Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-06

had been trying for chance TO thank
George, but now when she attempted to
do SO he prevented her by saying:
"Oh! don't-don't-1 can imagine all
you wish to say and hate to be thanked.
Rose and L are particular friends, and it
afforded me great deal of pleasure to
purchase it for her-but," he added,
glancing at his watch, 81 must be excus-
ed now, as I promised to call upon my
ward"
who's that?' asked Jenny, and
George replied that it was Miss Hern-
don, who had accompanied him from
New Orleans, to visit her aunt, Mrs.
Russell
''He says she's an heiress, and very
beautiful" rejoined Ida, seating herself
at the piano.
Instantly catching at the words heir
ess" and beautiful" Henry started up,
asking ''if it would be against all the
rules of propriety for him to call upon
her thus early
Il think it would" was Georges brief
answer, while Mary's eyes flashed scorn-
fully upon the young man, who, rather
crestfallen, announced himself ready to
listen to Ida, whom he secretly styles IAN
old maid" because since his first remem-
brance she had treated him with perfect
Indifference.
That night before retiring the three
girls sat down by the cheerful fire in
Mary's room to talk over the events of
the day, when Mary suddenly asked Ida
to tell her truly if it were not George who
had paid her bills at Mount Holyoke.
ssWhat a SilIy GIRL id Ida ssE1e was
perfectly able and more than willing, so
why do you care?'
81 do not like being so much indebted
to anyone" was Mary's reply, and yet
in her secret heart there was 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 if 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
son and princely fortune, love one SO un-
| worthy, and SO much beneath him? And
| then, for the first timeI she thought of
her changed position since last they met
| Then she was poor, obscure school mis-
tress-now fattered, caressed and an
heiress. Years before, when 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
| he should, for a time at least, remain ig-
| norant of har ,,rosont condition
"I5o ,, sa;d She 1if+ino ba,. bood FROM,
| the table, ''does George know that 1 am
Mrs. CampbelI's niece?'
| H.. - 49, Nh a,;s nJ bo+ta-
nl ~ ;,
Ion l. tneh, returned mary, ana re
suliiihg her FORMER posltion sue Ieii ihe.
ueep revere from wnieh she wa was "a a
.a .ase aroused ny 'emny ,a > asains 81, u sns
| inaenueu u, 10 -. up an nlsn..
Inc news that george Moreiano ma. nio
returned ana sp9ashe Aosef.i4ssoiis : ieaeah
pesldes seVeral otner artlcfes, spreao
rapidly, ana the day foiloWlng ms ar
| rival Mary ana lda We're stopped IN the
| street py group OF tneif companions
VINO were eager TO Know now Geofge
bore the news that his betrothed was 81
/ i'll, and If it was not that which brought
| him home so soon; and then the conyer
sation turned upon Miss Herndon. tht
VIEW Oileans iauy :" ~ nau euot iuoi nAiis
appeared IN the street; And. don't yor
! think" said one of the girls, that Henry
Lincoln was dancing attendance upoI
her? If I were you" turning to Mary
"T'd caution my sister to be little war,
| of him. But let me see, their marriage
is to take place soon?
Mary replied that the marriage wa
postponed indefinitely, Whereupon th'
girls exchanged meaning glances ant
passed on. In less than twenty-fou