Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-04-27

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must join the house party at once.
RegSy packed his suit case dream
lily. \ pair OF blue eyes and a pair
Of black Knocked him fr,rs knee
hulges in the trousers he folded
away. Nes; those two village girls
haunted him Neither had yielded 10
him quite as others had before:
neither had really confessed any
thing; and hanged il he could ten
which OF ne pair he really cared
most FOR.
Was he really in love this timer
Bosh' he, the victor Of hundred
tilss! No; that pain in his side was
from sitting on damp grass.
Mrs Schuyler-Brown welcomed her
elegant grandson with efEusion on
the piazza. Later they had heart
tO-heart talk in her sacred boudoir.
and there Reginald received his
mothers ultimatum. He must win
the western heiress for wife. under
penalty OF disinheritsncc. Thus IL
happened that tho pride OF the Wash
inCtcn german became. as a Lcnten
peunancc. the veritable shadow OF
NAlt MANtfN~tNalNt's NNlA ana nNTEW MISS
Orsds Wabash. The girl had read.
travelled and seen life; and she had
brains as well as millions. The
woods. tho pcnitential season and
the thick stupidity Of the house par
" were all Ira his favor; but for days
the western hciress let him make
wild love 20 her with no more re-
Spouse than Nishnu gives 10 his nut
brown worshiper. Fire and ice cam
not mingle unless one melts or the
I other goes out. The man at length
grew piqued. Tie put on an extra
sprint and made time over the senti-
mental track that smashed even his
own record. But Miss Wabash re-
I manned provokingly cold.
Then old Checkmar. the widower
bore OF the house party. began 20
f pace him. Rich and in the set he
was; but his money was a mite in
/ the girls eyes. and his devotion evi-
1 IDENTITY bored her. So again the pride
( OF the practical Splinter nerved tho
racing Reggy; and one day. in the
damp and unseasona BILE but quite re-
mote summer house. he felt that ne
had Tapped the leader and was at
! Nt-ea~N AMAMAAtA Mf-Eh anu MENA-
Rebellious thought. however. would
~ 20 GrasSvilles a pair OF black eyes
J and a P~lr Of blue Peeced a. him
over Miss Orada's polished shoulders,
and he l0ng~d for the touch Of two
vanished hands and the sound OF two
voices dsstance-stilled. Did Daisy love
him? Doubtless. he believed: and
Maymye. also. But which the most
and. more to the point, for which did
ne care most2
But. then. Miss Wabash was OF m,
set. her fortune vast. and that morn
ing had showed she was not all ice
by Jovei I'll make a test OF al
three he said aloud. There's time
by Saturday. and I'll stand the spin
OF the roulette ball"
An hour later he reread two long
fervent and beseeching epistles. The!
were Identical in thought and wor,
and dotted :. save thot in one escl
tender adjective prefxed the nam
81 Daisy. and ga the other the tende
! little Maymye. Then. with nervou
hand. he dashed OF two superScrip
, tions. enveloped both epistles an
went 10 bed.
After the late mail OF Saturda
Miss Wabash sat on the sunny en-
} % the piazza. absorbed in a bulk
package il had brought \ little late
{ she strolled slowly down the path {
. the lac neglected summer house.
3 An hour later-Only a little Will
before the dressing hour-Billett
= found her alone in the librarl
D Grandmaternal Nemesis sat waitin
above. The vast, black gulf Of del
. and lifelong poverty ya~gned befoT
}. him. and the society Curtius wa
mailed and mounted for she plunge
d Rapidly. brokenly. almost abrup
j. Is. he told her Of his love. his hope
5. lie literally trembled before the tal
q cool yvell-poised girl as ne waited hs
answer. II came softly:
y As much a. 7 regret this. Mr.. Ri
lette. am more surprised"
Surprised" he echoed. After a
thar has passed between u.s. All
y those DAYS In the summeF-'
stop. sir" She was the ieic
= again. you are forgetting your
usual tacti'
And you refuse?- he blnndered o
y recl<lessly. After all that has passe
/" you decline TOTO marry2"
sNot necessarily" She was 81
q cool. unfuxhed. Il mean TO marry
Mr. Checkmar."
= With commsndful gesture 81
- checked his outburst Of wrath
let me finish chance TO ha
= two classmates al the Sacre Coeu
- D ..-fsA 49,, 4 corr~er.cn1 Th@ l.