The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-14

HlnT& HaiB RpIREsTEmB did NIT surIrkss
me. f1T knew that for soana time vAa.sf
ne nae Deem accustomed, particularly
IN IN summler' 70 take q walk al. night When
purely accidental that he had turned in
the direction Of the conservatory,
AS soon as Elisa recognized De Mus
slene, she sprang up with a bound turn
her face startled me. '.Coue sha s.;l Al
ia q low whisper, "let us 90. baVs
seen enoughy' nave
Her hand still rested In mine. She d,d
gether we walked silentIv n,e to o anu 70
cndteau: But after a few moments hi.
90 burst into loud sobs, and her sIandar
1o PM, q NV with emotion '-'>'-'
Wy 200, Ellsa! l exclaimed, fright
ene 90 py inns unexpected emotion 1U7b.+
IL the matter with your" We were wv liz IL
ing near stone bench, and. fl1rowi in =
al hy arm I'm around her, | drew her down be
go ct, ,iie; come, said, questioning her
YOU" - 'iiat ulSturbs
Ihen, resting her head on my shoulder
me explained in almost incoherent Sen,
ee1ces that Alfred de Mussielle had asked
oiay the previous day for her hand IN
marriage, and that sEa had promptIv ra "a
fused him, but her grandmother han
n ,,nS,s ner to reconsider his offer. PM
seen tonight, our affair is finished -
!, it Astounded at what 1 heard / asked
, aiaiIost naT mechanically: What? Yo1;;
Hwy How o,d E d a little girl like you?
IL shall be eighteen next month" she
s,iaI of course, grandma. said T
Mas Was very very young, to marry, but She Is
left in oi the n(nr when she dies shall be
Touched with the silnplicitv 90 bar
words and the thought that sana dsn
1 ms pretty little orphan girl would be
repeated to myself, ''Eighteepq ,Tb hor,
she is no longer the little girl who Ised
~ annoy me. Eighteen years old To
"a 1, she Will be woman" And this
Is why, undoubtedly, L could not entireII,
repress thrill of passion. as her sCff
wh1te hand rested within my own. /
looked at her now with Surprise a.
lnough seeing her for the fiji ~ time To
me she appeared another being and the
enid OF yesterday was Transformed into
an adorable young woman, whose grace
and beauty had charmed and captiyafeS
o0 Ild de Mussielle. Poor De Mussielle!
One WORD from me would have exoner-
area MIN. but that word I withheld and
occupied myself solely with getting NV
COUSIN COUSIN pa, PACK to the chateau, under the
gIrandnother. As to my rendezvous with
the Venus de Loudel, scarcely Thought
OF 1T again, except-to be grateful.
PIX months later my cousin and / were
sitting in the rosy freight of our cozv
nome talking over that memorable nieht
1 Wnen we first began to fall in love, Elisa
looked up confdingly from her en-
oroidery and said: ''Do you know, Gas
ton, L never thought very much of Al
fred de Muisselle'
No" 1 answered, indifferently.
FROM the very start [ refused him
poinie-DIank' without being able to give
satisfactory reason to dear grandnam
ma for my refusal. I seemed to have a
preSentment that he was not what he
"1ndeed?" I said, shaking the ashes
IRON I'M my Pipe into the open CRATE
:" omen, continued my dear little
wife earnestly. have a sort of infallibls
instinct in these matters, and are rarely
deceived. Why, CASTOR" said Elisa
growing trlde excited, 81 would rather
be cut into thousand pieces than marry
d man VINO was capable Of falling in love
was greatly tempted to burst out
laughing and to divulge my secret. but
thought it would be cruel to destroy
Elisa's faith in her own infallibIe convic,
tons; SO, Instead of enlightening her, I
cought my pretty little darling up in my
arms and kissed her