The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-01-10

1t was an embarrassing question for
| Harry to answer. He made several inef-
| fectual efforts to speak, and at last man
aged to say:
"Jack, you are a noble fellow and
| worthy of any one, am sure. | don't be-
lieve that the difference in social standing
has anything to do with il" af-.t,,.i
sit may have something, Harry, for
| how could an eddycated, refined lady like
| Miss Edith, who has book larnin' enough
| to keep school, love such pore, ignorant
cuss as me?'
You are not poor, Jack. You have more
wealth than Edith and all her family"
what does it amount to, Harry, when
Teller is ignorant O. book larnin'? What
eddycated and refined lady would want
such an ignoramus as me? tell you, it's
onnateral. Yes, it is entirely Onnateral,
an | can't blame her But L do suspect
that Miss Edith left some one back in
Jarsey she does love. If she did, God
bless him; | wouldn't, for her sake, harm
| him for the world
Harry knew that, ludicrous as he ap-
peared, the poor felloy was suffering the
keenest mental pangs. and tried to encOur-
age him, or at least interest him in some
other subject.
Don't despair, jack in the grandeur
and splendor of our achievements you will
J forget Edith"
No, won't"
TRY to-"
Couldn't if l tried. / don't want to,
| though every thought o her is worse than
the toothache. Lonly wish l could die for
her and him, too"
Whom do you meanW
81 don't know, but it's that Jarsey or
| New York Teller, who won her"
you have come to enlist in our expedi
tom"
YES, anything"
well, | don't know how soon we'll
start, but you are welcome. and shall
have your share in the reward"
''All the reward | want is to be knocked
on the head"
Il hope you will not get that, Jack"
Harry answered with a smile.
You don't? Then, by jinks, you are no
| friend of mine"
Il am your best friend"
mo you amt, or you wouldn't want me
to live in this misery. Where is the Cap
tain?'
"IIe is in Philadelphia
when will he be hereW
1--WE are expecting him in a few days"
"And you don't know when he will
start?'
NO"
''Where are we goin'?''
81 don't know"
"Well, that don't made no difference to
me, so it is fur away"
1T will be quite distance, L assure
you"
Harry assigned Jack quarters in his own
tent and did everything possible for his
comfort, and tried to induce him to forget
Edith.
One day Harry Granger received by the
weekly post a letter. postmarked Albany,
which caused his heart to leap with joy be-
fore he broke the seal. The superscription
hnn
to him, yet he knew the writer Mt once.
Just before leaving home Harry Granger
had plucked up courage TO write letter to
, Maude Livingston. Ii was the first he had
ever ventured to write her, and though it
was only a social, friendly letter. such as
| any young gentleman might write 10 any
young lady, yet when he realized the high
social standing of the Livingstons, he
trembled as he posted the epistle. He
thought that the distance from Albany
| would be q sure safeguard against chas-
tisement at the hands of the proud father.
Harry's letter simply asked after the
health of her father, whom he had left in
| precarious condition, as the reader
knows. he also limited at his own bright
prospects, and, in spite of all his efforts to
| seem reserved and unconcerned, tender
| sentiment would at times appear between
| the lines. He had asked her to answer his
letter at Marietta, as he was going thither
soon after writing it. Then for weeks he
lived in hopes and fears, sometimes
dreading to receive such an answer ms
would dash all his hopes, and again in de-
spair of ever receiving any answer at all.
His heart was troubled and his mind full
of care, and he was almost as miserable as
| poor Jack.
| But the letter had come, and it was GER
tainly not in the handwriting of the father,
SO he was wild with hope before he broke
| the seal.
| II am fool" said Harry, as he went
behind his tent to read his letter. 'She