Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-09-01
HIS LIES MISTAKE.

"Why. Amsden. old man. you are as
brown as an Indian! Denesboro air
must have agreed with you. Tell me
how you managed to exist In the wilds
for two months
Amsden told him with some reserya-
tons. The reservations related TO a
pretty little country girl-Emily Wood
whose company had alone made ex-
istence tolerable for him in the sleepy
little New England village Emily
Wood was no ordinary country girl.
Not only was she exquisitely pretty,
but she was unusually refined, charm
ing and intelligent.
He knew he had won her heart, and
had she been his social equal would
have asked her TO marry him. But he
was too proud, too patrician in his
ideas, To make what he considered Il
mesalliance. So he had hidden her "A
cold farewell and returned To the so
ciety of the great metropolis, ruthless
ly crushing out of his heart the first
honest love he had felt for any wo-
man, yet haunted by remorse and by
the look of misery he had seen on her
white face in his last glimpse of her.
by Jove. What pretty face"
The scene was Paris four years later;
the speaker Travers. who. on the after
noon of a beautiful spring day. was
driving with his friend in the Bots de
Boulogne The exclamation had been
excited by the vision of a young lady,
elegantly dressed. who was seated in
carriage which had just rolled by.
Miss Wood, allow me to introduce
Mr.. Travers and Mr.. Amsden."
Ii was few days later i'm the salon
of a fashionable American lady resid-
ing in Paris.
With an emotion of rapture Travers
recognized the fair unknown whom he
had seen in the Bots, and Amsden-the
little country girl, Emily Wood.
She recognized him with quiet
friendliness that disconnected him. re-
ferring. without a trace of embarrass-
ment, to their acquaintance at Denes-
boro lwhereupon Travers threw him a
glance of incredulous amaZemenD.
Then she told him of how an uncle in
New York. OF whose existence sne had
been scarcely aware. had soon after
left her Il fortune. and how she had
gone to Europe to complete her educa-
ton.
Amsden knew the moment he looked
into her eyes that she was the one
woman in all the world whom he de-
sired. He knew now that he loved her.
In the days that followed the two
friends saw much OF the brilliant heir
ess. Amsden noting with secret pang
that she was the most admired ana
popular girl in the American colony.
but with a still deeper pang the grow
Ing favor with which she regarded
Trayers.
one evening Travers, on returning
home To his apartments. noticed his
friend sitting detected by the window.
He went up to him and put his hand
kindly on his shoulder. Herbert, old
man. what's the matterT
"Nothing-only | leave Paris to-mor-
row. | suppose you know the reasonT'
Herbert, can't tell you how sorry
l am that this has happened. Who
could foresee that anything like this
would come between us? God knows
/ love her with all my soul, and she
has made me the happiest man in the
world. yet l would willingly resign
her 10 you IL II would make you hap
Ply"
rctrihution, think she loved, or could
have loved me. once. but ! did not APP
preciate her then. or realize the depth
of my own feeling for her. Pride and
selfishness stood In the way. and now,
TraycrS. | congratulate YOU on having
won what have lost through my own
fault. Good nightp and wringing his
friends hand. Amslen passed into his
chamber. closing the door after him.