Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-06-07
THURM0NT Frederick County, Maryland, Thursday June 1900.

hung out her banners ON the outward
walls. There's no pride nor coldness
there; shes all smiles and welcome, the
little wretch. She is one of your deli
ciously feminine creatures, soft as one
cat and sly as another-so tender, so
timid. SO gentle; but you ought to see
her box little Toms ears when he has
stolen heI curling tongs. A doctors
wife knows a great deal that people
don't think she does. Yes, there's no
doubt she can be very attractive to the
uninitiated. She would like we'll to be
the mistress of Cover Place. Why don't
you have something to say, Marian,
why
v have nothing to say said Marian,
TO any one for whom Alice Mayne
! could have the least attraction
u wouldn't let her step in. though,
and carry off my
Cousin Anne!
But Cousin Anne knew what she was
talking about. And that very day Mr..
Cover overlook young person with a
heap of autumn leaves tumbled down
beside her-a young person fallen by
the wayside, attempting to rise and
sinking beck again, and, of course, he
was out Of the saddle in moment to
assist her; and she was such shrinking,
trembling, blushing, little creature
she had only been wife a half-dozen
years and widow as many more-that
it was with difficulty he won from her
the fact that she had sprained her an
kle, and permission then to put her on
his horse-revealing an exquisite foot
and ankle which had not been sprained
and led her to her home just up the
lane. And Of course, the next day he
could do no less than call and inquire,
and she took care of all the rest For
he found himself detained by her, as
she lay on the lounge in the prettiest of
dainty demi-toilets, till it was too late
to 90 elsewhere that day, and there
came perfumed note the next day,
begging his presence at her birthday
feast; and thereafter it was arranged
that he was to come every morning for
while and correct her French for her
before she went to Paris, as she thought
of doing in the winter, delectable little
lunches being served at the end of the
exercises, and there she was, whom the
other young women had thought almost
Il stranger, quite the mistress of the
situation; and, without the least intend
ing it, Harley Cover found himself
launched in what to outsiders looked
like desperate filtration, if no more.
He himself had no idea Of its appear
ance, till meeting Marian on the street
one day after a fortniGht's absence from
the house, and going forward with
cordial hand, he receiyed salute that,
AS he afterward told the Doctors wife,
was awe-nspiring.
u should have had such recognition
If had nodded to high priestess at
the altar said he.
Very we'll, said the doctors wife;
does that intimidate you? How does
ice conduct when it begins to burn ?
You once said something on that sub
iect, it seems to me-
But she regretted her raillery imme-
diately, for Harley made no response,
and, perhaps. she thought, he is really
interested in that little mink ofa widow;
who is to know ?
Harley went to the doctors that
night; but after few minutes, Marian
left the room, and when he went again
she did not come down stairs, as If her
novel were the better company. OF
course, then, when st. Jude's Society
had an authors reading, pretty Mrs.
Mayne Haunted her conquest, and led
Harley captive to all appearance; and
Marian, serene and stately and severe,
never glanced in his direction. And
when the Library Club had its amateur
theatrlcals, 1t was Mrs. Mayne who WAS
the heroine to Harley's hero; and Har.
ley had no chance to see how the mimic
love-making affected Marian for she
stayed away, snow storm giving her
all the excuse she wanted
Perhaps she would not have stayed
away had the doctors wife been at
home.
v would never have done that in the
world. said her cousin Anne. Now
he knows that it was unpleasant to you
to see his devotion to Allie Mayne. l
insist upon it that you shall 90 to every.
thing that happens now. If it pains
you, you deserve it. And if it doesn't
pain you, be shall see that you are in
different. Though how anyone can be
Indifferent to the love- making of Har-
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