Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-02-23

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This was the LAST statement my law.
ger made upon the long-winded recital
OF the state OF my affairs when | re-
turned from seven years absence to
take uD my abode In my own ONE.
% he had by my directions renovated and
put into good order the large, hand
some house that was my inheritance
from father. grandfather and great
grandfather, passing In each genera
lion through a course of modernizing
that still left the sta taly. oId-fashioned
walls and extensive grounds intact. We
Hiltons were very fond of Hilton place
anG- had ample means wherewith to
- maintain its beauty.
But beside my own home l also DOS
Sessed several houses in the Village Of
crawford and one cottage just at the
boundary line of my garden, a pretty
place that my mother had christened
Fern Cottage, from the number of rare
ferns that nestled in the little garden
under fGnciful miniature grottos and
piles of rock placed there.
II was after twilight on a warm April
evening that, passing the cottage, saw
through open windows my new tenant.
She was bending ever a small table, ap-
parently drawing, while the circle of
light from a student lamb fell full upon
her. l had fancied vulgar, common
place woman. This was what saw:
A figure slender and graceful. with
hands as white and perfect as If carved
in marble. A face purely oval, color
less and fair with regular features and
shaded by hair of midnight black.
Twice while l looked she lifted her
eyes, large, lustrOus and dark. full OF
suppressed pain. a face that covered
henrt full of bitter anguish, brain
fensitiye and cultivated.
- am physician. though I haya,5-aa-I
wa; .a;s ...tle' 81. Rreferripgg TO write for the
.;e, ;Irer students; but love my
and cannot quite keep its
l'uiet when l study a new
OIL all these instincts warned
Gutre was n woman burning a
war ady Pickering at both ends
ee. lite forgotten that mine was
to tak.ly honorable position, thus
busines solitary woman's privacy,
4 I'll. hiohierly woman, seemingly an
- .n5 weInt of better days, came into
- never cease working?" she
III lly. when the daylight is
lot oe ou cannot sort your colors,
9 desire that drawing that is ruin
investj-es. Rest. childr
1upto voice 1 knew must belong
oot by . full, rich, melodious. but
and ith sadness, answered her:
secondinl know l cannot rest"
i,raiiop. !: Do anything but strain
as sennny longer over that fine
d seems
d;sosterT rose then, sweeping hel |
- : draperies across the room |
-. where she played. Surely, |
-. eatlon, 1T was a pitiful |
miiita'x1g minor music full |
d tue pain. Heavy chords melt /
ie III refrains. A master touch, |
REQ Her in the long, slender fin-
War Vailed out strains Of heart. |
eveIrhos.
at soin drove me home, but
= 'sh and deeply over my tenant
,achiI eral times, and received
on elcome, was entertained by
,rnyentional conversation,
Iiiano in some fashionable.
~, and found the surface So
'no Raynor, g gentle, refined
tor the @ap4 agreeable-no
.amages forF
'se Oh oo accepted this for the
| had a habit of lin
~ ,-y garden, and as the
tne OF Fern Cottage com
'er tsar -S<, my neighbors
the windows as the
tD summer. Paler, more
&c added sadness in the
Hs, Mrs. RaynOr became
al as the warm weather
ing each day from her
/ ! was not surprised one
% old Susan coming hasti
Jllawy.
litGn,' she said, "she has
4ose horrid pictures. VIII
once, finding my patient
Last, and gently submis-
commands but one, the
i've.
k" she said, "as long Is
brush"
die / said, bluntly, 'it
6 a few weeks of entire
said, quietly, not as i