The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-28

Daisy glances up at her companion, whose
handsome young face and broad shoulders
stand out clearly in the moonlight, and in
her, heart resents that but Indignantly
though she does not interrupt Tom by so
much as a breath, feeling that it is perhaps
the greatest proof of his love that he has
yet shown that he should be confiding this
story TO her of the great trouble of his life
OF course he came into what have now
when he was twenty-one,'' goes on Tom. "I
had something under three hundred wear
myself, and, as that fellow said few minutes
ago, everybody would have called me as poor
as Job; but I never worried myself about
That for a moment, and was always Jolly
enough I'd always had taste for mechan-
les and engineering, so I went in for that
sort OF thing. Dear old Phil would willingly
nave made me heavy allowance out of
what he had; but 1 foresaw he would be
marrying before long, and he had position
to keep up, and all that, and I was quite
content with my modest little share. cared
very little about money, and had no particu-
lar need for it then. It's different now."
He comes to pause.
Last September he resumes, after few
moments, with his head turned away and
a difficulty in bringing out the words my
brother was drowned a yachting cruise
IN the Mediterranean, together with three
otner fellows. There was sudden squall,
ana they all went down. ~~0nly one of the
crew of the Scotia came back to tell the tale.
That's how camerto he the lucky fellow I
am, according to your cousins partner"
Daisy puts one little hand upon his in
timid sympathy; but for once Tom is obliv-
1ous of her presence.
'Phils loss seemed and seems now too
terrible to expatiate upon,' he says 1T
was incredible to believe that he who started
out so gaily-such a fine fellow, liked and
admired by everybody who ever met him
should have persisted so hopelessly in few
short moments. 1t was horrible, horribe
But there, no amount of talking will bring
h ch cha ir1 rI1o
next waltz is beginning, I see, and here's
your partner coming for you, 1 suppose,
Daisy" turning back to the lighted room.
Our next won't be until supper, worse luck,
and afterwards only the last. STILL those
are the best
He smiles half grudgingly, half tenderly,
at her as he has to give her over into the
care Of the youth who comes up, and that
smile Daisy puzzles over for many day
afterwards, when events have proved to her
that Tom Carruthers, whatever his atten-
items. could never have cared for her at all.
! Between some of the dances she finds her
self by her mothers side, and with crimson
cheeks and dropping lashes that veil the ra-
diant smile in her eyes, she conf1des to Mrs.
Page the request young Carruthers has
made, and she will listen to him when there
is time later and the other people are
occupied with more material needs. Both
mother and daughter know what tale he will
tell, and Mrs Page feels it is the most COM
pletely successful moment in a successful
life. -
I'm so happy, mother" whispers Daisy,
with sigh of contentment.
you have every reason to be happy, dar-
ling answers Mrs. Page. tom Carruthers
is the one man into whose keeping can give
my little flower, with every certainty that
he will take or her. You are a very
fortunate girl, Daisy
VERY, very fortunate" echoes Daisy, with
a long, deep breath.
The rooms become very thronged and heat
ed as the night advances, in spite of all the
precautions that had been taken to keep
them cool, and many people vote summer
balls a failure, but to Daisy Page the night
is a red-letter one, ever to be remembered
The time is drawing towards supper, when
there seems to be some sort of stir in the
room, commoton in first one group and
then another, buzz of talk and a gathering
into corners though to discuss some sud-
den important tldngs.
Mrs. Page is TRANQUILITY sweeping through
one of the corridors the arm of her host
, when their course is interrupted by an ex-
cited matron, who knows full we'll what a
, bomb she is about to throw.
my dear Lord Godalmng, my dear Mrs
Page, have you heard what's happened"
she exclaims You know how it has been
supposed that young Carruthers brother was
drowned last year near Malta Well. he was
no more drowned tnan we arel Tom Car
ruthers has just received the news that he