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

muir, but Mr. Carruths somehow makes out
tnat 1t is an affirmative one, and an express
elon OF passionate love shines in his joyous
young eyes, as he turns them upon the small
aVerted head beside him. He is burning to
orlng out everything this moment instead of
IN three hours time, but the intervals be-
tween the dances are short ones and he
does not want any interruption, such as they
Woulo 1nfallibly receive did he carry off Miss
Page now
1t is a lovely June night and the room al
ready is growing rather hot. Young Car
ruthers and his pretty companion sitting
OUT In an angle under the staircase, upon
winch several couples are cooling themselves.
Some of these are laughing and talking in no
very subdued accents, and in a momentary
iul OF those nearest Daisy and Tom a SEN
tence comes floating clearly down to them
from the top of the flight of crimson car
peted, flower bedecked steps,
Il call Tom Carruthers a lucky fellow
now mans voice says. He was as poor
as Job this time last year, and if it hadn't
pee oeen Tor his rs, brothers death he'd be in the
same box still. He came into I don't know
how many thousands a year by that"
Daisy and Tom turn and look at each
other and then up the stairs. The man who
has spoken is an ordinary-looking individual
enough, but his partner is a very lovely girl
of three or four-and-twenty, with a pair of
glorious brown eyes. which are fixed intently
upon his face, while with parted lips she
seems to await his further remarks - "a -.
That's my cousin Margaret" whispers
Daisy. Isn't she beautiful"
L don't admire her very much" returns
Tom, who has often enough seen Miss Pom
sonby in society during the last two or three
years. Don't care tor the style somehow
though, of course, it's my bad taste Who's
that fellow who's quoting me for an exam
pie, wonder
II don't know whether you can call MI.
Carruthers very lucky though in one way,
they hear Miss Ponsonby make reply, in a
lower tone. Il heard that his brother Philip S
death was an awful grief to him. and that
he didn't get over the shock for months A
man told me the other day that it had en-
tirely altered Tom Carruthers; that it had
been a sort of David and Jonathan affection
between the brothers, and that Tom cared
very little about the money in COMPARE
SON.
"Ah, doesn't hep" interposes the first
speaker, somewhat sceptically. people
never despise jolly little fortune like his.
OF course dareSay. he felt Phil Carruthers'
death at the tine-t was an awful business
SO sudden, you see-but he's got over it by
now, you may depend, consoled a good deal
by what he stepped into. man doesn't go
mourning all his days, even for brother.
and young Carruthers seems to have settled
! dowr to enjoy himself pretty thoroughly, in
my opinion
Daisy Page steals an indignant and SYM
pathetic glance at her companion She knows
Margaret has uttered only the truth whilst
her partner has been judging him merely
from the standpoint of man of the world.
Toms face is averted, but looks stern and
set, and whilst Daisy is tmidly regarding
him he stands up suddenly with an abrupt
NOV ement
Lets go out, shall we?' ne says Its
getting hotter and hotter in here" And as
the girl assents, and they pass out into the
moonlight, he says, in the bitterest tone she
has yer heard him use, How cleverly we all
set UP to read our neighbors, don't we?'
But of course that man knows nothing
about you'll! exclaims Daisy. Hes not even
an acquaintance of yours, is hep
II never him before that I'm aware
Of returns Carruthers, indifferently Il
suppose you've heard about-what they were
talking about-a long time ago. Daisy?' he
asks in a low tone, opening to the girl he
hopes to make his wife subject that no one
else has heard him mention, so keen in the
pain it still causes him to allude to the dis
aster which gave him mis- present wealth
"Partly-only a ltte-not the whole
story she stammers.
''Id never seen you then-you hadn't been
introduced to our world at that time' says
Carruthers with a. tender little glance soft
ening the hardness of his face; phil and I
were everything to each other He was my
only brother; l have no sisters; and as YOU
i know. our parents died years ago There
were only three years between us in point of
! age but Phil a splendid fellow and as
: handsome as a god"