Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-09-27


Of course, dear, you will wear
diamonds?" said Miss Ethel
seated in her friends pretty
.ng-room at Bethber Gardens,
h Kensington, slipping afternoon
E ever a young wife was satisfied
til her surroundings it was Sibyl
~Iainwaring. Before her marriage, two
years previously, she had had but one
thing of which to be proud, her
birth. Her father possessed a genoa
logical tree, starting somewhere ABOUT
the ntage His income beng OF
the smallest for his needs, ne had mace
I'D for it to his children by inst1lllng
this honorable descent into their minds
from an early period. A dangerous
process when thAre is little in the ex-
chequer to support It.
Cecil Mainwaring loved his wife Sibyl
deyotedly, and his chief pleasure was
to secure her happiness.
( Often, for hat. he was tempted TO
risk in specializing more than ne nao
done vet, to obtain for her those Things
she Iiked-the principal was to dress
SprettiIy, and, if possible as well as her
friends, which friends were of the most
sselect stratum Of society. Indeed, noth-
ing pleased Cecil SO mush as his wires
success in this direction. He DID not
care a pins head about it himself. But
he was proud Of Slbyl; ne liked 10 near
dDeople say:
Glow charming your wife looks this
ieyening." my dear boy, your pretty
.aittle wife is the best dressed woman
&here," and the like.
IS It was after a large evening recep-
ktion given by a very wealthy stock
gbroker-an acquaintance of
Sing's-that, observing Sibyl fallen into
@thoughtfuI revery, Cecil said:
6 "a penny for your thoughts, darling.
mo secrets between husband and wife,
&you know"
siby1 gave a merry laugh. and-they
were seated side by side-leanlng her
Sunny head against his shoulder, an
Severed:
= sI was thinking how I should like,
what I would give. for q diamond neck
let and hair ornament en- suite like Mrs.
Baxter's."
.They would become you a hundred
times more, pet"
D you think so? Still" a sigh, cts
the money. I suppose it would be a
great-great deal?"
ga few hundreAe."
Hundreds OF course, If they were
worth wearing at all; then, again., there
Is an advantage n diamonds over other
things. Other things wear out, dla-
monds do not. AS Mr.. Wemmeek would
have said, They are portable proper
ty.'"
GLOW I wish, dear, I could give them
TO Won" remarked Cecil. after a laugh
at the quotation.
Glow I wish you could, Cecy," slip
ping her arm round his neck and nest
ling closer. ct lexe diamonds; I really
DO. I wonder, dear, if you ever will be
rich enough. Mr.. Goldthorps, where
we were tonight 1 heard was once not
80 we'll off as you"
'Very far from it, pet"
'"Then one day, Cecy, you may be as
E Sch as he? Then laughing, I'll have
diamonds"
Not a wish had Siby1 ever expressed.
but Cecil had been restless to crafty it
He was the best of good fellows. This
,one. however, was not SO easy to real
Sflze as most, yet it hRunted him, and
when he saw her IN evening dress, he
; began as much to long for Sibyps soft
white throat to be clasped by a oia-
2 Wmond necklet, as, tn secret, she did her-
self.
"a few months later, the young stock.
broker began to betray signs of fever
b fItSh res~tlessness. He would break int
dts of hilarious laughter on no appar'
ant cause; would kiss Sibyl, and, hold
ing her in his arms, look into her face
n gas if about to m&Ae some disclosure. L
1t were SO, he always checked it.
One morning he said, as he prepared
to leave:
81, } 'tSib, his day week is the %anniver
sary of our wedding day."
"Do you think, Cecy, I needed to b.
told that?'' she laughed, holding hi
gloves.
It suppose not. What would you Xix
wr Gr a PRESENT."
sk3sFsI don't know, dear. I should like i
to come as a surprise. It's pleasan
. tying to guess what It will be-"
THAT might lead to disappointment.
mo gift of yours would ever disap
point me-
The wedding days ~anniversar
.dawned. There was no sign of a gift
ESfbyl was first in the breakfast room
was arranging the cosy over tn
exsl7 tea pot when Cecil, who had entere
unheard, placed his arm round her
.4kfeMaist.
Many happy 7eAu1an of this day
US both, little woman" he said, kissin
her; then my present. I hope 70
will not be disappointed"
He was holding before her q jewel
ai-CIer's morocco leather case. She hesi
ia jtated-