The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-08-02

to tell her truly II II were not George who
had paid her bills at Mount Holyoke.
What a silly girl, said Ida. "Ile was
perfectly able and more than willing, 80
why do you carer"
II do not like being so much indebted
to anyone" was Mary's reply, and yet
in her secret heart there was a strange
feeling Of pleasure In the idea that
George had thus cared for her, for would
he have done so If She dared not fin
ish that question even to herself-dared
not ask IL she hoped that George More
land loved her one-half as well as she
began to think she had always loved him.
Why should he, with his handsome per-
sou and prncely fortune love one so I'M
worthy, and so much beneath him? And
then. for the first time, she thought Of
her changed position since last they met
Then she was poor, obscure school mis-
tress-now Aattered, caressed and an
heiress. Years before, when a little pau
per at Chicopee, she had felt unwilling
that George should know how destitute
she was, and now in the time Of her
prosperity she was equally desirous that
norant of her present condition.
Ida" said she, lifting her head from
the table, does George know that | am
Mrs. Campbell's nieceY
NO" answered Ida. IL wanted to tell
him, but Aunt Martha said I'd better
not"
Don't, then" returned Mary, and re-
upUtfuF har Yautftnu uhn fall infn
a deep reverie, from which she was at
last aroused by Jenny's asking III she
intended to sit up all nightF
The news that George Moreland had
returned and bought Rose Lincoln's piano
besides several other articles, spread
rapidly. and the day following his ar
rival Mary aud Ida were stopped in the
street by group Of their companions,
who were eager to know how George
bore the news that his betrothed was so
Ill, and IL 1t was not that which brought
him home so soon; and then the conver-
sation turned upon Miss Herndon, the
New Orleans lady who had that morning
appeared in the street; "And don't you
think, said one Of the girls, that Henry
Lincoln was dancing attendance upon
her? II were you" turning TO Mary,
I'D caution my sister to be little wary
of him. But let me see, their marriage
is to take place soony'
Mary replied that the marriage was
postponed indefinitely, whereupon the
girls exchanged meaning glances and
passed on. In less than twenty-four
hours BALI OF Elias acquaintanees were
talking OF her discarding Henry on ac-
count OF his fathers failure and saying
that they expected it, twas like her"
Ere long the report. in the shape of
coincidence, reached Henry, who, caring
but little what reason was assigned for
the broken engagement, so that he got
we'll out OF it, assumed a much-njured
air, but said "he reckoned he should man
age to survivey' then, pulling his sharp
pointed collar up another story, and
brushing his pet mustache, wherein lay
most of his mind, he walked up street,
and, ringing at Mrs. Russell's door, ask
ed for Miss Herndon, who, vain as beau
tiful, suffered his attentions, not because
she liked him in the least, but because
she was fond of fattery, and there was
something exceedingly gratifying in the
fact that at the North, where she fancied
the gentlemen to be ieicles, she had so
soon made a conquest. 1t mattered not
that Mrs Russell told her his vows were
plighted to another. She cared nothing
for that. Her life had been one long
series of conquests until now, at 25, there
was not in the whole world a more fin
shed or heartless coquette than EyrOn
Herndon. TO be continued)