Sc e atia;aee theE
Is your challenger, The steel gaantle
rings on the stones" for a heavy icicl
:, ffell from its ,oyefweighE as he Was speal
ing, with . ring on the hard frozen patti
'Es4 Ii fell at her feata and she stpope
I ElcwA 30 lift thg fsrgesfr fragment. "
accept the challenge she said alaugt
lnRHasr uoEf4stsstas h.I 4d4iI 400 20
Ifvolufitarily he put out HIS hand I
: licheck her. sDpn't Ghild,o he e4glaime
Z with tender beseaching. HI ADan3t def
{ Eatel Who knows how tar ,,heE blac
y Isf1adow may reach?'s r,r1 nfn I.
!, .51 There il but one calamity iT5 ahoul
"a Sear,"' she answered, W oaderthgI at III
4il earnest tone.l Disgrace BuBthat
! ]. impossible,Y1 ande,sbe lifted bar ems
!. head proudly. Suddenly she turne Iaass
) with ChiidH QUICK Impulse. TT SECT
y ed so strange to remember my speakir
y to. YOU about IA tatherss.s, ,EOp you kno
!, that'you are the flrst person abeside n
= mother to whom1 have eyer called b
-. ~ psne1 sIgmust be easy to say, things
yuu,v with smile.. shfe vt
81 He begged her to tell him mere I'M
q mother and lived WITH my gFandfath
y after, big DEATH She would newer let Il
Va speak OF him before gTandpapa. ebecau
= It brought back his own griefs to- b
, ! memory -5zhe had lost two soma in Il
i aSsL army. Once was 50 frightenedT5
. ithought be was AZ cry ma natna
i me that the griefof the old often locke